Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-04-06

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The order N Gen ahoflian puts ihe mIll.
iary government into operation. Hence.
forth We are 10 have lufi nH much civil gov
trnment ai tic District C0mmahder
chooses aud no move. The order IL couch.
ed In such terms as 10 give grounds flr e8-
pcoiiug that this discroiiln will not To-
used In tyranionl temper.
The Registration u the neat Thing In or
der now that the legislation Of Congress IL
supposed 10 be definitely settled. The sup.
/ Elementary military bin was completed on
| Monday, and will bee u law In a few days
| with or without the Presidents signature.
A veto will have no practical effect on
the measure, and Is not necessary to the
yindication Of the Presidents rcetiiudc,
lie may think II unnecessary to inlorpose
| Obstacles TO the amending OF law already
/ passed, In particulars that assert no new
| principle.
The points Of difference between the two
! Houses were adjusted In the following
manner,
| The Senate concurred in the House
amendment, that certain classes who are
excluded In the first act from the RICH, of
| NOllnB loI HuNlHS HtAd ENUMERATED glAlN
offices, in which they had taken an oath Of
allegiance to the United States, shall be OK
cluded from the right Of registration, even
though they may not have taken the oath,
They are disqualified by the fact of hay
ing held Offices not for the breach of the
oath, in subsequent adherence 10 the
Confedcracy.
The Senate bill required, in order to rat
ify constitution majority of those vot-
| ing. The conference settled down on a
new provision, which leaves some points
open TO uncertainty. The constitution is
TO be considered ratified by majority Of
votes cast, provided majority of the regis
tered votes are. given in. The succeeding
clause puts it in the power Of Congress to
decide that the constitution is rejected or
| ratified, without reference to the fact that
one-half of the registered voters have or
have not been PEELED. 1t provides that
Congress must be satisfied that registered
voters had unrestrained liberty to vote, and
that the constitution adopted meets the APP
proval of a majority of the qualified voters
of the State"
by this clause 1t seems to be provided in
advance that the constitutional elections,
although conducted by the officers of the
United SUITES, may be pronounced unsatis-
factory, if the results should not be favOra-
BILE to the wishes of those who have intlu-
ence in Congress. The responsibility of
setting aside an unexceptionable constitu-
ton may be evaded, by taking up the pre-
i!icc.:!hary questions whether it was proper
~ ratified that is, Congress may revise the
polling, and place tho rejection on the
ground that the voters were afraid TO vote
as they wished.
This is another embarrassment which the
people of this State are required to meet
but, like the other exactions and instruc-
tons of Congress, it is one past our power
to remove or avoid. 1t is only left to us to
employ all means which cruel policy per-
mits, to protect ourselves from the last ex-
tremity of social political disasters with
which we are menaced. There is ne libcr-
ty of choice left us. Every new measure
narrowing the straits through which alone
there is a possible pathway out of tire cha
os in which we stand, to a breathing spot, is
a n CIV caution against unavailing struggles
and new lesson of the wisdom of move
ment in any direction in advance. To re-
main where we are is both impossible and
destructive. We must move and move
quickly. We must organize the whole con-
servative force which the military bills
permit to have any weight in the work of
reconstruction, so that the new Louisiana
may be saved from the swift ruin which |
will overtake us if it be permitted to fall
into the hands of the eXpectant Brownlows
who are rampant among us.
The Legislature will, we hope, see the
subject in the same light, and take the lead
in declaring the acceptance, on their part, !
and in recommendation to their costitu-
ents, of the full acceptance Of this condi- |
ton, and a universal and concerted effort |
to make the best of it. There are no legal
remedies which can reach us before the worst |
evils which can be inflicted upon us have |
done their work, and received sanction of
governmental forms from which it is scarce
ly possible to break through to our rescue.
Ii there be legal remedies, they will be as |
effectual for us after as before the putting |
forth of all our own efforts to tighten the |
weight of the chains prepared for us. If
we DO nothing we shall be nothing; and if !
we do something, all we can, we may es
cape part of what our worst enemies de-
sign for us, and be prepared to help our
wcll-wishers elsewhere in the great work TO
be carried on through generations in the re
building of the lost institutions of civil
liberty.
Mr.. Konner yesterday, brought forward
in the Senate succnct, unincumbered,
direct proposition taking these grounds;
or rather stating the result at which the
great majority of the intelligent minds in
ihe.State have arrived as the duty of the
House. We hope it will be passed at once.
The State Legislature may hereafter EN-.
body, in deliberate from, the grounds of
protest which Louisiana has, in common
with the other Southern States, against the
tyranny Of which she is the victim.-N'O.
PcaNNae.