Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-06-02
Tho mckinney Messea ger.

/ 9Th, an article charging the Herald with
mis1uo,lng him In It's issue Of May the 9th
under the head Of "serving Two Masters
That our readers may judge for themselves,
we extract from the article Of the Herald /
alluded to, that portion Of which the Mes-
sengor so seriously complains, aud leave 1t |
to q discriminating public to determine
whether or not the charge is we'll founded
Here aro The words Of tho Herald
"Another argument he uses TO expose the !
fallocy of the Herald, we give in substance,
,o.wit: That Congress is q componentpart
Of the government, and the law-making
power il has its functions ms well as the
president, and o man that is for the gov
eminent, must endorse both the PRESIDENT
and Congress
We are frank TO acknowledge that the
sentence included in tho quotation marks,
are not the exact words Of the Messenger,
and that the quotation marks Improperly
appear This was not intended, but through
mistake, and this the Messenger ought to
have known, and must have known from
the fact that we did not propose to give his
exact words but merely the meaning, Tie
substance. The article states, "~e GRE IN
substance" We ask him in all candor, what
could we have meant by tho use of the
words, ''wc give in substance" unless it was
merely to sum up his article and give the
meaning. We must say that his complaint
is Characterized" and only resort to plaus-
ibly extrcate himself from the dilema.-
But We will give the whole article in which
he complains:
"The Dallas Herald of the 9th inst, in an
article under the caption, "Serving Two
Masters" attributes to us language thatWe
never uttered, and sentiments that We do
not entertain. Its use Of quotation marks
at the beginning and close Of pretended
extract from the Messenger, is equivalent
| to a declaration that it gives our exact Ian
| guage, but the language is not ours, and
the sense of what we did say, is utterly
peryerted In the article which the Herald
ESSAYS to criticise, we never said word
about endorsing either the Congress or the
President. We have never committed our
self, nor do we intend to commit ourself,
to n wholesale endorsement of either Our
! view in regard to such Objectionable, or
even unconstitutional measures, as may
have been, or may hereafter be, passed by
| CONGRESS-, is simply this. We shall submit
TO the laws, and shall advise our readers to
do the same thing, until they are repealed,
or declared to be unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court. This we conceive to be the
duty of every law abiding citizen. If the
roof of a house leaks, it is the part OF Wis
dom TO repair the leak, and not to destroy
tbe house. And SO if we have faulty
government, let our every effort be directed
Ia remedy its defects; in other words we
should labor earnestly to preserve and not
to DESTROY the government. To express con-
fidence in the patriotism of the congress
and the president is by no means to endorse
all the acts of either Washington, who
was both general and statesman, and
was charged in his duty with having COM
mitted errors in both capacities, was pos
sessed Of lofty patriotism, but to express
confidence in his patriotism was certainly
q very different thing from endorsing all
his acts. Now if we cannot have faith in
the ultimate triumph Of correct principles
in the halls of the national legislature, we
are forced to the be ief that our system of
government is failure. 10 deny that
there is hope in the ultimate triumph of
the patriotism of the peoples representa-
tives and the president, is to affirm that,
for all purposes of useful legislation, re-
publicanism is worthless, and that mon
archy or some other form of government
has become to our people an absolute ne
cessity. This we are not prepared to admit.
Though q few mistaken men may falsely
charge us with being radical in our politi-
cal opinions, we are far too conservative to
have lost faith in the capacity Of our peo-
pie for self-government. We have an abid-
ing confidence that they will yet demon
strate the fact beyond cavil, that they pos
sess that capacity. We believe that in spite
of falseheod and Misrepresentation, i'll
spite of all the efforts which bad men are
now making, or may hereafter make, to
keep alive a spirit of hostility between the
people of the two sections, that the people
the whole people-will yet come together
as band of brothers around The old flag,
| the flag of our common country, the ever
! glorious flag that tioated over the fathers of
the republic, and, that under Gods provi-
dence, is destined, we trust, to float over
our remotest posterity.
We request our neighbor of the Herald
to make the ameade honorable by copying
| this article.
lie says 'the language is not ours and
the sense of what we did say is utterly
perverted" Let us examine and see if the
| Messenger is correct. In his first article
he says: ave presume the editor. of the
:. Herald took the amnesty oath prescribed
by the President. If SO, he 'solemnly )
swore in the presence of Almighty God
that he would faithfully defend the Consti-
tuition of the United States Now the Con-
stitution of the United States, expressly
declares, Art. l. Sec. l. All legislative
power herein granted, shall be vested in q
CONGRESS of the United States, which shall
consist of Senate and House Representa-
tiyes.' The Congress then is the law maxi
ing power Of the government. Does the
Herald intend to array the people against
the law making power? If not, why such
teaching2"
Again he says: "What, we ask, was the
course of the Dallas Herald and other Sc
cession prints in 1860 and 1857 Did they
not then as now assail CO. ordinate branch
of the government, towit; the lawfully
elected President Of the United States ?"
Now we ask our reader what is the mean
ing of this And what is the pith of the
whole article2 Is it not plain that the
Messenger means that the President and
Congress are coordinate departments Of
government provided for BY the Constitu-
ton Of the United States7 And that we
have sworn to support the Constitution,
and therefore, we must support the Presi-
dent and congress assembled" This con-
elusion, to the impartial reader, is inevita-
bic. Now see what the Herald stated was the