The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-12-15
PLAIN WORDS.

rng llERALp does not desire to IN
dulge in any incorporate language nor
in the gust of superIluous oneor to
write down foolish things. 1t desires
simply to speak with infinite candor OF
what it conccivcs to be the rcaI heart
felt feelings of Southern men in this
supreme crisis OF our tate as people
and II republic Charles O'Conor re-
Gently wrote these words Tho re-
public persisted ON the day that Nc
DoweI moved on to Richmond" How
much profound truth there is in them
only southern men cnn tell IT by the
republic Charles OCOnOr meant re.
publican institutions ald u government
Of constitutional law, the South has
known no such republic since the
cross and bars won't down in dust and
blood under Lee. For eleven long and
weary years she has been as fully cX-
cludcd from all share in the admins.
tntion of tho national government as
though Gordon of steel and fire
stretched itself between the two see
tons.
During that period she has suffered
all tho mseries Tint war, extreme pow
erty, and the death Of her bravcst and
best could inilict. Ia addition to this,
the South has had fostering in her
midst and feeding and lottening upon
her woes class of reckless, desperate,
malignant vagabonds,who have omitted
no opportunity to villiIy and SANDER
the people and to aggravato and inten-
sify in the refinement of their cruelty
the feeling existing between the two
peoples. Under the gusc of taxation,
these men have porpetrated the most
appalling robberies, and have forced
themselves into position and power to
accomplish these robborits, by the most
stupondous and outrageous frauds, and
by nm unconccaled prostitution of the
ballot box. In all of this unglrsIl0,gft,
-debauche'y, proscrintif0p's.- 's''',
">-~------Poclet atc "ee, tn sun "'u
tyranny, the Republicans @, the North
have looked on with approving smiles,
and with but few honorable exceptions,
they have cursed the rebels and desired
the game to proceed. The disruption
or seizure of States, the ioulest usurpa-
ton, the most unblushing thievery, in
their Judgment does not compare in
righteousness with the gallant defence
made by Southern men for their liberty,
their homes and their honor.
Having once provoked civil war, and
by II devilish ingenuity thrown the
onus of the first overt act upon the
South, they now, when their revolving
crimes against liberty and IN honest
government are challenging the atten-
ton of the world, again seek to provoke
nm overt act Of hostility from the South,
in order that their schemes to seize
upon the government, may have some
disguise to cloak them. They are deter.
mined to retain control of tho govern
mani al all ha,n,l, Az un;l ly IN ,rl,,e
OConor: THE drunken Democrat
whom the Republicans dragged out of
the Golcna gutter, besmcared with tho
blood ofhis countrymon slain in domes-
tic broil, and lifted to u Ugh pedestal as
the Molooh Of their worship rules--and
until great change in sentiment shall
take place must continue to rule--oyer
the PROSTATE ruins Of Westinghouse re-
public" TnE HERALD in the light of
present events is not disposed to cor
trovert Mr.. OConor's position as TO
Grants Interior motives, but it il dis.
posed to ask ,chdt Northern Democrats arc
going 10 do about il, If they supinely
and cowardly submit to an usurpation,
and a practical destruction of the fabric
of government the South must for the
present bide her time. If they do not
propose to submit and mean car,
and only such u war
as shall be witnessed when Republican
and Democratic legions meet in tho
shock of battle, then the South is with
them and it will with a rush of bitter
memories, strike hard and strike home.
As we promised by saying The HERALD
means to utter no foolish or mtemper.
ate words, but it has the cander to saw
that in the event Northern Democrats
open the ball, there will be found many
guests in attendance from the South
whose war cry, Remember Louisiana
Remember South Carolina will sound
no swseter to Republicans than the
battle yell of Texans, at San Jacinto
when, Remember the Alamol Remem
Der La Bahia pierced the affrighted
ears Of Santa Annals cohorts.
The South does not say that this
game has gone far enough and that she
will stop it. But she does aver that
when Northern Democrats say SO, the
hrst breeze from the South shall bear