The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-11
IHEY DIE HARD.

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not lifted Chamberlain out OF South
Carolina on tho toe Of the presidential
boot, but II IL equally true that he
wants him 10 go, Any one less obIuse
than oarpetbag adyentnrer could see
H. and would go Ut once, nor stand
upon tho order Of his going See the
death,liSo nature Of the clutch with
which ho holds on to power and the
last remaining gllmmer Of the posi-
billty to still further rob and distress
tho poor South Carollnians, Visions
ofuturo dncirounscribod power yls'
ions Of future untold wealth, aud
visions Of future social recognition, ~
delightful as II Is novel TO this sort OF
people, all combine to nerve poor
Chamberlain and Packard 10 a struggle
which, butfor the ledcral beyonet, would
be seen oven by them to be useless.
The toxpaying intelligence Of tho two
states utterly refuse TO consider any
proposition which has in it the princi'
pie OF paying tithes to the previous
pets of corrupt and shamefully parti'
san national administration,
We in Texas can lully appreciate the
condition Of the people Of the states
named and from M identical expert
ence we were only saved by the steadi'
ness and manly yigor Of Governor Coke,
when he went to Austin to be in.
augurated, after his triumphant
election by sixty thousand majority,
Governor Davis refused upon the llimsi.
cal kind OF technical pretext, to turn
over the government. lie even went 80
far as TO call about him his negro re.
serves and the lcgions Of corruption,
which had been fed for years at his
table, TO deter the man Of Texas, the
representative of thcyast majority of the
taxpayine intelligence Of the state from
assuming the government, But fortu.
nately, Texas WIS then served bya man
uni cquainted with fear, AZ he was inca,
pable Of transccnding the law, and "By
the eternal, | am elected by the people
and came here to do my duty, and Mr..
Davis must 90 out" fell from Cokes
lips, and the bold, just words proved the
death knell to radicalism in Texas.
Such yigor and such energy might haye
done much in Louisiana and would
possibly have redeemed South Carolina
long since 1t is not too late yet,
Let the people of those states 60 to
work and get up every scintilla of eyi.
dence bearing on their recent state
elections and determine beyond the
possibility of doubt, the exact status
of the two governments in each and
rally to the right in such force as to
COMPEL decisive action on the part of
the president.
Chamberlain and Packard are either
stronger men than Governor Davis, or
they are confronted by weaker men
than he was, or no national administra'
ton would to-day be troubled 10y these
states, as poor unhappy Hayes is,
They do indeed die hard, but that
they are dying in good earnest no one
can deny, The republican party has
accomplished its mission. But one fixed
underlaid its deepest founda-
tons, and that was hatred to the slave
power OF the south. The republican
party accomplished its overthrow, the
world will not deny il all the credit it
is honestly entitled to from this fact
Since the war the organization has been
held together only by its common stake
in the picllings and stealings which
have illustrated its poste je'l,m career,
This cannot last always, The end must
come, is coming in the near future.
They, like us, see it plainly, but oh the
thought of dying How they battle
against it, but how surely it is coming
for all that, five are only steady to
our principles, and firm in the discharge
of duty