American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-09-07

lsEDANIEII WRIGHT, OF Ttppah.
2d-E. C. wALTHAI.L. Of Grenada.
Sd-SAMUEL n. MEEK. Of Lovndes.
lsh-J. A. p. CAMPBELL, Of Madison.
8sh-w. n. HANCOCK. Of Clarke.
sth-THOS. B. SToCKDALE. OF Pike.
a." The Hideous Offspring of Anarchy
Nasquerading in the Stolen Robes Of Peace.
Can words express more forcibly
the idea intended, than, by the
above language. the New York Iri
bxae expresses its idea of carpet
bag rule in the Southern States
"The hideous offspring of anarchy
Too we'll do we people of the Sonth
comprehend the meaning of these
five words. For seven long, weary
years, ten Thousand hide0us child
rem of anarchy have run riot among
rs spurned by the general gov
ernment, which should have been q
protector, emissaries have been sent
with commissions to rob, degrade
and plumber tax-gatherers have
eaten up what little substances four
years war spared; slanderers have
been paid to misrepresent us, that
the government might seem to be
justified in its expressions; officers
have been appointed over us, whose
eligibility was measured by their
willingness to aid in the wicked
scheme of oppression and SANDER !;
labor has been purposely disorgan-
lied and demoralized; the black
race has been taught to believe thai
it lives among its enemies; riots
have been melted, disturbances pro-
voked debt has been piled noun
tain high, and for it our States have
nothing to show but the long list of
crime and robbery of the adven-
turers. The war was period of
gloom and suffering; but our suffer
ing was light compared to the reign
Of the "hideous offspring of an
archy." Then our souls alternated
between hope and despair; the
night was dark, but we hoped for
the dawniDg Of day .noso, all was
despair, and there seemed to be no
end to the night; madness seemed to
have seized upon the Northern peo-
pie, and was driving them to despe-
rate cruelty and injustice. We
were called disloyal, and were not
permitted to feel that We were
members of the same government;
the flag protected the bad men who
robbed and elandered US, and we
were called re6clliows because we
could not worship the flag which
encouraged such wrongs; negroes
were banded into leagues, and led
by the paid tools, and melted to
lawlessness, and voc were accused
of every crime committed. These,
and scores of other outrages. have
blackened the record Of the pres
ent Administration. "The hide
offspring of anarchy" has writ its
deeds in blood.
disappearing in the stolen robes
of Peace" The great leader of the
infamous host touched the key note
of villainy when, in the "stolen
robes eff peace, he brought desols-
ton, disorder and plumber upon
upon the South. He clothed his
minions in the "stolen robes" and
sent them Throughout our stricken
section. All was done in the name
of peace. The hideOus offspring"
made war, and called it "peace -;
they stole from rich and poor alike,
and called it "peace' they taught
hostility, bitterness and enmity,
and called it "peace y; without au-
thority of law, they arrested our
citizens, and confined them without
trial in loathsome dungeons, and
called it peace -; they stole $780,
100000 from an impoverished peO
pie, and called it "peace .; they
stationed soldiers in every hamlet,
and called it "peace they clamor
for further lease of power, and say
their success only can preserve
''peace." Thank Hes~en, a dis
tracted country has had enough of
such t.peace." Reason in resum.
ing its sway, and the American poo
- want "peace' in reality:-not
false peace, which licenses all crime,
and can live only upon riots, brawls.
enmities and disturbances, but gen.
xine peace, that freedom from agi-
tation, that healing of the ugly
wounds of war, that clasping of
hands in reconciliation, which alone