The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-06-24

snap and snarl ~ pallAs county
tho largest ia population IN tho dis
lrol aud now strive 10 dictate what
she shall DO, Probe II 10 tho bot
tom, aud II will b. found that u Is
not TalrAnt county, buta iew busy
bodies in Fort Worth, They LASH
cd tho people Of larranl into q
nominating convention, when they
did mol want II, aud what ID Tho re'
suit 7 Why, simply This, that They
have nominated nlce, worthy old
gentleman IN his dolago-probably
oighly'dyo, and physically worn
Out-Once u proper man, but now
~ incapable Of going through tho
hard ordeal required 10 secure Tho
liberties Of Texas In tho Conhlllu'
llonal Convention as Napoleon wan
Of shilling tho storm NJ ~ llolona'H
rock tho night hla soul took llH
flight for tho great hereafter, This
venerable old man, In tho honesty
Of hla second, childhood, In his two
hours spoooh NJ Lancaster, present
cd tho following anomalies
lle denounced tho present ConNtl'
tuition with much indignation, yot
lalor said ho had mover aoon II but
TO glance over II eight days before,
aud considered II, In some respects
IN Improvement on tho old Consll'
tuition, l4ot tho Intelligent voter
analyzo thla holorodox position,
Ito declared that 10 this day ho
had never soon u single law passed
by any Legislature In Texas since
roconalruotion, nix years ago, How
docs this prove hIs capacity to ro'
Hove tho ovila undor which We Ia
Dor
lilo declared himself In favor OF
reducing tho number OF our Repro
Nonlatiyco from ninety TO iorty-ono,
and ofour Senators from thirty TO
eighteen, tho numbers we had when
our population was 0lly thousand,
and our settled territory about one
nth whit IL IL now, IN this Do
mocrocy, licpublicanism or tho
spirit Of representative govern
mcnt2 Shall we IN Texas establish
u political aristocrOcy, and remove
from tho people n representative in
tho Legislature mn FAR ~ n member
of Congress : Shall wo frame such
u government IN TO mako tho ropro'
sentative principle n humbug aud n
curse, virtually lilting'a handful OF
Legislators no high that tho voice OF
the people can have no effect upon
lhom ? Better at once blot out
State Government and remit our
hopes and liberties into tho hands
and mercy orsuch mon as Bon. But
lcr in Congress at Washington.
llo wanted clause in tho Consti
tuition TO exclude from office, jurici
and voting all ponitentiary con
victs. Wonderful 1t has been il
ovory American Constitution since
Columbus discovered tho now world
lilo wanted clause in tho Consti
tition to compel negro mon and wo
mon to DO virtuous and stop "ncst
hiding" lie ought TO read the
Boechor trial and learn that oven
among the white saints, beams
should be plucked from JaphotiC
eyes before the sons Of Japhct insist
on extracting notes from the oyoi
of Hams children. Noah became
outraged at his son Ham, disinher
tied him and his children, but prom
Used blessings.to tho sons of Japhet,
Since thon tho children of Ham have
not generally lived in land of free
common schools or churches. They
are not usually more advanced in
knowledge, eloquence and refine
ment than our ancestors were
certainly, they are not up
to the standard of our fore.par-
ents who burnt Jane Hutchinson as
n witch at Salem, or told Roger
Williams to get out Of Massachusetts
because ho was Baptist. The
Fort Worth nominee may suit them,
to make n Constitution for the
great and free State Of Texas, but
no won't suit everybody.
From all which, seeing also that
Dallas county has not heretofore
had anything approaching justice
in the apportionmont of representa-
ton, and now has fully half, if not
mora IF tho whole nonulation of