Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-02-16
Truth Crushed to Earth Is Rising
 Again.

The Nashville Banner, in quoting from the New York Tribune, very properly observes that if the article below does not tell the whole truth it at least makes the effort to be impartial and just. The evidence is conclusive that the scales arc at lenght beginning to drop from the eyes not only of the great mass of the Northern people of intelligence, but even Radical politicians and presses find it no longer polite to attempt further to play upon the crcdulity, passions and prejudices of Northern society to make political capital at the expense oi'the South. Here is the Tribune's article:
 The casual reader may imbibe very erroneous impressions of the state of the pers. fla Kuklux outrage is perpetrated in Tennessee or Texas, it is at once fash ed over the whole country and so of a negro riot or resistance to legal process. growing out of quarrel with planter or planters as to the division of crops grown on shares or the payment of wages. Few stop to consider that the South covers a million of square miles, inhabited by twelve millions of people and that, since every collision among these twelve mil lions has quasi partisan character. the widely reported and trumpeted crimes of violence bear an unprecedented proportion to those which attrae. only local attention For instance There are ten or twelve counties in Middle and West Tennessee where the rebel spirit is st'll rampant. and in some of winch knklux outrages are ftfully committed but the forty or fifty counties which are as quiet as any part of New Eng land iuci.e no telegrams and rarely attract public attention From Virginia and the two Carolinas we have heard of but one collision for weeks, and that was an evidently magn. fled report of q resistance to civil process by a few negroes near Norfolk From Georgia We have only the Ogeeehee troubles, which were swollen out of all proportion by mutual misconceptions and q palpable effort to drive the blacks into rel ellion and subject them to exterminatlon Fron' Alabama we hear of but one recent ou : rage-the murler of Union officer Kuklux near Etnts He Alssisslppi is very quiet Louisiana almost uniforinly so since she heard of Grants election In Florida only the Kilkenny ieud among the State officers vexes the general calm Arkansas has been seriously conyuised aud agitated and there have been wild doings by impIacabc rebels on the enc side and by oyernor Claytous black militia on the other; but, in spite of the desperate efforts; of the rebel journals of Memphis and Little Rock, 1t is plain that order has generally been restored on the basis ei submission to law Texas IS so vast and SD remote from the seat of Government that great many of the turbulent and implacable have taken refuge in her vast solitudes and there do with inpunity deeds that would provoke repression elsewhere; but, even there, matters have greatly i'm proved since Gen. Grants election, and are still improving
 On the whole, iae South is looking up. There is fraction of her people who still choose to put on masks aud rlde about at midnight to assault Unionlsts. white or back, and burn negro schools houses; but these are not half so many as they were, and their number ia still decreasing With Grant in the White House, cotton ruling high, and lands rising in value, we shall be disappointed if they are not redu ced to few isolated gangs of ten to thirty within the next two years. Let the friends of peace and union unite upon the basis of universal amnesty with impartial suii- rage, and they wll soon have vanished al together.