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

Alexander ilamlilOn's lheoI 0
a federal form Of government, or
consolidated llershlis, with power
ADEQUATE for its own preservation
and the msiaiaihahes OF tho POlili
eal hosnagenieiy Of tho union, haI
at last preYaiIea; And the nah as
suming 10 ts 1 statesman or politl
clan, Who fails 10 reeSgnlze a grea
historical event, already elasset y
the category Of facts viii e0ntlhn'
TO celebrate funeral flles over a deae
past, and watch bly its vacated Tomb
although ''the Lord has risen, and
a New political dispensatiOn ha'
dawned. Under that dispensatlor
she that belieteth" shall have part
IN the resurreeli6n OF. new political
life and hope, hhi'S thers Is an in'
6orrigibls and implaeAble class oI
blind politicians IN the SoIlh, who
/ otilvlonb TO tho fact that The war
! has ended, still think Leo will whip
the next hght, aud refusing TO 70,
cSShise the shn at meflaiAh, would
continue to have our, people "be'
lieye In a lie that thSS Nay be
damned" .u..
still tfae III tse present, as ID The
past, TO what We conscicnl liously
believe 10 be tho interest and tnty
Of our people, whcp asked Why,
with ohr political and war anteee'
dents, we held il to be our own, as
we'll as their duty, TO aequiesee In
settled rcsalts, we. woa ID cito for
jdsti6oation The highest Democratic
authotitS of th6 North. Wero we
Democrat to-day, &6 would go
no further than 10 the decision OF
tho hist Democratic State ConvcR-
ton OF Massachusetts,, wherein, by
formal resolution, thcy abandoned
further opposition to univcrsal suf'
ilagc, and announced that they
dcem /. tn political duty to acqui.
csce in settled results and postpone
fruitless opposition TO the accom-.
plished facts OF yesterday"
Mr.. ]. Quincy Adams, Jr., the
master Democratic intellect of New
Ehylnnd, was nominated OIL this
platform or acquiescence in settled
tcsplts, and upon that occasion
said: .
I think that tho defeat which
we suffered in the Presidential cleo
ton last fall, substantially settled
tho questions of reconstruction and
negro shifrage. Much as we dis
like that scttlemcnt-and hid one
dislikes 1t more thcrbag6ly than /
do-there is Ro way short Of revo-
luton by which we can avoid it or
overturn it; by which VIC ehh helP
accepting it whcthcf we like IL or
not. 1t is settled for the next four
years at least; nnd probably Cook
Ing to tho composilion of the
United States Senate, which every
man should bear in mind is the
practical and actual g5fernment of
the country), it secms I'd ihe impos-
siblo that We can obtain any change
for the next ton years at least.
During that time absurd policy of
unrestricted, unqualified negro suf-
fraee at the South will have to bc
thoroughly tired. Even when its
failure is ascertained-oven then,
| think it probable tliht IN M1s-
sachusCtls Tie moderate men will
not favor any very extended dis
qualification. l believe that by
that tiMS tho wliite Heb of the
South will have. done-and they
are doing to-day-just what urge
you to do to-day. They afS accept
ing the situation, asking the prob
lem with all the inevitable absurdi-
ties attending it. The barbarian
ballot, then, should be regarded by
d wise party as Id lohger h lSgitl-
hiats subject pf discassioh, II has
passed from the foalm of debatable
questions, and should be classcd in
the category of facts. Arguments
for and against it's adoption were
admissible last autumn but now
they are out Of place... We cannot
advocate or help it. We mist ac-
cept it as one Of the elements in the
problem offered for our solution,
ahd address, ourselves to that as
affected BY this itiscparablS modifi-
cation.
Tho New York Democracy, al
though still striving TO avert tho
application Of the kyth Amend
mont to their State, admit that tile
defeat of that AihshdREHt will hot
upset negro suffrage in the Sottth."
This niiserabIe party, Witch led
the South into Hostiities, only to
abandon their own principles, and
us to our fate, would still make a
tool of their former political allies.
They seek through our aid to aveft
from themselves political results
they have indirectly imposed upon
this people. The great organ of
the National Democratic PARTY, the
World, just preceding the late fall
canvass in New York, said: "The
PSssibilitS 5f debating the XVIII
Amendment supplies fresh incen-
tive to a great and successful effort
to elect o Democratic Legislature.
1.-The defeat of the Amendment
will not, to be sure, upset Negro
Suffrage in the South but it will
keep the subject within State con-
troll, and enable the South, at some
futile time; 70 retreat from a rash
experiment When Tie political CON-
plexion of Congress shall hate been
4 changed. If time and experience
shall aemonstrate that Negro Suf
frage is not consistent with public
tranquility. fnot, great praetieal
evils should result from The expert.
ment there will be no disposition
in any tl1aftef;. 20 take awaf 9
privilege %hieh US been once Ell.
loved. The well-wishers Of the ne