Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-01-13
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- 80 HNfNfHH " ~ W.
hcsr IN the popular conscience, on
tertain subjects, In this country
Thus we rcad that Mr., Bhcking
ham expressed, lnlhc United States
Scnate recently, his conviction that
Jefferson bhNl-, Lee aud others
ought u have been hung lie rulh.
er regrets that they ~ not 81
dispourd ~. 1t may be that this
Buckingham il II DIES, cndnnt oftha,
same individual whose head was 50
s,mmarily topped of, by order Of
the hnmpcd-backed King ot Eng
lamp, and, Oh this grim "reminiscences
and the revenge thereof his trucu,
liant declaration muy bu pardoncd
Bat Others 81 tho same political
faction make like manifestations Of
their intense hate of rebels und trail.
tors. This 10 II MvUritc device OF
certain radical demagagogucs,
These r generally ola class which,
undor n religious guisc aud with
sign manual Of some sect, regard
themselves as specially chosen exc.
c~uti0ncrs Of the Divine vengeance.
Others, outside Of the pale of the
rhurch, take n much moro humane
view of tho Al called crime of rebel.
lion, which according to tic opin.
ion OF tho most Christian people,
consists in the unsuccessful attempt
10 change the government Of the
iatiDn. Lat it he II successful effort,
and it become a%Slorious revolution,
and the achicvcrs are the heroes Of
The first magnitude. Hence we find
that the majority of civilized man.
kind do not regard with tho horror,
detcstation, and honest appetite for
their blood, the so called rebels.
whom the sanity but sa%nguinary
Buckingham would have been so
happy to have seen suspended from
horizontal beams. But even the
gentle Buckingham has made n great
advance upon tho tastes and ideas
If his ancestors, who, no further
back than l745, insisted upon hang
ing, drawing and quartering the
the unfortunate gentlemen who fol-
lowed the Prctcnder us far as Der
by.
Indeed people generally arc so
far behind Saint Buckingham in
this holy horror Of rebels, that they
regard them with n certain so. of
favor and kindly respect. This is
particularly SO in this country.
ETherc arc few men IN this Repub-
lie who would be regarded with
more admiration and respect in any
community of the Union, even the
most loyal, than Robert Il. Lee and
Stonowall Jackson. Evon this Son
atorial and sanguinary Buckingham
would have taken his hat of to these
great men, and gIoricd in the remi-
nisccncc of a touch of their hands
or of the hens Of their garments.
Yet, he says, in II set speech, for
thu, groundlings, that he regrets the
loss of that exquisite pleasure of
sooing those heroic and virtuous
men dangling in the mir. How is
all this? Can II nan be Il criminal
and yet a man of the highest virtue,
purest morality, and sinccrest piety?
Arc we to hang the brightest cxem-
plars of these rare and noble quail
ties? Thus, wo find in certain jour
nails of the North. constant encomi-
Inns upon the high moral statues of
the chiefs ofthc late rebellion, and
very humiliating contrasts of their
bearing under like circumstances,
and that Of certain chiefs or heroes
Of the Union side. A Cincinnati
Commercial, now before us, for ex
ample, by way Of a fling at Presi.
don't Grant, refers TO the fucts Of
Jefferson Davis and General Rob
ert E. Lee refusing to accept Gle,
giant and costly residences rendered
them by the corporation Of Rich
mond, and asks if rebels have a mo.
nopoly ofthis sort Of confluence and
scl~f:sscri6ce, and if it is one of the
accomplishments and privileges of
true loyalty and Unionism to be
avaricious, selfish and corrupt?
These arc pertinent queries,
which only contribute to the per.
pleXity and moral confusion into
which We + constantly thrown
by this apparent conflict Of IDEAS
in regard to the compatibility of
tho hcinous crime of rebellion, with
ihe highest moral purity and strict
est virtue and humanity. And
then We are puzzled to know how
the separation and distinction Of
these very opposite clements can
DO SO effected as to render it u sim
cere and honest desire of aver the
strong hearted Buckingham to have
tho embOdiments thereof, suspend
cd in mid air, to the great joy and
exaltation of the truly loyal Of the
o. Times.