Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-10-14
The Radical Leaders of the
DaN

Il is curioas ta aole the changes u TAii-
eali.m blth a, 10 ayowsi PrinsiPlss aud
recognized leaders, They have besn.fTom
hal IA worse from lhs beginning, The lie-
publican Party, as first established, ean-
tainei many gsrms of evil, bat il pat f'r-
ward "a ioetrine., 80 T'lpnNy snbVer''Ve
Of TIE Constitution ani laws. - orehly a.
variance with the Fundamental principles
Of Iu,tiee anl right, as % shock the under
standings aud sensihIlilies of all honest
men. Had this been done, is progress
would have been slow, II not checked At
,nes So II iis leaders-ihey we're at FIRST
men of some character Intellectually aud
morally, though iinalieal on the subject OF
slavery, which lei them TO disregard, more
or less, the Constitutional guarantees OF
that political and social institution ssW-
ard aud Chase, u the more moderate, and
Garrison aul Phillips, Of the more eE-
IRENE, were all men OF brains ani eHen'
plary morals in private life, men who
we're calculated to give strength aud toHo
aud impulse to their party. These men
and others, like them hut less prominent
built mp the Republican Party aud made
Il a power In the land. With Its increase
in numbers, It's inherent vices began TO de-
yelnpc and is original errors In principle
we're magnidcd, aud new and previously
unihought oi errors we're devised and
more aud more boldly Gvowed, This shows
how resolutcly the fret departure from
correct principles should he resisted. The
entering wedge, which at FIRST eShibits
scarce a rent in the body polite, gradual
Is driven home, rends assundcr the most
folii fabric and leaves but the splintered
and shattered fragments Of a once beauti'
ful and perfect whole. So was 1t with the
Constitutional Union of our fathers.
As the Republican Party became more
aud more radical, as it progressed in evil
and badness, il began to throw of its old
leaders. and to adopt new ones, who coun-
se.lcd the most extreme measures. Sew
ard and Chase, the very founders of their
party fjuni themselves gradually but
surely losing their influence until. from
masters and directors of its policy, they |
become for time the mere reluctant fol- |
lowers of more unprinciplcd leaders, ana |
finally we're thrust aside NJ no longer nc
credited members even Of the all c)nquer-
ing aud all powerful Radical Party, into
which they had first brcathed the breath
of life and mldc it what it was. They
were unable to control, much less cxtin-
guish the fire. which their own hands had
kindcd an they will go down on the
mage of history as the uudOubted authors
of the great conilngration.
WHO now are the Radical leaders of the
nation? Men Of no private or public char
ac,er-mcn of little intellect but of great
capacity for evil-men Of diseased bodies
and minds, degraded, reckless foul, with
nppcrires insnrlate for plumber and spoil
Your Grants and Mortons and Buffers
and brakes and thousands Of equal infamy
hut less no,oriety. The worst men of the
pnrty are its lcadcrs~-thc smallest, the
the most vile. "Thes, ara your
gods, Q, lsraei.'
Look at Texas you VIII fnl it the sam-
way here. The Republican Party first
had for leaders, Jack Hamilton, Pease,
and some others, men of brains and chat
,ctcr, but with the progress of radcalism,
hey haveal been thrown over as too
moderate and decent for the party, and
.avr been compelled to take ground
gninst j 70 save the State from utter pol
ntipn and ruin Who are now the radical
leaders ofTexas? Your Tracy and your
Quick your Newcomb and Davis, and your ;
hired rencgudes from their religion and
5arty, fhem their country and God, whom
luhirst of moucy has corrupted and made
i tools for the more ignorant and vicious
direct them. These are the radical
caAers in Texas, who have the ear Of the ;
President at Washington and the support [
II his bayonets, and who lord it over the t
,ll veterans of the once honored Lone Star
and issue their edicts, as the
masters and tyrants of the day. But the S
lour will come.