Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-07-10

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sunr aud 20 ihr N~F Uhrers his
4 iliiial Friends. reconstruction
wuull Ia defeated.
'asrh declaration, Or iniimaiiun
vvch 10 iouurhahlu IA more ways
than tuo.
n VB uuiy b. made upon the hy-
l'lhr-is that Cungrrss, President
Grant and tho Republican party
have bean and arc slill dcaling hyp
""ritirally and falsely with the.
Slgthom people,
tungrrsa r'puiluicl tho plan oi
reconsideration devised hy Mr., Lin
rn'h AMI honestly attempted ~ le
SN,pulr1 .r Mr., Johnson,
Neither the reconstruction acts of
lSG7, hor the XVIII Article of the
Constitution, hrccl negro suffrage
upon ns. ny DISTINGUISHING a Ger
tain class al whites, aud by allow
sag rcsrocs Ia vote tor aud become
,lclcgalcs To tho conventions, ana
then Ia veto ea the ratification 0i
iho constitutions thus made, Con
grcsS sought la inillc, tkis evil upon
tho South. Vet We were to,d'hy
tho nations august unh honorable
representatives that il wo would
"nnrt constitutions in accordance
with those acts we should be rcNtor'
al, aud IL We refused negro suffrage
NO shnuld not 10 kept out OF the
Union, hut wo should lose repre-
scntallOn in Congress In proportion
ao The number OF negroes who were
not allowed 10 vote. There IN not
uhc slightest ntimatinn in these
acts, nor was there declaration of
Nny respectable republican, that the
States should, in addition TO con
iirming these acts OF Congress in
making their new constitutions,
elect carpet baggcrs, negroes, and
native Republicans TO Congress, to
tho State and county Offices and to
the Legislature.
IL was under tho false prctcnsc
that our State Governments were
not republican in form that these
reconstruction acts were passed,
But if wo comply with these acts,
and are then 10 be kept out of the
Union aud under military rule, be-
uaxsc wc do not elect n certain class
10 Office, il would DO moro manly
and bciitting alio nations rcprcscn-
tativos Il they would plainly nom
iinIi:e il in tho bond.
Notwithstanding the solemn as
suranccs of the acts of 1867, and the
ready compliance with the terms
imposed by seven of the States,
Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, al
though ready to comply, have been
delayed and prcventcd-not by the
conduct or desire Of her people, but
by tho impcdimcnts and obstruc.
items placed over them by military
wisdom.
And now, when tho State has
been under radical domination since
Auguss "a and has n constitution
Offered for acceptance that has been
:madc by tho most faithful Of the
household Of the faithful, and when
Congress has imposed additional
and moro oppressive terms, when
itho general sentiment Of the poo
sllo is to accept the terms and the
work before them, and elect decent
and moderate Republicans to the
principal State Offices, we arc grave
D ly, and even thrcatcningly, told that
if II Conservative Legislature is do.
cidcd, with everything dono and
snorc than Congress has required,
reconstruction shall be prevented.
If Governor Hamilton should be
elected, the proposed Constitution
DO adopted, and II Conservative Leg
isIaturc be chosen, and Congress
should refuse to accept the Consti-
tuition in consequence Of such Leg
islaturc, it strikes us that every
honest and fair minded Republican
would blush with shame to &C.
knowledge fcalty to party so DIES
tituto of principle, so barren Of
craftsmanship, and so rccrcant to
tho great trusts confdcd to it by the
American people. 1t seems to us
that II mind SO warped by party
rrcjudiccs as to fSvor tho party in.
dictated must be lost to every scnti-
mcnt Of honor and justice.
Gentlemen who indulge in such
partisan zeal should remember the
multiplied millions that it has al
ready cost,tlio general government
to radica!izo the South, and they
should remember that it has not
been the want of fidelity on the
part of the people that has so long
delayed restoration, but tho efforts
of Il certain class who have been
determined to rule or ruin. They
should draw lessons Of wisdom
from the evident signs of disgust
that begin to porvado the public
mind North at their long delay
Mr.. Greeley and other great Rcpub-
iican lights have very plainly init
mated to them that the time is at
hand when they must take care of
themselves and that tho country
must have rcposc.
Queen Victoria has reached her
fiftTcth birth day. What a remark
able life this monarch has led since
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