Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-02-29

tho acts Ut Congress, aud 10 organ
lac a thorough cooperation on ihe
part Of tho whole conservative sch
iiment u the State 10 meet the is
sues which the unconstitutional and
revolutionary design Of majority
Of the present Congress present
And while il might be more oOnsis-
tent with tho general opinion, and
my own, Ofthe utter uneOnstllntlon-
ality aud nullity of these acts, in a
legal point Of view, 10 decline all
participation in the approaching
election, no Just eensure can attach
TO an earnest effort, by Affirmative
action, on the part Ofthe white mon
who arc so fortunate to hold pollii-
cal equality with negroes, 10 do all
in their power TO prevent the wrong
that is attempted to DO inflicted on
tho State,
The propriety Of tn Is course
seems justified by the threatened
action of the Radicals in Congress
o { allowing a majority, however
shall tho number, of those voting,
TO be sufficient 10 form State Gov
eminent; and such course would,
doubtless, DO adopted, should il be
found necessary To consumate their
designs, II is not likely there will
10 full poll, or near il, OF the con-
sentative votes, ut the approaching
election, commencing on the 10th
instant. The people arc depressed
and Respondent, many OF those who
can, may think il unayailing To
attend and vote, so we'll have the
o.conspirators, the board OF regis
trars-thc mass of whom take Off
ciai oaths MS a pleasant iormality-
done their work of excluding from
registration n large number of white
men, while the negroes have been
cnfranchiscd on mass from IL years
up. This is what they call Impair
tial suffrage. In this county the
vote seven years since was over
eleven hundrcd-the population has
considerably increased since then,
yet the board allowed, l learn, 705
white men to register; certainly
over 400 votes were excluded.
/ do not know if tho boards Of
other counties were equally success
full, but that they were equally rs
willing there is no doubt, Never
l think every man who has
tho right to vote should cast his
ballot against this proposed convcn-
ton, and then for the best and most
conservative man as delegate to tho
When each has done
all in his power, he will only have
done his duty; nor do / at all des
pair of success browning the effort
in tho end. This has become now
q national question, and the people
of the whole country will BIO heard,
and soon will speak in tones that
politicians will understand. The
public mind Of the other States was
imposed on and misled by misrcp-
of orators imported
from the Northern States, and paid
to speak and tell them tales Of out
rage an d wrong, which secured
temporary belief; but time has re-
vcalcd the deception. and a more
kindly and just sentiment towards
the South will be found there now,
and I trust may continue to increase
till not a trace of unkindness shall
remain between tho sections of the
Union.
Again, we may get justice done us
at home before the election comes
on for the ratification or rejection of
the Constitution which the Conven-
will propose Gfthere shall be a Con-
vention,) by the creation of such
boards as registrars as will allow all
to register who are entitled to do 30
under, the law; l mean the acts of
Congress.
The threat of continuing a mill
tary government should not in
fuencc the people to yield to the de-
mand of having their State Afri-
A military government
will, at least, be in the hands Of
white, cultivated men; many of
them having high regard for the
rights and interests Of the citizens,
and approaching and ready to pro-
mote the interests ofcivilized socie-
ty and social order. A few, by
their tyanay and brutality, and
probably a selfish desire to be reck.
oned very radical, may have some
objects of hatred to the citizens.
Ifso, they are exceptions to the
general character of the officers of
the army; and even they will be
found preferable::as rulers to negroes
or to the white men, as a class, who
seek to obtain Office ard power over
his fellow citizens by taking advan-
tage of the ignorance and imposing
on the credulity OF the negro. In
no other view can 1 perceive any
other advantage that we may rea-
sonab!y expect from such a State
as Is aimed at by tho
With the State African
lied, who will come to it to reside.
or for enterprise? Many now here
would rather leave than live under
negro radical domination, subject
to constant apprehensions of col
lisions between the races. All BUSH
ness would continue paralyzed, as
at present, or become worse; enter
prise of every character would alb
solutely be excluded from the State,
and we would have a long night of
woe close over us, to be made the
more hideous by q bloody conflict
between contending races for the
mastery. Which race will triumph,
the white or the black-the eau
casian, that acknowledges no supe-
rior, or the African, equal to none?
For the freed people, 1 feel the