The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-28
BEYOND TRADUCTION.

State Treasurer II. r. Lubbock has Just
published card in tho Austin Statesman
(the Galveston News, to which il WAS ad-
dressed, having declined topublish it without
suggested alterationsl wherein he defends
himself against certain attacks made on him
in the Galveston Journal. Wealmost regret
to see this response from Governor Lubbock.
There was no necessity for it, for Texas
knows by heart him and his life which has
been as an open book. Goethe in Wilhelm
Meister, we think, says of one of his charac.
tiers "In his own impenetrable tlrmness of
character he mud grown into the habit of
never contradcting anyone" Governor Lub-
book should remember that this, too, became
true of Thomas Jefferson, to whom anything
approaching even to alteration was posi-
lively disgusting, and who, immovable in
the reason and the uprightness of his own
political course dpcrsonal conduct, looked
with contempt nd disaain upon the petty
jealous assaiants that were constantly spit.
ting out their rabid spite against him, His
biographer, Randall, observes that shot on
vious, overbearipg men do but rarely esti-
mate the passive moral courage which puts
on no bristling airs nor loud mouthed vaunt
ings, and cares little for mere revenge,
even when It's possessors have it
in their power by one exposure to
ruin their opponent, but which courage al
ways mounts up with the emergency and is
always proportiored precisely to the demand.
The great apostle of Democracy was attacked
both openly and anonymously, on the streets
and IN the public prints, stigmatised with
every degree of absolute dishonesty and COW.
ardice and every shade of concealed mean.
ness in public snd private life. The sternost
OF maranatha were indicted against him as an
atheist an agitator and a money and office
grabber, etc. Jefferson's name Is immortal
his traducers, save Aaron Burr and two or
three other prominent ones now
disgraced, are heard of no more for.
ever, while his work remains in the
heart of every liberty loving person.
Hamilton himself after his manifold labors
in behslfof his country, in the almost broken
condition of his heart at the ISLANDERS hurled
against him, the manifest ingratitude and the
abuse he received inpugning his every motive,
wrote privately to friend just before his
unhappy death, II feel more and more every
day that this American world was never
meant for me-" Even the name of the great
washington was dragged in the dirt and on
several occasions he prepared his resignation
as general Of the army and as civil official,
because OF the preiudces and passions of the
( moment. And even the prudence, the mod.
GRAFTON, the patriotism of John Hampden
could not restrain those no thought and
strcve to serve, from consigning him to a
worse treatment than that of tho prison
to which envy and Jealousy and hate had
sent his compatriol and devoted friend Sir
John Eliot And in all this the pure Hamp.
den rose above an explanation TO The
thong tloss, thankless mass. What such
characters as these could afford TO do Fraek
\. Lubbock might we'll afford. He is one cl
'nose whose position in life enables him l.,
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