Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-02-08

and was calculated In tho highest
degree to try tho moral courage
and undylng confidence Of ono who
was looking At coming events "
through a glass ddrkiy withoW hope,
and without cheer in his sNd career.
But tho scales have fallen from his
eyes, and he now sees things in q
now light. Ho hassmelt the savory
odors Of tho Federal Kitchen and
is now in favor, mirabale dtctu, OF
being "just TO tho living as well as
generous to the dead" There is
no longer q "charm in the shadow
Of q great name " for the Captain,
but in unconditional surrender, and
complete disorganization, he secs
for the scattered hosts which once
did ycoman duty beneath the Dem
ocratic banner a bright future in
subservency to the will of tho
President. "For one, he is pre-
pared to meet half way" the mag
nate who is to manage and control
the affairs of tho nation for the next
fonr years, in order to secure pro-
lection to our frontiers, and REIN.
bursement for few cattle stolen
from our people by the banditti Of
Mexico. IfGeneral Grant will only
grant the practical enforcement Of
these rights to his "countrymen,
the Captain is ready to callthe con-
cession q substantial hand-shaking
across the bloody chasm, and meet
it in the true spirit of American
patriotism" Congressman Conner
has evidently discovered that prin'
ciples can die, or at least become
horrible tormentors to those who
would rather be friends of the Pres
ident than conscious of the rectitude
of their political convictions. Sc
far as Texas is concerned, however
he is still hopeful, He would have
new party organized at once
"whose base should bear the in.
scription Texas interests" This
comprehensive desire commends the
high regard which the Captain
manifestly entertains for "the best
interest of tho State whose cause
he espoused in her darkest hour,
but which he abandons just as the
first rays of light break upon the
dawn of it's releasement from radi
cal thralldom. The State and peo
plo which could make him a Con
gresham he would have the neucle
us around which every wheel in the
Federal machinery should revolve
in short, that Texas be declared the
centre of the universe and her pc
culiar wants the predominating
principles of q national party
There are but two conclusions which
can be reasonably deduced from Mr.
Conner's letter: Either that the
people of Texas repudiate all fur
Their interest in the concerns of the
nation and decline to cooperate with
any political national party, or else
organize a grand party whose
base should bear tho inscription
Texas interests" and require the
whole country to obey whatever
dictas our people should make upon
the remaining population of the
Union, and. thus centralizo in oul
local wants the interests of the
whole country. Ifthe Captain would
only devise the ways and means
whereby his Utopean ideas could
be carried out, there might be some
pith in his letter to /" My Country.
men" which would be highly inter
esting and entertaining to them
but for the present we are unwill'
in g to believe that the ranks Of the
Democratic party are broken, that
it's life blood has been let out by
the assassin's hand" and that
" its glorious history of half cen
fury, its memories and traditions
have been stained with dishonor.'
1t must have been something else
which Mr.. Conner saw stabbed in
Baltimore; something else which
he /" heard shrek "on the terrible
occasion when no /" bowed his head