Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-05
POLITICAL PREJUDICE.

One Of the most objectionable fea- tures in our Republican form of gov ,ernmcnt is the violent and hurttul prejudices that spring from the varied interests of it's parts aud divide 1t into antagonistic sections. This prejudice will seize upon the minds oi men who, if they have not, ought to have gcner- ous and exalted ideas of magnanhnity and justice, and which, when they are fully drawn into the current oi politi- cal events, it hardens into the most extreme hatred But witness 1he bit ter and relentless antagenism ot the large majority of the people of the Northern against those of tho Southern
 section of our country. The Radical leaders, in the late contest, knowing this but too well frightened and inten
 sified it by false reports of rebel and Ku Klux outrages in the South, and used it as means to justiiy the vindtc- tive Legislation of Congress by securing the election of Radical President. Every capitalist and thinking man in the North knows that the entire legis- dation of Congress in regard to tho South has been hurtIul 10 the best in terests of the whole country, and it has been opposed by this class. None but placemen and office-seekers and those who would gather money lay pander- ing to this hideous monster of iutem- perance strive to keep alive the fires on its altar. The events of the last three years have tanght us how much Justice there WAS in the relnark of a great thinker and writer when he said, that as this government had grown 10 wealth, prosperity and strength with such rapidity in it's early days, so its decline from these causes would be
 marked with bloody revolutions, and predicted It's end in three centuries oi anarchy. What are we toBthink of the sectional animosities that divide the people of this vast Repablics To say that this government cannot exist with a permanent hatred between it's two great sections would belle history. Ii can exist, and for n long while, putin a decaying condition. 1t is Il sad sight to see ones country declining in pow CT and glory, its body polite enieesled by the slow po.son infused by this fiend ot political hatred, and those who have the power to check the dis ease, aggravatiny it. There are those who ought to be lifted high above this prejudice, but they are still blinded by it. As an example, Mr. Greeley paper, tte New York Trbane, is one ot the most rindicsiye, bitter and re- lentiess sheets published in the North or all other men who are Northern raised, he, more than others, should show better feeling. h recent number of his paper, and in an article about Mr. RercrUy Johnson's mission to Engiaad, he takes that great anu profound statesman aud diplomatist to task about the nanuer ia which he secs proper to perform his mission, and calls him mere salaried advesl- anrer," and ail because Mir. Johnson is 1 q Southern ina,i, and did not tres, with disrespec4 certain nob.emen aud | gentlemen oi Lngiaisa who syiapathi- zed with inc South. In the course o his remarks in the same article he calls an English gentleman coarse and vio. lent for his speech in favor of thcAl South, and sneers at the fame and tall ents of sSfonewaiiy Jackson. When such men exhibit the passion Of preju- dice in so strong Eight against those greatly wronyed aad perseouied. is il