The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-08-16
For Congrcss.-Ibiri District
HON. JAMES W. qHROCKMORYON,
or Collin.


We usually do not place lmpllcll
confidence upon the statements OF IN
terylewols IN their reports Of the opin'
ions Of those interviewed, Mr. Red
field, Of the Cincinnati Commercial, II,
however recognized NJ one oil the
most intelligent aud reliable newspa-
per men IN the United States, aud we
therefore have no doubt that In Ills re-
port OF the interview with Ben Hill, of
Georgia, which will be found In an
other column, he states exactly the
sentiments expressed by Mr.. Hill.
AT the same time that we are not at
nl surprised TO hear such utterances
from Ben Hill, Ia view of his record
since the war, we wish distinctly to
place ourselt on record ns ono that Is
not ready to bow the knee to Grant for
the sake of securing his favorlng
smile, and 10 express our decided opln-
lon that the feelings and probable
action Of the people of the south are
most foully misreprcsented 10y these
flippant expressions Of the Georgia
statesman (so.called).
Can II be possible that after all the
south has endured on the field of bat
tie and under the heel Of the oppressor,
to save for her children aud her child
ren's children the principles of civil
liberty, TINT she II now ready to falter
and to give up everything for which
she has struggled and suffered for the
sake of saving herself from the last
lash that IL about to be laid on her
back. Ifpeace and quiet, regardless
OF prmciple are what we are to live
for, we could have secured that IN 1861
by bowling 10 the will of Abraham Lin
coin. We could have secured the same
thing IN 1867 10y accepting the provis-
ions OF the fourteenth amendment.
We could have had II ut any time
since that date by doing exactly what
1t IL said now by Ben Hill that the peo'
pie of the south are prepared to do.
His figure about the drowning man
and all that is very good but 1t hap
pens that Grant is the very man that
has been holding our heads under the
water, and should he relent now aud
say tous, be my slaves for life and III let
your heads out, while the alternative
would be u hard one, we unhesitatngfy
believe that the liberty-loving people
of the south would tell him to duck
away--that they would stand itawhile
longer. Besides, in our Judgment, Mr..
Hill makes n great bugbear of the civil
rights bill to frlghten the people of the
south with when, in reality, there Is
no danger from that source. Forty
congresses might pass the bill, and for
ty presidents might approve it, but it
could never be enforced. The eternal
DEGREES OF Almighty God are against it.
1t is true that the white people of the
south might be annihilated 10y the fed
eral government In the attempt to
force it upon them, but before it could
be accomplished the buzzards from the
frontiers of Texas to the Atlantic ocean
would be gorged with dead negroes.
We are not unaware of the fact that
some distinguished politicians of the
south have been accused of taking
stock In the third term movement
They have all, however Kempcr, Cor
don, anu others, when called upon 10y
an outraged public sentiment, denied
their completely in the movement. 1t
is trne that Gen. Gordon's denial was
not as explicit as we would have been
glad to see; but that we attributed to
the fact that he felt that his record was
so clear that the charge was not worthy
of denial at all.
No, Mr.. Hill may reflect his own
feelings when he says he don't care
two straws about the principles and
usages of the government; but when
he claims that those feelings are shared
in by any considerable portion of the
southern people, he does them gross
injustice.