The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-29
STATE MILITIA.

respect, but II 80, We are nov h"AIo VI "
We can very readily understand why the
southern states should be deficient IN tns re-
spect. For ten years after tho late unhappy
civil war was over aud even up to the pres
emit time in lesser degree anything like MILF
tary organization in the south was looked
upon with suspicion, and would, had ii ex'
listed, have only furnished iood
for political discrimination and cal
II my. The southern people were aceus-
cd Of fostering, encouraging and oelong'og
TO Ku KluI organisations, tho Objects OF
winch ware said to DO the suppression Of ne
gro suffrage, to prevent the negro from en-
Toying his rights. We, OF tho south, knew
all ,Ge time this was not true and that such
accusations were but base slandcrs for polii-
ca, effect, and We are happy 10 the beIioi
that the northern poop now have the same
opinion. They ought to nave If they have
not, for there nevor WAS word Of irp'h in
those charges. Since tho @Gr WAS over ard
the southern states were restored TO he
union, the southern people have been ~
loyal and rs true az the people OF any sec
ton Of the country, and they have striyen
to show their truth and fidelity and sincerity
in every way that an honorable people could.
They have quietly aud meekly submitted to
calumuies of the direst kinds They have
beon patient under the ISLANDERS and .mendac'
tiles OF the Globe-Democrat, the luiei'
Ocean and rampant partisan papers OF lheli
ilk, and they have been silent under The
vltuperstions OF republican speakers whC
havo vented their spleen and spI'
out their venom from every stump
in tho entire country. They have
even submitted without murmur to The
false charges, tho manufactured statements Of
men living in the south who have gone north
to retail their falsehoods and their malicious,
uDfouudei and unreasonable lctlons, whGth-
or they we're long-halred or short-hoired
apostles Of hate, scalawngs OF oarpet-baggors.
Contaminated, root cd and outraged in every
way possible by birds Of passage, tho humsn
carrion crows from the north who came
south after tho war to prey upon tho people
and tho homo hyonas who hesitaled not 70
tear open fresh graves If there was food 10
DO found tho southern people have borne
more ills, and more wrongs
lnnn even BAsh BAaouk o2or wrough.
upon tneir helpioss v,c,ims. But times
have changed The bloody shirt ls buried
forever, and nll of its crimson washed oui
with tho tears of u nation over the bier OF
a loved and murdered president. The north
and tho south, mourning rs with one hear
the national calamity, ID now aa one people
their interests, their hopes, their nationality
conteniad with the sob5 and the haart.lhrobi
OF anguish that knew no section or locality
al tho grave of martyrod president. THIS
being 30, tho southern states car
now, as tho nor,heru and western
states have already done, proceed
10 the organization Of their stat,
militia, or national state guard NJ it is do
nominated in tho former named states
Texas is lamen!ably deficient in this respoc
We have in our state few companies o
volunteers, companies ia ciIies, that on thu
own account and for thor own amusemeu
have an organization. And these companies
We don't know exactly how many, but sons
twenty or thirty white and colored compNn'
es hove been pu. into regiments, and thesC
regiments have been formed into two brig.
AIDES, forming one division. There srotwC
briGNdier gonersls'commanding these brig
AIDES, aud there was major-general
commanding tho division, bu,
having resigned there Is now vacancy
tho governor has not filled. The governor is
commander in.chict Of tho m iii, Snd he
has his staff of colonies, Observation-Disclosures
Q O., already appointed, and wo think, with
al due rospac! TO hts opinion aud judgment
that no ought to fill tho vacancy ia the
ma genorSlBhip, In the first place II il
only petition Of honor, costing tho stat
not cent, and in view of the fact that
nearly all the other states have an efficient
militia force, ii would DO calculated to bene.
d. tho staiO--a. least help TO give 1t some
Goat abroad. New York and Pennsyl
vania, and in fac. all tho othe
states in the north and east and portions o
tho west hsvO militia "a which they oxpeuC
considerable money every year. This mhu
or national state guard, rs 1t IL called, is wei
organized into companies, regiments, brig
AIDES and divisions. The companies are uni
formed, do certain amount Of drill oacl
month 80 that they are under good dscipln
and they have each year ono or more on
campments for II week or two nj u time, ali
thus thoy do credit 10 their states ut hon
and abroad, and ,hoy form nucleus for tn
almost instantaneous formation of an arm
for service in the Geld agant
foreign or n domestic Coe. There lie bi
now pending before congress foo the forms
ton Of national gusrd or state militia /
every state in the union, tho general govern
mont to furnish arms aud accou,remont
and to give TO each etalo pro rat
sun Of money oach year for oncampmonI
, for drill and discipline. Under this ),
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