The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-11-04
REvlVlN0 HOPE.

The indications Of Improvement ia
our financial condition comes from oil
points Of tho compass Without any |
special movement in either commerce
or manufactures 10 account for IL, con
lidenoe seems TO be in u measure 10,
stored, aud already trade feels the uns
usual but healthy impulse of fair de
mand and money TO do the business
UnquesIionably, part of this hopeful
Improvement Is due TO tho repeal move
ment in congress, which has now M
sumed such promising features. Such
legislation will restore confidence ems
tirely, and already the influence is felt
by those who have been boarding up
money TO such an extent that they are
slowly, cautiously bat surely letting it
out as formerly, What terrible times we
have passed through since 1872 What
fearful risks we have had, what severe
tests have been applied and what terrible
dangers dared Our financial distresses
came very near involving the country
in revolution which must have resulted
in anarchy We only escaped, indeed,
by miracle The strong, healthy res
action is commencing, and without
some terrible disaster or horrible blum,
der on the part Of the government, we
may safely pronounce that the worst is
passed, the bottom has been touched,
and now nothing remains to be done
save TO take advantage Of the opportu.
mites rs they come, and guard the
country against n recurrence of the evils
from which we are Mt present escaping
The country has been, with the OK.
cepton of the Indian emeuJes and the
labor riots at profound peace for
twelve years 1t is time now for con
gress and the administration TO address
themselves earnestly to the task of re-
storing the wasted commerce and won't
ed business energies of the country and
leave the political parties and theil
leaders to take care of themselves. We
want general legislation in the
interests ofall the states all Of the peo-
pie, and not for the benefit Of this or
hatparty, or this or thai section, or this
or that man, Our partizan instincts
and prcjudices must be sacrificed on the
altar Of the common good of all the
country. Soldiers must no longer be
sent TO overawe the states and to inhu>
ence elections as formerly. There must
be no more legislation for the especial
benefit OF New England at the expense
OF the south and west, and none for the
south and west against New England
This sort OF policy honestly pursued,
the government purified, and with the
employment of a wise economy in both
public and private expenditures, and
but few years will be necessary to make
every mill and Workshop in the land
vocal with the renewed voice of fairly
paid industry, and to send our mer-
chant ships to whiten with their sails,
every ocean, sea and bay in the whole
realm of commerce.
We have maniully paid for the follcs
OF the past twenty years of sectional
phrensy. We have for q decade or
more stood on the very verge of nation,
al ruin, disintegration and anarchy.
Let us, by the employment of all the
honest influences of the country, adj
dress ourselves to the task of restora>
ton, and the other sacred duty of
guarding our fair land from o recur-
renee of the sad scenes through which
we have been passing for the last fifteen
years or more. 1t is q matter of SUI
preme joy, that at last we have ma.
tlonal administration in harmony with
these pious purposes.