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A. C. MATHEWS, S
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Tuesda) Morning, August 25, ISHS.
The CITIZEN is TOT (he Offi
c!ul Organ of the Radical Party.
II Is nol I He Recipient orFORCED
PnironagiT hut relies on Its ow n
Merits and on u Discriminating
Pi III.IC, tor succesa.
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National Democratic Ticket.
FOlt PKKFIDF.NT,
II oi'irtio Heymoui’j
OV KltW TOIiK.
FOR VICK PRESIDENT.
Francis I*. Blair, Jr.,
ov Missorm.
FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
»*ni« mit STATE AT LARUE :
i. D. WAI.KF.R, ot Washington Co.
JOHN R. FELLOW? if Ouachita.
KIEST district:
ROBERT b. GANTT, of Prairie..
SECOND district :
A B. WILLIAMS, of Hempstead.
THIRD DISTRICT:
•I. E. CRAVENS, of Johnson.
Co*ori>sioiul Dcsocratic Kx. Com. ^
Washington City, May 2lj, 1HES. i
The undersigned requests the chair
men of all state, county, city, township
or ward democratic and conservative
• ommittces, associations, or clubs, to
furnish the Congressional Democratic
Executive Committee with the names
of members of their associations, for
reference during the pending presiden
tial campaign. Documents will be fur
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mrut/u u> mi?
accompanied by money, at the follow
ing rates:
For sixteen page documents, iu wrap
pers, and franked, $12 per thousand.
For eight page documents, in wrap
pers, and franked, S7 per thousand,
or at the same rate for a smaller
. number. In particular cases they will
be furnished gratuitously.
Communications may be addressed
to Hon. Samuel J. Randall, il. C.,
Washington City:
By order. J. R. DOOLITTLE,
Chairman Congressional Dent. Ex.
Committee.
SAMrEL J. Ranpall, Secretary,
Democratic and conservative jour
nals will please insert the above notice
conspicuously.
ABOLITIONISM VERSUS DEM
OCRACY.
That our country is about to pass
through one of the greatest political
revolutions that has ever agitated it is
clearly apparent to every thinking
man. That there will be but two con
tending or opposing parties is equally
clear. This revolution, which must
come in November next, must from
necessity be as much greater as it is
essentially different from any contest
of this kind ever witnessed on this
continent. It is true that for many
years in this country each presidential
election has brought with it n certain
degree of excitement and political
strife. In each of these elections the
parties were arrayed against each oth
er upon local issues, and in almost ev
ery instance, especially so for the last
few years, the contests were purely
sectional. In those sectional contests
the parties contending were the Dem
ocracy, representing one set of opin
ions, and abolitionism opposing. That
the issues dividing these parties are
now no more is an admitted fact. In
the great contest of arms, which made
our country what it is to-day, individ
ual opinions were lost and party lines
obliterated. Abolitionism in its blind
frenzy lost itself in a maze of hnte, nud
died because its work was done. Bui
now after a lapse of years the time for
political battle comes again, and we
find that there arc but two contending
parties—ftaittcal ism auu democracy
eertaiuly not the parties that in the
years gone fought for the places of the
nation, but new parties with new
Issues and new platforms. Had as the
abolition party of then was, the Radi
val party of now is worse ; great a>
was the Democratic party then, its
responsibilities arc greater, its mission
is holier now. Then Democracy con
tended against abolitionism upon po
litical issues, now Democracy arrays
Itself against Radicalism upon individ
ual rights and constitutional law. The
two old parties found favor and sup
port. the one most in the North, the
other moat in the South. The new
parties are not sectional : each finds its
supporters from Florida to Maine,
from the Atlantic to the I’uellic. The
contests of the dead years were be
tween North and South, and in them
was each section arrayed one against
the other: now the nution is the field,
and around each lireside, may be, there
is found brother in opposition to bro
ther, father to son- The issues for
which parties in the past contended
arc dead: they were locnl, and the in
terest that gathered around the politi
cal contests upon those issues was
nought compared to the mighty inter
est gathering around the coming con
test, in which the individual rights of
every cititen of the country is iuvolv
•d. The new party glorying in the
name of Radical, composed of every
grade of sh&ni" and siu in human torm,
with no policy but that of rule ; not
satisfied « ith involving the couulry in
uintoH irremediable ruin, with an in
ordinate love of power aud an undying
hate to honesty of purpose and consti
tutional law, with a captaiu pledged—
solemn!) pledged to do their will no
matter wvbat tbal will is, ask tlio suf
frage ot the people, ask lot license to
plunder the treasury for another term,
ask for the right—the right of place—
to destroy the constitution, cripple in
fslligencs aud Insult tire world with
po\clament too reckless for prr,spei i
l\. too wdii'U* 'o re-pset, igains
»_« 1 jj'j.'ji.a.1 -i. j
atul opposed to this party is the Dem
ocracy of to-d*y, composed of good
and ti ne men from every section of the
country, men who love the constitu
tion ond obey its laws, men magnani
mous enough to forget past differences
and destre peace, men who value the
prosperity of their country more than
the fatness of office. These are the
parties that must fare each other In
that great contest that must shake this
continent in November next. With
one or the other of these parties each
and every man ranst act; there can be
no neutral ground. And now we ap
peal to you people of Arkansas ; with
which of these parties do you intend
to act? is not the incentive sirong
enough to induce yon to come out and
act with the Democracy? Is your
love for the constitution sufficiently
I strong for yon to desire its preserva
tion ? Are your personal rights, your
privileges as a man, a citizen, an
American worthy of defence? If so.
