Year: 1877

Ottedt tiAS lts teceOfis, as We'll as sue
cess. and calls TO the surface the higher
and better qualities of true manhood.
The gentleman whose name graces the
columns of Tue HERALD this morning,
IS one who the people of Texas a-e
fast learning to rely on; their respect
and confidence he has always possessed
from the first moment Of his entrance
into public life. There is nothing of the
tinie.server or trader about Colonel
Mills His honest conception OF duty
Is his guide of action, and when almost
alone on the floor Of Congress he front
ed the schemers and the duped, in his
manly, nay, almost sublime attack up-
on the commission, he gave one of the
finest exhibitions Of nerve, steadiness
and geferous deeotion to duty and b..
pledges TO his constituents, ever seen
in that body The picture is indeed q
hne one, 1t has many enduring tiuts,
and it will remain bright in the mem
ory of the people of Texas as long
as they continue to revere true man
hood.


Ills course on the electoral commits
sion bill was an evidence of his pos.
session of a keener insight into the dif-
hculties of the presidential situation
than people generally gave him credit
for Every one sees now that we gained
nothing by acceeding to the pro-
position of the schemers, except, in
deed, their contempt. Mills saw
it then. and did not hesitate for a mo-
ment to put himself squarely on the re-
cord as against it. Men of this stamp
are valuable, they are rare, and when
found and their worth fully understood
they should be made to feel that public
confidence rests with them.


Without disparagement to our repre-
sentation generally in Congress. we
may say that Mills, by his course in
this matter, has stepped at once into the
confidence of the people of the whole
State, IA he did that of his own imme
diate constituents when he first en-
couniered Governor DAVIS and his co.
horts, at the threshold of his own
home. Whatever may be said of the
hot-headedness of the Texan Democracy
1t has ever been conspicuous for its gem
eroslty. No man ever serves it faith.
fully and efficiently, who is suffered to
go without his reward. Many Of the
papers of the State have already norni-
mated Colonel Mills for governor. lie
may desire such position, or he may
not. Certain, however, it is, if he does,
there is hardly any combination possi-
BILE to defeat the result The editor
of THE HKRAID has enjoyed a
long acquaintance with the
distinguished subject of this article
and he can say ofs truth, that no such
thought ever found a lodgment in
Mills breast, as that future political
hope could influence in the slightest
degree an action Of his, to-day. Unself-
ishness is one of the distinguish ING
traits of the man. ard when he crossed
the hawse of the Democratic majority
in Congress on the commission ques-
ton, TO all human observation the act
was desperate adherence to duty.
when the chances were that it would
result in anything else than an addition
to the personal popularity of the man.
Indeed, at the first blush, the press of
the State anathemized the act, but
with characteristic frankness they soon
changed their curses into blessings.


To-day, with the exception of Governor
Coke, Mills is the most popular public
man in Texas, and the people will pro-
vide suitable reward Whatever That
may be, it will be worthy of Mills, as
well as of themselves, and of this fact
we are perfectly convinced.