The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-25
HOW ARE Tar MIGHTY FALLEN.

Man is, fortunately for himself and his
possessed Of certain degree Of
and a sense ofpity and kindness.
In his anger and opposition he may be ter
rible, bat when the foe has been shorn Of
his strength and dispossessed Of the powers
that once rendered him formidable he is
not in want OF that msgnanimiiy in the
vic,ors that will prevent his utter and cruel
destruction. The telegraph of yesterday
morning contained an item that must at
tract renewed attention to name that has
now become unenviably familiar to every
reading household in the United States,
that of ex-senator SrErHES W. Dorsey.
The item flashes before the reflective mind
contrast to which there are few parai-
lei cases furnished in our more recent
history. The star-route trial with, all
its no;oriety and importance, loses much OF
Its significance in comparison with the les
sou taught by the political and social fall,
and the wreck of mind of one of its most
conspicuous actors therein. The press dis
patch with reference to the matter, read ::
Anxiety, feverish excitement and ap-
preaching blindness, have unsettled the
once vigorous mind of ex-senator DORSEY"
and proceeds to dwell upon the evidences
OF the change and the revelations that the
ex-senator proposes to make, with regard
to the means by which The country. in 1850,
was carried for Garfield against Hancock.
A few years since a brilliant career. promis-
ing to reach into old manhood opened be-
tore STEPHEN w. DORSEY. He was power
iul and popular senator of the
United States; young and buoyant, and
of the means and ambition
requisite to perpetuatc his then
strong hold upon positions and associations
of responsibility, trust and influence, and
through which his course could easily have
been directed onward and upward. After
wards, as the leading spirit of the repubh-
can party in the campaign of 1850, the
skilliulness OF his methods and tho genius
OF his strategy, accompanied by the vigor
oil his actions, pronounced him as one OF
the shrewdest men and most successful
in the United States,
even though there hung around his victory
as brilliant and decisive for his party as
GRANTS at Appomatox, the noisome smells
Of dishonesty and corruption. And now,
in three short years afterwards, the man who
made presidents, who cont rolled cabinets,
who had out-generaled and vanquished the
brains, the great captains, the wealth and
platforms OF a mighty political party,
though yet in lites prime, is covering,
helpless, friendless and blind weakling in
the capital into which he had led the Veto
rious forces of his party-the prey of terror
miserable, suspicious and so broken, there's
none 80 poor as to do him reverence "
The contrast is truly wonderful one and
1t is rendered the more striking in its les
sons and Significance from the fact that his
ruin is the workmanship of his own hands.
With everything before him he chose the
least, throwing away political preicrments
and honors and great name if needs be
for wealth. He turned from the contem.
plation of the fair and glistenipg
Of the Temple of Fame
to fall down before the Golden Calf. With
all his intellectual powers vigorous, and
his position in his party, which was in the
government second TO none, ho allowed his
the most sordid OF mental iacul-
ties, to obtain the mastery OF him an he in
consequence now stands before the courts of
his country, morally at least, n convicted
thief and robber, oppressed as was natura
TO one OF his standing and intel ectual actiy-
lty and culture, with anxious fears and
haunting regrets, with the cutting thrusts
OF that little monitor, Conscience, until he
has passed mentally into oblivion. and
into darkness. Dorsey the sen.
ator, DORSEY the king-maker and party say
Tor, DORSEY the rich star-router was an object
worthy of the attacks of offended Justice.
nut DORSEY, the friendless and blind luna.
tic is but an object for pity. 1t is repeti.
ton OF the old, old story that man is wise
only as he reverences and obeys the dictates
OF wisdom and honor who places greater
store upon the spotlessness of his name and
the purity of his life than upon ill.gotten
gains or corruptly obtained power, and
who serves his country, society and morality
first aud himself thereafter. Evidences of
this old truth have been so multiplied in
the recent history of this country in both
financial and social, as well as political cir
cIes, that it is certainly to be hoped the
lessons taught will be more attentiyely con.
sidered than heretofore. Honesty is still