The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-08-27
The New south .

All the political philosophy held by the
leaders of the Republican party rests upon
false assumptions. Republican organs like
the Cincinnati Gazette and those twin evils,
the Chicago and New York Tribunes, have
taken no pains to inform themselves
about the actual condition Of the south, but
have contented themselves with representing
it as a barren, an unfruitful, and deserted
land. In need of something to fire the north
ern heart, these political slanderers sent spe-
cal correspondents into the south to describe
the ptiful condition of that section, which
the negro was abandoning to its awful fate.
The migration of few thousand negroes to
Kansas was magniiled by these journals into
great race exodus, driven out of the land
by political prosecutions. One theory after
another was advanced, resting upon the facts
as represented by the peripatetic correspond
ents and philosophers, but no pains were
taken to understand the actual situation.
Secretary Sherman went few miles into
Virginia, saw still some traces of the war 10
ruined homes and mills, and he, too, falls
into moralizing vein and communicates
his views to semi-religious journal. He,
''in his minds eye," beheld state still in the
bonds of sin and iniquity, desolated and ret
regarding. He warns Virginians that De-
mocracy is even more baneful than was
slavery. He weeps tears of patriotic grief
over Virginia's hapless condition, taking care
to say nothing to offend the sensiblities OF
the new allies of the Republicans, the Read
justers This hypocritical gloritcation of the
Republican party waseasy, cheap and agree.
able to narrow. minded men, but like al
such theorizing 1t was utterly vslueless. The
census enumerator destroyed the pretty little
house of cards and the Republican editor:
are inconsolsble at the loss of the toy.
The past twenty years hive been eventful
ones to the south. War with all it
horrors and destruction, emancipation witt
its powers of disorganization, "reconstruc
ton" with its untold ills and
its unnecessary evils, have done much
to weaken and destroy. In spite
of it all, rich soil, genial climate, a popu-
lace determined and courageous, have over
come all impediments, and new South, free
from the centralizing and,degrading influences
of Republicanism, free from the yoke of car
pet Dagger, looks to the future of materia
wealth and natural Development as brigh
as that known by any people. Backward in
much that marks and aids the highest civil
ization, it il not blind TO its shortcomings
and it proposes to supply all deficiencies tina
energy, industry and intelligent cooperation
can supply. The spectacle of the new seutl
carries as much terror to the soul of the av
erage Republican leader as did Banquo'
ghost to that of Macbeth. This peopl,
twill not down." 1t is not improbable thu
official census table will fail fully to Justify
all the bright predictions which have beer
based on partial returns, but one thing is in
disputsble: the scepter will not pass ava,
from Judah. The south lags not behind thu
other section but ste Oily increases in wealth
in power and in political. influence, both &C
tually and as compared with the north, cas-
and west