The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-04
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| We have heard It stated that no more
southern gentlemen we're going into thu
northern states to take part in the presden
tial campaign because the Republican news
papers and speakers distorted their remarks
garbled their words, and put forced construc'
tions upon the ideas and arguments they
advanced, for the purpose of feeding the
fires Of sectionalism and influencing northern
men to vote the Republican ticket. Is it not
indeed lamentable state of affairs when this
Is the cese? Fifteen years ago the unhappy
war between the states ended. Reconstruc
ton laws for the southern states were en-
acted, and all their provisions have been car
ried into effect. The southern states have
all been rebsbilitated and admitted into the
union Unequal footing with those which did
not leave it'll Southern senators and con-
gressmen occupy their places in
the national halls of legislation.
Southern men who bore arms against
the federal armies, who led brigades
and corps, have been given exalted federal
positions, even such as cabinet offices and
ministers to foreign countries. Every
southern state has complied with the require
ments ofths federal congress and the southern
states pay their quota, indeed more
than a just quota of revenue to support
the federal government and pay the interest
and provide sinking fund for the federal
debt, and why should not suctionalism ceaseH
If the southern states that seeded from the
union we're worthy to be admitted again,
why should the people of those states be
maligned? Why should the people of the
north, or any portion of them be melted to
hate and suspicion of their southern brethren2
What more evidences can the southern peo-
pile give than they have given, that the past
is dead to them, and that the federal govern
ment is now dear to them, that they rever-
ence its flag, that they cherish its memories,
that they are punctilious ofits honor, that they
are proud of its greatness and its glory |
There is no law passed by congress that the
southern people do not respect and obey.
There is no section Of this union that adds
more to the general prosperity of the entire
country than the south. With energy and
hopeful hearts, bowing with gaceful resigna-
ion to the defeat and reverses and disasters
hat befell them, the southern people have
zone to work and built up anew their shat
cred fortunes. Desolated homes have been
'eplenished ravaged fields have been re,
claimed, and prosperity has smiled again
'pon the southland. Plenty is everywhere;
Industries have sprung up all over the coun.
ry; commerce aided and fostered by its
agriculture, is daily increasing;
ailroads land other internal improvement
Enterprises have been encouraged and as.
sted to wonderful development, all of
hitch rebounds to the grandeur and glory
nd strength of the union. Why, then,
hould there be a feeling existing in
ne northern mind that makes it necessary for
ne southern man to keep his mouth shut?
10 our northern brethren demand that we
+ the south shall have no voice in the ad-
of the affairs of the general
overnment Shall we be as strangers and
eathen in the tents of Israel, or shall we sit
t the tables of our brethren as brothers, our
earts intertwined in common love for our
ommon country, and our minis inspired
With common and identical interest,
Northern men come to the south and are
Welcomed with fraternal hands to hospitable
ZONES, and why should our northern friends
urn to us cold shoulder and give US un-
indy greetings? Is not the political con-
ition Of the country indeed deplorable
'hen southern men dare not speak in the
orth and discuss political questions? How
ong will such a state of affairs last how
ong can it last and happiness be the portion
# the country?