Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-04-30

NNNra - NNAN- y ~ AMNaAN HAr -ANaNtA
says is ten years ohl, the S0uil
may get RELIEF and that even lhel
, there "wiN b. m disposition, Il
ahy quarter, among Noriheri
Democrats, seven when the expert
. mehi Of negro suffrage Is ascertain
el 10 be a isillTC, Ito take away 1
! pTiVilege once enjoyed" and hence
pleads With "lhe Well-wishers o
lhe negfoes," to-wit; Northern Re
publieaRs, that '-they should DO sat
isfed without lhe Amendment
"ioq .have"-say they ia effect Il
mo Republican party Aerth-'g
} dead thirg an the people down
S0ntk, pray don't fhrre pniversaI
suffrage on New York. 81 the adoI
ton Ofthe Amendment, aud there
by disturb tho reign Of the famma-
ny Ring IN the Empire, State. II
there were an additional aggnmon,
why | wOnld favor and have this
DAY voted for IS ratification, il is
to commend tho dregS of the ohalioo
10 their own lips, which thNy hayo
aided IN the war, to force US to
quaif,
When asked when did we become
A Republican, R6 answer that No
surrendered TO tie conquorors in
good faith IN 1865, but that Ne can
better tell when wc ceased 10 be q
femoorat. II was at The Charles
ton Convention of 1861, in which
NO were O. delegate from Texas,
The refusal or the Natitnal Demo.
cratic party, At. Tint National Con-
vention, prior To tho war, TO con.
cede TO the South equality in tho
territories, justified (as wo thcn
maintained, in the address 10 the
Democracy of TcSas, prepared by
our own penn the withdrawal of
our Southern delegates, and the
permanent abandonment OF tho
patty. Tho Northern Democrats
then refused the South 70 await the
formation of Sthlc Constitutions, by
the pooplc Of the territories, before
the determination of u free or slave
Stntc. The Douglas dogma, OF the
right ofa squatter TO play tho SOW
creign and eject Southern cmigrants
by territorial law, would have opc-
rated as effcctually in making all
future States free MS tho Seward
free soil doctrine, that the States
"must he all tren or all slnvc.'" THIS
POSITION in favor of free soil made
the conflict irreprcssiblc, and seeing
that the South was abandoned by
her Northern Democratic allies, and
that all tho territories would rs in
evitably become free States under
the squattcr sovereignty hcresy of
the North6rn Douglas Democracy,
Hs hhder Stewards "free soil" pro-
gramme, ahd that, thus shrrounded
by "a Gordon Of State5," blaTciy
would, Gas they prodicted) "likc II
scofbion Surrounded by fire, sting
itself to DEATH" our iiiahlood forced
us to throw off such an unnatural
party alliance, and the South, look
ing alone to their own strong arms
and stHht hearts, determined rather
to anticipate tho certain ultimato
destruction of her institutions; and
by war, has but precipitated what
was inevitable, fl'bm the trcachery
of tho Mortheth Democracy, ms if
the Sumter gun had not been fired.
Emancipation would have been the
result as well without the war, and
tho vain effort to divert tic stpp6sea
catastrophe, by t'tking up arms,
was supoiinduced by the abahdon-
lHeht Of the South By ths Mort hciii
democracy at the CharlDstoH Con
vention; In favor of the free soil
doctrine of Douglas,
We further arraign tRat party /;
and aver that the action of the mass
of the Northern Democracy, in sub.
scquently resisting, by force Of
arms, the attempted peaceful cxcr
| Gisg Of the fundambttHl patty doc
trine of State SOVEREIGNTY and sGces7
sion, which had been -iiibotb borhted
iii theif crted siiite 1898 and 1893
has permanently destroyed by the
results of the war the only principle
of supposed usefulness to the South,
f6f which that partF had been
maintained and cherished by the
South. They had up TO the. Nj
tional Convention of 1861, uniform
ly ratified and endorsed the Ken
tucky apd Virginia resolutions of
179S ahd 1893, %hHF6ili Mr, Jeffer-
son had affirmed that "the Federal
Government was not the exclusive
and final Judge of its own powers,
but that cdtli party has Iii equal
right to Judge for itself as we'll of
itifraetions as of tho modo and
measure of redress"
Instead OF permitting tic peace
full exercise of this act of conceded
sovereignty, recognized heretofore
by all the National Democratic plqt-
forms, With the full sanctioi Of tie
Northern Democracy, what was The
restilt2 We affirm that fifty per
cont. of the eighty-five per cent. of
the native Americans in the Fedc-
raj armies were Northerh Demo
Gratis, and that their baybhSts pitt
ioned to the earth the expiring re-
mains of q doctrine they had cher
ishcd in common with the South
for half a Century. We therefore
h,ld that, as a National party, i is
entitled TO neither fealty or respect
from their former Southern allies (;
and that it is the duty as well as
the right of the former Southern
Democrat, since his principles were
extitpated by Democratic bayoncts,
to now affiliate with any party ION
entirely new and living issues)
which holds out the hopo of the
most speedy relief from TIE ahohia-
Ions and unhappy condition in