The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-06-05

Eloquent Tribute TO the Confederate
Soidicry by the Secretary of the
Treasury.

SOidicry by the Secretary Of Tho
Treasury.
Extract from his Louisville decoration day
speech,
These ceremonies are conducted in
no spirit OF boastful eXultalion over the
men who fell on the other side or thell
surviving comrades.
The graves throughout the south, in
which sleep thousand, who arrayed
themselves against the government,
testify to their courage and soldierly
bearing. THIS bearing and endurance
were illustrated on many well-contest-
ed fields. 1t is impossible to doubt
that the masses fought for what they
believed to be right, and, however, they
may have been mislead by false theO-
ries of government, or deluded by the
artful teachings of cunning and anbi-
tious Leaders, we cannot fail to rec0g-
nize their valor or tenacity, and the
ability with which they adhered to the
cause in which they had enlisted, so
long rs the conflict continued If our
own great president could declare, in
the midst of the strife, that it was
prosecuted on our part with malice to-
ward none but with charity for all, how
much more ready should we be to bury
the animosities that belong to the past,
and concede to the men who fought
against us, the qualities illustrated by
| their valor.
The two grand results of the war,
which more than compensate the
country for all its sad bereavements
and vast expenditure and waste Of
money and property, are the eXtinc-
ton of slavery and reOrganized indis-
solubility of our national union and
the time is not far distant when these
will he accepted and admitted as bless
ings by the people of every section.
Men of the south will sooner or later
admit that success in what theyunder-
took would have been grievous mis-
fortune, even to themselves. What
they may think of their action in the
past is of little moment SO far as it can
affect the present and future interests
of the country. What we havea right
to expect and insist upon is practical
loyalty in the future to the country
and cheerful obedience to its constitu-
ton and laws. Mere historical and
sentimental loyalty is of far less con-
sequence. We ask no sacrifice of con-
yiction, no humiliation of soldierly
pride, while insisting on and enforcing
every principle resulting from the vic
tory. We may look with indulgence
if not Indifference on apologies and
defenses that will certainly through
all time he put forth by descendants of
the men who fought on the side of the
rebellion, andagree to differ with them
on what is rapidly becoming mere
chronicle ofrecord and of theory. The
history of the world furnishes exam
ples from which we may learn the les
sons of wisdom In this respect. The
past struggles In our mother country
illustrate what i mean. The great
leaders on each side of the civil war of
the seventeenth century, Hampden,
Pym and Cromwell, Falkland, Hyde
and Ormond have fun justice done
them by all competent historians, and
their virtues and talents are the COM
mon heritage of English people, and
loyal to the British constitution of to-
day, whether they take the side of the
cavaliers or espOuse the cause of the
Nay, more; in the next
after the termination of
that bitter and bloody struggle the
descendants of the
men whom / have mentioned,
and who could not have dis
cussed the question of the arrest of the
five members of the grand remon-
STRANGE without crossing swords, united
i'm driving James the Second from the
throne, and establishing that combina-
ton of freedom and order which has
given England her greatest prosperity.
The Scottish rebellion in favor of the
house Of Stuart I'm the last century, is a
still more striking illustration. Few
men may hold entirely different and
views Oh historical is
sues, and yet be practically and earn
estly loyal to the present and future of
a common country. As writer of his |
tory and historical romance, Sir Wal |
ter Scott was an intense Jacobite, and |
bitter opponent of the house of Han
over, pnd'yet, in spite Of his historical
theories, he was an enthusiastic loyal
st toward King George Ill. and ". /
No part Of the British Isle was more
oval than Scotland, and yet under
AXE to say that to-day, in no
part Of the civilized world, could
here be aroused more bitter
discussions and controversies over the
struggles 10 which that people have
been engaged. May we not then look
onward with assured confidence to n
lime in the near future when all intel
igent men, north and south, will not
,nly accept the result Of the late con-
iIcf, but will recognize the blessings
hat flow from IT. and admit that any
,ther issue would have been an ire
parable calamity to both sections Of
he country? While we must differ
rom those who sought 10 dissolve the