The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-12
SENATOR HILL ON THE SITUATION.

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but he seems to be erratic, seems TO be con
trolled more by impulse than by logical de-
ductions or matured opinions. He has given
utterance to his views on the situation in q
letter to his friend, Hon. Mr.. Crittenden, Of
Brooklyn. Nothing could come from Senator
HILLS pen that was notihterestHg, that would
not beg t reflection and considerat ion.
Some of the ulterances of his letter are those
Of a statesman, while Others smack more of
the scntillations of disordered fancy. The
signs of the times seem to indicate that he Is
right when he says that the election of Gar
field by solid north agains. a solid south
msans disruption of this union of states,
and the formation of several monarchies,
or the absolute consolidation of all the states
into one empire" When Mr.. Conkllng, the
Achilles of the republican party, left of
sulking in his tent and entered the field of
strife, and joined with him General
Grant, the Odysseus of his party,
it meant Grant for 1884, and
that means virtual, if not an actual mon.
archy. We know that the great rank and
file of the republican party does not believe
that this is so, and would not countenance,
aid or abet any such scheme directly made,
but trusting blindly to their leaders, they are
being carried on further and further toward
this goal cf the ambition of the Grants, the
Conkling', the Bains, the Gsrfeds, the
Logans, the Camerons and the lesser lights
of their party, who, as satellites, hover about
them and do their bidding. The republi-
can party has endorsed and maintained so
many entertainments made by their leaders
upon constitutional government that
there is no reason to believe it will not en-
dorse and maintain the only step lacking to
make Of this government virtual monarchy.
lac republican party in convention Assem-.
bled has, through its delegates, passed and
endorsed this government nation, when the
fundamental law of the land does not SO
make it. There is no doubt but that some
OF the republican leaders, if not all of them,
contemplate terrtoralizing some of the
southern states after the 4th of March
next, on tho pretence that the freedmen are
doAed their legal rights, and debarred from
exercising all their privileges as citizens.
viii the republican party, the rank
and file who do the voting, support such
measure on the part of their leaders The
organs ofthe party approve of such sugges-
ton; General, Grant has intimated that
some such course ought to be pursued, for
DO has publicly announced since the election
that he koows what ought to be done with
the south, knows what he would like to see
be done, if nc were to express himself. Tho
ST. Louis Globe Democrat one of the leaG-
Ing opponents of republican doctrine and
opinion and policy, has boldly proclaimed
that when the party got entirely in power
again after the 4th of next March that
it would pass laws in congress to
perpetuate the power Of the party. We
might further show how al the indications
are that the tendencies of the republican
leaders is to the establishment of strong,
centralized government, subrogating the
rights and powers of the states to the dcta.
ton Of one head, but deem that we have SAID
enough on this subject for the purposes of
this article. There is no danger of several
monarchies, ms Senator Hill intimates, but if
change should lie made it will be for 'tho
absolute consolidation of all the states unto
one monarchy" Truly, rs the distinguished
senator declares, has the slime come when
the great question for real statesmen
to consider is, how speedily to break up this
sectional soidity and organize other parties
upon new issues" We do not wish to be
understood as advocating the dsband.
ment of the democratic party. The funda-
mental principles of this grand Cd parry
are AS old, as deep. rs broad, as comprehen-
sive aud rs quick with truth that can never
perish, as are the principles upon which our
form of government is founded, and that
are embodied in the constitution upon which
the government was builded. But the reor.
ganizati'n of pc itical parties in this coun.
try with new issues Of contest, is an abso-
lutte necessity, if we would not
see tho temple our fathers erected, placing
each stone and shaping each pillar as they
did, with reverent hands and tender loving
touch, shattered and raza I'd to the ground in
ono mighty mass of ruins, from foundation
sone to architrave, its plinths and columns
and cornices, but the debris of once proud
structure, fair to look upon and grand in all
its appointments AID maguidcence. AS
Senator Hill says, General Garfield has the
brain-power for any crisis, the strength of
mind and fertility of resource to grasp all
situations and shape circumstances to his
will, but has he the horsepower,
the will.force, the majesty of
character, to rise up equal to
the occasion of great crisis? Thr on
the Lupercal did Caesar refuse kingly
crown, but Caesar had crossed the Rubcon
and Rome was free no more. 1t is true that
therepublicsn party will take the presidency
in peace, so far as the south is concerned, as
it has once before done, and the south will
make no inquiries as to how it was obtained
The south wants no revolution, no disturb