Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-01-19
TEARS.

AloxanQer W0pt IOf new WoiAu W VOuquri
Mr. Jefferson Davis let's roll the river OF the eye
because Bragg has been beaten OF LookOu
Mountain and Missionary Ridge. SO we ar ar
assured by the Richmond correspondent OF ~
Mobile Advertiser. The Dictator of the C0nIeu
eracy in tears, with The Richmond Enquirer cry
ing to keep him company, presents ABOUT u
most dismal spectacle which the world mas wiz
messed since Besarius carried about MS NAT
| and Caius Marins stumbled among the roohl
ruins Of Carthage We must, however, reg,Te
that our information Of Mr.. DaVls's tear-sneu II
so little particular. There are tears Of rage
Of Joy, of despair-men cry because they are
glad and because they are sorry-there IS tn'
weeping of the miserable and the weeping oil the
maudlin; but, judging from all the collateral
| information which we have been able to ootaln,
we incline to sbe opinion that Mr. Davis CRIED
| for the all sufficient reason that he could not
help himself; aud that be gave way TO THESE
manly gushes after reading few melancholy,
grosnig, and grevons articles in me tt'chNlohd
Enquirer, and, among others, the following sor-
roWful representations eve may yet realize
the vision of our county struggling IN the
slough Of debt, with Labor resting on her rusted
implements, Commerce iurlng her wings, de-
iected Trade in prison garments, and the denlus
OF Liberty weeping over her people, prostrate
bankrupt and disgraced." A very bad lookout
indeed-worss than Lookout Mountain itself
If we were asked to give reason why MT
Davis should not cry, when he is forced to read
these dolorous outgiyings over his meager break
fasts, we should be very much puzzled 10 assign
plausible one. He certainly cannot be ration
ally expected TO laugh, when he sees the "Genlus
Of Liberty" bedewing with briuy tears popula-
tion fat cashless and dishonored. We ask to
be reckoued among those who regard this ma
tural moisture as sign that the Davis moral
natural Is not entirely depraved and that he
can yet feel the miseries which his mousipg
ambition has brought upon his friends ana
utieh5Ors We oniy wish that he had been
equally sensitive when he projected the terrible
crime which must threaten him with relentless
retrihution-that he did not with moistened orbs
think Of the bloodshed, the burnings and the
bereavemeuts which his Satanic speculation
must entail-that he did not, before shifting
at the life Of the land, turn, in natural tears,
from felonious speculation, involving both
perjury and parricide, the infamy of violated
vows, and the shame Of an unnatural crime
But better late than never The Davis tears
may not be profitable now, but if the Contede-
rate chief pleases to 'stain with griet' the
death ring of his short lived nationality, he GER
tainly has lugubrious provocatives He can
cry over deplorable lack Of gunpowder,
over the naked backs and empty bellies of his
soldiers, over cities burning and ports blockaded,
over fields lett falow by his remorseess con
scription, over the graves of his victims, over
widows and orphans, and mothers mourning for
their sons. Or If none Of these objects can
move him, the selfshness Of his nature must ex'
tort them, when his common sense exhibits 10
him the shocking disappointment which inevIte'
bly, awaits him in the ruin OF his netarlous un
dertakings-a ruin which will leave hun lmpaled
with Arnold and Burr upon the gibbet Of history
his name by word, his career warning, his
Iaa aIa ft.a mai nf
posterity permanently and cruelty dshonored /!
Hi. reason must be beginning TO persuade him
that he has risked too much, and that If he has
sought for what no honorable spirit would fam
win, he has gained only the infamy which tue
truly chivalrous would die to avoid weep !!
Why should be not weep, morning and evening,
in bis outgongs and his inccmings, IN his bed
and at his board :?
p~. .@s~,s 49, aaia W ses.,ssin"a Hnlsss
Mr.. Davissets better example, we shall soon
have the whole Confederate army roaring in re-
giments aud blubberng by batlalions This will
be a disappointment to amateur admirers Of In
domitable pluck. We have, inuumerable lines,
been told that the Rebels would die, hang,
starve, freeze, burn their houses, SOW their
fields, With salt, kill their wives and children,
and even emancpate their Slaves, rather than
bend before the barbarous Yankees-and here we
have the ferocious leader ferocious martyrs finger
ing his pink eyes, and allowing the fugitive tears
to chase each other down his patrician nose IT
is pretty condition of affairs, indeed, when a
purveyor of intelligence in Richmond thinks it
necessary to telegraph or write to Mobile that
the stern chief Of the fallen spirits is then and
there crying The Devil himself, the great
prOto.rebel, cursed, sWore, blasphemed beauti-
fully, desperately struggled, and made red'hot
speeches Of uncommon length, when he found
himself and his fellow fends in the
hottest of places but it is nowhere recorded thai
be pulled at his pocket handkerchief and found
relief in a fit of weeping, 1t may be consola'
tory to the discomfted Bragg to hear that Davis
sobbed over the catastrophy of Missionary Ridge
but most Generals would have preferred the re-
endorsements of a few regiments. We have
ouly to advise the pseudo President to husband
his lachrymal resources, unless, indeed, he
fances that his coming misiOrtunes will be tot
great to admit Of other than the dryest kind o.
agony.-N Z. Tribune