Ictus all ronic together, forget what
we were in the past, forget what we
were yesterday, and resolve to-day to
he a man, willing to do to our utmost
I for God and our country, right and
the constitution, Seymour and Democ
racy. • .
NO TIVI i; TO DE LOST.
There is not one in ten that rcrog
| uizee the whole of the necessity of or
ganization in a political canvass, and
who appreciates and fully understands
the advantages of a united action
combined with a thorough knowledge
of the party’s strength. And this or
ganization should not be delayed with
the thought that there is plenty pf time
to do all this before the election.
Those who procrastinate never have
time to do all that they should; those
j who work all the time only do what
I can be done. The sooner each town
ship organizes its club the sooner the
I county and the*State will know its
strength, and what is to bo done. Let
us begin immediately to organize clubs
in each township, learn our strength.
report it, reclaim backsliders, convert
mid receive uew members, and tench
the black peoplo that we only arc their
friends. The negro lias been made
our political equal and has been the
duped instrument of the Radical party
in heaping oppression upon ns, Al
though the Citizen was the lirst Tlcin
i oeratic paper in the State to claim for
him equal rights before the law, it will
be the last to say lie has been legally
made a voter, or that be is in any wise
capable of exercising so great a privi
lege with the wisdom necessary to the
niaintaiiiance of a great free govern
ment. Rut this need not hinder us. or
: those who may think as we do. from
bringing him into the party and rea
sonably expecting him to vote with u
when lie is informed of the designs 01
the Radical party against him. The
very oatli that appears so hard for u>
to take is a trick to cripple the white
vote, and if the negro should deseri
their party, as a mass, to entirely de
prive him of the right now given bin
by aid of the prejudice engendered
among the people by the forcing of tie
gro suffrage upon them, and the use o
the just argument that by changing tin
I constitution this oath is no iongei
i binding. The negro is fast learning
j that they care nothing for him excep
i to vote, and lie secs also that they live
not by work as our people do, but fron
his labor nnd by tilling places that hi
vote alone gave them. The Radical
have deceived them in every instance
and they no longer have any coufidcnc
in them.
Every Democrat tlms 1ms the love o
his country at heart can readily sc
the duties incumbent upon him
Prominent among these duties are
aiding and assisting in an early am
complete organization; seeing tha
there is a sufficiency ,of newspaper
aud documents in the bauds of th
members of the club to keep them in
formed of the political situation ; meet
ing ns often as once in each week t
counsel together upon their relain,
strength nnd what is next to be done
Seeing that members qualify them
selves for voting ns early as possible
teaching the negro that it is to bis in
tercet to vote with tlie white peopl
among whom lie has lived and will
whom lie has to live ill the future, am
| using all fair and honorable means t
! secure the electoral vote of Arkansa
i for Seymour and Blair. These are
few of (lie many duties devolving upoi
every Democrat, which, if performei
(along with others that will presen
themselves to his mind, will insur
success and bring about the happy re
suits desired by every true patriot
I Commence this work, then, at once, a
(the enemy is in the lleld preparing fo
action. X'o time is to be lost whet
the campaign is opened, for your cue
my may be moving when you lliiul
him idle. Be ready for (lie routes
and there will he no doubt about tie
I result.
lef We regret that we had no re
' porter at Augusta to give us the pro
j feedings of the grand Radical pow
wow, alias congressional nominating
! convention, as it would have been ver;
rich. They met, but before getting or
gauized bad a severe split for the Rad
ical party, one white member rising
and asserting that no nomination coult
1 be made without the votes of his color
aud a black member throwing tin
same back in liis teeth of his color
, Bodies of strong tenacious qualitie
| adhere very closely; and when, as it
I this instance, they are composed o
; both tenacious aud viscous propertiei
will easily' coalesce. After a sligli
jam together, aud the pouring of tin
oil of corn upon their troubled waters
they became quiet and naturally form
cd that unity which is so complete ant
close as to make it a hard matter tc
distinguish the component parts ai
separate from the whole. One R. H
Roots Anally got the nomination, ill
had been admitted to a seat in Congees
just before the recess, and drew bad
pay for the whole session ; consequent
ly he hail a little of tho one thin;
needful on hand.
