Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-11-21
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tufs al hVA muuih, Mass, a a.
days ago, ia the course u which a
, said
D AZ yon all know | have made
, little "Trip Ia lhr S"uih wisl
io see what a RECONSTRUCTED Sta
Was, aud l went ln S"uih Carlli..
Ter 'lat pgrpo'r, ihavc come la,
with lhls vuHyivi.un, though | d.
. not know huw tie other COnser, ,
, tive ritEvIs uf the uLlon may feel
about q, never inlcnd Ia stop in
relax Ter enc mnn cal ia the hear
Z I meet earnest sld IA, II hou,,-
,H"ris Can aIc lu r,MUvc a..
srch b.,sS.Igs' a. rcCuuslru .s.
from tie Hrrks oi rvrly rne II r..
k.'"w''ili1cUs, Loud upplaus,,
The Issue IA this campaign TO me
simply this, and nothing more
Reconstruction, Us yuu know, is tho
I l'adical constitution. IL il the only
I constitution now IN ten States of
tho Union, aud what is il? 1t Is
slmply y this-thy ru.o OF the military
and nothing ulsc, Ia order that il
may not jar too much upon tho
nerves of republican people to SEQ
eight millions oi tlcir fellow citi.
%vus held down hy the bayonot,
they have brought IN great mars
of three or four millions If poor,
ignorant, degraded black men, aul
| svl them up in u row, as il wore,
across the Southern States, and DO,
cause they think you cannot sec the
hayOnct behind them, they say,
That is II republican iorm ofgovorn-
mcnL How rcpubl can? what il
this republican form of govern.
mont? Why look nj the condition
OF these States. Suppose that al
most all the voters in this Common.
wealth should suddenly bc deprived
Of the franchise, and in their place
it was bestowed upon n set of mon
who were entirely ignorant of the
value and responsibility Of tho
voting power-who knew nothing
about any of the principles in re-
gard to which they were voting
Suppose such class Of men were to
be put over you, Of course you
would not like it--you would feel
uncomfortable and disagree, and
you would not suffer their rule il
you could help it, Yet this is pre-.
c.ae!y the condition in which South
Carolina is to day She is governed
by IL set Of men who, if the people
were left to themselves, would havo
ho more chance Of holding tho of,
fees Of your government they now
hold, than | should of being elected
King Of Great Britain in place Of
Queen Victoria, if / were to 60 to
England TO morrow. Laughter
Aud these officials having no hold
upon the esteem Of the people, a
they call them down there in thei,
expressive, though slightly ineIe,
CANT language, 'scalawags" AM
carpet baggers," cannot commanG
any Of their respect and confidence
Tho consequence ofthis is that they
have to be supported in their place
by the bayonets o. the Unite
States soldiers. And as there aro
not Cnitcd States soldiers enouet
at thc South to keep the people en-.
tircly 'contcnted," nor enough t.
make the Government thoroughly
Democratic !" so every day ortwQ
they are calling for more soldiers IN
order TO support these thorough
democratic" and "Republican'
governments; and that is recor
struction! My Southern Demo.
cratic friends down there greet
mo in IL way which 7 shall neves
forget to my dying day. The kind
ness, the warmth, the consideration,
the order which thoy showed in
any Northerner, cspeci-
ally from Massachusetts, who woulG
90 down there and say to them /,
kind word who would not trcaa
-hcm like boys, and call them rcb
is, traitors, miserable rascals, o.
went deep to my hcart.-
Nhey asked me to say to my fellow
.itizens at the North that they
ought YOU in tho war; they De
ieycd that they were right; that
hey fought you as hard as they
,ould and when the war was done
hey frankly abandoned what they
IA fought for. They said we had
them; we had conquered
What we demanded during the war,
md they were ready to give it W,
they would fight no longer. and al
hey asked was friendship and kind
less. What they deserved from u
It the North was mercy, the Eand
f kindness, coed fellowship and
.rolherly love. Laud applause.
hey want no more contest, no
more i'll blood they want o'e'y
0 shake hands, say ing. we +; ught,
nd how the fight is d, ne, let u Eo
ricnds. That is the feeling of the
mass Of the whole pcol lc ] met or
he South. Isaw 10 unkindncs' 20
ort of feeling indicating unk NJ
css toward any of the people s-
he North. That they my rs
r. a'ed in deccncy and kindrass
hey do ask, and that is whs5 l
ray of every one of you to lto'r
5r. TBpplause 1t is the thug
seems to me, that We need horo
1 the North as much as they neel
J at the South. All that they s-'7.
nd all that the Democratic partT
! the North seek to a cJrnplish i-
lst we may be allowed to conle to-
eihcr once more IN peace .rl
nifty; that this incubus IF rc-r-
tructinn may bc taken of toe rc7-
le; that these soldiers MAJ ta
iken away from between n and
sat we-all Of us-onre more lav
.ol. North as vel as South. wlTe
ian as well as black mAn-the BEN
fis Of a Union under the Ole sys