The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-12


entire wedge Of
which WAS expected to split Tho democratic
organization Ia Virgini. will only have va
effect of barmcDizing local disContents S.i
combining tue better elements Of society IN
that state and in the other southern ~ in
favor of strict and honorable performance
| of all public obligations. The action OF
Tennessee in funding her full debt without
stealing a dollar, and at rates OF interest ac-
ceptable to her creditors, is the best answer
J that the southern states and people can make
| TO the republican managers who charge them
with dishonesty, and YET seek to disliniegrate
them by prosttulng public offices in aid OF
state reputation. The rapid appreciation OF
| the state credit in the money market Will be
| followed by an enhancement in the value OF
property ali over that state, and will invigo-
rate private enterprises by creating con.
fdence in the performance of all contracts.
| The republican managers, who have arranged
at the dictstion of Mr.. Malone, to bring
forward Riddleberger rs sergeant>st arms,
Of the senate, have, in my judgment,
greatly moderated the moral sense OF the
American people. In the inveteracy of their
prejudices against the southern people they
have done them great injustice in supposlng
that they were re,dy to sell their birthglghts
for such remarkably poor mess OF pottage.
The southern people have traditions of honor
End honesty, and they love and appreciate
them, both in public and private, as highly
as any other portion of their countrymen,
Since the passionate debate in the senate
commenced, in which Mr.. Sherman and
others openly avowed the object OF their
arrangement with Mr.. Malone, there has not
been q speech with the exception of Mr..
Mahone's) by any southern senator which
has not Indignantly denounced the idea OF
any enforced adjustment of their debts by
southern states aud people. Win one voice
the southern senators have denounced any
attempt to eysde q just public obligation,
and svowed themselves and their people to
be 10 favor of Just, lawful, and voluntary
settlements with their public creditors. l
am disposed TO believe that the attempt OF
Mr.. Malone and his new allies will prove
boomerang to the orig inators. snd SO FAR from
being an entering wedge TO split the demo-
cratic party in the soutrsrn sts'es will only
cons oldate its efforts for success upon
platform that must commend itself to the
confidence of the people of the northern
states and to the entire country. What the
north and south both need ust now is that
the resi- condition of socieLy-the feelings,
should be clearly perceived on both sides;
that misconceptions and suspicious should
end, AID that Misrepresentation mutually
should be
DISCOURAGED AND DISCREDITED.
The identity and inevitable unity of their
interest is too plain to need demonstration,
and the wise and extensive investments OF
northern capital in trunk lines OF railway
communication with the southern states,
which are binding the people OF Georgia
with those of Kentucky and Ohio, and Mo-
bile and Pensacola with the people of New
York and Pennsylvania, of Texas and Mas
sachusetts, constitute strong proofs of the
confi!enco and amicable relations which ex-
is. in the Gearts of the people and seem to be
so little 4lerstood or desired by republican
partissns. The nsgvelous capacities of the
Mississippi for transportation OF the grain
crops Of the great northwestern states at
nominal cost are proving more and more the
indivisibility and necessity Of our union.
| Society contains many forces, and clsmor
and acrid and malicious representation for
party purposes will fad themselves con-
| frouled and overthrown by benefaction and
| human confidence, which, though less Noisy,
will prove TO be the ultimate conquerors.
think nine out of ten respectable men ofthe
republican party in the north would readily
admit the superiority in eloquence and
influence of the Ten words and one line
of Colonel Thomas A. Scott as con-
tanned in his check for $50, 1000 to the Wash
ington and Lee university TO aid higher ed
ucation in the south, over the vlndictive and
elaborate assault so wantonly made by MIR.
Frye, of Maine, the other day in the senate.
l do not think I can be mistaken in the ben
eft that will accrue to the south and the
whole country from the insulting and cor
rupt assault upon the voters Of Virginia by
the republican managers in the senate. 1t
has been universally resented by oil good
men of the south every where, and do not
| think its wholesome stimulus in bringing
them more actively to the support of public
| honor and financial wisdom is ovetruled by
me. 1t is the one object ofmy publio.life to see
| this union before | die usion of equal and
| amicable states. | do not wish 10 see the
power of the south assume control OF the
union until it Is upon principles thoroughly
| consistent with the safety and welfare OF the
whole. 1 shall never Gdyise or contribute to
a recognition of sectional power as legiti
male method of conducting the government
of this country, but long to sec
THE SPIRIT OF MUTUAL CONFIDENCE
spreading throughout the land, ignoring the
| lines of states, and still more, of sectional
boundaries. If your paper shall disseminate
doctrines Of sound finance, OF just and equit-
able taxation, of constitutional checks upon
power, and bring our fellow counIrymen into
union where sectional spirit shall
be denounced until it is suppressed or un.
known, it will have done great and good
work. and l feel confident that il it can be
made and Is understood 10 be the true ex-
ponent of such principles and such objects,
that not only will personal honor and high
position be awarded TO the men who shall
associate their names with its management,
but that it have large pecunlary success"
with parties equally balanced, rs they
are 10 the senate, what do you think should
be the attitude of the democratic"
"As constitutional democrat 1 answer
that we should never forget that Mr.. Gar
field is the president of the United States,
and, that TO bis Office are attached functions
and responsibilities, duties and prerogsiives,
that we are bound TO see are protected from
invasion or embarrassment 80 far as our
sense of public dpty shall dictste. am not
disposed TO permit the chief msgistrscy OF
the nation to be kicked and bufeted out OF a
fair and reasonable exercise Of its Just prero-
gatives No American should be willing 10