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Sentl fifty Oats mill rrrelv
ll:e f ITIZI'.N for lour moiittia.
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Bea« This.
Now, that the public rrib has been
thrown open for the support of the
radical papers of the state, in order
that they maybe kept alive, it behooves
every man in the state tolend what aid
he can to the Democratic papers, who
are laboring for the country, its free
dom anc. its rights. It behooves every
lover of a white man’s government, to
be up and doing, and aid in the dis
semination of facts, through the Demo
cratic press of the state, to enable the
people to know who are laboring for
their destruction, and who are for their
good, and to help to overthrow and
crush our enemies out. and restore the
state to its former position.
The above is from the Fort Smith
Herald, and we endorse every word it
save, and further recommend that our
people not only patronize and sustain
free and outspoken papers, that have
not been bought with a price, but. that
they strengthen and uphold Ihem by
refusing patronage to the advertisers
and patrons of Radical sheets. This
move has been made by the party in
power for the purpose of crushing out
the opposition papers, and is equiva
lent to suppression in many instances,
as several of our best country pnpers
receive the greater part of their sup
port from legal work. Such injustice
to the people can not always be toler
ated. They will hold the perpetrators
to a fearful account some day.
Wo again, and for the last time,
condescend to notice an indecent squib
from the editor of what Brick Pome
roy would cal! a dirty nigger nose-rag.
published at Dcvall’s Bluff, and aimed
at the senior editor of this paper, a
Christian gentleman, and one who,
compared with such as he, is as Hype
rion to Satyr. Not being able to an
swer argument with argument, and
tilled with chagrin and hate, he resort
ed to the following vulgar ding, ex
pecting that its indecency would pre
vent a reply, and relieve him from his
awkward position:
The png-nosed editor of the pugna
cious Citizen, is the only thoroughbred
1 cm* U'ti hnvn pvoi* mn* in Arl-qncnc
Dog-like when tread upon lie yelps,
and cur-like lie continues to howl
whenever the one (leading upon his
tail appears upon his vision.
As we have learned from the above
production that lie harbors no respect
for others, we have been induced to
ascertain what degree of it lie enter
tains for himself, and justly conclude
he has not sufficient tv* warrant him in
even soliciting a game of pec-wee with
a nigger. W'e ask pardon of our read
ers for noticing such a thing, and now
wash our hands from the handling of
the unclean. Juniob.
-—
*sr r ,ist Saturday a conglomerated
mass of negroes, Radicals and scula
1 wags—scalawags of different dates—
! old and new—by the power of atrac
i tion, for somebody had to be chairman
| or secretary—and the aid of loyal
league orders, about two hundred met
together under their own vine and tig
tree in Devail's Bluff to ratify tlie nom
ination of Roots. They ratified. Af
ter ratification came electrification by
the redoubtable Roots, (yon can use
roots or all the meanings of the syno
nym.grub—vide Webster)and Gibson,
and Krwin, and Bancroft, etc. U was
a congenial crowd, no bickerings, nc
differences in tastes or opinions. Tht
people sat entranced—almost embraced
in the arms of Morpheus—with an or
• casional Jove like nod, as their power
1 ful orators told of stripes received ii
: by gone days, and referred to tlicin foi
1 j the healing of the peace. These uni
■ sicians have taken their harps from the
' | willows, and they sing of old loves
I and new wars. They sing aitotu likt
H the locust, and probably as long, wliei
' they disappear. Yet a little wliili
• longer and you will hear them no molt
i forever.
I --
I t&r " e reprint from the columns o
the G irette the speech of the lion. K
H. English upon the test oath, and re
! commend its careful porn«a! by oven
Democrat. W- think it an able paper
and that it will remove the groundlcsi
fears of many about perjury. Read i
1 yourself and then lend it to join
’ neighbor and let him read it.
; Rumored Hltlulrawal.
’ The New York World has the foi
- lowing special from Washington oi
, the evening of the Utli iust :
I Most extraordinary rumors are aflo.-ti
1 iu (Ids city touching the unexpected
’ : rot urn of Genera! Grant from his Wes
> I tern tour, and it - relation to the politi
i cal canvass. From all I can gathei
, | among those best acquainted with thi
| views of the members of the Rrpubli
. ■ .... i.uiivmti a "iimmu X lb .11 •» (lt.ll
1 i private letters iiave been received Iron
* members of Grant's party, showiug an
. anxiety on the part of tiie General It
throw up the candidacy for (he lYfsi
' deucy. To this he has been moved by
* overwhelming evidence from every
■ (jiiurler of the utter w ant of spirit it
i tiie Republican canvass, and the trcmcit
'dims popular tide running in favor o
the Democratic ticket. All the letter!
