The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-04-28
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.

recent partisan epoch Of Mr.. Eyre, OF
Maine, in the senate, in which he INDUCED
In a TRADE Of abuse and malevolence toward
the south, and a late editorial of ex.Secretary
Carl Schurz In his paper, the st. Louis
Westllche Post, discussing in q philosophical
way the solid south, says:
What the stalwart republicans assume as a
vantage ground, from which to make attacks
which only appear 20 be aimed at the solid
south, but which are really intended to keep
the south solid, all candid and thoughtful
public men accept as a truth. The country
can receive nothing but advantage from the
division of the southern voters on some other
than the race or color line. Such men as
Senators Lamar and Hampton and Bayard
are quite as strongly in favor of tho disinte-
grafton of the south as Mr.. Schurz can be,
An men, in fact, who love their country
better than their party will hail the day
when there shall be two parties in the south,
each with its share of the wealth and intelli-
gence of the community. Very few outside
of the stalwart republicans wish otherwise.
They still cling to the belief that the solid
south keeps them in power. They will wake
mp some day to realize that they have made
" fatal mistake, The astute among the
democratic politicians, who are moved, like
ne stalwart republicans, by purely partisan
considerations, have come to see that the
solid south is a load which weighs upon
them. 1t is burden under which their
party stsggers. 1t is recognized, however,
by intelligent and honest men that the solid
south cannot be successfully broken up by
questionable means. There have been two
parties there since the war. One of them
was the party of ignorance and corruption
upheld by federal arms, and the world knows
the terrible result.
Our s~prightly and vivacious little friend
the st. Louis Post Dispatch, always chirrup-
ing like a bird, or flashing like a scimetar
leaving its keen cut behisd, is on deck with
the following:
In the senate the other day, when that
rreposterous old muff, Senator Burnside,
who has secured a national reputation en- a
pair of fluffy m~utton-chop whiskers, flew oil
the handle and treated Senator Butler with
extreme impudence, the gentleman from
South Carolina did not rave like a wild boar.
as is the senatorial custom. He waited quietly
until the show was over and then sent word
to the funny old man from Rhode Island that
he would be expected to snake good" as
the sporting people have it. The hero of
Fredericksburg hastily reviewed the situation
and then cat down and dropped Mr.. Butler
as sweet an apology as was ever penned. Ii
MI. Butler were inclined to annoy the old
gentleman, be would have copies Of this
recantation printed and tackled up on the
church doors throughout all Rhode Island.
The New York Evening Express, referring
to the senatorial dead lock, wants to know if
it is a political crowbsr being used by the
republicans, and says:
The excuse the republicans make for re-
fusing to confirm the presidents appoint
ments until they have elected a clerk and
doorkeeper, and filled all the small offices in
the senate, is that they want ''to break up The
solid south" All the southern states are
democratic, as all the New England states are
republican. -Four. tiftbs of all Of the people
of the south, and three quarters OF its intelli-
gence and education, are democratic. Most
Of the property is owned by democratic
citizens, who are recovering from the losses
and devastation of the war, rebuilding the
waste places, paying the enormous fraudulent
debts IF carpet bag contracting, establishing
schools for all children, introducing ma
chinery, and trade, and arts, and new indus
tries, inviting immigration from all sections
of the union and Europe, and creating a new
and stable prosperity. Blu because they ere
democrats the republicans take occasion to
m~isrepresent and malign them, and now
propose to use the resources.ot the federal
government to change the politics OF the
southern states.
Mr.. John Hay, who was assistant secreta-
- la ,.lau NJ Euarfo 10 Ennmp
chiefly through his authorship of slim
Bludsoe," "Little Brooches" and "Tillman
Joy" three SPECIALIZED" dialect "so.called"
poems, very vulgar and very blasphenous.
Referring to him the Chicago Times delivers
itself of the following besutiful eulogy:
Mr.. John Hay is a coy young gentleman
wAo never does any thing except latter
earnest solicitation" When he was ap-
pointed by Mr. EvaTts bis assistant in tho
department of state, he accepted only upon
the ''earnest solicitation" Of the presi ent
and the secretary. The place was br JGght
to him, SO the dispatches ran in ,uh,Lance,
upon a silver %salver, aad it WAS onl5 because
he was over.persuaded that the preservation
of peaceful relations between America and
foreign land. depend upon his action that he
condescended to inform the government that
he would take the post. When Mr.. Garfield
and Mr.. Blaine came in, IL was only upon
their earnest persuasion, SO again the dispatch
es had it, that Mr.. Hay woul1 consent to
remain until his successor could be found-s
most difficult task, as he himself must admit.
Patriotism triumphed in Mr.. Hays manly
breast, and he continued TO fill his assistant
secre.ary's seat until the deadlock Ia the
senate came. That was too much for his
sensitive soul. He departed for his home.
Now the dispatches say that it is only after
'~'earnest solicitation" that be has consented
10 take Mr.. Reds place in the sanctum
while that gentleman experiences the delights
of the honeymoon. For q man who, In one
poet or another, has been an of6ceholder a
bis life, commencing with q clerkship at
Springfield. going TO the white house as one
of Lincoln's clerks, and thence abroad to
erioy the sweet sinecures of American
legations, this tone Of Hays with reference
TO various e~mployments has a hsvor of high
mightiness which is amusing. Csnrot Mr..
Hay. after 'earr est solicitstions' with him
self, consent 10 drop this earnest solicitation"
method Of advertising the Independence
which Fortunaius has given him through