The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-10-31


sihln central government HhAll pp sel
up on is ruins, The governor men
pr0eoeded " give luminous hlslofl'
cal statement ~ tho eonlendlng
theories NJ government That hAa
been in conflict since the days
nj Jefferson aud Adams, aud to show
that the present democratic parry
which contained Ia ~ ranks members
NJ all the presxislenl parties, ~ hHl'
Hing for tho doeirlne ~ local seli'gov'
ernment, was standing upon lhe very
palladium Of civil liberty Itself Upon
Inc verdict given by the people on lhls
issue within the next three years
hangs tho future Of this great county
Proceeding 10 show how all the eohhll'
tutlonal principles for which tho de'
moeriey arc oonlendlng, have been sol
AT naught by the dominant party ~ me
federal government GoyernorThfopk
morton gave u brief resume of The
leading political events since The sur
render Of the confederate armies, nnd
allowed that Vt least nlnely'nlhe one
hundredils Of the southern people ae'
eepled honestly the situation ~ lhN',
and were anxious 10 have an era ~
pence aud quiet, that they might bnlld
40 aguln lhelr waste places that lhe
dominant pnrly determined That
this should not DO aud there
fore, In IN reconstruction measures
lnauguraled tho era NJ hate, mailgDlly
and vengeance, This policy that has
prevailed 80 long II now drawing 10 lts
end, The people Of Ohio, OF Indiana,
aud Of West Virginia have spoken,
and they declared In trumpet tones
that these outrnges upon liberty Aliall
cease, aud that the government shall
be administered IN accordance with
tho requirements Of tie constitution.
They are lighting the battle Of Texas,
and II N the duty Of Texans to rnlly to
l
the support Of the same great caIlSc' TO
shake oil the lethargy TINT has hnd
possession Of them, 10 emulate the sue
rIilco for principles made by the nak-
ed aud bleeding soldiers Of the ilrst
contest for III criy on this continent,
10 remember lbe devotion TO lib
erty OF those noble martyrs, Crockett,
Travis, Bowie aud Fannln, and show
the same gcal aud devotion In The civil
contest for liberty that those brave
men had shown In the midst OF wars
alarms
The eloquent speaker then directed
the attention of the listening audience
TO the question of Internal improve
ments In the state, nbd portrayed, IN
EorcIblc language, by the example OF
Dallas, what railroads could andwould
do for n country. The inesllmable nd
vantlges that would flow both to the
general government and to the state Of
Texas from the completion of the Tex
as and Pacific railroad, were set lortl
In n manner that could not be gnlnsald
The national government would bf
paid for any outlay II might make u
aiding the construction by the amount
II would save in dispensing will
the necessity Of keeping n large
force OF soldiers on the frontier and
the state in bringing into market hel
40, 600, 600 acres of wild, western land
would be- able to procure " fund the
interest on which could educate III
the children of Texas for generations
to come. In reply to question pro
pounded to him by gentleman II
the audience as to how he proposed
that tho Pacific road should be built
Governor Throckmorton replied tina
life was too short and the occasion to,
interesting to allow him to 10 int,
detail of all the plan. He would onl,
say that the national government hav
built the road from the waters Of tn,
Missouri TO San Franclsco--l0,00 I
miles--that Texas had us much right /,
have o railroad constructed through
her limits rs states further north had
that the government Is a partnership
and one part should have no more
rights than another.
We wish we could reproduce In Gov
ernor Throck own words til,
eloquent and touching remarks to tn,
women of the audience, with which
he closed his mastery effort. 70 ut
tempt to even convey an idea of then
would be unjust, both to the subjec
and to the speaker. Rarely have W,
heard anything more eloquent. Thu
tear stained cheeks of many of the no
bic old matrons present, attested tn,
force with which it had sunk into thei
hearts.
Lieutenant Governor Hubbard, til,
oratorof Texas, was next introduced
by G. N. Aldredge, Esq, 1t was tn,
first occasion on which we had ever
been privileged to hear the lieutenan,
governor, and We are constrained t
admit that in the charm of listening
we forgot the duty Of reporting. Re
plete with power, pathos, eloquenct
and anecdote, it was fully up to al
that we had prepared ourselves
to hear, and added another
flower to the wreath of victory that
encircles the brow of the eagle orator.
IGovernor Hubbard took for his text
! the infamous falsehoods of that infa-
nous conclave of birds of prey that sat
recently at Chattanooga, and showed,
| by the conduct of the south since 1865
to the prpspnt lima that fhair stata