The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-02
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to find out Davis views Of Senator MAKE!
and the star route business. The republican
preenbacker answers number OF question
propounded by the Post reporter, and tn
result is that Maxey is virtually damne.
with faint praise out of the mouth OF h j
Davis. The Post will haze to 60 gunniDl
again. The game Is not to DO brought dow
with such ammunition,
II is very evident that the writer of III
following from the Houston Post has no
read OK President Jefferson Davis gres
WORK, Just out, or If he has. he has read to nj
purpose, failing to comprehend the tone ant
objects Of the work entirely. MIR Davis set
out to argue the question of states rights
and to give the reasons why the southern
states, exercising their prerogative, seeded
He also gives the history OF the
various military movements and orders taken
from the archives of the confederate gov
eminent, and OF course they are accurate.
The other works referred to by the Post
are as il says,or intimstes, mere partizsn OF
selfglorifying productions. Tho Post
says:
We have no faith in tho good effected by
contemporary biographies or general historic
Of times of which tho writer formed part,
and especially an Influential one. Such
works as Badeau's life of Grant, Sherman
memoirs, also:. this gentleman's historico-
prsndia speeches., Johnston's narrative and
Davis history of the late war, are all SUBJ
stsntiatly and radically psrtiz.n productions
intensity ..colored by personal feeling, and
are apt 10 mislesd the unsophlsticsted
and general reader. There has not been
published a school history, even since
the war which, in treating of tho late
unpleassntness, gives entire satisfaction to
both sections This generation must on,
tirely die out and perhaps even the next
before an impartial aud accurate history can
be written, and that criticism DO INDUCED in
which will DO tho result OF true philosophy
and common sense. AT present fairer
history could DO written by a foreigner than
by an American, though the struggle, turning
on a point of sociology, in tho end, has also
obscured the judgment of our trans Atlantic
friends and converted them into partlsans
also. MIR Carlyle may have written pow.
erful and enduring work, though we imagine
that hi, northern friends would have burned
his book with every demonstration of horror
1t is mistaken idea that Mr.. Carlyle ever
changed his opinions rs to the principles
involved, and which no stoutly expr' ssed, TO
tho CONSERVATION of the Emerson brigade
lie only refrained from expressing
them even by allusion but no died
without mixing sign of recsntstion,
and We are competent to believe tn It ere
century is past, some of his foreb odings will
DO resIizsd. Ho would have written grand
history o. our war, but to certain extent it
would have been one sided. Botto, an Italian,
wrote history Of the revolutionary war that
renamed without peer for many years, and
1t Is 10 BIO hoped that some European will
hke tho matter in hand and give US such
work that wo can use and consult as an
authoritative reference, without having our
combslve nature stirred by iasidcations,
special plesdings and abuse. General Sher.
man Is inuring his reputation by his insane
ego!ism, and by putting his arrogant word
against the kno Wedge Of community.
General Jobnston's narrative is we'll writ
ten apology for his failures In tho war, and
Mr.. Davis work IL an elaborate attempt to
transfer the odium of the "los! cause" on
other shoulders than bis own, and generally
to gid that which should be covered with
Grape. Loquscity, In some cases, is blum
dering stupidity. Both Grant and Davis
have lately been guilty of such blunder.
The Henderson, Rusk county, News com,
mlserstes Austin on the number of papers
published thcre, thirteen, with prospectus
for the fourtsen!h out, its objcc. being to al |
"a long felt want" 1t is sad to contemplate
especially when II is remembered tina. "The
Sifsings" is one of those thirteen. The
News says:
d, Most every town has its bete noir-some
nave altogether too much rock ia the soil
upGe h they are situated, others have
fesrfully tenacious black mud TO contend
with, and still others Henderson for EXAM
ple-hsvo largo oversbare Of sand. Each
and every ono Of these drawbacks ara terribly
trying upon the good qualities Of the aver.
age citizens, and "cuss words" are not unfre-
quenty heard escaping from their lips. The
city OF Austin, however, is justly entitled to
the cake; she already has thirteen newsps-
pers, and one day last week wo received a
prospectus for another to DO started |
there. What has Austin done
to merit such terrible punishment?
The Woa.herford Commercial complains
that some Of the Fort Worth papers speak
dispsrsgingly Of Westherford, and Its efforts
10 secure railroad facilities. II Is only mar
row minded prejudice, q puerile prompting
that does this and II is not worthy Of notice
on tho part Of the Commercial or the people
OF Weashersord. The Commercial says:
Tho Fort Worth papers and ,hoir CORES.
poIdenn must DO fearfully jealous Of Wealth.
ertord. Those papers are the only papers
OF tho state that attempt 10 speak disparsg,
ingy Of our growing and prosperous city.
We can account for this 10 no other wAy.
save 10 that that this city henceforlh will 6e
Q Troublesome thorn In the s,do of ths, town.
The enterprise and got up Of our people
have inspired that people 10 work msnfuily,
and In place Of attempt at ridicule, those
papers should compliment Wes,herford.
rms town In the future will prove the most
formidable rival Of any Of the Forts sister
cities.
It's amusing how tho full pack, Tray,
Sweetheart and Blanche keep in full cry a.
tho heels Of Galveston, predicting her decay
and downfall, and lsuding Sabine Pass or
tho mouth Of tho Brazos 10 tho sky AS the
proper place for port. The latest snarl wo
have heard Ia from tho Houston Pos, abou,
Sabine Pass and railroad from Houston to
that point We would like 10 Geo deem