The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-08-11
DISTINCTION AND ITS ATTENDANTS.


AND IFS ATTENDANTS.
II is Just as natural for u properly
man TO try TO climb up, AZ
II is for water to run down hill, No
man who is working Tor proper and
legitimate object In lilc is indifferent
to the opinion of his fellows TO win the
good opinion Of his associates, and to
escape tho adverse Judgment, or 10 win
back lost ground isa natural and lauda'
BILE ambition and should be iostered by
every right minded man in the land,
Men only win distinction Of the right
kind when they really deserve IL, whom
they have the qualties which force IL 10
may be hagd strugsle for the great ma
ority ofthe ambitious TO attain the quail
ity which lifts them above their fellows,
but TO him who has achieved distinction
at the outlay of great effort and by the
exercise Of all the better qualities OF
hoad, heart and hand, The great din.
Guilty of Ito has only been reached, The
eye only seeks the mountain peaks
which tower above their fellows. the
beauties ~ well rs the defects. of these
are the themes upon which men love
to dwell, while the foot hills escape at
tention.
So il is with men, The full light of
the MONDAY sun ia thrown upon the
men who, by the exercise of high talents
and attachments, united TO energy and
devotion, occupy the van Of progress.
Certain grand central characters in our
history have stamped Themselves lndel'
IDLY upon the country, and the judgN
ment of the world upon our new goyN
eminent and new system is but an
estimate upon the character of the men
who first settled then defended, and
aiterward stamped the new nation with
their theories of government, and rurn>
ished the public policy of the new
world. The Pilgrim fathers, the heroes
of the revolution, the authors Of the
declaration, Jefferson, jackson, Clay
Webster, Calhoun, Lincoln, Seward and
Stanton, are the central figures around
which play the lightning of severe crit
icism, or about whose heads we find the
laurel wreaths twincd by our own CRATE.
full people, as well as the virtuous and
enlightened of the world.
Coming down to our own state, and
our own times we find the men who
became great as Texan pioneers, or the
early defenders Of the infant common.
wealth as well as the heroes OF her
later progress the focal points of both
strong praise and equally strong blame,
All concede the pre-emincnt qualities
of our Austin Burleson, Rusk and
Houston. The latter possessing all
those eminent qualities with which the
poet and the historian have since
crowned him, yet had attendant wcakN
nesses which the great distinction he
enjoyed only served to render hideous,
if looked at narrowly, and when his
virtues were forgotten or ignored, In
our later history, the time when our
people were divided by the great issue
of slavery, and when that issue died a
violent and bloody death on the field
of battle, Hancock, Throckmorton Da'
Wis held to the old union of the faith,
era, and patiently accepted the attend
ant odium for the time, So too, did
our own great Houston. The higher
the man the more bitter the denuncia
ton. While those heroes and patriots
of the other side, who joined intho strug
gle for state and section have already
since peace dawned upon the land
received their reward in praise and
blame equally and impNr.ially bestowed
Judge Ireland has filed no mconsid
cradle space in the public estimation
has had strong and devoted follow
ing, has enjoyed the respect and conf
denoe of all, even enemies. Hence il
is that his connection with the recent
Cancy- Barnard matter has set every
pen TO scribblng and every tongue tc
wagging, He has been the focus fol
the leveled glance of the state, and
simply because of his distinction US
man, he must be able to clear himsel
from even the remotest connection
with dishonorable intent to deiraud
the state, or 60 down in the whir
which smaller man could easily hav,
avoided, Mr.. Groos will finally escap,
measurably, but it will be only on tn,
supposition OF his having been deceived
Thus it is while destruction has il,
charms, it has also its responsibilities
and woe to the public man whose ever,
public act will not bear the test of tn &
severest scrutiny.
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