Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-06-20

evenings while the Convention shall be in session.
 The Republican Party Daguer- reOtyped by n Radical and
 'sLoyal' Pen.
 From the N. Y. "Revolution,' May 2l.]
 Republicans elected Andrew John son for party success; they impeached him for party success; and since the day the scepter of power came into their hands, they have worked for party success rather than the nation's life.
 While they have deceived the people with the cry of constitutional amend ments, loyalty, negro suffrage, impeach- ment, they have shown themselves disloyal to the grand principles of our government by their attempts to drag down the Federal Constitution to their low platform to force negro suffrage on the South while repudiating it in the Northern States and after proving the President guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, strangling inn peachment with their own hands.
 And now the handwriting on the wall warns them that they are "weigh- ed in the balance and found wanting.H The Republican party stands to-day with its ranks broken, divided, dis tracted, blasted, and the scepter of power has passed from it forever. But this is no cause of sorrow, for the sooner this party is scattered to the four winds of heaven, the sooner will the scales fall from tbe eyes of the peo- ple. aad they will see that their leaders have been but blind leaders of the blind.
 Jeremy Beuthan says, ''the people cannot be too distrustful of their ru- lers." When the American people learn that men and parties are nothing unless based on principle, and that whether under Republican or Demo- cratic dynasty, we have the same re- suits, they will awake to the responsi- bility of elf-goyernment.
 As we turn over the pages of history we can see how other nations, groan- ing under taxation, ignorance and poverty, have been deluded, blinded and destroyed, without dreaming that we, ourselves, are to-day the thought less victims of selfish and crazy rulers who think only of their own aggran- diZement. Just as Rome, with fetes and feasts with holidays and deadly combats between man and beasts, Witii gladiatorial exhibitions in crowded amphithcaters, turned the people, thought from their wrongs--so do our rulers to-day, with caucuses, conven- tions, campaigns, impeachment trials and the coarse brutality of the press and politicians amuse the people, de- grade the public taste, and destroy the 1 virtue of the nation. Unthinkino leaders infiame the North against reb. eldom. and damn every man who dares put in plea for justice and mercy to the South, with the unmeaning name of"copperhead.' To rouse the peoples wrath they point them to the bones of their brave sires and sons bleaching or all those Southern plains, forgetting that with their own hands they built that sepulchre where our brave dead now sleep. The chain that held tho black boy in the everglades of Florids and the slave girl in a New Orleans market was fastened round their neck by New England's sons and daughters Through our avarice and seliishnes' the land of orange groves and flowers lies bleeding and desolate to-day Blame not the South, but our own con stitutions, creeds and codes.
 1 But while we ended with the sword a slavery of brute force, and over turned the Southern oligarchy, by cum ming legislation, we have substituted another form of slavery, in our owl system of finance. In our nationa debt and taxation, we have placed tn, whole labor of the country at the mer cy of a monied aristocracy of banks bondholders and land monopolists Having just escaped from the yoke o 100000 shareholders, we are about ts bow our necks to the yoke of 400,00i bondhoders. Flushed with conquest these High Art Swindlers" hay, bought up the nations virtne ant choked our prophets who have dared to speak.
 gg-Somebody says the best way t' get rid of weeds is to always put you cigar-ease and its contents at the ser vice of your friends. Jones says tn most effective means he ever tried wa by squeezing the hand of a plum