The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-07-25

lions after tho war has been seriously
affected by the conduct of the Garpet-
haggers and thieves who have swarmed
IN among them. We need not look 10
the south for any serious protest against
u third term,
II Senator l'onton 30 little UNDER
stands the feelings and purposes Of the
southern people M TO entertain the
opinions attributed to him In the fore
going extract, lac writes himself down
M utterly unqualified TO sit In the high
cat legislative body In the land and
make laws for the government Of the
country, He must base his estimate
Of tho southern character upon what he
knows Of his own people, The allcga-
ton that they would gladly Darler
away all their political principles for
the sake OF having u friend at WASH
ington, whom they could approach for
fayors, Nv without foundation In fact,
and ~ II want0n insult 10 n brave and
heroic people, who have for years
borne outrages and insults TINT they
could NJ any time have converted into
caresses by a willingness TO sacrifice
their convictions Of right aud become
the supporters Of those who had In
lllotod the blows. Nor IL there more
truth In the statement that the southern
people are Indifferent TO the future
of the country, and careless as to
whether the form of government es-
tabllshed by the fathers IL preserved.
Tho southern people, II we have any
knowledge of their feelings, realize
that their destlnes nre inseparably
bound up In tho future Of the Ameri-
can union, and TINT whatever Of civil
liberty they ARE TO enjoy hereafter IL to
be secured under the constitution Of
the United States. They are n liberty
loving people, and they are impressed
with the idea that II constitutional
government and civil liberty are TO be
preserved ~ all in this country, II Is to
be done by their influence; that they are
the leaven that Is TO lenven the whole
mass Of unthiniingand heterogeneous
people that go to make up the popula-
ton of the union. There Is no doubt
that the reconstruction measures, with
all the vlllainles that followed In their
trail, did go far toward destroying any
reverence the southern people might
possibly have had for the national gov
eminent; but TO suppose that their
reverence for those grand old men who
laid the foundations of the govern
ment, and for the foundation stones on
which the government was erected,
has been either destroyed or weakened
by the wholesale spolintion and rob-
berry of what little the ravages of war
had left to them, Is to do violence to
their manhood and to their proud
character for self-sacriiicing devotion
to principle. Those who, like Senator
Genton, judge SO enormously OF the
south, do so because they are unable to
draw the distinction between ATTACKS
ment for government and attach
ment for the administration of that
government. The southern people de-
sire nothing better than the form of
government provided for in the consti-
tuition of the United States. There are
very few of them who have any fond
ness for the government rs at present
administered
Senator Fenton is grossly mistaken.
1t is to the south, and to the south
alone, that he need look for any seri-
GUS protests against third term on
principles looking to the preservation
of civil liberty.