Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-01-06

new dg'nf,1re' dtmoofaoy, alrendy
dohllt'labmef NJ The North NJ we'll as n
ioutl, Aud flts'Dhllas Herald, ~ NIX.
nolSil or intending TO deceive, snysif
| "ln ihc State democrniic convention, lh.
sJhio iin,s' mcm Nrss bol condemned, nor
was II The sentiment OF majority u tho
Delights fbnl it'tfoulJ Ne"
T II was months after the meeting of our
Safe convention, lin The Ohio s,udycn'ent
irrnspircd, IN illc.ciftd~houlJ have known.
I The new departure is in positive conlrn.
d<cSion Of the platform " The CONVENTION
nsnl Of course Bgnilfst its senliments-
LS'dte TaEe't.
We rcyrct, rfrcr having 20 lately ex
.prcssed OUR sincere desire 10 b. oo',erms
Of courtesy with all our cdilorin brethren
! In Texas, especially those OF Chr own par.
~, TO noicc such arn-agraph ms the FIRE
going inthesSlale Gs4ttle. The intima-
ton of yhcfmcs or intended deception on
our part comes with n bad grace from the
present sole editor of That paper, We have
known him for The last thirty years, and
he has known us, and lie knows, roo, -fhnt
we a.'c inca pable Of intended deception, and
',hat' opportunities forl political infor.
nation have been AMI are, now n, least,
r1nal TO his own. Now, II,en; for ., few
facts, which will no. bs denied md which
will throw Some light on this matter. 1t
is ofno consequence whether the Ohio
State Convention was before or after the
Texas State Conveniionv-ws ;adqiit it7wns
sf!er; aud we never assorted that 'it.wns
before--but the Ynllanjiglam, resolutions
were brought forward sometime pei ors the
meeting of the Ohio State Convention, and,
long before the assembling or Inc pEexa,
State Convention, the substance of them
had net with general discussion, in which
the Gazette fook prominent ipdl in ihi is
Stale. Whether opposition to the Amend,
ments and to negro suffrage should be
continued and form h part OF our Slate
platform, or that these facts should be nd-
milted and the battle fought on other
stronger grounds, was talked over, freely
and even quite ficrcely by many,as we can
testify by our own knowledge and expert
ence While still at Austin. The Gazette
took thu most extreme positions on these
questions, ms is well known When the
Convention met, an MHehpt was made to
get its Endorsement OF the course OF the
Gazette and it sgnally failed. The reso-
luton WAS n OF sustained, ana the present
editor of that paper has hardly forgotten
this. Again, the Convention resolved to
and in the establishment Of a central or.
gan ut Austin, and the Executive Commit
tee were instructed to take the matter in
i'hRna. Why was this, if the Gayet.t was
fairly expressing the views OF the Conven-
'aion and the Party? We know that the
Gazette desired to be acknowledged as the
party organ, but the Committee Of whom
its editor was one. 'refiised to crafty this
desire, and hav" actually established an
other paper at the Capital as The central
organ of the party. Can these facts be
Qusstiouel? How then can it be said that
the democratic party Of Texas disapprov-
ed OF the m ovement, made by the Northern
democracy Their action was really in
the same direction with it. The "new de-
par,ure," 30 called, was not in 'positive
contradiction" of the plat form of the Texas
S.a.o Convention but in substantial accord
vita it. In the Platform adopted, and
which VIC have before us as. published in
'tAe State Gazette containing some typo
graphical errors) may be found the follow.
ing Resolution, numbered 6. 81
q. Rs.otccd, That he abolition Of slave.
~ ms retult OF the warts accepted ny
n fixed fact and II Becomes ',sar faty by
State legislation, TO provide for the securi.
ty and well being ofall nlassfs of men, ma
tive or foreign, white or black.
The whole aupersructure Of tie new de-
departure resIs really On his. Not one word
was said in relationto the amendments, and
we say it knowingly that this omission
was intentional. The Convention did no,
wish o injorsc ehef> under the circum-
stances in which they have bern ingrafted
in the Constitution Of the U. s., ncr did il
intend to denouncc them and make them
the prominent objects of attack; for they
knew not what position might be ultimate
ly taken by the Northern democracy, and
reey meant TO stick to them n nd by them
while there was any hopn left of success
No expression was gi~cs against negro
suffrage, and il was understood by n ma
jority of the Convention that this; question
should be considered as settled, and that
endeavors should be aads to get thernegro
votes for the democratic party whenever
this could be done. This is, I'm brief,
truthful statement Of what was thought
and done at the last Democratic State Con.
vcntion, and orr EorRer article, to which
the Gazette takes exception in language,
disrespectful and nncourttous, will be sus
taincd, we venture to say, by nearly al Of
the central Executive Committee as sus.'
stnntially correct; and the editor OF the Ca
zetie, as an act Of mere editorial justice,
should hasten to admit and acknowledge
it.
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