The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1874-11-19

We never approved the formal celebration
of political victories. They never appeared
to us to be in good taste. Rejoicing over a
fallen foe is not chivalric nor generous.
Such manifestations do not belong to high
state Of eivilizauon nor to high condition
of refinement. A great aud generous con-
queror always takes pains to protect the
feelings of the conquered. Dragging the
vanquished at the wheels of the victor's
car in a triumphal march after great bat
tie was tolerated before the dawn of the
Christian era, but not often since, except in
barbarous countries, or by those most nearly
approaching barbarism in civilized lands
Washington Chronicle.
All, how magnanimous is the Chronicle
nowl How generous, how forbearing
The scenes have changed, and with them
the editor of that paper would have a
change of programme. 1t now forgets
the marshaling of the hosts to shout over
the PROSTATE South; the gathering of the
clans at the capital to devise ways and
means for degrading a fallen people : the
reconstruction acts, which deprived many
Of the noblest men of the South of the
right to vote, while they lifted the ignorant
negroes over their heads, and told them to
summon the poor white men to their aid,
and rule and dominate the land.
The humiliation and degradation Of
Southern men were righteous acts in the
estimation of the Clrs;s.cIe, and papers Of
that illS Twas right to send brutal officers
like Merrill to South Carolina and Louisi.
ana to Cypress and terrify the citizens, who
had already suffered untold horrors. DID
the Chronicle then show its magnanim
ity in crying out for forbearance Did il
say then that the hour Of triumph was the
hour of magnanimity No; but that these
acts were necessary to compel the "rebels'
to submit to Federal authority and bow
their heads like slaves to the viii of a re
lentless majority. Did not the ChroRicl
cry out against the Ku-Klux and demand
their condign punishment Did 1t not SCI
justice and high sense OF honor in tear
ing old gray-headed fathers from their de
pendent families, and, upon the perjureC
testimony of hired witnesses, convictin,
them as Ku-Klux and sending them Of
hundreds Of miles to cold and inhos
pitable prisons Where then was tina
high appreciation of the feelings o
others, about which that paper nov
so feelingly discOursesf
But we feel thankful that there are hu
name and just people at the North who
marked with indignation and wrath thes
high-handed outrages upon brave but Op
pressed people. They have given US tn
highest evidence Of their sincerity by thei
votes on the third instant; they condemn
the whole reconstruction batch of iniquitie
and the men who put them in operation
They declare that one half Of the Uuiol
shall not be made the sport Of tyrants an'
the prey Of robbers, while the other enjoy
all the benefits Of the government. The.
declare that chains and handouts shall no
bind the free citizens Of any section withou
conviction for crime. They declare tina
no man shall longer be treated a. a ''rebel'
and ostracised because he fought on I'll
side Of the Confectionery. They declare tina
tho day Of hate and persecution has fOrevs
parsed away; and that henoefOrth ever
American citizen Is entitled to all the right
and privileges which the Constitution an
laws guarantee.