The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 68
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68 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
would inevitably flow from the approbation and allowance by the
People, and the practice of the Council of the unconstitutional
power of arraigning, censuring, and attempting to depose the Ex-
ecutive, even by force, in the manner recently resorted to by the
Council. Such proceedings are eminently calculated to, unsettle
the foundations of the Government; to disturb the harmonious
action of its different Departments; and to break down the checks
and balances by which the wisdom of its framers sought to ensure
its stability and usefulness.
The honest differences of opinion which occasionally exist, be-
tween the Governor and Council, in regard to matters in which
both are obliged to participate are sufficiently embarrassing. But
if the course recently adopted by the Council shall hereafter be pur-
sued, it is not only obvious, that the harmony of the relations be-
tween the Governor and Council will be destroyed, but that other
grayer effects will ultimately ensue. If the censures and conduct
of the Council be submitted to by the Governor, the confidence of
the people in his ability and virtue will be impaired, and the char-
acter and usefulness of his administration will soon be at an end,
and the real power of the Government will fall into the hands
of a body ever changeable and fluctuating and who from that cir-
cumstance feel but little responsibility, not elected directly by the
people, and not to them directly accountable. If on the other
hand, the illegal censures and conduct of the Council should be
resisted by the Governor, collisions and angry controversies would
inevitably ensue, discreditable in their progress, and in the end
compelling the people to adopt the conclusion, either that their
Chief Magistrate was unworthy of their respect or that the Council
was chargeable with calumny and injustice. Either of these re-
sults would impair public confidence in the system of Government,
nl lead to serious alterations of its frame work, or to the practi-
cal abandonment of some of its provisions. The resolutions of the
Council removing the Governor from office, and their subsequent
notice, accompanied with their specifications and charges, that if
he did not appear in three days and plead to the charges before
that body, that the trial would go on exparte before the Council.
First clearly shewing by the passage of their resolutions, that their
condemnatory sentence had allready been passed against him, by
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911, periodical, 1911; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101054/m1/76/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.