The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-08-10
TIE NEW REVISED EDITION.

TIE NEW REVISED EDITION.
The era of sectional reconciliation
and determination has at last been
reached, and tho tears shed by a
united South over Union chieftain's
coffin have washed away all bitterness
and rsncor except in the minds of
few unreasonable people, both North
and South. The bloody shirt has now
truly become thing of the past. 1t
was reserved for Democratic admin
istration to bury GRANT with national
honors and upon scale of grandeur
never before witnessed, while the
Democratic South stood at it's back
weeping. This is moro than the sur
render at Appomattox. 1t Is the sur
render of sectional hate and prejudice.
In this connection it must not be
forgotten that one of the chief con-
tributing causes to this most desirable
result was the election of Democratic
president last fall. For years after
the South came back into the Union
and protested the sincerest patriotism,
its sons were denied all participation
In tho managementof public affairs, on
the ground tina. the national interests
could not be safely entrusted to them.
They were tabbooed, ostracised, and
abused and treated still as conquered
traitors, who should DO thankful for the
leniency shown them. They were in,
but not of, the Union.
Last fall the South was for tho first
time since the war properly recog-
njzed as an integral portion of the
Union. Its appeal to DO generously
aud fully re-admitted was heard ana
granted in tho election OF the South's
champion, and the later selection of
some Of its favorite great mon as heads
of the national departTents. 1t was at
last, in spite Of tho Interest attacks
and tho ISLANDERS and tho lowest ap.
paals to passion, actually received
back into the Union and accorded its
position. The South itself did not
conquer its reinstatement, nor did the
Democracy of tho country even win
the fight. The better, more patriotic,
purer elements of all the sections COM
bined for common Justice and good
government, and the Democratic GOV
ernOr Of New York went into the
White House and the South back into
tho Union, in fact as in theory. We are
now reunited people, with less dan
ger Of dissolution and sectional strife
than at any previous period of our
history.
That these facts are so is shown in
the first national event after the access
sion of Democracy. The South and
the Democracy, 80 long falsely accused
and abused by the extreme rabid Re
publican element, which has CON
trolled public affairs for the past
quarter OF a century, when the
representation, the embodiment Of tho
success Of the Union fell, We'd with the
North in paying respect TO his mem-
DRY. This section has thus strikingly
signalized its re-entry into this great
American household. To havo eX-
pected tears or manifestations of grief
from people still denied any partlci-
patton in national allairs and still |
practically, II not Theoretically, regar-
cod rs onemies of the public, would
have been absurd. On the other hand
those who imagine that tho South can
not and will not return generosity and
respect for kindness; who, when the
good people of the North voted GAR
LAND and LAMAR and BAYARD into
the cabinet, did not anticipate an hon
est return to tho national flag and an
honest interest in all national men ana
matters, on the part of tho South, have
mistaken tive greatest Of soul aud the
fidelity to honor that have always and
will always characterize Southern
people.
The South is back in tho Union in
earnest. Its heroes and memories are
her heroes and memories. AS soon as
tho hand was extended, we grasped IL
and lot all the land learn we'll tho les
son.