The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-09
"AFTER THE BATTLE"
J.H. b. i'm Reply TO w. ID. II.
the Editor Of the Herald.


preach his sermon, utterly ignoring the broad
and catholic spiri! of my article. lie thinks
my conclusions are "surface rippes," mis-
taking selects" for primary causes"
think his assumptions do rot even reach
surface ripples, but that his mind, which
seems to be sincere and kind, is mystifed by
the oft-repeated cant OF half-edu cated polit-
cal ranters, who see nothing beyond present
success, an lack the will or the desire to go
below tho surface and seek out thetrue cause
for any given effect. His whole article,
analysed, amounts to this; That the south
has been ignorant and non-progressiye,
while the north has been educa
ted and progressive-hence the south was
defeated in the late war and in the
late presidential election. He afirms-I
deny the lamp of history Is, or should be
light to our, footsteps Fit will afford the
tender sensbilities of no specifically educs-
ted progressive, let US renew the foundation
from which each faction took It's start and
see which has done most to build up our
whole country
In the revolutionary war there oeing seven
: northern and six southern colonies, af.
ter Bunker Hill. not battle was fought in
the north, in which the south did not furnish
large portion, and in some cases MAORI
ty Of the troops
In the south, excepting Generals Lincoln
and Greene, in person, and the final struggle at
Yorktown, Virginia, not battle was fought
except by southern soldiers. More than this,
the English army in the south was material
la or 81 h,, cd
royalists. When South Carolina was over
run by the British, nearly every post in its
Interior was garrisoned by New Jersey tories,
under Col. Cruger, a tory of that state. Dar-
ing and Immediately after the revolution,
Tennessee and Kentucky, through patient
he oism unsurpassed in the annals of time,
were rescued from powerful savage tribes
by southern men alone.
Following up the struggle, will w. d. r.,
or any other man ver!ed in the history of
his country, deny that southern men first
settled Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
They were agricultural people, full of
courage and enterprise and in search of rich
lands in the face Of hostile savages. When
the war of 1872 burst forth how stood those
three states? 1t is safe to say that fifteen
slxteenths Of their people were southern men,
drawn from the old southern states. In thu,
three years sanguinary struggle orr chief
officers in the northwest. va w; ere southern men
Harrison, Shelby, R.dchard NJ and James
johnson, Geggsenaal Wells, Joe Davies, Owen,
ana sco MS OF others, not emitting Zachary
IaV, y.oT. Colonel Lewis Cass aud a few
others were from the east. Northwestern
Illinois, southwestern Wisconsin and portions
OF Iowa were also first settled by southern
men-Missouri almost exclusively SO. In all
this time the population of New England and
the north, with inconsiderabe exceptions,
chiefly in Pennsylvania, remained at home
10 increase and multiply
Very many fthe post eminent mon Of
those three states, from their first settlement
TO this date, were from the SOUTH or, more
recently, the sons Of such. Notably among
them were President Harrison, Of Ohio, a
motive of Virginia, and long line Of other
worthic5. la tho war with Mexico We find
General Joe Lane, OF Indiana, born and
reared IN North Carolila; Colonies Hardin,
Bissell, Richardson, Logan and others Of
Illinois, all from the south. President Lincoln
was from the south. In the Black Hawk
war, on the upper Mississippi, the names
OF Dodge, father and son, and JONES, all from
the south, were master spirits, and afierward
was senator from Missouri and The other two
from Iowa. The bleak climate and barren
soil Of New Eerlanl Forbade Agricultural
prosperity, and Inc neonIe wisely turned
their attention TO manuisclurinc sbio mild
ing and navioutIon for whicb thor
coast was admirably a6aoted hv sna-
cious harbors. They asked the
fostering care of government, through pro-
ective tariff against foreign Goods and "5t il
They asked the whole neonle of AmSrcs
through congress. 10 nav them bonniins onf
of the peonle's money FIR oatcb;ng co5
mackerel andothe f.h Tbnv eat n Tboy
being shin hnii1ers ava sb;r 49, '' 10y
the whole people. THROUGH congrpss IN cive
them MONOPOLY Of the eoasting trsdo oftbe
United States wberehv No FngIIsb Gorn, sT'
French or other foreisn vessel durst carry y
bale of cotton, horshesd Of snomr oy n
bushel of wheat from Nav Orleans ~ otbor
American norris IN New York philedolnbio
Boston or other Americon morris Tbev asEed
this monstrous mosopolv' 10 enrich them.
selves Mt the eynense of avery farmer
in America, and thew ont i
They vet have these nrot,cti6ns onJ
these monster mopopolies against American
agriculture to-day, and vet w u r have ,i
sample, have the nnbnsbinc cheek ~
twit the Agricultural south With hein., NOW.
propressiye They bava accun,Snl ,t
thousands of mill;cns nv tbe.o class io,;s-
,a,;ans S,;n;on; M. o"s .lesc elass regis
pense ofacrcultnre ora 80 con,n'a q, s't y, IA
no longer euriosi,ies paOrsyIra;a 90 49, w VI
with iron cosl snd 8noli,, o. MN, "'eS 81
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