The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-14

point, and certainly within your recollection
as well as mine.
In the case of Milligan you made An elo-
ouent and powerful speech before the SUI
prerne court for those free principles when
|, at the same time, supported in my weaker
way. You showed the understandable rlght
of every citizen to legal trial; you proved
that Msgna.sCharta did not perish on ine
battle field; YOU demonstrated by lrleslsuole
logic that the constitution was supreme "tter
the war ms it WAS before; you spurned with
lofty contempt the brutal idea that law Vas
extinguished by the victory OF the forces
called out to defend it; and you closed Win
that grand peroration on the Goddess OF
Liberty, which, if spoken at Athens IN the
best DAYS of her "herce Democracy" would
have "shook the arsenal and Illuminated over
Greece These were not the words OF a
paid advocate, for you had volunteered III
| The case; nor the sudden emotions Of neo-
phvte, for YOU had read and pondered the
subject well. You spoke the deliberate con-
| illusions of your mind, and there Is no DOUBT
that in your heart of hearts you believe them
to be true this day,
Yet when the reconstruction law was pro-
posed you suffered yourselves to BIO whipped
in, surrendered your conscience TO your
marty. and voted against your recorded con-
yyictiops for measure that null.hed every
provision OF the constitution, whereby ten
millions of people were depriv d of rights
J which YOU know to be sacred and inallenapie'
If this was the case, what subserylency
NAV not be experienced from Mr.. Hayes,
when the party lash comes to be laid on ms M
back? You are his superior in every qual-
itv that holds man true to public duty.
You have been carefully schooled in the
morality of the New Testament, you have
f lived ali YOUR life in the full blaze of the
, gospel. YOU are gifted with logical acumen
: which few can boast, and with moral courage
, far above the average. If you fell down be-
/ fore the Moloch Abolitionism and gave uf
! all pripciple at once, what act of worship
4 will Hayes deny to that grim idol?
g HoIsTEp BY HIS OWN FRAUD.
v Speaking of reconstruction, and seeing
; your broad accusations OF treason, an
tempted to ask if you are sure that yoursei
' and your associates did not comuit Ina
y crime.
In March, 1867, the then existing govern
d ment OF the union was supreme all over IN
!. country, and every state had separate gov
70 eminent of its own for the administration
Al lis domestic concerns. The government wa
: entitled then, if it ever was, to the unlvers'
obedience of all citizens, and you, It's oincet
II had taken a special oath Of fidelity to i
" Nevertheless, You made deliberate Arrange
u ment. not only to withdraw your supper
ne from it. hut to overthrow it totally in tie
)" of the states. and this you did by militar
IL force. In all the south you levied war again
m the Nation and against the defenseless state
1 4 frn, am H..
Vh substituted in their place au untempered al
no absolute despotism.
ny snow. suppose you had been indicted Il
his. how could YOU have escaped the co
~ demnation of the law? know your excuse
~ md 7 can understand your claims to mere
on but what legal defense could you have ma
lal consistent with your own argument and t
Id decision of the court in the Milligan case!
ed | can not describe to you how unpleassa
las is the sensations produced by YOUR prof
ad sons of a desire for peace. Why do you
lat give us pesce if YOU are willing we shall ha
is IT. You need but to cease hoslilitles a
nj the general tranquility will be restored.
he refuse TO do that because peac would end0
en- ger your party ascendency. 10 maint'
he your plunderers in power you have unlfor
ess " resorted TO the bayonet--you have ma
Try civil war the chronic condition of the coun
ich wherever you have displaced liberty, +
nsl ternity and equality, and given moth
y instead but infantry, artillery and cavaI
nil You are this moment openly engaged in
viii pairing your battalions for armed interyent
the ia the struggle of the people with the carp
ia taggers. . o,o.
the declaration that you will take no step ba
lue ward. There is to be no repentance,
the change of policy, and consequently no pes
Of full or honest government edward,
the saw, is the word. Onward to what?
the more wa, more expressions, more plum
bly, more universal bankruptcy, heavier taxes
the still worse frauds on the public treasury
the j. S. BLACl