Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-08-04

o 1t sometimes becomes necessary that we should notice some of the mis- representations of the parasitic journals which have hung themselves on the Radical party that they may obtain a little greater growth. The White Riv- CT Journal, whose editors had received a little Democratic grace from former associations, have fallen from that small estate and sunk themselves in the depths of Radical meanuess. They are now becoming uneasy and excited, lest they soon lose the wages of their treachery. The greater lights of the Radical party begin to flare up and burn unsteadily, and one by one they become extinguished, leaving them more aud more in the dark. The dan ger of defeat is becoming so apparent that they can no longer stultify them selves in regard to the final result sand though, satan-like, they have lost all hope, their evil natures, like his, will not let them halt in their downward march. Like the toad in the garden of Eden they have used their most subtle arguments and agencies to poison the minds of the people against the old constitutional government, but the spear of Ithuriel has transformed them and exposed their true character, and the diabolical and hell-born counsels of the congressional pandemonium will be frustrated. 14cy haye grown so desperate that they use means, argu- ments and abuses indifferently, so that their hatred can find an object, even when these things rebound upon their own heads. Here arc some of the un- truthful charges preferred against the Democratic party-acts that oLly the Radical party can be guilty of and the very means they have used to place our State, with others, in the condition they now are:
 In the North they berate the negro, and his friends with Plug Ugly" in- tensity. In Mississippi they fully affii- fate with the darkey. They make speeches from the same platform, sit ct the same barbecue table, and drink tangle-foot from the same jug. In the west they have the Pendletonian green back fever, until they have fairly as- sumcd the same hue; in fact Pendle- ton Democrat is the most verdant thing in nature. In the east they ad- vocate the Wall-street theory which is T t,.,, lIxyn n,,nAca6 So thox- hl lpxr hot and cold, and turn the most difficult somersaults, with the easy facility of a trained circus rider.
 Every man who has read the Demo- cratic platform and the full committal of our candidates to it's principles and issues, which Horace Greedy, the great Radical leader pronounces its very weakness, can see the utter falsehood of such statements. The Democratic party is national and its present plat form produces unbounded enthusiasm in all sections alike, and the people everywhere are rejoicing in the hope that it will soon relieve the country from political and financial oppression
 In the west they have the Pendleton. ian green-back fever, until they have fairly assumed the same hue in fact s Pendleton Democrat is the most yer, dant thing in nature.
 Now is not that an elegant and per. spicuous sentence? is it not happy stroke of wit and sarcasm? How we feel for and pity the poor Pendleton Democrat as he feels the scalpel thu. applied. The dread and terror of q Spanish inquisition sink into insigifi- canoe beside such flagellations as this | In this campaign, they have aban. doned principle, and banished consist. ency from their thoughts. They ac. Knowledge their bankruptcy in moral. | ity by their acts, and are scrambling only for the spoils. To obtain these they are willing to make any promises that will secure votes.
 Now does not that read very pretty coming from Radical paper in Ark ansas? How did they secure votes foI and carry the State constitution By wheedling and afiiliating with the Af rican and employing agents who per. formed their services at night, promis- ing mules and land; by enfranchising all, whatever their offensc. who voted for it; by using the military power to commit frauds and intimidate opposi. tion; by suppressing votes against it by allowing negroes to register and vete before they were old enough; by voting large bodies of negroes twice.
 Now about scrambling for the spells. This is something that we cannot truthfully charge them with in Arkan- sas. Their greatest difficulty seems to be to find enough regular carpet-bag- gers to fill all the places without re- sorting to the negro. Yet it is true that the legislature has passed bill appropriating s2s,0O0 to be divided among eleven school superintendents, and one making eleven adjutant-gen- erals with the full pay of U. $. officers. For these places the Governor succeed ed in finding sufficient number of carpet-oag representatives and officers from disbanded negro regiments to fill them. There was slight scramble over the State printing, but the faithful and liberal Price made a fair divide with the right ones and it will not cost the State more than Sl00,000 more on that account. Then there was eleven little nigger sheets which had to have plate each, leaving only the crumbs, which they are casting to different CUTS that have sneaked up around the table and are sitting upon their mangy