The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-14
JERRE LACK ON GARFIELD.
Continued from Second Page

PREDECESSORS, from the earliest times, have
been anti constitutional in all your procliv-
tiles. Coutemptuous disregard of constitu'
tional obligations is not now the mere germ
of doctrines it is a part Of your settled
creed. Before the war, and since, you have
trodden under foot every provision contained
in the great charter of our liberties. do
not speak AZ random. | challenge you to
designate single constitutional right of the
states, or of individuals, which you have not
at soma time or in some way deliberately
violated.
LAWLEsSNESS AND LOYALTY"
This contempt for the constitution, this
practical denial that an oath to support it
is sacred, implies a. disregar Of all laws, hui
man and divine, and when adopted it left
nothing to guide you, except the propensi-
ties, evil or good, of your natural hearts
Many of you (and notably you yourself
contracted no individual guilt, because you
were too proud for petit larceny, too benev-
client for large-hauded robbery, and too full
of kindness to break wantonly into the
tabernacle of human life But generally
the moral principles of the ultra-Abolition-
lists (if ever they had any became so
wholly perverted that they saw nothing in
the worst otfenses that could be committed
against their political opponents. In their
eyes theft and murder not only lost their fe-
lonious character, but became mcritorious if
the victims lived south of Mason and Dixon's
line. When John Brown stole horses in the
peace of God and the state of Missouri, he
was taking his lawful booty; when he
aneaked into quiet Virginia village on n
Sunday night and a:sassinated detenseess
citizens, he was hero; and when he died
felon's death on the scaifold, to which he
was Justly condemned, he became martyr.
THE DEMOCRATS OF THE NORTH.
You persist in misunderstanding the ante
belum attitude of the northern Democracy.
We stood steadfa,tly by the union against
all attempts Of the New Eogland party to
break it up BY secession. We sust med the
constitution against the ferocious assaults of
the Abolitionists; we labored earnestly to
save republican institutions from the destruc-
ton with which they were threatened by you;
and ms long as the southern people acted
with US we gratefully accepted their aid in
the good work.
Your averment that the Democratic party
desired the aggraudiz9ment OF slavery, and
yielded their consciepces" on that subject
t the south, is grossly unjust if you mean
to charge them with anything more than a
willingness TO protect the southern, as well
as the northern and middle states, in the exer-
else of their constitutional rights, We had
disposed of slavery within our own jurlsdic-
ton according t. our sense OF sound policy
and Justice. But we had made an express
compact with the other stiaes to leave the
eht're GohtFoi ol tueir uo'iest'o "netrS W.
SnehiselVes' We heP' our ooso.'"1t 9'Iapy
because y woTIu hsyo zen stots u'snI diFaS
70 oreak II. ing A9oli''TnlssS to ;h W. mhnr
enl yIew' anu reiuSeu w Hosp i", Sdou, ny
s"ore rs splennly as We uiu W 80 ,h eH
Ierna Oh Vne oarga' out Toto'us Mo ~ 'f sont
G'a1 - %". "a, "a ~ Mi, n r;,ht to cnt
Is true lnas we Hlu nov 'u,nn ~ r IT. w 'ou
Tue turoass or suoos u s'i"So 'n0 n'un 80, ~
women oi Ihe sou.u iot ueaiesll5 ~ 49,
slavery ou. tuae Is 10 uo'n'aoon oa s0t -
assertion 'na' we yleloeu our 'onS''en''S ~
them' l.,.., M,
Again lou cnarse US Ntuo hoitnen D. .L,
ocraey "lth having gwen oau ad'ice w .ne
southern people. hn,s eo. Ih S9u a say
ID assuring theui Una. .noy se.euou We
would take the,r part ega''s' any a'seiiiR Th w
force them oack sgaln lnsG Ine uh,o bon us
Is gross error, ana you WI. aee " wne IT, 81,
Call your M'ehuoh 70 the ihcts. IN on
our exhorta'ions 10 1ne soutnein lhen asa'nss
secession we were met ~ t'e EXPRESSION VI
their fear that the AooilA9nlS.s in.ehueu' N
any event. 70 lnvsue anu s,Ausa.el . t;s.a.
some reason tor TINS apprehension was given
by the herce thresss vi your ieau,ng ,ne on
ana especisi,y ny YOU aiIo:s ut,' W; au
IN aS'o', r, Va ~ ! -. "a - 90
did then declare that lawess expedition in
tended for purposes of mere pillage, could
not and should not be started in the north,
without such opposition as would etfecutally
stop it. But this was before secession, and
it was intended to prevent that movement,
not encourage it.
You cannot. with any show of Justice deny
that devotion to the union was one of the
strongest feelings in the heart of the northern
Democracy. We had always deprecated a
separation from the southern states with 80
much earnestness that ono of the approbrious
epithets YOU bestowed on us was that of
"union savers" This was not mere SEN
timent of admiration or gratitude to the great
southern men who had led us through
the perils of the revolution,
settled our institutions, and given our
country its high place in the estimation
of the world. We felt all this, but we felt
much more. The preservation of the union
was to us an absolute necessity. 1t was in
dispensible to the security OF our lives, our
personal liberty and our plainest rights of
property. How true this was at all times,
and esneciaIlv in 1850. You will see if YOU re-