The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-01-10
THE FIRST SABBATH.

To-day is the first Sabbath in a
new year, and suggests many thoughts
to good men. The past year has been
one of important events in our coun-
try. A break has been made in the
corrupt rings of the country. Tweed,
chief of official robbers has been sent
for twelve years to the prison of New
York; Genet, his colleague in office
and in crime, was sentenced, but has
escaped and fled to foreign parts. Gen.
o. o. Howard, profcssed christian,
philanthropist and humanitarian, the
head of the late Freedman's Bureau,
the best organized system of robbery
aud plundcr ever conceived in Amer
ica-thls man, wearing the epaufettes of
an American General, has been report
ed to Congress by the Secretary of
War, man of his own party, as de-
faulter to the government in the sum
of two hundred and seventy thousand
dollars. That is to say, the pious Gen.
eral o. o. Howard is charged by his
superior officer with having stolen
that amount of money. That he has
done that and much more there is lit
tie doubt. That he is q miserable,
sneaking, Pharisaical scoundrel no one
doubts who has kept an eye on trans
piring events.
In many other points the light of
truth and the genius of justice have
shone during the year just closed.
The agglomeration of knavey and
crime has been stupendous, but the
lines have been broken, and rogues are
beginning to feel that they are not in
vulnerable. Honest men are gaining
ground and beginning to be respected.
For eight years past they have been
scowed and scoffed by official villains
as old fogies. But, thank God, robbers
are losing, while honest men are gain
ing ground Howard will be stripped
of his uniform, landed in prison,
dressed in striped clothes, like Tweed,
and have one side of his head shaved.
He will be followed by many others.
Even members of Congress, when con-
victed as bribed and perjured villains,
will share the same fate. The highest
interest, honor and glory of this coun-
try demand that these things shall
come to pass. Our future earthly sal
vation requires that public officers
shall be honest men and not rogues,
Until this becomes a fixed fact, honest
citizens can have no confidence in pub.
lie officials, and chaotic confusion musl
exist.
The ingenuity of villiany is wonder
full to contemplate. Plain. unsophisti'
Gated honesty cannot conceive of the
resources of official rascality in it,
pawers to hoodwink and plunder the
! people. Honest men are naturally
confiding and unsuspicious, while edu
Gated and trained villany is always Oh
the alert, keen to discover an opening
for gain, unscrupulous in means anc
unrelenting in its demands for more
more.
The premises considered, there il
much in the past year to encourage thu
great body of honest people In thii
country to persevere in their efforts t.
redeem the country from freebooters
and place it in the hands of conscien
tious officers of their own selection
The great robbers, Tweed, Genet
Pomeroy, Mitchell, Ingersoll, Oake
Ames, and most Of their kind, hav'
been condemned as malefactors by thu
virtuous public sentiment Of America
Others will gradually go down As th'
sun Of truth rises in its diurnei srlep