The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-07
SAl.u rArONY.

custom has rendered II imperative
that an editor upon taking his seat In
the editorial chair should address his
readers in what is called u salutatory.
Webster defines salutatory to be
"speaking n welcomed" San address
Of welcomed In this view, there
would be moro in il il the salutatory
was addressed by the readers of the
paper to the incoming editor. AS used
by the editorial fraternity, we under
stand the word to mean an introduce
ton; that Is, that the salutatory is to
bear the same relation to the editors
future work that the authors introduce
ton bears to the volume of which il
forms part.
In this sense it is u fit and proper
CUSTOM for ii is due to those who are
expected TO be the patrons of paper
that they should be advised of the
principles aud policy that are expected
to animate its columns.
Politically, our utilization is with the
democratic party. As we are COM
paratively unknown to the readers of
THE HERALD, we trust we may be par
doned for giving so much of our past
record. as is contained in the statement
that, in 1868, We We're nominated by
the democratic convention of South
Carolina rs II candidate Oh the presi-
dental electoral ticket for the fourth
congressional district, and in 1872, by
the same body, we We're sent as dele
gate TO the national democratic con-
vention that.metat Baltimore. For five
years prior to our removal to Texas, In
the fall of 1873, we were engaged in
editing n democratic paper in our ma.
tive state.
The ISSUES that demand the attention
of the American people now are of
vaster consequence than any that were
ever presented to them prior to the era
of reconstruction, so-called. Before
that period, parties We're aligned on
questions of governmental policy.
Since the work of reconstruction be.
gan, the issues before the country have
involved the very structure and exist
ence of the government itself. The re-
publican party, in order to maintain
its ascendancy, has destroyed, one by
one, the distinctive features that mark
ed this as republican government,
and is now driving on with ever accel-
Grating speed to the gaol of an ire
sponsible government. TO stay this
mad and ruinous career, and to restore
to the fabric of our government the
foundation stones that have been torn
away, is the mission of the democratic
party. Radicalism means imperial
ism;l democracy means the preserva-
ton, or rather the restoration, of II re-
publican form of government.
Though a recent settler upon the soil
of Texas, we claim to be second to
none, even the oldest of her sons, in
devotion to her prosperity and glory.
The reign of tyranny and oppression
at the hands both of the federal gov
ernment and of the negro majority,
through which we passed in South
Carolina has taught us toappreciate to
the full the freedom that the people of
Texas are blessed with. The air that
over her expansive prairies
Is too pure to be ever again contamin-
ated by the foul breath Of the oppressor.
1t is to the Lone Star State, with her
almost boundless domain, that the op-
pressed of our sister southern states are
looking as a refuge from the
woes that environ them.