The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-07-24
ESTABLISHED, 1849.

and whatever may have boen the
bitterness of the past, they now dc.
sire nothing so much as a cordial re-
conciliation with tho people of the
North. "For richer or for poorer,
for better or for worse" we are now,
and for all time, one people, and the
common sense of the South recog-
nizing this fact, is everywhere show
ing itself in favor of a cordial and
unreservcd fraternity with our fel.
low-citizens of the North
The Appeal says: General John S.
Preston has been so much badgered on
account of his ill-timed and ill-advised
address before the alumni OF the uni
versity of Virginia, that it is cruel to
criticise him. But we desire the APP
peal to be placed on record as repudi-
ating and condemning his folly. In
time like the present, when the SOUTH
ern people have quietly acquiesced in
the results of the war, and are laboring
to bury the passions it engendered, it
is wicked, it Is atrOcOus for prom
inent southern man to make such an
address as fell from the lips of the ir-
reconcilable Preston. While Southern
men, as patriotic and as much devoted
to the Confederate cause as himself,
are endeavoring to heal the wounds of
the war, this fanatical fool, clothed in
the vestments of antiquity, covered
with the moss of the past, makes
speech which is as sedicious and in
cendiary as it is reckless and
wicked. 1t does not pay the Southern
people to continue the discharge of
empty rhetoric at the North. 1t does
not benefit even such men as General
Preston to nurse their sorrows and to
take morbid sort of delight in con-
the scars which they fondly
assume to be ineffaceable. The South
ern people look witMabhorrence at the
utterances of General Preston. Trey
have buried the past, and their motto
Is: "Act! act in the living present p'
Waste not the rest of life in fixing the
sod over the grave of the lost cause!
Waste no time in trying to bring any
dead thing to life. When a matter
has been settled, let it alone, and
devote time and effort to practical
measures for the present and
.he future. Instead of obstinate adher-
,nce to the whipped ideas of power.
ess minority, chivalric but vanquish-
I'd, take facts as they are, accept and
make the best of the situation as it
actually is, and join with those who are
rying to accomplish some real good
or the country. The speech of General
Preston is g0dsend to the Radical
,arty. 1t comes to them as opportune-
y as the shady grove and the gushing
pring to the thirsty travel in the desert.
Cor months Morton, Logan, Clayton,
md the Chicago Inter-Ocean have
,een hanging on the ragged edge ofpo-
itical despair, anxiously waiting for
omething to turn up. The kuklux
would not accommodate them. But
General Preston, of South Carolina,
las come to the rescue. The Radicals
lave eagerly seized upon his frantic
tterances, and they insist that he rep
esents Southern sentiment. 1t will !
ake some time to effect the injury
'hich this speech has done. But the
eople OF the North will be convinced,
y the almost unanimous protest ofthe
outh, that General Preston represents /
obody but himself. We are told that {
ven the alumni he addressed were
isgusted with his frantic fanaticism.
uch is certainly the feeling of the |
outhern people. Our protest may be :
lte, but it is due to the Appeal and its
eaders. "