Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-11-07

D niAAN ANn NNeAtNNe ~ AAN paw ~
cousLbies. iiVe jadg IT tho eleo
lion each Year, ono chief jlsiiee
one eaRnty clerk and drpuiy, on,
district clerk and depuiy, one sher
IN ani deputy, one assessor, on'
treasurer, tcn trustees Of schoo
districts, six nolaries, or say forty
two nnimporlani county Offices, no
ganled as neither legislative ar ia
lioial and who never to0k any cath
. L. snppnri tho Constitution OF lhs
United States, For each incumbent
licro are probably four who held
their oilices previously, There are
l20 counties in the STATE, aud the
number thus disiFanohlsed By a
stroke Of IA military pen is 25,u00,
Verify, the pen h mighllcr Than tho
sword. But this h not all. There
is IN nearly every county in Texas
an incorporated town, having u
mayor, aldermen, marshal, olc,-
There have been, iiTSt and last my
ar sixty regiments organized Of
militia. There have been some
hundreds Of men who have COM
mitlod the crime Of being officers
of companies serving the State by
defending the frontier aud allor-
wards fIrored the rebellion All
these traitors are excluded, swelling
the number added h those excluded
By ao, Of Congress, such as Cover
nlrs, judges, etc, TO fully 10000.
! Now, Of course don't caro-
straw sbou: all this, but from M,
I s.a... r,inl as a PHILOSOPHER, it is
.umpcnt TO say that this order of
General Reynolds has been dirtat d
hy n most short-sightcd policy
True or not, the people will charge
the Radical politicians with b ing
at the bottom of il, and tho Radical
politicians in selfdoiencc should
have prevented the issuing of the
order, and should now procure It's
great modification IL not entire
withdrawal.
l think il was in June last that
! vcnturcd'to cypress the opinion
that Grant would bc oieS'gl TO the
next Presidency. For expressing
that opinion was soundly berated |
by some of the newspapers of Texas,
us though the unfortunate remark
was to be the cause of his success!
| should not vote for Graut if |
could, and have no desire to see
him elected But it has always
seemed to nc foolish and visionary
to assert tho existence Of facts
which we wish might exist. 1t is
now my deliberate opinion that
there might have been some chance
for Seymour TO be elected but for
the great anxiety of the South, and
especially that part Of il that has
no vote that he should be elected.
The moderate men of the North
took alarm from this feature Of the
case, and from present appearances
seem determined to vote once more
for the establishment Of what they
regard as the issues Of the war
This great startling fact that the
course pursued by Southern editors,
and for the most part by Southern
speakers. has been suicda1, becomes
daily more prominent. If they had
taken the same calm view of affairs
Captain John endeavored to give
expression to, they would feel the
pangs oc disappointment less keenly
now, and be prepared to take a less
distorted account Of the condition
of things the canvass has brought !
lbout. And if they had during the {
used the same Judgment in
his matter they are obliged to use t
II almost every other thing they t
,hinll about, they would have seen /
hat no vote will be permitted in |
Texas any more than in Alaska.-- L
70 be sure Mr.. johnson says the i
military shall not interfere in an l.
lection, and old Thad.Stevens must 0
lavc grinned in his grave when he Il
leard it, while Grant no doubt t
hucklcd to see his name placed il
t the bottom of tho brutem fulmen t
" the routine of red tape. 1t takes S
to make a vote. and h
Congress- has lock ed M the machi. t,
lerv and gone off You might as D
relI ATTEMPT 10 run n machine shon =
" boiling water in an open kettle 81
5 to make a Y without machinery n
The maonificcnt weather still for d
be most mart cont;nucs Ono a
ainv dav only has occurred since d
Le lst of October Cold weather
GEMS setting in earlier than usual n,
nd many nronbesv n hard winter +,
,ost wnciy nortl,east Storm GOV Il
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