■ received here, both by the Congress
ional and National Republican Com
; j mittees, are sorely discouraging the
Radical leaders, nor are tiie letter
j from the South less alarming. The
- blacks cannot be controlled, and al
. efforts on the part of carpef-buggers U
prevent excesses have so far failed, and
the Radicals see that a continuance o(
- these riots and incendiary acts on the
' part of tiie colored populations wil
. add hundreds of thousands to the
Democratic vote in the North. Hence
the sudden stoppage of Grant’s Western
' trip, hence the rumors that hoisabom
l to throw up the candidacy, and tiie
, intimations thrown out in politics
, circles that the Republican Nations
Convention will be called togethci
' again, and rumors Iiave it that tin
I nomination will be tendered to Gen
i Sherman.
-Two or three freedmun caught t
II dark-colored plunderer on tlioir prem
ises, near Marion, Alabama, not long
: since, stealing melons, and having ar
rested him, carried him before Lewii
Tarrant, another freedmun, for trial
Lewis asked if the culprit had “any
means,” but being answered in tin
1 negative, gravely informed the prose
i i eutors that, as imprisonment would
j amount to nothing beyond an expense
' ; to the Slate, it would bo better to givi
1 the lover of melons thirty-nine lashes
'land turn him loose. “But,” said the
; colored Solomon, ‘ don't strike him or
. the clothes, for that would give hin:
the right to sue you for duinages—pul
it to Inin on his bareback." And ‘‘pul
it to him on his bare back” (hey did—
* dressing bis hide will) tliirD-nin«
"tinging lashes.
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From (he Nashville Union an I Dispatch.]
Signs In the South.
It is stated that of the 96,000 negro
voters in Georgia, at least 40,000 will
vote for Seymour and Blair, and that
7i,000 or 80,000 white men will east
their vote the same way'. This would
give the States to the Democrats by
about 40.000 majority. There are now
several Democratic clubs in Savannah,
composed wholly of negroes, and al
every meeting their numbers are in
creased. At a Democratic meeting al
Harlan, Georgia, on the 18th inst., n
large number of negroes wore Seytnoui
and Blair badges. These incidents art
of common occurrence throughout
Georgia. These signs in Georgia an
common elsewhere as the following
facts will show :
‘•A meeting of colored people wa:
held in .Mobile recently to organize i
Democratic club. The meeting wa
called to order by Col. C. A. II. Di
mond, who explained the objects, am
expressed his views in regard to thei
social and political status. An Inter
change of sentiment led to the conelu
sion that the colored people have a
last found out who their true friend:
are.
•‘There was held recently at Demopo
lia, Alabama, a Seymour and Blai
ratification meeting, almost exclusive!;
by negroes, and addressed by fou:
white men and six black speakers
Old uncle Sandy Cameron, from Hale
said he was born in the South, was i
Southern man and that the Southern
men were his friends. He had yet t<
learn of any good to the black mail tlia
could come from these Yankee ped
dlers in secret politics. The Southeri
men never lied to him or deceived bin
when lie was a slave, nor since lie wa
free; that God hud put him and tli
Southern man here upon the same soil
and they must either stand or fall to
gether. The old man gave them
scathing rebuke for beiu^f blindl;
hitched in by a set of traveling ndvcii
Hirers, who had only leagued them
selves together as a kind of ladder up
on which they could climb into office
and wound up by saying that “he Inn
rather be lathered with aqua fortis, am
slnvvod with a handsaw, or live on pill
hewn out with a broad-ax, than to b
left in the hand's of such a set of sea! I a
wags.”
•-ln North Carolina, the negroes o
Washington, Saulsbury, Hopewell, am
Halifax have organized. In Tarbora
Sandy Long, of Halifax, and Eato
Robinson, both colored, appointe
Magistrates in their respective countie
by Gov. Holden, have thrown th
appointment back in bis face with clis
gust. Burton McNeel, a respectabl
colored man of Saulsbury, in a car
severs his connection with the Kadico
party, and declares for Seymour an
Blair, advising his friends to ‘do like
wise.’ The negroes of Hopewell, Meek
lenburg county, have formed a Dome
cralic club, and large numbers hav
i joined it, with officers of their own.”
j In Louisiana, at Thibodeaux, Alcxan
dria, Iberville and Algiers, large meet
ings of negroes have been held ad vers
to the Radicals. So great have bee
the changes in the political sentiment
of the negro population of Louisiam
strong hopes are entertained that th
Democrats will carry the State for Set
i mour and Blair.
There is said to ho a perfect stamped
of the. negroes from the Radical part
in the interior districts of South Care
Una. So great have been these change
j that one enthusiastic journalist e.i
: presses the opinion that if anythin
like a fair election can be had. tin
State will be carried lor Se\ moot an
Blair. It would he remarkable if Sout
Carolina, with her overwhelming ml
jjoritv. should vote the Democrati
j ticket.
