The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-22
The LAST Of TIE MILITARY A.

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their parts from military dlolallon and
Interference, The presidents order
removing the troops from tho state
house Ia New Orleans, marks q more
important era in tho history OF our
Section than did the PRONUNCIATION OF
Mr. Lucoln's emancipation proeamn'
ton, Linooln's document struck the
ahackles from the limbs Of the negro
Hayes order emanoipates the whole
people, black and white, Llnooln's pa
per created confusion and caused blood
TO How before peace could come, Hayes
paper creates order and removes the
possibility of blood'lettlng IN the far
iher settlement Of affairs In the state,
Lincoln's proclamation created idleness,
poverty aud distress necessarily, this
order of Hayes will set people to work
In earnest and insure prosperity
through good government tooyery man,
woman aud child black or white, IN
Louisiana, Hereafter, the conservative
influences acting by aud through the
official democratic organization will
guard well, and become responsible for
the interests of all the people, They
will win praise, il order and prosperity
prevail, but will be oXeorated IL oonlu,
sion and disaster continue,
The great principle of the subscryi~
cnco of the military to the civil govern
ment in this simpleact has grandly
indicated We trust that within the
next row days the troops will DO taken
away entirely, only rcscwing men
enough to guard and protect the prop.
crty of the government in the south,
and to prevent loss from want OF care
II isa singular circumstance when
we consider the temper OF the people,
that military interference has been toll
Grated In thcsouth SO long The very
idea is foreign to the spirit and tenor OF
our constitution, All our policies are
violently opposed to military ascend
ancy, The bayonot is essentially
tyrannical, necessarily 30, and perpetu'
ally 10 war with the idoa of selEgovern
ment, and peculiarly so, when handled
by the poriaans Of party whose chieI
is also the military and civil head OF
the government, as was the case when
Grant was president. Whenever in the
history of the world, the liberties of the
people have been cutpiled or destroyed
the hayonct has been found to be the
instrument potent in accomplishing the
work So long us the government OF
Louisiana was squared upon the bayo
net, or arranged upon the whims, and
coniOpmcd to the wishes of the officer in
charge of the troops in New Orleans,
not one single day ofprosper'ty vas en-
Ijoycd 10y the people. Things went rap.
idly from bad to worse. Men had no
heart to work, because. under the shad.
ow OF the all.poweriul bayonet. n foreign
state government did nothing but levy
tax, collect it, and steal whatever was
worth carrying off, Occasionally the
outraged feeling of the people would
momentarially obscure their judgment
and blood would flow, only to have the
bayonet make another stride toward
supreme power. Now, happily it is one
of the lost arts Of government, and may
no future contingency arise when civil
state government oven will have to lean
upon the bayonet for that support which
should always come alone, through the
loving loyalty of the people themselves
The race problem in the south is
wellnigh solved, and we do not need
either the soldiers or the politicians
from any other section or from the
general government to farther assist in
completing what still remains to be
done. Now let the people Of the south
show by the governments they institute
among themselves that they can safely
be trusted, and we may announce that
reconstruction has finally, and through
great tribulatohs been accomplished.