Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-03-21
The White House at Montgomery.

Some correspondent at Montgomery says
that President Davis has rented a very hand
some White House there Why should il
be white house Is it to keep alive recollec-
tions of tina. other White House they have
lost Doubtless there be yearulngs for the
flesh-pots OF Egypt, and it is a dreadful thing
for those who have been fattening all their
lives upon the national spoils at Washington
to see them pass away from their grasp, per-
hapS never more to return. Hence to give
them something to do they have started a
government of their own at Montgomery, and
have got white house" Poor grown up
children if they had dozen such the essent-
al thing which makes Washington glorious
would be wanting. Their government at Mon
gOmerv is but moot court and their white
house a childish fancy.
There is but one White House on earth
1t is that which is identified with the grandest
republican euipire the world has ever seen.-
Its walls have been halIowed by the residence
of ''men entirely great" under whose paternal
sway the mighty Union has gone on her splen-
cid career, covering vast regions with her IN
creasing States aud territories, and rendering
her name the symbol of human progress. That
White House has been the centre of democra-
tic liberty, and men have learned to look up
toit as the summit of political ambition. But
from the would be white house" at Montgom-
cry the very name Of Liberty is baniShed as
a condemned ard prescribed thing. Their
government represents nothing, and means
nothing but the mere attempt at power. 1t
is American repablicanism stripped of all the
sublime precepts upon which it was based by
r., g II r.,., l,l th
a Venetian secrecy and terror to prevent its
acts being known or understood. The busi-
ness of the Congress is all done in secret ses-
sion, and no act or resolution is allowed to be
known until finally issued in official manner.
But why should jefferson Davis Presidenti-
al residence be white That is the emblem of
purity, white its occupant and all the meE who
surround him are the blacklist of traitors They
swore fealty to the national Union as members
of Congress and of the Cabinet, and while
resting under the soIemnity of that oath plot
ted for the fou!est and most damning treason,
White might be the appropriate color for free
dom, but how can it be for oppression The
White House at Washington was typical of
the supremacy and nationality Of the free white
race. But in the cotton republic white labor
is at q discount, aud black slavery is held the
primal necessity.
We submit, therefore, that they have made
mistake in the color Of that house Let them
build Davis a new one of black Egyptian mar
BILE, and place on either side of its portals sta,
tues in the same material of Aaron Burr and
Benedict Arnold, the great exemplars Of seces,
sion It's true that men like Davis feel great
need of whitewashiDg process, and so prob
ably his presidential house has been white
washed with that view. But the sins of dem
ocracy and secession are past whitewashing -
All the efforts made at Washington for that
purpose have been failures, and so they will be
at Montgomery. If black does not suit them,
let them make the white house red in view of
their saugunaTy purposes,or yellow to suit the
imperial aspirations of its occupant, or green
TO symbolic the veTdaDcy of the whole affair.
NORTH American.