Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-02-03
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IN Tie present deplofable condition Of
The country, II Il ubfoflooale that m many
men can DO found, who, while admltilhg
The necessity n expellng from their po,I,.
lions The party Ia power, IN order ate
store and preserve The lIb,TisA II the
country, are yet unwilling, ~ uritr and
co operate cGrdiall, iosollSs, 10 this end,
Many seem Incapable II iarpeiiing or re.
signing The nsl--lhey Ghug to old remem'
branccs, old rprly ideas, old pol'iical
qunrrcls, with ,enaci,y, which IL harl Ia
loosen by the = longest arguments Of rea.
sou aud patriotism. We know old whigs,
Whose hat red Oh the very name Of democra'
icy is ~ intense, Tint though they fully
agree with their old opponents on all the
vital issues now ,fcciing he country,
would rather vote for radica Than
! democ,aI-lhe idea o. the democracy once
more being in the nscrndeut Is utterly re
rnlsiye to them. They say he democrats
: brought uron the rtLnny all iLe.cyils OF
tie past aud present, ard thai they VIII
have nothing TO do with th,m. Thry want
n new party with rev rnne. So, also,
we know old democrats, who are not will
ling to vote for nny man, who sannot show
u clean. Ios tive democratic record through
his whole life. though it Ray hive reached
three score and ten. They recall to mind
all the old struggles of the democrats and
wings they have treasured up everything
that wing ever said or did derogaiory of
the democratic party, ana, II one is row
talked Of for public oilior, no matter
what his abilities or virtues. they brisllc
up with al the animation Of tie days when
,'rippecanoe and Tyler too or Polk and
Dallns we've the battle cries. They will
hove M old fashioned democrat or nobody.
Yes, they will run the risS Of electing ral
icals OF TIE worst stamp, with no Princi-
pies but power and p'under, rather than
support for office any man, who waf a
wing twenty years ago, even though lie
fought through the whole bloody war for
State rights and State sovereignty.
Again, there are union men, opposed to
secession, who cannot look upon Confcder-
ntcs in any other light thnn that OF rebel
lion, and who persist in the idea that they
should all be treated even no " and forever
MS rebels and traitors, unfit TO hold offoe
OF any kind. Amnesty is abhoreni 10 their
minds. They would exclude and prosecute
to the last. They deny being radicals
they say they are opposed to the present
radical party, but they insist that they nre
the only ones 10 replace them 10 Office, that
no one who ever served the COnfeleracy
can be trusted, and that they prefer the
most extreme and dishonest radical rule to
the restoration of confederate men 10 pow
or and place.
| And we must fess Tint some old
/ Southern democrats are nearly as.unrcas-
enable and uncompiomising. They cannot
look upon Union man or any man, who
opposed secession and took part against
the South in its Int heroic struggle for
self. government aud independence, with
any degree of approval tolerance or for
givness. His private AMI public character
may be otherwise commendable in the
highest degree; his entire conscienliousness
may be admitted and his, opinions and
conduct since the war rs sound and relia-
BILE as the most earnest advocate os seces-
sian or follower of Lee and Jackson on
the battle fields of the South yet il he
was Union man, or a Union democrat,
opposed to secession and the war, they can
not vote for him, they are, not willing 10
trust lim-they must have somebcdy,of
their own stripe. These men would pro
scribe anil practically debar from office
such statesmen ns Judge Hancock and
even Gov. Throck though he served
through the war of secession after having
voted against it. Now nll this is very un-
rea -onabls and the conduct Of these ex-
IRENE, impraclcable men cannot be dc
Tended oil any just ground. They are
governed wholly by their prejudiccs and
p .ssions, which overcome their reason and
love of country. The view which they
take Of political affairs is MARI ow and con
tracted. They talk of the eternity and
sacredness of principles, without, perhaps,
any definite notion Of what they are, and
without being willing 10 take the most
plain and practicable steps to secure them.
They let their peculiar desires and antip-
nthies interfere with every common sense
movement for reform and the re establish
menr Of peace, order, and public security.
OF what avail are all their loud mouthed
de nuDciations of what is wrong, while they
refuse to join in any practical means of
setting things right? The good people of
Texas, the good people of the whole United
States must rise above their prejudccs
and passions, and join together in broth
erly earnestnes;, if they really wish 10
overthrow the radical tyranny which OPP
presses tn EN-. f7 ~ mi