Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 8, Number 154, 6 September 1879 — TERRY'S LOST CAUSE. [ARTICLE]

TERRY'S LOST CAUSE.

David S. Terry threw himself into the ranks of the Bilks for the purpose of procuring a popular pardon and rehabilitation. He could not bring himself to accept the finality of the judgment which society had already passed upon him, and he allowed himself to be deluded by false hopes into the belief that his scheme was feasible. But such social and political sentences are practically iuapellable, and this truth he has now discovered to his mortification and chagrin. The audacity which he exhibited did not serve him, nor was the voting element controllable by demagoguism sufficiently large to afford him the necessary strength. He retires ouce more into private life, and tlm time it is to be hoped that he will have the sense to realize the permanence of his dismissal from all public functions.