Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-10-13
OF GROSS COUNTY.

No people on earth have a bette
 reason to complain of bad treatmen
 than the people of the South. Not I withstanding the fair promises tha
 were made at the close of the war, ant the assurances that have been givel them since, they are to-day the wors
 abused and most insulted people tha
 have ever had record in history. Ac
 cepting in good faith the condition il which the war and it's consequence
 left us, we set about, not only to repail our individual fortunes, but to built up, if possible, and add our might tt the rc-establishment of the govern
 ment upon basis permanent and ben
 efcial to all alike. But in this we have been treated more like brutes than men; every right has been taken from us, and we are left with no privileges but such as appertain to silent thought and inward opposition. We of the South have silently submitted to one wrong after another until it would seem that the end of forbearance was very near. We have seen under the odious and objectionable laws of Con- gress the best men of our country dis franchised; we have seen debt, heavy debt, tho consequences of reckless, Radical rule, gathering about us, and have not murmured. We have seen pop-gun lawyers from Massachusetts, criminals from Kentucky, and God knows what else from the North, hois- ted into office by the dominant party gand made, under the guise of represen- tation, to prosecute andsabuse us in the halls of national legislation. To all oi these things we have quietly submit. ted, striving to do under the circum. stances the best we could, feeling con- tent to wait for that change which we knew, and yet know will come. But now that the sceptre of power seems about to depart from them, and in the agony of their departing moments
 they turn upon us of the South witl
 fresh abuse and additional insult. Ir order to carry out their hellish purpos. es and accomplish their darling schemes, they dc not hesitate to charge upon the South all manner of incendi. arism, and present us to the world as the most rebellious and criminal of all it's people. Is it necessary to stimu. late the party North? they select fol some position or other one of theil choicest spirits, whose record and character is as black as the walls ol hell, and if for crimes committed al midnight upon helpless women and children the avengers bullet finds its way to his heart, straightway the char acter makers of the party paint him a saint on earth, and gathering around him two or three hundred bloodthirsty rebels, as they call them, make them to riddle him with bullets, and send this picture North for political purposes
 and for this we are howled upon as traitors, as rebels, and as assassins
 Again, they assemble their leagues and instil Into the minds of the negroes their diabolicsl doctrines, prompt them to insult and otherwise injure the peaceable citizens of the country: and if these insults meet with a merited resentment it is immediately magnified Into a riot, and upon our heads are poured the maledictions of the party. It Is patent 10 every reading man that these and similar means are employed by tue Radical party for the accom- plishment of political purposes. Be- cause of the deep seated prejudice ex- isting in inc North against rebellion, or any ything that resembles resistance to the general government, they think to array the popular mind agrinst De- mocracy and in favor of Radicalism, and thereby secure the election of their candidates. We say to the peo- pie, if these arguments (and none oth- CTS are used) are the strongest reasons that Radicalism can urge in support of Its party, is it not high time that the people of the South and all honest men were separating themselves from it. Let us, therefore, resent these in- suits by n unanimous repudiation of Radicalism and their candidates, and give hearty support to that party and those men who scorn such subterfuges and deal honestly with the people.