Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-09-05
The ReasiIan.

The Reaction.
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is Nc qassiioa that The nass II the Peopls
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are determined GA a change Of Fulsrs anl
d Political parties in power, We all
kneH the GA siags ~RsVoluii0Rs never
SO backward, The Isyoluiion Rsu goiHg
on in the eaunly gill never cease unIil
the Radical bisuRiOA party is defeated
routed, horse, foot aud dragons ,-And
the GoVsTRmshi, as contemplated by the
Constitution, Restored aud substituted for
the consolidated desPolism that non oP,
presses the people; North, South, Iasi and
West, that is depicting the Treasury, re-
moFsslsssly plunging the people In a faith
omless abyss Of debt from which il Seuld
require ages Of Ihrin 10 sKITisals thea,
and, ''like the rush of the dsTee noTlheTn
hurricane, hurFyihg on the ship Of State
to the iron,ioolhel breakers Of d'sihiegra-
ton, civil war, bankruptcy, misery aud
death.
Hut We think We see SILVER lining on
the dark elond that hides the sun Of pros,
periiy and shrsuds our beautiful country
In It's bAleful and finsrsal shadow.
Let every enemy Of tyranny but do his
whole duty, and our redemption Is certain,
We advise the people everywhere 10 work,
by every honorable means In their power,
for the success OF the Democratic PresI-
dsntiHl nominees, for upon their success
depends, as We verify believe, the life Of
the nation, as a free repablie. II they
shall succeed, the old order OF things, to
which we look hack with so much pleasure
in the retrospeetion, will be restored but II
they shall fail, no human mental eye can
foresee the end of the long dark night OF
decay and desolaiiOn that will throw its
inky mantle over US. Then patriotism
would be punished as crime, and the pat.
rot would look upon the fragments Of our
national STR .eture, and weep over shattered
plinth and crumbled capital, like Marius
amid the ruins of Carthage.
1t is far easier to grub up sapling than
it is 10 uprOot follgrOwn tree. Every
failure to supplaut the faction of disuniOn-
lists now represented in the fraction Of a
Congress which has consolidated the pow
ers of the three distinct constitutional de.
partmocnts Of The Government in its own
illegal and irresponsible body,is calculated
to strengthen it, and invite still more hor-
riblc outrages against the liberties Of the
people.
If the people fail 10 dethronc the self
crowned monarchs Of Congress by ballot
in November the peaceful means of the
ballot will never Nscrown and deihronc
them; and the people can never rid them.
selves Of their tormenlors, save by the
bloody bayonct.
We shuddcr in the contemplation of sucl,
a struggle, for in this land of sol licrs and
hearts that scorn TO fear the conflict would
be CORY and fierce. No picture of the
French revolutions would equal the red
reality of the strife, when "Grcek shall
meet Greek" with the slogan of Victory or
Death! Then, the black flag of no quarter
would wave over the fierce and angry bat
talons, and Manassas, Shiloh, Chancellors-
Vile, Malvern Hill, Gettysburg and Chick.
amauga battles would be classed skirmishes
in history, in comparison with the ruthless
Dutchery that would mark the engagements
which would effect the destruction or &C
,ompish the restoration of the ginndest
republic ever conceived by the wisdom and
'eared by the labor of men. God forefend
hat Liberty shall here be forced TO bathe
Ter robes in the crimson tide of human
slaughter, in order to maintain her exis-
ence in this green land, which History
md Poesy have united in proclaiming the
'Egeria of the Free.