The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-04-08
mEAn IahIIEA.

Could the South be imm0rlaliled In
song or story with all that halo Of ro-
nance which only the brllllancy OF
genius could throw around It's past his
tory could the victories Of her goner-
als and the matchless valor Of her ar
niles be carved out In imperlshable
brass and marble, or painted In death
less colors upon the canvass we wouid
read these songs or stories, drink III
the beauty of paintings and monuments
with heart beating responsive to the
recollectIons Of the past, with our soul
filed with the glorious memory OF her
sons, but we cannot prevail upon our
selves to DO hurried by scheming aud
ambitious politicians into an unholy,
unmanly and dIshonorable defense of
the latent prejudlces and hates
that any political Marius may
see III TO evoke from the
dead past for his selfish purposes, for
his perferment aud ambitious advance
ment.
The young men Of this land, with
whose fate and fortune ours IL INSOFAR
ably united, have suffered too great
u loss, have been hurt too deeply by
unwlse politicians In the past to per-
NIT themselves TO be used now by sell
fish demagogues. With all the exul'
tation and enthusiasm of youth they
rushed TO the front In last war, and
the bravest and best laid down theil
lives In that struggle. Those that sur
vived were stripped of all they pos
sessed and worse than THO
were deprived of that education
which that war irretrlevably lost Il
them. Plunged into poverty, forced
TO labor for daily bread, for widowed
mothers and dependant sisters, no OPP
portnnity was left to cultivate tn,
sciences, the arts, the higher profes
sions of life, They lost that whicl
il more valuable than untold gold
broad liberal education, Every day o
their lives, many of them. feel thi
loss, this forced inferiority in TIN
struggle with life, and they are in n
pleasant mood to humor the whim
and hates OF those who brought suchu n
merited disaster upon them and w0ul
now revive afresh the very passion
and prejudices which provoked civil
war, The younger men OF the land
though they may not possess tn
trlckery and astuteness of trained poll
ticians, are yet sensible enough Il
know and feel that II Is not to their in
terests to irritate the sensibilities o
the North, TO push back immigration
and capital, and skilled labor, and t.
affect q maudlin devotion to the Con
federate cause for political purposes
and appealing to this mockery of de
votion for support in political intrigue
for Office. We feel that it Is very hart
! to oppose such arguments, for 1t Is eve
difficult to run counter to appeals Il
deep-seated prejudices, especially whel
sophistically made, and delicately mt
tuned to old recollections. There ar
editors In Texas, skilled adopts il
their adroit appeals to this sentiment
: and We observe it in their demand 70
the elevation to high offices of wha
they are pleased to term reprcSentatiC
men.
We would ask representative @
what ? OF dying prejudices, of laten
hostility, of selfish ambition, of dead
proiitless issues; or representatives O
n noble forgiveness, of exalted purpo
sea, of heroic self-abnigation, O
faultless honor and, withal, of II sturd.
and masterful independence. We hav
had enough of representatives of tn
past-give us representatives of tn
present and of the future.
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