Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-05-31

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eloquent words which are so powerfully
attractive as to overcome the charms Of 4
matutinnl nap, and to draw students OH
from under their feather beds (for yol
know they use feather beds in this country
instead of blankets) at the poetic hour Of
"Five o'clock in the morning"
One gentleman said to me, 81 have
heard Chas. Sumner and Wendell Philips
Spurgcon and Henry Ward Bcecher, but
have never heard any eloquence to surpass
that Of Prof Hyrtl.
WELT AUsSTELaUNG.
The following beautiful and truthful
address, delivered by Gen. George A. Sher-
idan, the successful candidate of the fu-
sionists for Congress from New Orleans,
on the occa sion OF dinner given by
Lieut.. Governor Penn, of Louisiana, TO
Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, we clip
from the New Orleans Herald Of the goth
inst, and take pleasure in transferring ID
to our columns, as the expression Of one
who although he wore the blue during the
late unpleasantness, Is nevertheless honest
in his republicanisn and bold In his de-
nunciation of usurpers and plunderers,
Gen. Sheridan is one of the Nestors of
the South, anda q speaker stands almost
peerless, even in Now Orleans.
SPEECH OF GEN. GEo. A. SHERIDAN.
Gentlemen-In common with all who
are gathered here | regard it as great
privilege and high homer to meet the dis
linguished gentlemen who is cur guest
to light. Our pleasure in meeting him is
unalloyed, save by the fact that We can
not present Louisiana to him as we would
wish TO.
Sir, we would like to show you this great
city of the South, filed with happy pco-
pie: its streets thrOnged with the yotaries
of commerce, the flags of all nations float
| ing from he masts of countless ships in
tho placid crescent of yonder river. 1t
would please Us 20 fill your cares with the
music that swells ever up from the marts
of trade, telling of prosperity and joy.
| All this We can not do; VIC can Only point
to population borne down by oppression,
to q harbor with Gully here aud there
wanderer of the sea, with white wings
| folded, rocking in listless idleness; TO
shrnes Of commerce almost deserted. We
can greet your car only with the sad music
that sweils up from the hearts Of people
| that are sore distressed.
| 1t would be- sir to US matter of pride
1 if we could point out TO you thousands Of
| 4 II, 4 nj
toa we're gathered with invisible fingers
the glad sunlight of these summer days,
and weaving with it in natures great
laboratory the barvests that maze glad
the autumn fields. This we can not do; we
can only show here and there's spot where
the toilets are at work. only at intervals,
bemes that are fl lied with joy, and fields
that giva promise of golden haryests in
the days when the re- pers sickle shall
shine among them.
We would like, sir, to show you people
in possession of and enjoying the same
POLITICAL Freedom the same liberty, that
is justly the pride OF the great State from
which Won come. We would like to poin,
out to you men in high position, the choice
of the people, ,adorning the places TO which
the voice of the commonwealth had called
them, working with unquestioned purpose
and unchallenged integrity Tor the vel
fare of the State. Instead of such con-
dition Of affair We present you chief
ms gistrate abhor.ed by the great mass of
our white citizens, whose nlsiortunes he
has taken advantage of; despised by our
colored citizens, whose confidence he has
BETRAYED; man to whose heart integrity
is stranger; whose religion is immortality |
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whose daily walk and life is such that in
all this great State he knows not where TO
lay bis hand upon a single man and truth
fully say, "rhis is my friend Side by
side with him, within the portals Of
of our capitol guarded by soldiers, are to
he found fit comPsnious for his infamy
holding, like hin, their position by the
force OF bnyoncts, rather than the voice Of
the people.
We can not, sir, show you courts where
Justice sits enrhroned where the poorest |
and the mennest in the land find edua! ia |
vor with the rich and powerful. We are |
compelled to point to courts from which
Justice, wrapping her robes around her,
has fed in haste; where liberty sits bound
and helpless; courts where passion, preju-
duce and gold are tho authorities to which |
Judges refer where questions of life and |
death, right or wrong, slavery or freedom
are at issue
la brief. cir il would be our pride, and |
10Y to present Louisiana TO you with radi-
ans face and brow bound round about with |
earlands woven from her wealth Of tropio |
flowers. We cannot do this; we present |
her as sne is, clad in sombfe robeo, her
people almost destitute of hope, feeling the
bonds of such oppression as old Israel
endured when her sous and daughters
chung their harps upon the willows ana
sal down in grief beside the stream Of
Babylon" We are in this unfortunate |
condition simply because the will of the |
people has been overlhrown by the unrea-
soung power of bayouets. and their voice
silenced by the government that should
listen TO their cry for Justice
We hail your presence, sir, 10 our State
az an omen Of good. II is TO us an evil
denne that the heart Of the nightly north
west is hcatin in unison with the hearts
that are struggling here for liberty. We
only ask, at your hands, q fair invsstiga-
tion of the measures that have resulted in I
hirdine great State helpless at the feet
of political jugglers. We only ask IT, after
on impartial investigation Of our affairs,
Won are ferced 10 the conclusion that
wrong has been done torepub lican liberty, |
your voice and power shall DO exerted to
right thst wrong. Many Of u.s.. sir, be-
long To the great political party that nov
rules the land Many Of US we're soldiers
Of the army Of the North, whose great
achievements are 10 us sacred memories.
Living as we DO among the peoplr Of the
soufb. we are atle to understand the peo-
pie, able TO comprehend boy I is possible
Tor them 10 keep in perpetual and holy
memory the names and deeds OF the he
roes who, on q Thousand battle-fslds, gave
reuown 10 the arms Of the South, and At
the same time hold true faith and ale
glance 70 The government, whose flag now
floats above them. Though Republicans, we
cry cut, '-shame, foreveri' to the nation
or people. who after successful war demand
she corqsered shall atjure their manhood
and .onlefs BY ingratiinde TO The defend
trs Of lbeir soil, their own HnWorthness TO
wear the gnrnsents Of freedom.
We Try - remsmbef, sir, that as there
are eoustiess graves in the land halloUed
to the people Of the Norfb, % there ara
unnuinhertd ones desr 10 the people Of