This political awakening has reaclie
] our own State, and large numbers i
negroes in Nashville and Memphi
particularly the latter place, have allic
| themselves with the Democratic part;
The Union City Herald of the lot
: inst. says:
1 ‘-We ’ attended a meeting of the CO
I orert citizens at the hall l ist evenin'
; several of whom made speeches In fav<
of the Seymour ticket, giving realtor
: for doing so. Next week they wi
' organize a club to advocate and perpi
i tuate equality before the law, and g
j for Seymour and Blair. They are lint
j iug out who are their friends indeed
; they have solved the problem. Maul
■ it is for them to come out of thos
midnight gatherings, and let their ligl
shine.'’
CJOltOll, &.C.
Returns from tlie cotton districts it
dicate everywhere a reduction of tl
acreage in that crop with exception i
1 Texas, which shows an increase of i
per cent, over last year, and Alabam
1 where there appears to he no materii
change in figures. The falling otf i
Mississippi ap pears to be 18 per eon
21 in Louisiana, 12 in Georgia, 13 i
Arkansas, 18 in South Carolina, 20 i
Tennessee, and 32 in North Carol ia
The average, reduction in acreage
about 111 per cent. With this dimii
isheil breadth there is a cleaucr an
better culture and a more general u>
: of fertilizers, so that the yield may l
i unite canal to last year, the season hi
ing equally favorable, with a like e:
pcrience as to insects auit other cause
of injury. It is yet too early to prt
diet "the'resuit, but the present stall
of the crop is fairly shown in til
statement.
One county in Arkansas (Dosha) ri
ports less than a third of the ncreag
of last year, while the area in corn
three times ss large. Such indicalioi
are hopeful. The correspondent, i
might be expected, declares that tt
crops are all in splendid couditiou, an
if not injured by a drouth the tinei
' yield for many years will be thcresul
| A want of ruin lias been apparent i
the Gull States anil a severe drout
bus afflicted Western Tennessee, hi
tew complaints of its effects upon co
Ion are made. So fur the plant enjoy
u very general exemption from casua
ties and injuries.
Eye, oats and barley proviso abut
dant crops; no serious drawbacks ai
reported, and few complaints of lia
condition are received.
Potatoes, so exccptionably unpri
duetive lust year, are in unusually tin
couditiou, uud the average is increase
in every State except Rhode Island
the natural result of extremely hig
prices of last year's crop.
Fruit is variable; apples and peaoht
loss promising than usual. Vermon
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Vi
ginia, Arkansas Missouri, Iowa, III
nois, Indiana, Kentucky and We
Virginia make a worse record thn
other plates ns to apples. Peaches wi
be less abundant than apples; Ne
Jersey, Maryland and Delaware pron
(sing but half a crop, and Illinois an
Michigan showing a eonsidesable n
diiction. A fair promise of grapes
indicated.
Tobacco covers as large an arcs ;
usual in Virginia, Kentucky and Coi
necticut; somewhat less in Indian
Illinois and Missouri. Its condition
good in Kentucky and Michigan; els
where u little below an average.
Sorghum is generally doing well i
the West; not so well as usual in tt
middle belt of Southern States.—Con
and Iud. Gazette.
-The Express office at Frankli
Tenu., was broken open the other nig
and the ife and raonev oerrTt
oft.
| 1'iom tlie Louiavilte Courier ]
Benia* on.
A recent number of the Now York
Tribune holds foith in this piteous strain :
We aro confident that every Southern
Legislature—tre mean every Radical
Legislature, not those of Kentucky and
Maryland—will gladly unite in making
peace forever on the basts of UNIVERSAL
Amnesty—Impartial Suffrage.
So much for the elections- in which the
people have so unmistakably expressed
their condemnation of negro supremacy
But a short time back “the life ot the na
tion” depended nn the disfranchisement
of the Southern whites and the es tablish
ment of a negro ohgarchy in all the
Southern States. But the people have
thundered a “No” which quivers in every
nerve of the Radical party. So it begins
to beg off. It was only joking Radicals
will bo good boys i( let off this titno, and
will permit white men to enjoy “ekal
rights” with the negroes. They only
j want to secure the electoral vote of the
j Southern States for Grant this time, by a
little wholesome violence, and promise to
let the people chooso the electors bore
after.
How Is the promise to be fulfilled ? Is
there any movement on foot to carry out
this promise? Look at Tennessee—at
Missouri / Is there the slightest indication
of a willingness on the part of any Radical
I legislature in the South to remove
| disabilities from Democrats, when, by so
doing," it would lose control ? Equal rights
- in the mouth of a Radical means what
i religious freedom meant in the mouth of a
i I‘m i tun, and a mere false and hypocritical
II cry than that was never heard on earth
I since Judas cried “Ilail Master! ’
' | The Tribune does well to exclude Ken
[; tucky and Maryland from the list of States
1 in whoso behalf it promises peace on the
-1 ground of universal amnesty and impar
-1 tial suffrage. Kentucky and Maryland
-have pcacelrnJ universal amnesty already.
