The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-03-17
THE CONSERVATIVE TURN.

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ship has some features in it well worth
a careful study IT is well to remember
that the genius Of the party ever since
IL mounted through war and bloodshed
to supreme power has been centraliza-
ton, The brain and muscle Of the
party are still Of the old federalistic
descent while the visible head, the man
OF power mNnilests liberality which,
il il is not sinister and adopted for
purpose, will be Of real service to the
country directly But the danger most
to be feared is, that this apparent liber-
atty will lull the wariness of the Dem
ocracy particularly in that South, rad
one of those sudden changes of policy
will occur which will rob our section Of
its present security and remand it to
the cruel care of that section of Repub-
licanism which ercwhile filled our State
houses and courts Of Justices with the
armed mnions Of q military usurpNtion
as cruel and relentless as death itself
The trto political sentiment so often
found in the mouths of unthinkngpeo-
pie, to the effect that eternal vigilance
is theprice Of liberty" never bad II more
significant or palmer application
than it is has to-day to the situation Of
the Democratic party Of this nation
When the Republican party or any Of its
chozen chiefs tolerate either the person
or the policy Of N Democrat, it is either
to use or mislcOd him. 1t is the plainly
understood policy of our wary foes, in
order to win liberation at our
hands for the most Stupen-
dous fraud ever perpetrated,
to adopt n policy Of Cancellation and
consideration never before manifested,
and which is, and ever will continue to
be, foreign to the genius of Radicalism.
While we purpose to get all the advan-
tagc possible out Of the situation, and
use it to restore the crippled industries
Of the country, oas nearly u healthy
condition as possible, yet we would not
forget that its ultimate aim and end is
to pull down the stern barrier erected
by the Democratic party, between then
cupidity, the liberty of the people, and
the treasury Of the nation,
RadicNlsm is fond of saying that
sixty years lease ofpower corrupted the
Democratic party. Well, it may be so
but none of their presidents became
rich in Office; none of their war-min
listers were ever convicted of trading
and tr0ilicing in government patronage
nor were their personal attendant,
ever proven to have been connected
with fraud on the revenue, or directly
or remotely, with the shameless jobbinl
of our Republican masters, ltrequirco
sixty years to corrupt the Democracy
Republican chronology but less than
one.third Of that time was only needed
to render the American, name under
Republican care, odious both at HON,
and abroad, Tor the most stupcndou'
frauds, the most glaring populations
and that general inelliciencl
which has sent the commerce
and general business of the nation stag
gering ON slowly towards that uttci
prostration which marks its history fol
the last three or four years.
You can no more disconncct the ma
ture Of the government from the per
sonal character of those who administer
it, than you can raise the dead, or make
vice and virtue coOlesce, SO it happens
that our securities have tumbled in the
markets of the world Our ships ar,
quietly and ingloriously decaying Il,
their anchors, and foreign vessels fetch
aud carry for u.s. foreign manufacture,
supply our wants, while the operative,
OF our own mills are hclplessly starving
oboutthe extinguished forges where they
had been accustomed to earn, under Dem
ocratic policy, a comfortable if not pro
fuse subsistence, Let not the blandsh.
ments of this new Republican departure
ever destroy the memory Of this fearful
retrogression, The new conservative
policy of Ropublicanism holds its posi-.
ton by the sliuhtest nossihla teruro