Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-10-20

negative, and he would for that very req son be an exceedingly dangerous occu- pant of the White House. As, when cir cumstanccs placed him in command of the armies of the United States, he, in obe- dience to what he deemed the require ments of those having authority over him, unnecessarily hurled many thousands of his soldiery upon death until at last the troops of the Confederacy became exhaus- ted by the effort of slaughter, so as Presi- dent he could easily be prevailed upon by interruptions partisans to sacrifice the for tunes, the happiness, the liberties and lives of his countrymen to complete Radi- cal success
 If we regard it as supremely absurd to talk of, Grants having now, or being like. Fly to have policy of his own, we are not the less alive to the dangers to be appre- bended from his election as the candidate of the Radical party. Were he an able and selfwilled man, even though ambiti- ous and interruptions in the attainment of the objects of his ambition, we should have less to fear from him in case of his election than we now have. Left to him. self, Gen Grant would, if elected Presi- dent, probably prove King Log; but as the case stands, there would be infinite danger of his turning out King Stork of the most rapacious quality. Certainly no party ever existed more utterly devoid of patriotic principle than the Radical party, and certainly no party ever had leaders more corrupt, intriguing and depraved than the Radical leaders and Gen. Grant would inevitably prove under their manage ment as clay in the potters' hands.
 Gen. Grant has no policy; but he is the candidate of the Radical party, and that party has policy the most revolutionary and destructive that could be devised His election would assure the inforcement of Radical policy throughout the land In speaking of what would occur in the event of his election, we should, therefore, consider--not what are Grants individual views, for as we have said he has none but what are the measures, objects, and principles of the party whose nominee he is, and of the leaders whose agent and tool he would undoubtedly be.
 The American people can be at no loss to know what sort of an administration Grants would prove-no loss to compre- bend the kind of policy that would pre- vail. The party that has not hesitated to supplant civil authority by military rule in ten States would not then hesitate to insure its power by making the bayonet supreme wherever Democratic sentiment was in the ascendency. Th9 party which has, within seven years, built up a nation al debt of three thousand millions of dol lars and created by it's extravaganza and fraud deficiency of one hundred and fifty. four millions of dollars in one year, notwithstanding the enormous rates of tax. ation that are expressing the people, would not pause short ot irremediable rational bankruptcy and ruin. The party that has created privileged class, to pay the interest on whose non-intorest-p paying bonds the masses of the people have to toll and struggle so grievously, is not like ly, if vested with full power, to stop short of the creation of an aristocray compared with which that of France in the feudal ages was popular blessing. The party which has inaugurated negro supremacy at the South, for its own triumph and aggrandizement, is not likely to hesitate at the establishment of universal negro equali- ty. And, finally, it is hardly to be expec- ted that the party which has destroyed free institutions and State government in a portion of the Union. will, if vested with unlimited power, hesitate, in the execu- tion of its revolutionary and reasonable purposes, to destroy them everywhere. Louisville Courier.