: No man is disfranchised in either State on
' i account of his politics, as is done in the
1 ' reconstructed States, where there is no
’ I peace or amnesty under Radical rule As
.1 tor impartial suffrage, that means negroes
j allowed to vote without question and white
f! men disfranchised by political tests.
1 ; Aentucky and Maryland Have none of
• i that, and don’t intend to have any of it
1 ; We invite our opponents to nn open and
1 I fair contest, and, instead of gagging, we
*! convert them by reason and kindness,
i Our franchise laws survived the war, and
. j all in our ark are brethren No man is
I deuied the right to vote, but such as were
1 j denied it by Washington, Jefferson,
1 \ Adams, (.'lay, Webster, and ull tho great
‘ ; statesmen and fathers of the Republic.
' If wo are wrong, so were they, and we err
‘ ] n glorious and reverend oompany.
-♦ »♦
j “Nigger Nigger E» ery where,anti
Nurry one to lllr«.”
,, i The Sandusky (Ohio) Union publishes
i the following extract of a private letter,
s received by a young lady of that city from
• a lady friend visiting New Orleans: “Yon
e may thank your lucky stars that you live
‘ . iu a land where white servants con bepro
1 cured, and where i. nigger is no better
, than h:« white neighbor. Here it is
_ different. We have a negro Licutcnant
s governor, who. of course, presides over a
- Satiate two thirds composed of negroes.
J negro politicians, negro officers, and, in
I fact; negroes everywhere. I have been
' kept, together with other white persons
' for half an hour, standing on the strcot
c ’ corners, waiting for a negro ‘base ball club
t i pass, dressed in their gaudy uniforms,
,] and going out for their usual Sunday
if recreation Negro political processions
o with their hands and banners, parade the
d streets unmolested. Tho free schools
• open, (his coiningterm, to white and black
111 alike. Heretofore, there have been sepa
i rate free schools for the blacks, but the
, present hlaek-and-tan Legislature paesod «
| iaw doing away with that distinction. I
s i am and h .ve been a Republican, but this
i! : is rather an over-dose of negro. Ohi<
- suits me better. Nothing like experience
° ! to cure one of dogmatical ideas."
i-i __
: The May the Germans arc
y | Leaving.
‘j The Chicago Times, of tho 8d inst., lia:
the following article showing how thi
Gorman vuters are abandoning Radicalism
Indications of the disaffection among tin
Germans who have heretofore voted witl
,, * the Radical party are becoming daily
it more numerous’ A New Y’ork Radiea
,3 newspaper, published in the English lau
i,! gunge, recently complained that that was
II not a raspootible German newspaper in the
11 , State that advocated tho election of Grant
; A dispatch from Springfield brings tin
,, information that tho German Radiea
, newspaper of that city has given up the
s ghost, because it could not find sufficiem
-! Radicals among the German population t(
d j support it.
e The Germans do not like tho Radiea
way oi Biiuwiiig ^muiuuc, ujiug u
deprive its parly adherents of their favorit!
s customs; by the enactment of prohibitory
and Sabbatarian laws; by frequent tirade!
s against the free exercise of religious bo
s lief; by Grant’s bull against the Jewisb
race; and by a fanaticism which will, ir
'* time aud with cnoouragemout, beconn
c 1 more dangerous than would a well-organ
b ■ ired monarchical government.
s From tho Louisville Courier.]
^ Ilvci iitiag thv> Will of the People
t The New York Tribune has beer
l. seized with a sudden regard for tin
n welfare oftho disfranchised white men
h oftho South. The Tribune thinks the\
t ought not to be forever disfranchised
unless their disfranchisement is neces
s sary to Radical success. Itis unwilling
- to permit them to vote this year be
cause they might defeat Groely, and
- Butler, and Grant. But if they wil
e stay away from the polls, let the bayo
cl net and ilie negroes rule, aud permil
tho quiet inauguration of military des
i- potism under Gen. Grant, the Tribune
e says, iu effect, that the Radicals will
rl then have the power to enfranchise the
- white men and, it may he they will dc
hi it! It argues that the Democrats, ii
Seymour is elected will have the will
s l but not the power to do this, and there
1, j fore concludes that Grant ought to bt
-1 elected. This confusion of a deliberate
- purposo to defraud the people of the
l right to express their sentiments in fl
ii I legitimate way is weak, even for thi
il Tribune. Its appeal to trust to Radical
v i magnanimity when that party has sc
i- j long denied ev en justice is akin tc
d 1 trusting to the piety of Satan.
i-1 Whoa ilio devil wav sick.
S I The devil a saint would be ,
"When the devil was well.
R The devil a saiut was he
l. |
-The oi.lv murder committed ir
is New Orleans during the last two yean
>. I for political reasons, was that of 8. C
Sorenson, a Dane by birth, aud a Demo
ii! c.rjt, who was murdered iu cold blooc
o by Philip Witta, a Radical. The lattei
i, i was tried and convicted before thi
criminal *ourt of the parish of Orleans
j a Radical Judge presiding. Govcrno
i, Warrnouth, the man who ha6 raisei
it -uch a hue and cry, and published sucl
d blood and thunder tales, has pardoue
Philip ''Vitla
Iludlcitllsm Alarmed.
