Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-11-09
Are the People never to be Friends

In most eloquent and able speech made
at Newark, Ohio few days since, Sena-
tor Thurman said this:
| Aud why should there not be reconcile
alton What bat evil can result from
keeping alive the m imosities of the war
and the ant0gonisrh ofthe white and bla X
rucesi Are the people of this county new
er TO be friends? Is sectional hatred 10
DO iustillcd into their minds from year TO
year for all time? Does any one suppose
that al! the rising generation will b. free
from this hatred if their fathers, by pro
cept and example, teach them to hste Is
there any one the leas! yersel in history
who does not know that sectional dsikes
may be perpetuated from generation to
! generation for centuries? And is there
my one so devoid of wisdom and so lost to
sense of duty as to wish that America
may furnish another example of the mel
ancholy fact again ask, why should
there not be reconciliation Has not the
South submitted to Fer conqnerors more
fully than any brave aud high spirited
people ever did befors? Has she not borne
vita patience every burden the North has
seen 4! to impose upon her? Whsn she
was required 10 abolish slavery, did not
every one OF her States vote to abolish it
When her Stale governments were over
thrown and supplanted by other govern =
nents, dictated by Congress, did she not
acquiesce? When her men of intellect,
education and experience We're dislran-
chsed, did che not submit? When her
late slaves, in state Of utter ignorance,
were made rulers over their masters, did
al at WI han ha in,
aie uron what political platform shall she
stand, and who shall be our Chief Mngis-
irate2 Do we not geo her standing upon
the Cincinnati platform and supporting
the chief founder of the Republican par
ty! What more, pray any one TO tell
ne, can lie asked of herr What greater
evidence can she furnished of her acquies-
ceuce in the results of the war?
All, yes, there is one tbing--one thing
that would satisfy the 4adical leaders, and
without which all other good works and
good intentions go for nothing with them.
If the southern people would only join the
radical party, they would be absolyci
from all crime al once, and though their
sins were as scarlet, they would instantly
become white as wool.
But is III, South to be given up indei-
nitely TO MisrEle, plumber and impOvsr-
ishment? Are suspension of habeas cor
pus ard martial law to become our ordi-
nary modes ofgovernments? Are all ideas
Of constitutional limitations TO be graIu--
ally erased fromthc minds of the people
L. the peace, prosperity and strength OF
the whole republic to be disturbed and
weakened by such condition Of things,
in order to Dragon American citizens in
to theN support of q party2 Can that be
called free country? Can men be called
free citizens where such modes ofcoercion
are allowed and approved?
No, my fellow citizen, this will not do
this desperate game of violence, wrong
and oppression, played by reckless parti-
sans for own profit and emolumcnt, cannot
succeed. The American people, thank
heaven, are not 50 bereft of reason, nor
YET so welded 10 party, as to sacrifice their
country and their liberties for the benefit
Of party leaders, no matter what may be
their claims to distinction. Hence we be.
hold the spectacle, without parallel in
the history Of free governments, OF three
million voters Offering their pride and
prCjulices az = sacrifice to their country
in order 10 save it from ruin. Hence we
see hundreds Of thousands Of Republicans
preierring country 10 party, and uniting
with their old adversaries for the same
purpose.
In ell the annals Of mankind no more
sublime, moral spectacle is presented.
And whether this mighty effort to lift the
government out Of the abyss of hatrel,
malevolcncc and oppression, and place it
on the solid foundation of charity, virtue
and justice shall succeed or not, this eigh.
tee, hundred and seventy second year of
the "Pripce o. Peace. viii ever be memo
rable, because the effort iwas honorably
end earnestly made.