The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-27
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY AND THE
RATIONAL GOVERNMENT

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you that tho Rid and c0unienance ni
he national government has bean viii
drawn nom the republicans of Llul
lana therefore an-
nounea 90 You that am compelled 90
abstain ior lhe present from all active
assertion Oi my government
r. H. PACKARD. Governor
There $50 have an honest confession
at last though ID nowhere appear dat
the person making ID Is honest 10
sIumbles on the quality apparently
quite unaware 10 IL either ibis. on Boz
appeal 20 lho republican party sanu-
mept and cares only for the verdict OF
the republican party Ths Is what tho
democrats have charged over since the
war closed, that the southern state gov
epmeuH under therooonsIuclonp poll
10y Of International government were run
not Ia ths interest Of all lhe people but
solely In the Interests and ior tho boue-
VI Of the republican party This docla
ton Of faokurds makes the thiuRplaiu
10 oyon tho most obtuso comprehou-
sion, The negro was ouiranehsed not
because ho deserved H. not because be-
was 10 be- benefited by II but simply
because II waa found that ho could be-
thrown aa a unit into the embraces Of
tho republican party and porloyco
against tho democrats Tho rolmblb
cans have always bitrcrly denied this
charge, Can they do so longer since
Packard hw either designcIly and m
piquo or unwiituAy lot tho eat out OF
the bag in this very effective way
As soon as the couutenanco Of the
general government, or the national
government as Mr., Packard iorcibIy
puts II, swilhdrawp from the republl.
can state governments Of tho south
they crumblc TO pieces and ihll, undcr
asystcm lilSo ours, whore goyommoutD
ara supposed to be erected aud main.
tanned only by ondwith the consent Of
tho people themsolyes, this ought To
surprise no one, aud yet is wonderful
that for fifteen years the republican
party has been oblo to so hoodwink the
north, and mslead the people regard,
ing the relative strength Of republicans
nd democrats in the south, but more
particularly Louisiana, Os TO convince
them that the governments set up and
maintained by them wcrc sustained by
the masses OF the people, IN the states
so governed, Yet so it is, for surely
the masses OF the people, even thoye
adhering to the republican party, do
not believe that the interests OF that
party are or should be paramount to
that of all the people. government and
genius of the lInitod States
Packard has certainly delivered the
republican party terrible blow
To an ordinary apprehension, it
seems to be impossible thatit can ever
recover, without tho full military
strength of the nation again acting MS
an armed unit in its support, Since
the military satrapy has passed away,
and since the government has fallen
into the hands Of a republican who has
some respect for other force than the
bayonet, we have hopes that not only
the strength of that dangerous party is
broken in the southern states, but as a
national organization It's so weakened
that hereafter it can be controlled, and
forced to respect some at least of the
fundamental rules Of representative
government
The democratic party in the south
has always claimed that the govern
mcnts set up here by the republicans,
were foreign and oppressive to the tax
paying intelligence of the people,
Packard's address leaves no doubt oft,
and it is perhaps fortunate for the
negro that the denouement has come
thus soon even, We repeat q prodic-
ton made six years since, that the time
is near at hand, when the democratic
party will be called upon to defend the
negro in his new found right Of suffrage
a sssailed by his late selEconstitutcd
champion, the republican party 1t is
coming justso surely as that tomorrow
sun will come,