Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-02-24

South regarded the utteranoe Of that rai,
ro,ous sentiment 10 any other light than NJ
the rawlings IT man, who had become in,
sans on Ihr sui cel vi abOllionism, and had
proven hiusell filter subject for the luna.
tie asylum than tho pulpit, The Northern
press and Northern statesmen, with great
uuauimily Joined in coudemrlng the senti.
mcnt Of MIR Phillips, and giving assurance
To the people Of the South, that there was
no respectable portion Of the Northern pco-
PIE who sympathiIed in sentiment ith any
man who denounced the Constitution of the
United States; aud that the denunciations
of Mr., Phillips, hurled against the Federal
Constitution was perfectly harmless, and
found no response in the hearts Of the Nor.
thcn people. So far as the sentiment Of
the people Of the North had developed itself
in the persons of It's leading, and m ost emil
ncnt statesmen, this statement was true
anl correct. The people Of the North, who
supported such men FOR political Office, rs
Daniel Webster Levi Woodbury., Buchanan
and Silas Wright, could not do otherwise
than condemn the sentiments Of Phillips,
and all others, who for the purpose of free
ing the negroes, were willing not only to
destroy the Constitution, but to drenoh the
land in ciWtCrnal blood; hence the dcclara-
ton Of Mr. Webster that the people of
Massachusetts were satisfied with the Con-
stitution,' was true at that time, so far as
it applied to large majority Of the people
of that State.
Neither Mr. Webster nor any other lead
ing statesman of The North at that time,
anticipated that hatred to the Constitution,
and q practical disregard Of all its guaran-
tees would ever become the chief corner
stone of great political party, or that any
party could ever gain even respectable
following, whose chief claim to the support
and coniidouce of the American people rest
ed upon an avowed hatred OF, and disregard
TO the Federal Constitution.
The death of Mr. Webster, and other lead
ing Northern statesmen, (who by reason of
their great talents and commanding inhu-
cnce had been able 10 keep down and pre-
vent the growth of ianaticism in the North
brought into the arena of Northern politics
q new class of men, who, incapable of doing
any great good, (by reason Of their want of
talent and moral honestly yet they were
men Of sufficient malice craft and cunning
TO he of great injury to the public service.
The seat long occupied in the Senate by
Daniel Webster after his death became the
spoil of fanatic named Sumner, who at
the time of his election professed to vene-
rate and love the Constitution, but whose
subsequent career in Congress justifes all
men in believing that he loves nothing that
is white except himself and venerates moth
ing so much ms the name and memory of
the old robber and thief John Hrown.
During the period intervening between
the death of Mr.. Webster and the first cleo
ton Ct Abraham Lincoln, in 1860, COM
plcte revolution in the sentiments of the
people OF Massachusetts, and other Northern
States had taken place; instead of love
and vencrativn for the Federal Constitution,
hatred Of that instrument had fully taken
possession of all classes in the North, and
as the new dogma of the equality of the "a
ccs had become the main pillar and sup
port OF the party that had succeeded in
placing Abraham Lincoln at the head of
the government of the United States; from
having been despised and condemned by
the great mass Of the people of the North,
the doctrine of the unity of the human race
and equality of the negro with the white
man had become the main doctrine Of n
great and successful party, which had sue
ceeded in clevating to the Presidency man
whose principal recommendation for that
distinguished and exalted position consist
cd in the fact that he regarded negro as
being, in all respects as good, and as much
entitled TO his respect and consideration,
as white man; and he looked upon and
esteemed John Brown, the robber, as be-
atified saint, who had fallen o martyr TO
the cause of human freedom, meaning Of
course, by the term human freedom" the
Of the negro slaves. All the
monstrous doctrines entertained by the ia
natics Of New England, which looked TO the
elevation and enfranchisement of the Afri-
can, found most hearty supporter in the
person Of Mr.. Lincoln, who was always
ready to lend the support of his official po
sition to all the wild and visionary theories
10 weaken the force of the Consti-
est of the negro at the expense of the
white man.
The wisest purest and best men, North !
nd South, believed that an effort to admin |
ster the Government Of the United States
pon the principles enunciated by Mr.. Lin
DIN and the party that placed him in pow
r, would not only destray the Constitution,
nut completely subvert the liberties of the
eoplc, both North and South. To avert this
and secure for themselves the
lcssings of free institutions, and Constitu-
ional liberty, the people Of the South at
empted to establish for themselves q sepa-
ate and Independent government that
hould be free from the leprous faint Of fanat-
cism that had corrupted the public senti-
nent of the North. In this attempt the peo-
lie of the South we're completely overwhelm-
d by the superior numbers and wealth Of
he North, and at the end of near FIVE years
ind themselves completely in the power of |
hose with whom they have been recently |
It war, Without the power to resist any
erms, however humiliating, that may be
endered to them for their acceptance.
The course parsued by the radicals in