Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-12-22
The Message.

The Message.
In our last weeks issue We published In
full the Presidents Message to Congress
We have now had time to examine Il care.
fully, and weigh lis import we'll, A more
able, dignihed, aud siatesman.like docu-
ment we 10 not remember ever 10 have
read. The bold and answering stand
which the President maintains will carry
fresh assurances to thousands Of despond-
ing hearts In the South, and occasion fresh
an brighter hopes to the friends Of the Re.
public every where.
In common with many Of our brothers Of
the press Of the South and large MAORI.
ty Of the people, we felt greatly apprehen-
siye that the result OF the late Northern
Elections would in some way bring about
compromise with the disunion faction
now assembled in Congress at Washington,
on the basis Of Negro suffrage and general
amnesty. but thank God, we have no
such fears now the President has proven
nobly consistent; he has established him.
self upon the broad principles Of free Con-
stitutional Government, and there he will
stand, we hope and believe, as firm as the
rock Of ages. lie has acted towards us rs
a people noble and consistent part, let
us then not refuse TO make in return every
concession that is not inconsistent with
honor or right. We believe that he will
neither expect nor ask more at our hand
the paper which we now have under con-
siderntion more than warrants us in this
conclusion. II is conceived in such n
spirit of Catholic patriotism, and embodlcs
such cogcnt reasoning md unanswerable
logic, with such elevated devotion TO the
country at large, that We may well take
courage to repeat the almost forgotten
maxim, ana De,perandum de Repubhcd."
When such Paper emenates from the Ex-
ecutive of the Republic, it brings us back
again 10 the better days Of its history, and
VIC poor outcasts from once common pat
rimony may find comfort in the hope that
we, even we, have rights. 1t is no section
al feeling that finds voice in our con-
CALCULATIONS, but it is the advent of that
long deferred and constantly hoped for
time when some positive tangible evidence
should be given that the days Of domineer-
ing despolism were ended, and that the Re-
public was once more righting itself and
entering upon its career of freedom, glory
and prosperity. If it has not already
COM, we feel that the day is not very far
off, when the dastardly crew now assem-
bled atsWashington will be powerless to
inauguratc the nefarious plans which they
have on foot for the destruction Of the Re-
public, they dare not attempt in the face of
such manly protest. The people Of the
South may now take heart again and enter
in earnest upon the cultivation of their
fertile fields and the development Of their
mighty resources, and put their houses in
order to assume the character the dignity,
and the honors which belong to American
Citizens. They may now begin to indulge
the anticipations Of glorious future and
renew their hopes Of coming prosperity.
For this, they should not forget that they
owe much to Andrew gohnson,-Let then
the same manly spirit which has ever in
spired them, and which led them into revo-
luton against overwhelming odds, now
cause them 10 rally TO the support Of the
man who can forget his own personal
grievances in the noble spirit of patriotic
devotion to principle and unfagging deter
mination TO perpetuate the Union as the
Constitution made it. BY every means at
their command they should hasten to up
hold him and by every effort in their power
they should sustain him in his undertake
ing.
There is needed 10 secure the coming of
the new era which the President is endeav-
ering to inaugurate, only that the conser-
native masses of the North shall follow our
example and bury mutual animosities in
one grand aprising to put down faction,
discord and fanaticism no matter where
they may exist. We believe that it will be
done. The spirit that the President has
and is now manifcsting is doing more to
reunite in feeling, interest and utilization,
the long separated sections than any thing
else that could be done. If such spirit
had been manifested in 1861 the four years
of conflict through which we have passed
would never have occurred, but peace and
prosperity would have rested upon us in
stead. The lonely prisoner in his "rock-
ribbed CELL at Fortress Monroe would never
have left his scat in the Senate if his oft
repeated appeals TO patriotism had been
heard in the spirit which is here manifested,
and, alas, the fertile fields of the South
would never have been deluged with blood,
and devastated. But the four years of war
is only speck of time, in the long ages
terough which the nation is destined to live,
and If each section will be wise and just
aud labor TO bring about q better under
standing and more fraternal feeling, the
experience will not be valueless.
e6rwe were rather premature in our re-
marks last week, about the regularity of the
mails. We are considerably at loggerheads
this week with the slow coaches. Up to
"these presents" no mail has reached us
from the North since Friday of last week,
and none from the South since Sunday last