The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-12-16
The south I'm the senate.

Washington Sunday Herald In
noting tho sharp antithesis between
the brutal bearing Of the republican
leaders in the senate, and the dignity
and suficiency Of the southern leaders
during the struggle of the past week,
the country will be sure to award a
great advantage to the south. Southern
senators are simply types ola race which,
with all its faults, was never mean
whose great men were truly great be>
cause they superadded courage and the
love of truth to ability and learning
Sneers at the "chivalry' of the south,
at its tropical oratery," and its love Of
Sentimental politics" will cease to be
fashionable some of these days, The
country is rapidly learning that strong
Infusion of the southern qualities into
the counting-room craftsmanship and
hard materialism Of New England and
New York will give US broader and
better civilization.
Senator Hoar may congratulate him,
self that the stricken senator from
North Carolina was prevented by illness
from administering the punishment adj
equate to his own pedagogical impertis
hence. But while he may see in Ran.
som knightly gentleman, who never
gave an insult and never submitted to
one, he may profitably study the bear
ing and character OF man in whom
the aspiring American senator may al
ways find q model.
The radical "small fry" senators of
the pattern of Wadleigh and Mcmillan
served to point moral for the benefit
Of Edmunds and Conkling, by giving to
Ben Hill some slight provocation for
the display of the power in debate
which Georgia well understood when
she placed him in the senate.
The south, not less than the demo.
cratic party, is immensely the gamer
from such game displays of prowess as
Senator Gordon gave in his assault upon
the Inconsistencies, the bubbles, sub
terfuges, sneers and bad manners of
Conkling and Edmunds. Thesupercili-
Gus senator from New York invited the
"palpable hit" which Gordon gave him
when he said in Tuesdays debate that
"rhetoric did not require truth and &C.
curacy of statement to produce its finest
effects" THAT is fact" quickly res
sponded the Georgian, "of which the
speeches of the senator from New York
always furnish illustration" The brav-
cry and the dignity Of the south, in con>
trast with the cruelty other prosecutors
and maligners, were never better assert
ed than in the impassioned outbursts Of
indignation with which Gordon ans
swered Edmunds on Monday. The
saturnine senator from Vermont had no
reply to make to the fervid eloquenoe
into which Gordon depicted the crime
Of employing the judiciary Of the
district to make good the
fiat of q radical senatorial
caucus. For once il is reasonable Ia
suppose Edmunds experienced tho SEM
sation Of shame. Ordinarily, he has
about as much capacity for emotion as
Vermont pumpkin. Somebody said
the other day that Edmunds was 9Th.
only man who could euchre the mikads
of Japan. For If he were opened h,
would be found to have neither bloot
nor bowels" II may not have beer
blood that rushed to Edmunds stee
trap face; but Gordon's cato nine.tail
yisibly menaced his saturnine imper
turbility. Senate and galleries wer
thrilled by the fervor and splendor G
Gordon's dash, and there was good rea
son for the expression Of satisfied stat
pride with which Senator Hill note
the success Of his colleague. A south
ern senator once said: "Gordon carrie
good deal Of plumage, but whoevs
attempts to pluck him will find a Dir
full Of game and strength"
Radical slang>whangers will not
ing TO comfort them in the speeches I
these southern senators. The south b
. no more Wigfalls. and has but OF
Toombs. The country will see Meth
, buster nor timidity in dealing wi
|, great questions Of the representati
= southern men IN Congress, whose pre-
, ence gives good assurance for the futu
Of the democratic party. a