The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-19
the TRIUMPH OF TRUTH.

TnE HERALD has noted the tendency
of the Rev. Stuart Robinsons suit
against the st. Louis Globe Democrat and
the compromise by a confession of
Judgment in favor of the plaintiff for
$4,000. Mr.. Robinson was charged 10y
this partisan journal, then called the
Democrat, with seeking to introduce and
spread pestilence among the peopl" OF
the North during the war. In com
menting on this suit an able cotempo-
rary remarks that in the passions which
fingered after the bereavements of civil
strife, it was easy to assail the reputa'
ton Of the purest and most humane
men who had been misled or mislcd
Others into rebellion and there were
few who could hope for dispassionatc
hearing in answer to their aocusers.
In this way Mr. Robinson was assailed,
and hundreds of thousands have doubt
less believed him to be the moral mon
ster that such m exceptional crime
would make him. At last he finds a
responsible nccuser in one of the ablest
partisan public journals of the West,
and he summoned the author of the
charge before n tribunal where there
must be truth between them. An in.
vestigotion into the facts proved that
the atrocious crime imputed to Mr.. Rob.
inson was without the shadow of foun.
dation, and no defense was attempted,
as is shown by the voluntary confession
of Judgment for $4,000 with all legal
and incidental costs.
Thus is Mr.. Robinson indicated, but
how many of the leading actors in the
terrible drama of the rebellion have
been. in like manner, flung into history
as guilty Of crimes against the
humanities of Christian war.
fare by the passions which survive
civil WARP This question is u grave one
and must soon command the earnest
attention of considerate men of both
sections. Jefferson Davis has been nc.
cused OF tho deliberate starvation OF
prisoners of war, consigning them to
tortures worse than u thousand deaths
and when shall the truth be established
and accepted MS authentic history Not
only by partisan journals when milan.
ing the prejudices of people to recruit
armies or to win political contests, but
by statesmen on the toor Of Congress,
have these fearful accusations been
made; and yet full decade has gone
by, evidence has persisted, and power
has failed to employ its resources to
teach the world the truth or falsity of
the charge. IT true, Mr., Davis should
have atoned for it by his death in ODE
dience to the judgment of the Christian
law; if untrue, he should be acquitted
of it before the enlightened civilization
that must heap upon such crime its
most terrible excavations Why there
has not been dispassionate inquiry into
the disputed records of conspicuous
actors in the rebellion, is question
that comes from very many sincere men
who believe that only the truth should
be crystalizedIinto. history. We owe it
10 the world now, after nearly twelve
years Of peace, to rise above passion and
prejudice in both sections, and present
ourselves to history and to each other
rs we really were, We owe each to his
foe the justice Of candor that brave men
ever concede to brave men; and we owe
it to u once estranged but now reunited
people, with common COUNTRY and
common laws and common aspirations,
to turn back through the scars and sores
of intensified hate and make truth the
guiding star Of those who worshiped the
blue and the gray.