The New York World of Tuesday
comments on the significant admission
of the Tribnne that the Republicans oan
win in the approaching Presidential
election only by the most strenuous
exertions, and it* virtual admission
that it is necessary for the party to re
treat from tho reconstruction acts and
fight the battle on a different issue.
This, It says, is a great lowering, nay,
a complete abandonment, of the vaunt
ing and confident tone which has here
tofore prevailed in the Republican
press since the Democratic nomina
tions. U lias been trumpeted all over
the land that tho Democratic party has
defeated itself; that it* National Con
vention destroyed whatever slender
chances it had by its platform and
ticket. Hut. lo ! a he w light hag dawned
upon the Tribune: and as the rays ol
the sun first gild the highest mountain
summits mol afterwards the lesser ele
vations, so the rising Democratic
strength which now strikes the Tri
burro will soon be perceived by the
minor organs of the same party. It if
neither pleased nor sorry that tho Re
publican leaders have at last a realizing
9cnse of their weakness and insecurity
for activity will no more save then
than supiueness.—Nashville Gazette.
jg>“A Radical organ says that *‘th<
Democratic party took the Southern Statei
to preserve slavery, while the llepublicar
party brought them back oonsccrated t(
human freedom ” We arc to look thet
to Tennessee, South Carolina, and otbei
States, which the Radicals have ‘eonse
crated” for an illustration of the lladica
idea of human freedom. It cannot hi
misunderstood. It means one hundrei
thousand white men and property-holder
disfranchised to secure the domination o
a minority party in the State, composed o
negroes lately slaves It means plunder
ing taxation, imposed on a mute and sub
jugated people by armed hordes of carpet
baggers and Africans. It means wha
“l-ibefty, Fraternity, and Equality” mean
in the mouths of Danton, Marat, am
Robespierre. It means a hideous form o
anarchy, to which no peoplo will subnii
when they can choose in its stead a mili
tary monarchy.—Louisville Courier.
-On last Saturday night, as twi
gen Clemen were sleeping on the gallcr;
of their dwelling in Madison parish
La., a huge panther sprung in upoi
them, seized one by tho shoulder, bitin;
out an immense piece and striking hin
• ■ » I. , it I*.. ..1 n'lll
; his huge paws, tearing away gren
masses of flesh with each stroke.
-In a rencontcr in Danville, Toxai
on the 4th between B. D. Sessums am
Levi Green, both were killed instantly
Sessums shot Green two deadly shots
and Green cut Sessums six times wit
a bowie-knife, two of which were mot
tnl. Both were on friendly terms a fes
moments before, but wero under th
influence of liquor.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SALE OF L OTi
IX I>ES ARC, ARKANSAS,
By Commissioner in Chancery
| NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, th;
| under and in obedience to a decree ef th
, Chancery Court of Prairie county, in th
| State of Arkansas, rendered on the Hit
| day of February, 1868, the undersignei
as special commissioner of said court ft
that purpose, will proceed on Thursda
the fourth day of the October Term, 180!
of said court, being the 15th day of Oet<
i her next hereafter, to offer for sale to tl
highest bidder, for cash, at public outer
in front of the courthouse door in Derail
Bluff, in said county, between the leg;
j hours for such sales, tho following <h
j scribed lots and parcels of land, to-wit
i Forty feet off of the north eud of lots (It
! 11, and 12) ten, eleveu and twelve, i
block (26) twenty six, in the town of Dt
, Arc, bounded «i* follows to wit: on tli
north side by the alley dividing said bloc
! 26, fronting forty feel »u I .yon street, an
! running back westwardly at right angle
continuing the same width of forty fei
across said lots 16. 11 and 12. of the sii
and extent as designated np' n ihe stirve
and plat of said town of Pes Arc. Th
same will be sold to satisfy the vendor
lien thereon, for balance of pnrcliai
money, in favor of George C. Watkii
against George W Vaden, ct als. Tl
title to said lots or parcel of laud is cle:
and undisputed.
W. J. BRONAUGII,
Special Commissioner iu Chancery.
nug25-2t
Regular Memphis, White an
Little Red River Packet,
DES A.HC:
JOHN D. ELLIOTT,.Mastc
f Cad. J. Hanks and Mat Glass, Clerks.
