The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-07-07
STATE PRESS REVIEW,

The Waco Telephone makes sensible
suggestion to the Houston Post, in the fol-
lowing:
Tho Houston Post Of yesterday morning
contains an interview with Ex-Governor e
j. Davis. The object of the interview was
to find out Davis views of Senator Maxey
and the star route business. The republican,
greenbacker answers number of questions
propounded by the Post reporter, and the
result is that Msxey is virtually damned
with faint praise out of the mouth OF L j.
Davis. The Post will have to 60 cunning
again. The game ia not to be brought down
with such AMMUNITION.
1t is very evident that the writer of the
following from the Houston Post has not
read OK President Jefferson Davis great
work, Just out, or if he has, he has read to no
purpose, failing to comprehend the tone and
objects of the work entirely. Mr. Davis sets
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
ernment, and OF course they are accurate.
The othsr works referred TO by the Post
are as il ssys,or intimates, mere partizin or
sell clarifying productions. The Post
says:
We have no faith ia Inc good elected by
contemporary biographies or general histories
of times of which the writer formed a part,
aud especially an iDhuential one. Such
works as Badesus life of Grant, ShermaD's
memoirs, also. this gentlemsn's historico-
prandiai speecnes, Johnston's narrative and
Davis history OF the late war, are sll sub
stantiatly aud rsdicslly psrtizan productions
intensity .cslored by personal feeling, and
arc apt 10 misleAd the uusophis.icsted
and general reader, There has not been
published n school history, even since
The war which, 10 treating of The late
unpleassntness, gives entire satisfaction 10
both sections This generation must en-
tirely lie Ou, and perhaps even the next,
before a. impartial add accurate history can
be written, and that criticism be INDUCED In
which will be the result OF true philosophy
and common sense At present fsirer
history could be written by foreigner thsn
BY an American, though the struggle, turning
on point OF sociology, in The end, hss also
obscured the judgment Of our trans Atlantic
friends and converted them into psrtissns
also. Mr. Carlyle may hsve written pow
erful and enduriag work, though We imagine
that bis northern friends would have burned
his book With every dsmonstraiion OF horror.
Ia Ia a mistaken idea thst Mr.. Carlyle ever
changed his opinions ss 10 the. principles
involved. and which be s,outly expr ssed, 70
the CONSIDERATION Of the Emerson brigade.
He only refrsiDed from expressing
them even BY sllusion; but be died
without msking . sign Of recantsiion,
and ne are competent - believe th.t ere
century is past, sons Of Mis- fOrsb Odings will
be resliz d. He would bsve written grand
history o. our war, but 10 csrtsin extent u
would have been ore sided. B0tto, Al ltslian.
wrote q histarg Of the revolutionary vsr that
rssDsi-ed without peer for many year., ssd
Il u % b. hoped thst come Earopesn vii
take ths mst'er IN hand snd give ne sBch .
work thsi Ne czn use aDd c01sut as IN
sutrorisiive references. without hsvine our
combxlvs nsiure Stirred By fslsihesiioDs.
srsciai tissd.nes snd abuse. General Sber-
rnsr y iriarine be reputstian b. biz insane
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axsinst tbs knOsle1zs o. . community
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