The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-01-17
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SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY.
Itd,yoaon toprlpoiple,aIi adherence 20
certain views Of constitutional contraction
can be adduced as evidence OF sincerity Of
purpose and exalted patriotism, without
DOUBT the democratic party ofthe south are
entitlcd 10 all the laurels which such e!e.
waited virtues can bestow. For forty years
since JAMS X. POLK was nominatei by
the Baltimore convention, the united par
" has never had candidate from the
southern section OF The Union In the field
They have been o5ntentw with selecting from
the statesmen fthe north entertaining their
views the standard bearer for presidential
Genesis, ana with but two oxcep
mons, those OF PIERCs IN 1852 ami
BUCHANAN IN 1886 have been defeated by
he growing strength Of the anti.slsvery
= eueut fnd sectional prejudice. Since the
civil. war no southern man has been
rsr.uiFy thought Of as candidate for the
Nations ruler, nor, hGve they even aspired
10 the second place on the ticket, unless the
can li6scy Of GRAqz BROWN Of Missouri, q
republican, be considered. Shrinking from
prominence hey have only sought to follow
bus never Co lead aud would have nc any
time been as,muCr, perhaps more .Eeioiced,
over the selection Of some northern man
whose breadth of mental vision compre-
hended the,whole union, thaA il q stateE-
man Of their own section had been called to
the executive chair.
The spirit OF democracy is no ledgling.
Il vas launched upon the sea Of poiiiica
lille when The declaration Of independence
declared the equality Of man. When the
constitution was adopted The same unde
Guad party received that instsumens.as the
dcliner Of Che rights Of the general govern
! ment carved out OF and surrendered by the
states. To these cardinal principles OF Or
ganic government the democratic party OIL
the south, through every vicisstude o.
political fortune have ever adhered with
most tenacious vitality. So staggering
have been the blows it has received that on
more than one occasion disintegration has
well nigh been its doom. But the ANNA
ton of high purpose and principle has on
every such.emergency averted the impend'
ing dissolution and armed them with fresh
zeal. and renewed energies.
And there has been reason ior TINS
staunchness of the southern democracy
which, does not prevail in the northern
, party.to such degree. The people OF the
south are an agricultural and pastoral
people,. Their political views were not III 3D.
flied by the price of stocks, nor did they
have the temptation presented for de-
psrture from their fixed ideas of republican
20 yernment by such theories as affected
their northern brethren in the nature OF
protection and legislation of that class
There was'no surleit of wealth, and having
hut few large cities among them
the disease Of monopoly did not be-
come contagious. Scattered over
wide'territory they possessed more indivld
uality, and being thoughtful people, III
large proportion purely. Anglo Saxon, they
made the science OF government their
study" Hence it was that before the wal
they attained supremacy IN the representa-
tiye,department Of the country, position
which nothing but the war deprived them
| of and which they are rapidly regalhing
Bnt beyond the floor of congress they have
never 'aspired, and since the desolating war
while still.clinging with devotiont to original
ideas, they have brought to bear upon theil
shattered fortunes and wasted fields
patience unequalled in the annals OF time
and a persistent conflict with persecution
and disparagement which the history
of no people upon the globes surface
has receded. Nor have they whilst repair
ing broken fortunes failed to keep step In
the march of progress. Not only do they
tax themselves for the education OF thelr
own children, but they cheerfully burden
their states and all their subdivisions with
that of the shiftless race who own so little
Of the land on which they live and pay but
the merest trihe into the public treasury.
Monopoly and protection are natural enc
mics to democracy, Hence they do not
flourish in the South, and until the charac-
ter of Southern occupation and mode OF
bought be changed by Northern and for
ign emigration, here will be the abiding
place of true republication among race
who believe in the equality OF man and the
the rights of the states in the Union.
How idle it is then with this history these
principles and this selt-sacrificing devotion
tn the original tenets of the nations foun
ders to speak of their grasping the reins o.
Government and ineugurating sectional
rule. Can it not be said more truly OF the
North that for nearly half century they
have had sectional administration because
they have had Northern presidents Com
ing from Northern democrats the cry /:
sim ply absurd. They imagine that having
been hewers Of wood and drawers OF water
for 40 great a season the term OF their ap-
premiership will never cease. Come
are even dissatisfied with the prom.
inence of southern men in congress
and CRY ruin" to the country. In other
words. these alarmiats ere willing to re-
c.,vs our as.is' a. CO IN the battle, but deny
M evsn the sem piancs Of q moiety OF the
.p,;,s. Th.y Won accord the same back
40 .ty rese vel for us by our enemies and
tn y repo,s in the highest lounges at the
fat. Happily there are but few such II
r.,io,., ,stsnces of seIfsnness, but suffi
,,;out IN sdmouish the South that her fu'
,u,e li-s II, her own strength and will-pow-
az, The highest goal Of the southern peo'