A JTTSIi —i The steamer Pes Ai
flAKuSSUi having been put m iboroug
! repair, will enter the Memphis and Whi
j river trade permanently on Thursday, the i
j day of September, 1868, leaving Mempb
' every Thursday for all points on White ar
! Little Red rivers, connecting at Devall
Bluff with trains for Little Rock. Leave D<
Arc on Monday for Memphis. augllo
Regular White River and New Oi
leans Packet,
ST. MARYS;
J. C. SWEENEY,.Mnste
#1 -^T3kThe St. Marys will ru
regularly in the White rivi
and New Orleans trade, during the scasoi
leaving New Orleans and Jacksonport on a
ternate Thursdays, commencing on 17th <
September, 1868. All orders and businei
entrusted to boat will bo attended to wit
dispatch. augii5
J. JOHNSTON, W. H. NEWMAN. T. MANIO!
JOHNSTON. NEWMAN A CO.,
•CCCE880R# TO
j Johnston, Mitchell A Co.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
j
—AND—
Commission Merchants
j
! No. 274 Main Street.
Bet. Seventh and Elghtl
Louisville, Ky.
Reran ia—.Thomas, CiH ft Co., Do Ar
Arkansas. auglS
PJSSOliCTIOV,
riAHE cop,rtnerahip heretofore existing b
1 X t ween Jackson 4 Owen, bas ibis day bet
j dissolved by mutual consent. The busine
I will be .titled by S. N Jacksou, aba has ti
I i books aud accounts of said firm,
i ' f.S JACKSON,
| J P 0" EK
P,v Are, Ark August a, lARS — S’igll-1
■n._ _i_uiC-l-1—r'A
! Jos kb, McDowkll A Co.. A Co.,
i Little Rock. Ark. St. Louie.
BUSSEY & CO.,
GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
AKD
r*“" ■ - ■*'
; COTTON FACTORS,
I
NO. 48 CARONDELET StREET,
| NEW ORLEANS, LA.
i -
Wm. McQceen will be on regular
| New Orleans boats, and will make
1 j liberal adrancee on consignments.
i
Rr.rcn to—State Saving! Aesociation, St.
j Lotii!, Mo ; Pike, Lepeyre A Brother, New
I OrleauB, La.; Loekard A Ireland, Cincinnati.
',| Ohio; J. Peter A Co., Louisville, Ky ; S. H.
. Tucker, Ranker, Little Rock, Ark. auglh
COTTON PLANT.
: mmM mp mmM
r
ACADEMY,
| 1
!|* Cotton Plant,
i
; WOODRUFF COUNTY, ARKANSAS;
i
Under the auspices of the Helena District
Arkansas Conference, of tho M U
1 Church South.
J TTYHE Second Session of this School, undei
1 the enre of Prof. TbOR. H.
" ) Con, with an efficient corps of Assistants
’ i will commence tho
3
. First Monday in September, 1868
• nnJ continue twenty weeks.
j I CHARGES PF.R SESSION:
L Tuition from $12 to $25. Music, Paintinj
! and Drawing Extra.
Pupils will bo charged from date of en
trance till tho close of tho session.
. Deductions made only incases of protract
; ed illness.
t Board, including Washing Lights, &c.
e from $10 to $12A per month, half iu advance
From the location and productiveness o
c the country surrounding the School, it bid:
h fair to be second to none in the State.
I, II. M. COUCH, President
r Board of Trustees.
T. R. Fnrt.TON, Secretary.
; _ __ _
’ HICKORY PLAIN
■ MALE and FEMALE
; INSTITUTE,
» SICSIOrtY PiAIXT,
.8 |
ej PR A IRIK COUNTY, ARKANSAS
\\ —
| TITHE exercises of this Institute will be re
L A sumed the first Monday in August, unde
t tho supervision of
e
y R. H. CROSIER, A. M.,
e
s assisted by a corps of competent teachora
c Bates of tuition—$13, $18 and $25 pe
term of live mouths.
s Surveyiug taught practically, with tb
0 Compass.
r Music on tho Piano Forte, $25. Use a
Instrument, $5.
Boarding. $10 or $12 per mouth.
For further particulars, address Principe
nr any member of the Board of Trustees.
D. F. REINHARDT, President
Board of Trustees.
a C. M. G kren, .Secretary.
jul21-2t.
NOTICE
I"S HEREBY’ GIVEN, that in pursuance of
L decree of the Circuit Court of 1’rairi
C county, on the Chancery side thereof, at tli
I, February Term, 18<>8, of said Court, l will a
pk....it,., ir.it, .1
(j of August, 18H8, proceed to sell at public ou
s cry, to the highest bidder, for cash, in th
d town sof Des Arc. in front of the efface o
B Jaiucs K. Gatewood, in said town, to-wit
,s Lots one (1) and three (8) in block twenty
nine (29) in the town of Des Arc, in Prairi
_ county, in the .State of Arkansas, according L
the plat of said town. Said sale being ha<
to enforce vendor’s lien on above describe!
Lots, in a certain suit in Chancery in Prairii
Circuit Court, wherein A. Stewart & lire’s ar
complainants and Geo. IV. Vudeu ct als. ar<
• defendants.
J. E. GATEWOOD.
n jul 21- Commissioner.
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