The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-10

ue NtW LUX gun HtNoI hithSo' ""'Ne
when il wants 10 say ANY thing and when !
denounccs il is generally right. Tho SUI
says:
Tho managers Of the inauguration cere-
mopies 1T Washington sent invitations, whiot
were promptly accepted. 10 several crack
militery campsnies and civic societies NJ th'
south 10 be- present on tho 18th Of March
In assigning the commands OF divisions
Gen Shermpn gave one TO ten Field, pros
ent doorkeeper Of the house Of represents
tivas, who served in tho confederate army
half 4 century ago. Some Of tho exera stit
Office holding patriots are exceedingly in
digpant thai they should DO required I,
march under An eIrebel. They ara willing
10 ba represented abroad by n rebel ioregr
minister like Longslreet, and by rcbo
guerilla like Moiby. But upon an occasion
supposed TO be national in character and "
be free from old apmcsities. for that day n
least, they passed resolution refusing 10
march under Con. Field, and thus deliber-
stely nsulted the guests who arc expected e
form part of the pageant in honor Of the
new president. and who will 20 to Washing
ton at their own cost form long distances.
This Is not merely bsd breeding. 1t Is evil
dence of an unforgiving hatred, which OK
cludes every advance toward reconciliation.
II this sectional spirit was not serious, II
would be made ludicrous by the fact that
among the managers of The Inauguration
ball nre names that were consplcuously
recorded Mt Fort Lafayette and at Fort
Warrca during the war.
Our ALA Is to have our extracts from our
exchanges in Masking up this column, rs short
rs possible, TO got tho pith of tho article, but
the { lowing from the Chattanooga, Tonnes
SOC, Times, Ia 50 good aud strikes so dofty tho
right chord in one'a hesrt that wo give ii
entire.
General Garfield mother "a Che one
woman who has seen "her boy" inauguratel
president of tho United States. II WA II
proud day for the OLD lady, now more than
eighty, mother IN Israel. To tko in the
full weight ard breadth OF the occasion as IL
must have presented itself to tho president
mother, one must pain, her in his mind as
tho daughter first aud then tho vito OF poor
New England iiumers. Remember that her
husband moved from Massachusetts to
northern New York and cleared lpa small
farm IN tho Wilderness that he sold his lands
and improvements and pushed still farther
west, again encounlerng tho shack woods"
IN hopes of betteting his condition and CIV
ing his children a better chancp IN lifo; that
no WIS not abe to educate his boys, except
In y very rudimentary way, and finally that
he died before tho family were fully grown
leaving her to lpish the struggle of lite I'M
aided, except as che might be aided by the
children she had borne. This mother, on
Friday, saw her son, who began life on y
poor farm, and who eked out meney TO pay
for hi. education by driving horses on tho tow
path of tho old Erie and Ohio canal and
drndging at the carpenters bench, placed NJ,
the head of nation almost covering con
tineot, and inhabited by high spirited. in.
telligAnt and wealthy people, numbering
100000 souls. That neither was proud
and who shall shy she had not the right to
DO proudg Few women bear boys capsule
Of "pgddling their own canoes" through the
broad corridors and about tho stately halls
Of the presidential Mansion. We have hsd
about three self made presidents: Jackson,
lincoln, Garfield. The rest have been lucky
accidents negative ilguro-hcajs, or happon.-
cd 10 fill some special demand of the tmes
These three won the right to tho distinction
If not tnn u,i,ao itself--by foroO of nbility
and power " manage mon snd oirouuiatau.
cos. Aud now, consider what other grea
people on the globe has It's ailAira adminie
tered BY man who thIrty-fonr years ny,
was poor rough-clad STRIPPING ondeavorine
TO earn some extra pencs by tho rudest suc
commonest labor. The old mother must b,
pardoned for her pride in that lad"
Tho New YORK Evening Express, which is
Mr.. John Kolly's Tammany organ, is bit
terly partisan and therefore unreasonable
In the following comments on tho president.
inaugural lie unjust to tho democratic party
40 we'll as TO tho address: 70
The inaugural address of President Gar
field probably disappoints everybody. l, is
not strange thai Mr., Conkling and Other
republicans showed thoir chagrin during its
delivery. Mr.. Garael has ability, lIo il
something OF u scholar, and stands woll Ms
An orator. He had four months in which to
select his cabinet and prepare his inaugural
address. Hs cabinet WAS not framed yes.
terday, and the address, which tho country
had looked for with high expectations, was
certsinly very tame performance. of M
consequence or weight whatever. After a
few high sounding sentences about tho "em.
inencs which overlooks century of national
liio" and tho groa. gro Nth Of tho country,
he dropped to plaiitudes about tho ouiran-
chisement of tho negroes aud tho Importance
Of educating thom. This Is certainly lame
and impotont conclusion. Hc cxpstia,od on
tho duty OF securing universal sutl,sgc, u
point which the republicans Of M,ssauhu.
se,t., who have disfranchiscd every unedu-
Gated citizen, and those of Rhode Island, whc
refuse to allow poor mon TO vote many viii
take 10 heart, Ho urges that coin Is tho ont,
roal money of thu country, as has slwa,.
boon maibtoncd by ninelynino ono hun
dredths Of tho people, and he hopes that III,
value of gold aud silver will b. cQuslised IL
tho currency, SO that tho purchasing power
OF n oliver dollar will equal IL debt pa, inl
power, lilo favors rctunding tho na,iona
debt ~ q lowor rate OF interest than IL nov
paid, provided the national banks are willing
and Will kindly consent no, TO withdraw
their circulation and precipilalea panic. II,
iavors an inieroceanic csosl and waats NJ
increase OF commercial facilities.
The Lmdvillo Democrat thinks II secs
certainty for General Haacocks election I,
thopreeidoncy four years hoaoc. May bo SO
but four years Is too long ,imc ahead t,
count any kind Of chickens, Tho Democra
says:
The enthusiastic reception given TO Con
eral Hancock 10 Washington yesterday will