The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-05-11
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HHe CONFEDERATE BLOODY SHIRT.
correspondent On. A. To of the
Galveston Ns,cs writing from this place.
under date of April third, has some
sentiments with regard to the coming
race for the governorship which utterly
and wholly misrepresents the people, as
well as Governor Throckmorton and his
friends. No man, unless inspired and
thoroughly saturated with the ideas
and malignant intentions of that paper,
could possibly have dreamed of such
distortion as this.
This entire section of the state is
thoroughly unified on all questions
OF political character, and peculiarly
50 with regard to the candidacy OF
Throckmorton. No paper or man, resi-
dent of our section has, as yet, had the
hardihood TO draw a line between the
people from any other OF the states,
especially the north, and the old resi-
dents, or even those hailing from the
southern states Il remains for the
Neics to attempt it, but how signally it
has failed will be apparent when the
convention sits. and fully demonstrated
when the result of the election is made
known. The idea that our citizens
here from northern states are compelled
by confederate bloody shirt" pressure
to act with the democracy. is supremely
ridiculous, and constitutes a contempti-
bic SANDER, not only upon the one
class, but upon the other 1t is poor
compliment to our people from the
north TO say that their political faith
is of this accommodating, easy kind,
that it could be shifted at will like
that of the Neaos, and, in a
moment, to suit any sort of
contingency. No word has been spoke en-
or line ever written 10 warrant the
assertion that they are verv restless,
and exhibit a marked disposition to
bolt" This is a tilmy pigment of y. a.
t. own romantic but by no means
weighty brain They have the idea
that the democratic party of Texas. -
and they are in the ascendancy here
rs too fond OF shaking the bloody
shirt Hancock is the victim for
| whom their tears flow. 1t is an insult
to their intelligence to assume thai
! they are ignorant of the fact that Han.
cock was defeated because be unwisely
unfurled the bloody shirt, which had
so often been made the orifiamme o.
the ultra republicans, such as Morton
and others of that ilk. The people o
Texas, north Texas, as we'll as all Other
sections, are done forever with tbs
| bloody shirt. let it be waved by whom
it may, OF let 1t come from the striped
back of either party to The late fratrl
cidal strife.
Throckmerton was an original op
ponent OF secession, but served hi
state faithfully when the majority o
the people voted to go with the south
Since the last guns sullen roar bad,
peace appear, he, like all other patriots
north as well as south, has bent hi
energies to blotting out the memory o
the uuholy strife. ard to uniting tn,
people again in bands that cannot b
broken asunder by this weak attenp
to array them in enruity again, to atfec
the approaching election. 1t is SIMS
ter task the Netcs has undertaken
and like all its political enterprises,
doomed to utter and ingloriou
defeat. The people of norther
Texas are too thoroughly unites
know and respect each other too we
to be set together by the ears by an
such campaign trick as thi
They will shoulder, to shoulder, strongl
urge the nomination OF Governt
Throekmerton. and for the reasons !
often urged by the HERALD, but if he
: fairly beaten we know them we'll enoug
. to promise for them that THE threat
bolt. viii be proven vile slander.
u The whole article aud the Nssrs' con
= ments are intended TO make it appe
: that there is an anta2onism betwes
Throekmorton and his comrades in Il
J late war. and upon which are align,
= on the one side the soldiers of Il
: grey, and upon the other soldiers
: the blue. How any one who has. ey,
y = for day. Witnessed the thorough blen
u ing of the people of the north Al
2 south in our happy section Of Tex
can arrive at such wicked conclusit
= much less publish it. is and will alwa
y remain to Us one Of the unexpiain
y and unexplainable mysteries of I
- - present canvass Il isa slander m,
"a foul, and one which in it's broad swe
o respects not the citisen Of either nor,
= ern. southern or foreign origin. ]
not tho people forget this maiign ed
= to relight the fires Of sectional strife
=. our beautiful, peAcefnl aad proepes'
o. section Of the state We give the