The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-02-07
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Tho language ~ President Grant 10
, committee NJ leading Republicans
N recent occasion, ~ Published Wy
he New York Herald, aud thus iai
NY any Of the ndmlnls'
lrmlon organs, II the most Significant
political uttornncc that the country has
heard since the close Of the war. IL Is
the signal for nn entire new departure
In national politics. II is the death
knell of the Republican party, sounded
by the head Of theparty himself. That
language, "a published in nearly every
paper In the United States, Is rs fol-
lows:
al begin TO think II II time for the Repub-
ilcan party to unload. There has been 700
much dead weight carried by 1t. The success
of our arms during the rebellion, ana the
confidence that the Republican party was
strong enough TO hold up any burden, have
imposed all. the disafiection In the CUR
States upon this administration. am Urea
of this nonsense. Let Louisiana take care OF
herself, MS Texas will have TO do. i don't
want any quarrel about Mississippi state
matters to be referred to mo. The nursing OF
monstros tiles has nearly exhausted the life
of the party. am done with them and they
will have 10 take care of themselves
The first thing to note in this Ian
guage is that it contains n confession
that the Republican party has been
carrying a great deal of dead weight;
that it is responsible for the anomalous
condition of affairs in many of the
Southern States, and that the burden
has become greater than it can bear
any longer; that it either has to
relieve itself of some Of the load, or 1t
will cease to stagger along at all. In
the second place 1t is distinct and
emphatic declaration of the official
head of the party, that he is "tired OF
such nonsense" and that for the pres
ent he intends to wash his hands of all
such proceedings. 1t is true, the whole
of the language sounds like the petu-
liant outbust of a spoiled child. 1tmay
be nothing more, and it may be that
ere this the president may have been
gotten securely back into the leading
strings in which Morton, Butler, Conk'
ling and the other arch conspirators
against the constitution of the country
have had him for some years. Grant
ing this to be so, still the confession ht
has made in reference to "the nursing
of monstrositles" must be so damaging
to the party Us to lead inevitably to
its disruption. The great heart of the
American people is never inten
tionally wrong; and when they arc
told ry him, whom they have exaltef
to the position almost of demi-god
that something they have been sup
porting and sustaining is "monstros
ity," their consciences will revolt a,
the false position into which they have
been led, and they will hasten to make
amends by change of course.
On the other hand, it may BE tina
the president has discovered that thu
moral sense of the ration has deter
mined to be no longer shocked by thu
spectacle of such "monstrosities" al
he and his advisers have called into
being in the Southern States, and thai
the utterances made by him is in de-
ference to that recognized sentiment. Il
may be that every word was carefully
weighed before its utterance, and that
the opportunity for its utteranoe was al
cut and dried between the president ant
the leading Republicans who called Oh
him, and apparently called it forth
In this view of the case the Language
can only be construed as a formal de
claration of war by the president
against his old allies, and as q rallyine
cry of a new party for the campaign Of
1876.
In either event, therefore, whether
we are to consider it as mere ebulli-
ton of passion on the part Of the
president, or as the deliberate utter.
ance of his opinion Of the present state
of affairs, and of his policy for the fu-
turc, we think We are justified in pro-
nouncing it the most significant
political utterance that the country has
heard since the close of the war.
No language can express the import
ance to the people OF the South of the
declaration and promise contained in
the last sentence: 81 have done with
them, and they will have TO take care
of themselves" This is all they have
ever asked. This they have right to
claim under the constitution. The
party in power, with Grant at its head,
has proclaimed by Its actions for eight
years that oaths are but wind and con-
stitutions are but paper. If the presi-
dent is fixed in his expressed deter
mination to henceforth regard the
of bis country and his
oath of office Hereunder, and will keep
hands off and mind his own official
business, the "monstrosities " he has
nursed into being will soon rapidly
resolve themselves into their original
the carpet-baggers flying like
gorged buzzards back to their Northern
roosts, and the sweet-scented sons of
Africa vscatiug the legislative halls
they have polluted, and returning with
a renewed zest to those agricultural
pursuits for which they are by nature so
endowed.
sTRUGGLE AGAINST A
NEW FOE.