The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-07-11
ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES,

ONE 0f THE DIFFICULTIES
A very celebrated proaoher'onoo said.
u II isno trouble for mo to preach tho
gospel tho difficulty Is TO got people 10
listen" when you have persuaded
people to listen patiently to your doc
lrinos, tho battle Is more than half won
mo matter what your theme, and but
little matter upon which side you fight
Now, Packard and Pitlin, Blaine and
Bullock, only need m audience and
the bloody shirt, southern outragos and
military interference would boon be. M
much talked of and as potent as II hOs
been IN the past in producing n state OF
things pleasing TO none but the prince
Of darkness and their own unhOllowed
ambition, But the satisfactory circum'
stance in this connection Ia that the
part Of the republican party ever Will
ing to listen TO them is but the mercsl
handful, and of course they cannot
hope for an audience outside Nqbody
has time TO stop and consider tho thoo-
rics which have already been worked
out. There Is as little room now tor
these men and their purposes as there
is for Arguments in favor of African
/
slavery The people Of the south, both
republicans aud democrats, are too busy
with their present promise and the rosy
future to waste time over dood politi
clans, dead issues and doubly dead
prciudicos. Let these mon remember
this circumstance and IL will save them
selves much bother, and their political
associates as we'll as the whole country,
much scandal.
How either Packard or Pitkin can
have the assurance AT this late day, to
approach the dangerous subject Of their
local management Of republican inter.
ests in louisiana is one of the Won
derJ Of This political age. Why Blaine
should talk and Bullock should write,
is still II greater mystery, IT II is the
purpose of these agitators to keep,
by these means, the people of the two
sections from meeting and iratemizing
TO the end that sectionNlism may be
perpctuatod to the dotriment of every
good hope of tho country and for
THEN own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, let them
como south, to Texas, for instance, and
learn, once for all, that the people of
the south are again in accord with those
of the north united by the strongest
of all bonds, self interest, and not all
the powcrOf seltishness and reckless
hate can or will ever DC able to make
another breach. How much chagrin
and useless waste OF effort would 1t
save if the battered and defeated chiefs
of ultra Wdicalism would como down
here singly in pairs or by the
dozens, and see for themselves That
the old days have passed away,
and the new spirit of progress has
usurped the place of sentimental de-
votion to the cause of what they were
pleased to term the oppressed on the
one hand, and of the equal devotion to
tho dollar represented by his interests
in negro property, on the other hand,
by the southerner, We are done with
it, and now we are working hard at am
other problem, and of an entirely diff
lorent nature; it is not ON the defensive
as was our struggle for slavery; it is in.
ciSvely offensive and comprehends
no less important object than the com,
plete and entire revolution of the old
habits of thought, the old modes of
business and the final purposes OF
success.
With whole people working united
" for such nm object, and with purposes
so exalted and unscllish, this is indeed
no country for Packard and Pitkin,
Blaine or Bullock, and they will do
we'll to abandon it or to avoid it al
together