Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-10-17

50 FAR as tie the great qusliiiss Of VsloF
and proves aud ehivalry we're concerned,
was on the side OF the three millions who
fought eight millions, maintaining tie un.
equal strife for four years ~ sangulnSIy
conflict, challenging the admiration Of tie
outside world, and shaking the citadel Of
the enemy nom its fonn la'lon to the desc.
Grated lag floating from it, merlin. Ia
the abnormal condition OF national Affairs
and heedlessness and inadvehianey u the
public mind, Il was 40 hard matter for the
abolition faction, which took the name Of
Radical afIer the nboliiihn OF slavery BY
the fortune Of war, TO keep In power for Of
least another term. Aud they did this by
the effect Of their position aud the peculiar
circumstances by which they were sur.
rounded. Their party was u'hered Into
being with all the prestige OF victory Il
seemed to stand identified with The cause
Of the country II easily arrosated to itself
all praises aud all honor as a public 81.
viour; and, while Il claims 20 own the
Government because IL saved ID, aud TO he
entitled 10 the most generous rewards for
its inesiimablO services, and TO enhance
those services by assertions that but for II
the rebellion would rise again; and that II
only is faithful to republic veal, aud who
ever opposes it is in sympathy with the
rebellion, the people fail to perceive the
sinister and selfish motives that lie CON
cealed beneath this specious exterior. Il
is not strange, then, that the radical fac
ton should hold in its hands the honest
passions Of tie multitude. But when the
multitude emerge from the maelstrom Of
passion, and get out upon the clear, calm
sea of reason, they will repair the wrongs
they have suffered to be pcrpetratcd in
their hour Of blindness and peril.
The country has been at profound peace
ever since the surrender of General Lee;
yet the Radical cry has continually been
warl warll war The Radicals won't have
thorough peace. They are too cowardly to
desire the actual shock of arms yet ut the
snme time, they seem TO have deemed it
indispensable TO their dominancy to create
an excited, tumul,uous, disorderly riotous
state of public society. Their whole re-
cord proves this fact, and makes it axiom
attic, hence no argument need DO entered
into to establish the truth Of our assertion.
This leads us to say that their policy is
totally at val lance with the genius Of all
free government; and that if persisted in,
it must inevitably ultimately result in the
razing of the last pillar supporting the
splendid dome of the Temple of Liberty,
the cornerstone of which was laid by a
son of Virginia-the immortal Washington
And upon whose Strengthening and
ndornmont the American people have Ia
bored for more than ninety years.
History abounds with lessons that teach
US that Kindness and magnanimity alone
can close up the gaping wounds inflicted
by the sword-that these alone can recon
cile the vanqnished to the victor-that the
apparent harmony compelled by force an /
power is but the thin lava crust that some
travellers report sometimes cover the crater
of Vesuvius. Asd o.
DC hundred ami seventy-seyen wears
ago [l69ll there was a great rebellion in
Ireland, arising from differences between
Catholics and Professionals. The military
power of the Irish was finally crushed, af-
ter sanguinary struggle, in the engage
ment near the city of Limerick. The
British king [William] granted them gem
erous terms. They surrendered their arms
theirs was Lost Cause-and both Pro-
testants and Catholics were satisfied, and
had there been DO breach of faith, it is
believed by all statesmen and historians
that Ireland would have remained as quiet
ly under the paw OF the British Lion as
Scotland has done. By the terms of the
treaty, nothing but simple oath of allie.
glance TO King Williams Government was
required. But the treaty was disregarded.
Parliament refused to carry out the gener-
Gus terms magnNnimously granted by His
Majesty. Ireland, said they, must be re-
constructed, treason must be made odious.
And thus England, by violation of sol
EMMY plighted faith in the first place, and
the following mp of victory with persccu-
ton in the next, forever alienated proud
and martial people, over whom she seems
to consider it vitality necessary forever TO
keep sleepless and expensive watch and
ward The Exiles of Erin are in every
land--on every sea, and their anathcma
maranaiha against England rises on every
breeze that goes wandering through i'm
mensity, and so win rise till the dream Of
freedom shall be realized, or the star Of
hope sink forever below the clOuded nori-
ron Of storm rocked Ireland.
On the other hand. Scotland fought
England for ages with more than the per
tinacity, il not the degree Of envenomed
hate, with which she was fought by ireland
There is not a Loeb or mountain or glen OF
food or fell in nll Scotland that was not
REDEEMED BY the blood Of the exeerated
aSoutbrons." But The land Of Bruce and
Douglass and Wallace sueeumbed TO supe-
rior power, but not 10 superior vslor. The
British Govsrnmentuisely forbore to inter
fsre with her sneisnt manners and Gus
toms. or even her municipal laws and 20
lice regulations, and The result was she
bsc.ms-snd has 90 remained ever since
enc Of the most loyal conquered provinces
thst ever bowed The knee 70 the crown d
. eonqusror.
The infsrsnss from tbsss lessnns frDn
history j. obviou> II he United States
6ovsrnnsnt hsl, 81 he close Of he var