Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1861-03-06
Reeonstrurlion on The goyernmenl.

ID is no lsaser possible, for one portion
Of the people, calling themselves unionisis
% anything else lhey please, 10 ignore ihs
fact that the Union is dissolved, aud that q
new ueSerumeni is established and Is IN
successful operation at This iime, gov
ernmNi 10 .fscio, that is able 10 Pr"'se'
itself aud 60 work lis owl machinery, will
soon he a government ID .jsr', IN tho eyes
NJ all civilized nations, However relue-
family men may approach the truth, the
fact, the positive unleniable truth sisres
them ia tie iaoe, that ssreR States, have
sece,ic,i aud have erected themselves, with
ant hloo'lshed, into government that bids
fair to eclipse the glorles Of the old Union,
in which new confederation, it will he iho
policy Of each successive administration,
to encourage homosenieiy of purPosa AMI
institutions throughout its limits, as n
mere matter Of self protection. Each
State Constitution will he strictly harno'
nious with the FEDERAL Compact snd M
State admitted, whose individual cons'i-
ulian recognizes = principle or provision
sH,Rgouislic to the spirit Of the Federal
Ca~aei, Hence, the Confederate States
Of lhc South will avoid the rock on which
We Lave just splil,--we mean anlagonlsm
Of State Constitutions virtually at va
rian'c vita each other,
Thsl the Government will be reconstructed
seems To he less probable now, than ever,
The golden opportunity was lost, in az
fceiing I" believe that the South was insin-
eerc in her ProIeaIatlons in favor Of sepc-
rate State Secession. Tho border States
wasted their time in idle ialllance and lost
tie prize for Which they were conl0nl!ng.
The question presents it.elf now in Ioo
palpable form Ia he any longer involved
IN doubt ormyslerious twaddlc about CH'oH
IMieal We have Southern Government
Of our own to which we owe allegiance,
whose spirit and institutions, We have
helped TO form, because VIC preferred them
To Black Rcpublicanism. ON the other
hand, lincoln's administration and govern
mcnt IL no longer our own. Let ihosc who
a'ill yearn for the "ilCsh pots OF Egypt"
uo, forget, that the question is nov one OF
unusual interest. Those who Oppose the
government under which we live, indirect
ly snstains Mr.. Lincoln and his cocrcivc
policy, and let them not forget their oppo-
si,iont 10 the Con rcdcrate States will no; undo
The work OF the heavy majority Of rcsis-
isurc To Lincoln.
Where, then, can he any grounds for u
reasonable hope of n reconstruction? The
only basis on which the South would eon-
sent, would 10 the broadcast in regard to
slavery, such as the North is not now pre-
pared to give, but which time viii ere long
effect in fulflling,-thc irrcprcsible conflict
doctrine in manner little anticipated by
it's authors. The rights OF property in
slaves mus, be leading principle in the
rccons,ructing process, if it he desired to
include the seeding Satcs,-thesc rights
must be definitely established, RS impreg-
nablc and interchangeable BY future leg!s!a-
ton, as the laws of the Mcdcs and Per-
SLAMS; make these rights as free from
State and territorial legislation, save for
protection, as the freedom of conscience,
and then VIC would ike TO see the process
of reconstruction rise under the magic of
equal rights, equal in every portion Of con-
federated territory, and cqualizcd by n
pro,crly defined suffrage