Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-01-11
A Fight or Foot Race.

[From the vicksburg Times, Dec. %.
 God be praised! With . full heart with thankfulness to God and Pres ident Johnson, for which we have nc adequate language-we call the atten- ton ofth readers of the Times to oul telegraph column this morning. Oul readers will see that Edwin Otho Cres- well Ord, the most despicable and cowardly tyrant that ever disgraced the name of man, has lost his head The poor old fool and coward has been re- lieved, and his successor is General Irwin Mcdowell! Gen. McDowell is at once soldier and a gentleman, and he differs from Ord in this !: the miser- able despot is fneitherl To call HIM soldier is burlesque-to call HIM q gentleman will provoke derisive laugh ter. 4saa la1aagYf.i
 The harmless old creature goes to California. But before he goes the editor of the Times wishes to see him !! We will go to the end of the world with himl He has only to relieve us from penalty which 8 coward only would have exacted-a penalty which an Ord only would have compelled. We have denounced him for months as he deserved to be denounced, and fine is not dog and coward both, he dare not go to California without demand ing satisfaction for the insults we have heaped upon him. If he does not do 90, he will go to the Golden State a disgraced and dishonored man. Dare he demand satisfaction? n3
 The same dispatch which announces the doom of Ord proclaims the dis placement of that renowned liar and braggart, John Pope, and his dirty creature bloody" Swayne. We con clude as we commenced, God be praisedl e4e af lia aP s'
 The same paper concludes lengthy and savage criticism of semc of Gener- al Ord's acts and policy as follows;
 "Gen. Ord may succeed in his efforts to ruin the people of Mississippi, but the object nearest his heart he can never accomplish. He cannot degrade them ! In the lowest depths of poverty and want to which he may reduce them, they will still be men. He cannot de nude them of their manliness, and in the hour of their greatest sorrow, they will still despise and scorn him.
 "We advise our paltry despot to make as much hay as possible while the sun of Radicalism continues to shine upon him. We advise him to "work while it is day, for the night cometh when no man can work" There is all hour of retribution for Gen. Ord and other tyrants, and woe nnto them when that hour arrives. When whole peo- pie shall arisein their might, and blast and wither with their indignation the tyrants and wrong-doers who mock at the calamities of brave people, ard strive cy the most internal and diabol- ical means to add 10 the miseries of those oppressed and helpless human beings, they will call in vain upon the rocks and mountains to :" fall upon and hide them!P God speed the hour. We shall pray constantly for its coming, and when it does come we shall laugh at their calamity, and mock when their fear cometh.'
 "P. S.-This article was written three hours before the telegraph brought us intelligence of the removal of Gen. Ord and when we did not dream that the hour of retribution was 70 near at hand. We advise the good people of this city to go to church this morning and return thanks to Almighty God for the downfall of the Haynau of Mis- sissippi and the Gessler of Arkansas the most infamous, cowardly and des- picable despot that ever ruled, reigned and fell" s ~ Rster~ t,aesfs5asrss