The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-12-23
SALLUST.
is Senator Foote and jeff. Davis
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From the Richmond ENQUIRER, Dec J

= From the hlchmond enquirer, Dec J.. 81.
It is seldom that batch of Yankee pa
pers reach Richmond, that one or more Of
them has not some leading article devoted
to the sDavis Despotism," or to the tyranny
under which these people are suffering, and
to which they are held by the armies of the
Confederacy, The object of these falsehoods
| is to mislead their readers with the belief
that there exists in these States latent
aud silent Union sentiment, suppressed and
kept under by the power of the military
despotism under which we are said to be
suffering The defeat and disperIons Of
the Confederate armies, it is urged by the
enemy would be followed by the rise
of the people and the re establishment Of
the old relations. There is scarcely news
paper in the CoDfederacy that has not re-
peatedly denied these assertions of the press
Of the enemy, and there is not an indi-
.Vidual who does not know that they. are
utterly and naIieiouly false. 1t is the proud
boast of us all, that while struggling for in.
dependence and wagng a war in which-if
ever the maxim, "inter arma silent tegeS,"
was jus tifable, it would be excusable in US
every righl of life, property have been pre-
cerved in uncisturbed enjoyment. The
contrast between the civil liberty enjoyed
by the people of the confederate States and
that pretended civil liberty under which
the people Of the u nited States are suffering
has been repeatedly drawn by our Con
temporaries, and dwelt upon wi evident
satisfaction,
The press of Europe has repeatedly borne
90. ba falo nf
sertions by the press of the enemy, as well
as contrasted the despotic acts by which
Lincoln has maintained authority over his
subjects, with the free and unrestrained
support lavished by our people upon their
! authorities.
And yet, notwithstanding all these facts,
were stranger to hear from the gallery of
the House of Representatives, the Hon. Mr.
Foots indulging in one of his many voluble
phillipics against Mr.. Davis-to hear his re-
view of the official conduct of the Execu
tive-to listen to his defiance of the friends
of that of6cer-that stranger would neces
sarily conclude that Mr.. Davis was stub
born, sslf-willed, unapproachable tyrant,
demanding and receiving the aduatlons of
his favorites, and visiting On those be dis
liked all the vengeance of dsspotism that
the cause of the country was subordnated
by MIR. Davis to his predictions and sacri'
feed to his prejudices.
In the hero worship Of the 18th century
we seldom find SO many virtues as Mr.. Foote
enumerates for Mr.. Davis. Suppose the
stranger in the gallery, after hearing Mr..
Foote'S late harangues, had been furnished
with the letter, would he not have thought
the member from Tennessee mercurial
and variable man.
MIR Foote. by these repeated exhibitions
of i'll temper toward the President effects
nothing whatever where he is known; bnt
enemy seize upon thcese remarks IS evi
dence that we are victims Of cold, vain
and malignant tyrant.
We feel satisfied that the member from
Tennessee is very much Misunderstood
that his remarks have been misunderstood.
Intended in Pickwickian sense merely,
they have been too literally reported. Per
sons reading them from the newspapers
must remember that the significant gesture,
the forcible play Of features, the knowing
wink, the explaining nod-all the clrcum
stances that illustrate spoken harangue
are wanted in the printed speech. Thus. the
Pckwickiaa sense, SO we'll illustrated on
the hoor Of Congress, IS all lost when the
speech is spread out in hard and unsTmpa
thetic type. This act explains the repeated
failures of the member from Tennessee to
get the House to act upon his notions
The House understands their Pickwiekian
sense, and pays no attention to them. With
this explanation, Mr.. Foote Is harmless,
Notwithstanding he wastes the time and
wears out the patience of the House The
country may seriously inquire whether the
present is the proper time for Mr. Foote
TO be illustrating the idiosyncracies of
club, Of which be might have made useful
and ornamental member, but which in times
of battle and strife, Of revolution and pub
lie sorrow are certainly out of place.