The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-19

WE copy the following article from
the st. Louis Republican of the 7th
infant. 1t is somewhat gratifying to
know that the north is at last awall~
ening to the fact that its scheme of re-
construction is the most stupendous
blunder Of the age. II is not at all un-
likely, however, that in the effort to
redeem the errors of the past the south
may he made to taste anew the bitter
cup of humiliation and oppression
The New York Graphic is paper
which we seldom find occasion to
quote ON political affairs, but the fol-
lowing extract is not without signiii-
cance, representing as it does strong
undercurrent of public sentiment in
/ the north. Noticing the remark of q
southern democratic paper that "the
Outrages of the southern states within
the last few weeks insure the return Of
u large majority of republican con-
gressmcn this fall, ana that he effect
of the troubles will be simply No
the party in power with
renewed legislation, additional radical
enactments, perhaps ultimately mar
tial law,'n the Graphic adds:
"AIl this is so. Bat after all would
il not be n desirable consummation to
have the south put under military law
again and so rid those states at once of
the rule of murderOus whites and
thievish blacks? There is growing
feeling at the north that the original
reconstruction measures were mistakes;
that the southern states ought to have
been ruled as territories under military
governors until such times as the pas.
sioDs excited by the war had passed
away. The civil government might
have been resumed under far more en-
couraging prospects than has been pos
sible in u country that has been dis
tracted and humiliated by civil war,
with IL large and densely ignorant SER
vile population suddenly set free. All
the elements existed for bad govern
mcnt and the south has reaped The bit
ter fruits of a mistaken policy. What
that section wants is order, and that
can only he given 10y military govern
Ient
II is pretty safe 10 assume that this
ulte ance oi The Graphic is the pioneer
nJ many similar utlerances that viii
very sUon I've made in many other
.hpuneis through which northern scit-
iiincin is expressed. II is s-l-Da-
,ciirr than is larger aiTl Eearier co-
temrorarir,, and therefore |. little
ahvad OF them. Hence IL will not Go I
"a iioUt its startling declaration that
there is "A growing feeling ut the north
that the original reconstruction meas
uies we're fatal mistakes. And its sug-
gestion that the southern states ought
To have been ruled as territories in
stead of being reorganized as states un-
der the control of white~lepravity and
black ignorance and superstition, must
be accepted as the preface to a very
general expression to the same pur-
port. In this. connection ii may not be
amiss 20 revert to an item in the cor
of this newspaper some
months ago in which reference was
made to a conversation between four or
five of the republican leaders who
framed the kuklux legislation of the
fortieth and the reconstruction acts of
the preceding congress.
The subject was brought up in dis
eussing the Arkansas troullss. The
gentlemen participating iis'eIe cvnver-
sation were Messrs. Wilson, of Indiana,
Foster and Shellabarger, of Ohio, Rusk
and Saylor, of Indiana.
they ysnSSgreed that, i'm the light of its
results, tie reconstruction policy of the
and fortieth congresses
was a mistake. And they expressed the
same vIew that is set forth in the quot
ed extract from the Graphic as to what |
would have been the better policy. In !
the conversation Judge Wilson said:
'eThe copdjtjshs under which We la
bortd in 1865 and 1867 were such as
we.a most likely TO produce misteses. |
'Fewere dealing with people Fhoss7i
temper we could not ascertain, bxcause
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