The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1874-09-12
EFFECTS OF RECENT DISTURB
ANCES IN THE SOUTH.

The Courier-Journal, in an editorial
on the recent outrages in Kentucky
and Tennessee, shows what the effect
of these outbreaks will be in the fol-
lowing plain, forcible and truthful
words
No people, no party, could stand un-
der such load as the people OF the
south and the democratic party of the
north are forced to carry. Call 1t what
YOU will-the fruit of reconstruction,
the fault of the party in power, the in
evitable conflict of races, proclpitated
by bad theory of government, eXecu-
ted in vicious practice-the one effect
of the whole mess of violence Is Il con.
tinuance and reinforcement OF the OLD
preteXt by which the country has been
carried along the same baleful, parti-
san rut ever since the war.
There is no use writing, talking,
speaking, argufying, contradicting,
proving, as long as the bloody sum-to-
tai, recorded within the last fortnight,
goes out to the world unchallenged by
adequate redress. The Gibson county
butchery surpasses belief and, though
the governor of Tennessee has done his
full duty, the gallows can alone render
atonement commensurate with the
public expectation. 1t is hardly likely
that anybody is going to be hung. The
result will be renewed legislation, ad-
ditional radical enactments perhaps,
ultimately, martial law.
The fools are not all dead yet. 1t is
well to be plain. AS surely AS the
south begins to get Oh its feet do us
madmen proceed to kick the fat IN the
fire. The radicals only want preteXts.
The south supplies them. a war, or
the appearance of IL war, of races see ms
inevitable and that is itself third
term under prosciptive auspices. Ihat
is the road to the overthrow of the re-
publican government, but chiefly at
the expense of the south.
The New York World, than which
the southern people have no tirmer
friend at the north, suggests to the peo-
pie of the south the great necessity for
calmness and patience on their part.
1t says:
These plots will not have the desired
effect, if the northern and southern
Deople are made to know their real ORR
gin and purpose. The agonized shrieks
of the republican newspapers VIII
elicit laughter and contempt when
their readers become aware that Il
mere party trick is behind them.
While the people of the north are thus
giving the reports OF rebel aggressive
ness the little notice they deserve, it
behooves the southern whites to carry
themselves with all the patience they
can command through their present
trials. 1t will be an unwise course for
them to play into the hands OF the
northern republican politicians. If the
republican party is destroyed i'll the
forthcoming election they will never
be troubled again with the machina-
tions of these plotters. They can af-
ford to exercise self-control now, even
under the most eXasperating circum-
stances, for the sake of the relief that
a democratic victory will bring to them
in the autumn elections. We can safe
ly predict that if radicalism is wrecked
i'm November there will be no more
conferences at Hot Springs between
such desperate political gamblers us
Morton, Clayton and the deposed chiei
| Justice of Arkansas.