Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-01-05

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man will be withdrawn.
The employees OF the North Penn
sylvania road have declined to pa.
any attention to the address or to th'
order to strike, and have withdraw
from the knights. Their action vii
be followed by many members O.
the order throughout the country,
| CONTENDED FOR THE RIGHT
The Harlem Democratic club
one of the strongest and most active
in campaign work in the United
States, held banquet few nights
ago in its club-rooms, at which be.
sides important and distinguished
local personages and speakers, there
were present number of distinguish
ed gentlemen from a distance. As
usual after the table was cleared, a
number of toasts were proposed and
responded to. Among the speakers
was Chas. A. Dana, editor OF the
New York Sun, who responded to
:'The Press In the course of his
remarks IIr. Dana declared that,
while it was necessary that the
South should be put down, it is a
melancholy fact that the principle of
state rights was in great measure
also put down. There can be no
self-defense without state rights.
The great duty of the people is the
restoration of the state rights to the
performance it formerly possessed"
1t may be remarked that 1[r. Dana
struck a keynote in the latter part of
this utterance. The people of the
country are gradually beginning to
see theimportance of maintaining this
great principle, which is at the foun-
dation and is the basis of the fabric
out Of which this great republic was
reared. The supreme court is grad
ually becoming less partisan in its
decisions and may no longer be con-
sidered a creature of the party with
which a majority of its members
since the var have affiliated. In a
recent decision rendered in a case
carried before it from Virginia the
court made bold to affirm the doc
trine of state sovereignty, which
marks the most important event in
the political constitution of the coun-
try since the great civil war. This
was the great principle for which the
southern states contended, and, as
the student of history knows, was
the direct cause of the war. While |
The abolition sentiment in the North |
was strong and constantly growing,
and might have eventually led to a
rupture, in order to put down the
South, as Mr.. Dana says. had not
more important question have arisen,
yet the question offreeing the slaves
was really secondary consideration.
The decision of the court unerringly |
indicates that candid political senti-
nent is gradually drifting back to
that point where the doctrine of state |
rights will be reestabished, and in
she true, calm and dispasionate light |
Of reason, when the memories of the
war shall have been So deeply buried I.
that the ghouls Of republican party
politics can no longer resurect them !
md make them to serve party ends
and purposes, TIE patriotism and
manhood of the South in asserting
their rights even at the point of tie
oayonet,,,will be fully recognized, and
the terms rebel and ''traitor" will
be relegated to the shades of eternal
oblivion.
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he most liberal patronage. as in the
past. The WEEKLY BANNER also eel
DRAFTED its 23rd anniversary ON that
lay and begins the new year with
he commencement Of a new volume. /,
'RNG out tie Old and ring in the