The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
4 CrayOn sketch of the Situation
at the Capital
The ola Partisan SPIrit Being slowly
Aroused Grant, ChRndi' RWd Msr-
tn HeAding against an Ava
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speclai Correspondence N. o. DsmOcrat.l

speclal Correspondence N, .. Democrat
WASHINGTON Dec. q, 1876
Tho situation as whole does moi
change. Tbs two contesting parties in
this remarkable revolution of wordi
and of intrigue confront each other now
in substantially the same positions they
took at the outset of the session. One
has only to move about enough to catch
the universal dripping of commonplace
enough to see and hear what is most
opparent and most audible--to discover
that the way out Of this difficulty ia yet
long way and winding one and that
of its ultimate outcome there is no tell
ing.
THE SENATE, sOLKhK AND MOODY,
with its iron-bound and copper-sheathed
and brass fastened Rcpubl'ct an majority
moving to the nod of the caucus leaders
sa ship minds her helm. There have
= L.cn rumors Of detection 10 come, but
Az far as can learn, their basis 10 the
hopes OF those who invent them and not
their knowledge. For my part, do not
look for any detection in the Senate,
AND THERI STANDS THE HOUSE,
fierce and turbulent, orming now in
one direction and swaying anon in an
other, with its majority full Of all
strong, unconque able resolution; its
councils inspired by lofty courage, and
for the most part directed with saga
CITY. In fail fight the House, as now
constituted, would overmatch the Sen.
ate because behind the House 10 a
ponderous mass of public sentiment
which needs but the touch of some
lever to end its inertia and set it plung.
ing like landslide
BUT AS An OFFSET
to this potential auxiliary that backs
the House the Senate has a backing in
the Executive. Firm, pitiless and stub.
born sits the red-faced man of the
White House, with finger tip on the tele.
graph key whose touch would fill the
sacred halls on Capitol Hill with armod
men, would mix with the sound Of dis.
putting voices the clank of sabres and
the click of rifle locks. Thus, Of the
two the Senate's backing is most pc.
tent because most mobile. And this is
q cgayon sketch of the situation in
Washington.
Gradually mems minds are making
up to the conclusion that, when all
bubbles of law and shades Of interpre-
tation Us to articles and sections Of the
Constitution are disposed of, the ultim.
ate and practical question at issue
will be one of
BRUTE FohCR.
Debate and discussion do not lift
away tho clouds that have gathered
only seem to thicken the mist and
density the fog; and it is breaking in
upon the minds of even the most
thoughtful and most cautious by
degrees that nothing can clear away the
clouds or dispel the fog except the red
fash OF gunpowder and the white CLEAN
of steel This conviction has been
fought off and resisted
SO long as there seemed hope that
peaceful means and moral pressure
might avail to conquer fraud; so long
40 lutTe TtlllhluSu " piOePNSU 'h"N NAN
Jaw might undo what mems lack OF
conscience had done, there was talk OF
a peaceful solution of our troubles.
But there is no use to blind our eyes to
plain portents; we cannot blink the
facts. Sounds begin to come from the
North and West that cannot be msin'
terpreted. The people have begun to
LOSE THEIR PATIENCE.
The impression that on the 9th OF
March the conspirators at the head OF
sfiairs will call upon force to ratify the
results of fraud, has stolen out among
the people and permeated the public
brain.
Now, there 10 in the weakness OF the
people Of the North and West a peou.
liar half cynical hslfgood natured
liberation OF fraud In the Northern
mind there is an association OF fraud
with smartness, and the North has
weakness for that which is smart and
shrewd But
roRcE rIYDB no TcLERArioN
at the hands OF these people, They
differ from your quick, genial, merou'
rial populuce OF the Cult States. 10
you the faint OF fraud IS poison be-
cause it outrages your notion OF what
YOU call honor But you rather like
Force. because, whatever may be It's
wrong, and ito hardships, there is some,
thing about the processes to be admired
YOU think it may DO wicked, but 1t
may be also brilliant, and there Is some
thing in that thought which irresistoiy
captiyates t Q Southern fancy Force
come. to YOU as thing clad in panopily
and moving with pomp pride ana CIR
cumstance; and your fancy reysls IN
such displays. .
But the people Of the North are OF
another mold They have not your no
tons OF honor to be wounded ana OUT,
ragged by the sight of Fraud. Instead
they have deep seated, grim ana I'M
movable
IDEAS OF Personal LIBERTY
and individual privileges, 'hd TO 'hese
ideas Force comes as natural oeaoly
and mortal foe, with whom there 10 hV
compromise and between whom anu
them there can be no peace except a'
the brink OF the grave,
|, was these ideas which the cannon
OF Sumter set in physical motion hl'erh i
years ago. They had been set IN mornl
motion twenty five years before that oy
the apitations oil the anti.slavely crusade
Now these same ideas have been set IN
moral motion again by the reports that
bays come 10 Northern ears from New
Orleans, from Columbia, AID from Lar,
lshassee. The descendants OF the men
who followed Gro nwell two hunoreo
and forty years ago are keeping up
DEVIL OF A THINKING. .,
Thov are revolving III their SLOW, cooi,
calculating way tho facts thar nave
G M ,otn, If understandings Aiq 'pey
are quietly and noiseles'ly making uP
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