The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-19
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lint in a recent editorial IL Is disposed TO be
or,psel at Senator Hoar and to laugh OF
him. Il Gays:
The grim and acrid old senator from Mas
sachusetts, Hoar, is much alAtmei at the
Inc prospect Of large concentration of
armed military at the national capital on in.
suguratiou day. He has moved an inquiry
bv the judiciary committee into the constitu-
tonslity of such an sssemblage of armed
men. not under the command of an officer of
the United States army. The apprehension
manifested by the nervous old senator of this
new danger 10 the republic ia hardly worthy
of serious comment and remOnstraace. II is
rather provocative of merriment at the ex-
pense of the timorous sage, The uniformed
volunteer regiments and companies in the
several towns and villsges Of the country,
few of which are wont to repair TO Washing
ton to swell the procession and increase the
eplendor Of the display on this interesting oc
cssion, are composed Of the least dangerous
of all other classes and organizations, TO the
liberties of the people, the safety of the
union and the peace and order Of society.
There would DO more danger from large
Concentration of armed military at the capt.
tai" under command of the president than
from an assemblsge not under his command,
especially if that president had ever dreamed
of IN empire, as some aspirsnts have.
The following from the Philadelphia
Times while it is rather severe on the river
and harjor bill, is at the same time compli-
mentary to Hon, John Il. Reagan:
a. H.
charge Of the river and harbor bill, is one of
those passively pugnacious spirits that never
know when they are defeated. His very
presence is indicative Of the logged resolu-
ton that holds him steadiastly TO u measure
once adopted. His voice, too, has the thick
fibre of pertinacity. He is in politics what
Grant is in wRr-a bulldog, and should
Samuel Cox succeed in burying him under
the accumulated greed and grab of the river
and hsrbor bill it will be a second edition of
David and Goliath physically, at least. The
brief but breezy contest of yesterday indi-
Gates that Reagan does not recognize even
repulse, and that unless watched sleeplessly
he will have the bill, which, as matter Of
fact, is dear to the hearts Of many even Of
those who voted agsins.,i before the house
and rushing through by a coup de msin.
Should the democrats succeed in reaching
adjournment with the bill unpassed, hanging
as a Parthian arrow to cover their retreat,
they will have smoothe1 the way for trium-
phal repossession Of the house in 1882.
The New York Herald discussing the
growth of the cOlored population is the
south, says:
The total number Of blacks in these states
was 4 242,003 in 1870 and 5,Ga8, 1871 in 1880.
This shows during these ten years the enor-
nous increase of 1,4OlS9S, or more than
thirty-three per cent. During the preceding
decade the co!ored population of this group
OF states increased only 2236l4, or about
five and half per cent. The total was
4Ol9,389 in 1860 and 4,242,0 DOB in 1870.
There is no doubt that the war put very
decided check on the multiplication of these
people. Their increase would naturally be
very much greater during the past than the
preceding decade, But the war alone will
hardly account for the extraordinary differ
ence in th4 rate of increase that is shown by
comparison of the two periods Doubtless
the actual difference is materially less than
that shown by the above comparison, and the
explanation is to DO found in the fact that
the CENSUS of 1870 was very defective 10 the
southern states. The actual was greater
than the enumerated population, and this
fact makes the increase of the preceding Do
cade appear less and that of the following
greater than it really was.
These facts and figures are arguments un.
answerable to tho senseess, baseless charges
of republican stalwarts, of southern out
RACES against and oppression of tho blacks.
1t is sometimes necessary for man to
take an enetic for the good OF his physical
organization, and, although i. may be dis
gusting and nausesting undertaking, still he
holds his nose and bolts tho dose. Now,
upon the same principle, presumiug that it
is the sicllening effect of the ipecac that
works the good, we clip the following from
the Chicago Inter.Ocean. In recent issue
the Atlanta Constitution in brief article
treated of the failure and tho outrageous
wrongs of the stalwart reconstruction policy,
and of the justice and manlness of the
south's attitude, and this is the Inter- Oceans
answer:
The Constitution should be congratulated
that it is ashamed to own the results of ire
construction and the crimes and outrages that
followed" II is natural that the actors in
these wholly disgraceful affairs should seek
TO throw the responsibility upon others. The
Constitution would mark the "unscrupulous
RnRves and demagogues" as the republicans
OF the north, who asked the ballot tor black
men, whilo "the sold SOUTH" which resisted
it with red shirt brigade, armed with shot
guns, and implements of torture, were lovers
of humanity and patriots. Tie m'n who
burned school houses, whipped black
mon to the swamps, cheated them
with. tissue ballots, murdered men like
Chisolm, and shot to death his innocent chill
dren as they clung about his neck, did not
live in the north, nor will history convict
them of the crime, as the Constitution boasts.
"The victorious section" WAS doubtless in
fault that it allowed "the innocent and help
less negro to become the victim of parcel
Of unscrupulous knsves and demagoguee."
II was simple cowsrdice that ii did permit H.
1t WINS not the thinking inen of the south
who we're the guilty actors, but the hsters of
the union aud the negro alike, who came out
of the war with hearts full OF revenge. 1t is
this class who ire masters of tho south, and
although in q minority, compel the majority
TO stand and tremble in every limb. Tho
Constitution says: 1.-THE attitude OF the south
needs no defense now nor in history" 1t