The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-17
TINE END APPROACHES,

No one who has attentlyely studied
the situation since Hayes Inauguration
can or does doubt 10 10 tho final YER
dict being rendered lr way TO very
greatly disoblige Mr. Packard with
the suppression of this, the last remain
Ing representative Of political fraud IN
the south, tho last representative Of the
reconstruction order Of southern oillce'
holder, disappear forever the ieyeriSh
condition which has so nearly succeeded
In digging and filling deep and wide
grave for our poor, struggling and we'll
nigh spirit broken southland II Mr.
Hayes Is strong enough to do this, ana
does do II, we venture the prediction
that no suggestion will come from the
gouth touching quo oaranto, ana no lac
tious opposition will bo offered to his
policy so long ~ II conforms to tho law
and does not tend TO cripple the slowly
reyiylng industries of our people both
black and white,
The south might well pause on the
threshold Of the suspicious event, glance
backward oyor the terrible experience
Of the last twelve years understand
"A
clearly from what fate shc has finally
escaped, aud to contemplate the reo-
sonablo possibilities which lie thiclSly
in her pathway In the future But
history Is made, and Ia only valuable
as II guide by which future mistakes of
tho kind, made by u.s. may be avoided.
Tho future is before the south, Let
her enter upon the race in earnest. Let
her cut loose from the old inertness and
30 to work in earnest, and the prosper
ity which attended our history in the
past under the old slave regime, will
be but faint comparison to that which
our own strong right arms can work
out for ourselves and by ourselves.
Work, real, earnest satisfactory work
has been nearly impossible since the
war, because tho gaunt spectre of milf
tary reconstruction sat enthroned at
each state capitol, and the manhood OF
the south remained nerveless and in
efficient With Packard driven off, OF
left without tho federal bayonet to up,
hold him, with Hampton enjoying, with
his people in South Carolina for the
first time since the war, the governs
ment OF his and their own choice-the
last vestige of reconstruction and its
horrors has passed away from the peo
pie, and they have now nothing else tc
do other than to address them
selves with their old war energies
to the more grateful task of re-
building their homes, re'opening theil
overgrown fields, rehlling their work
shopsand schoolhouses rechartering the
commercial marine, which fetched and
carried the wealth Of the world, thai
was freely and gladly bortered for the
great staples of our section, which grow
here in prolusion and nowhere else
proftably, even by the assistance of tn,
most strenuous exertion. Tho lonl
night is truly, surely and slowly passing
away, and the day is near at hand wher
the south can again claim equal consid
Grafton in the government which tn,
tax upon her productions, even now
though crippled, goes so far toward sus
tanning. In this connection we venture
the prediction that the judgment passed
by the south on the character Of the
men who have oppressed her, will be
ratified by the people north, for no sin
gle man of them will ever climb to dis
tinction there, Packard and Chamber
lain included.