American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-09-19
From tho Louisville Courier :
THE RADICAL PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
CuysL WAR sTs OBIECT.

some desperate wickednesS. The pur
suit of u noble aim, the advocacy OF
Il patriotic scheme, elevates the mind
above the employment Of base and
diSgracCiul means. 1t is only when
a party becomes foul nest of con
spiracy, a contederacy OF treason,
busy with schemes of plnnder and
plots against popular liberty, that ii
will resort to lying, and force all its
organs to surpass the Oatcses and
Bcdloes OF history in shameless and
wicked invention.
In the stories by which the public
mind was eXaSperated to the fight
ing point in the Kansas affair, and
in the late war, we thought an end
to such reckless and misrhievons
electioneering had been reached. 1t
seems, however, that the people
awake from one bloody debauch
ready to be plunge Il into another
by maddening decisions as false as
those which misled them before. AT
all events, the Radicals are conduct
ing this campaign upon that idea.
No other political contest was ever
characterized by such general, pre-
concerted, organized system Of mis-
representation as that by which the
Radica! press is now striving to ere
ate a war feeling throughout the
North. In all her wals with Napol-
cop, England's press did not assail
him with more poisonous sllnders
than are now retailed about the lead
ing men of the South; nor were the
French people treated with that
monstrOuS measure of injustice which
is now melted out to the Southern
people. The efforts that were made
to fill the English population with a
t'reLzy Of patriotic hatred towards
France, were the bunglings Of a
novice, compared to the diabolical
Of our Radical adopts.
The number and variety Of their
and the ingenuity with
which they are adapted to the tenn
per and comprehension Of the voting
which is to be influenced,
is supernatural. The devil himself
inspires it.
Take up any leading Radical pa
per in the United States to-day, and
the bulk Of its matter is found to be
details and hpart-rending
of outrages upon Union
men in the South, which never oc-
Cured, and are known to be utterly
false by the men who write them,
tie men who publish them, and
three fOurths Of those who read
them; eXaSpcrating speeches attrib-
uted to Southern men, who never
uttered them; criminal plots imput-
ID to people who never thought OF
them; butcheries by Forrest, which
he never witnessed, and terrible
hreats, which he has not even wills
oered; plots of Kentucky rebels
o take the polls and do all the vot-
ng in Indiana, after numbering all
he Union men ravishing the Wo-
men and eating up the little child
en-; etc.
We do not alludo to these lies
With any purpose to relnte OF even
leny them. The Radicals are utter
Y unable to defend their acts or
heir policy. They cannot attack
he Democrats with other weapons
han those of SANDER and malicious
They cannot make a
lecent attack upon us, or a dignlfed
lefense Of themselves. 1t only re
mains for them to dig up and threw
III the dirt they can, in the hope
hat we will occupy our valuable
ime in warding off such vile mis-
,iles. But, as we said at the outset,
uch warfare is full OF evil signiii-
.ance, and should be noticed as a
Of coming trouble. ltl
shows that the public peace is men
iced by a party made desperate by
he prospect of losing the power to
,lunder and to Cypress. 1t shows
he corrupting power of the bond
holding oligarchy, and the danger
ms means which it will use to eXtort
mother bonus of eight hundred mil
ions from the labOring masses. To
gratify their miserable greed, they
irst stiilc the intelligent masses, as
ar as they dare, with measures OF
Acknowledgement, then stuff the bal |
OF boxes with ignorant negro votes,
nd then, with the vilest ISLANDERS |
citizen against citizen,
hey seek to consume the heart and |
corch the brain of the populace, by !
lighting in their bosoms the fires Of
Iate.
Every move of the Radical party |
means war-real and bloody war
var for power, if they are defeated |
t the polls, and war for vengeance
nd spoil, if they succeed They
ever meant that the country should
ave peace. No concession, no sub
mission, can buy it at their hands.
lutual confidence and warm friend
hip between the North and South
re cold poison to them, and will
ever be permitted while enmity can
e kept alive by the Internal tactics
,hich they love to employ. They
ave started on q career Of revolu-
ION in which each success has whet-
I'd their appetite for innovation.
ntil they are enchanted to madness
it'll vision of new system of gov
and they intend to keep
ne country in a condition of turmoil
nd ieveTiSh excitement, until the
rife which they eDgender shall
ford the opportunity to consum-