Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-07-31
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Of \ large portion u Tue eilikehs
anl voters Of Texas, ! have Pre-
seated my name as e2ndidalo al
,he approarhihg eleeliOR flr Gov
ernoF 0f the State nnder the new
Constitution. Ii has been, and is
nay wish aud intention 10 meel and
eonfer personally with as many u
ne people in different sections u
tho State as may 10 praelieable be-
tween this and the limo which may
b. fiNed for tho election, bnt the
vast extent Of our territory, and tho
absentee OF facilities for rapid travel,
preclude the possibility Of my Wis
iling all OF tho ditilrenl t0nhlies Of
the State within the limits Of an
ordinary canvass, even il nay
strength were adequate 10 such a
task,
therefore adopt this mode Of
presenting u tho people Of the
State briefly, bat plainly, my views
and purposes.
II Is known 10 YOU, fellow .ci,l'
gems, that | ain a Republican. am
in full sympathy. so far rs know
or have reason 10 belieye, with the
administration Of President Grant,
aud am SUPPORTED as believe by
the mass OF the Republican party
Of the State; but because | am re-
eeislhg n generous support fror'i tie
Democratic party, who have no
candidate, there ARE n fow eStrcm-
is.s-dcslruellyes tathor-who,
claiming TO belong TO tho ltepubli-
can party, dcnounco both me and
the Democratic party rs guilty Of
some corrupt bargain-some hidden
design, some monstrous atrocity-
men whose highest and only idea
of Republican Government Is, that
Office Is 10 be secured 10 them by
restricting the rights Of others. 1t
is charged by these men that the
Democracy sock victory through
me. This is but poor compliment
to the intelligence Of the people, for
such n purpose, it attempted 10 be
carried ont, would only render mo
powcrlcss to accomplish that object
If the object Of the Democrats had
been party victory, they would have
struck for it directly by party or
ganization and candidate Of their
own, with equal if not superior
chances Of success. But il they
had done this, who does not know
that these same marplots and NAL
contents would have denounced
their action rs evidence of continu-
ing contumacy towards the Gov
crnment, and in the event of their
success in the contest would have
hurried up to Washington to resist
the restoration Of the State to the
Union. And now that the Democ-
racy have thought il better policy
with Il view to the speedy adjust
mcnt of existing difficulties and
troubcs-the restoration of civil
Government and the well being and
prosperity Of the people to foregoa
contest, and manifest Willingness
to support Republicans of liberal
and just viows, they arc still to be
condemned.
These sclf-constitutcd apostles Of
Republicanism and political Phafi-
sees will not allow that "good can
come out ofNazarcth, ' and like the
wolf in the fable who would persist
In quarrcfIffs with the lamb for
muddying the water, although he
drank below him in the stream, will
have no peace with Democrats. The
truth is, they desire no peace in So
ciety, because if that existed their
occupation would DO gone. The
only political notoricty they have,
or ever had, is that Of aSitators,
breeders Of discord, and teachers of
uncharitablencss alta time when
every lover of humanity and we'll
wishcr of his country is earnestly
ongagcd in tho effort to soothe the
public mind, to heal past dissen-
sions, to invite the public attention
TO the present and the future rather
than to the past, and to restore
peace in society as the only sure
and enduring basis of good civil
government. M stFtf
What are their claims to the pub |
lie consideration? When l return
cd home, in the fall of 1867, l found
the leaders of this "awkward squad"
of politicians at Austin denorncing
almost every prominent Republican
in the Stats because they would not
give in their adhesion to dogma
for the discovery of which no one
will ever dispute the honors with
them,' which is now popularity +
Known as tho ab initio doctrine.
This means that every act whatso-
ever of any Legislature, and every
judgment and decree of any Court,
aKd every act Of every public Off
Ger, enacted, pronounced or done in
Texas during the war, is and was
null and void db in,tio (from the
beginning.C' TO this heresy, which
if carried out would be worse than
another civil war, I at once opposed
myself as did almost tho entire
party. We said to them
that the act of secession was null
and void because it was in contra
of the supreme law of the
Constitution of the United
that all laws passed for
the purpose of carrying on the war
against the National Government,
were also void for tile same reason;
but that laws enacted for the con-
venicnce Of citizens and for the
public good, having no political sig
nificance, were according to modern
usage and the public law of civil
lied nations 10 be respected, as well
also as the judgments Of Courts
fairly rendered, and the acts of pub
lie officers.
This dogma was brought into the
late constitutional Convention and