The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-15
REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
JeG. Davis Fairly shown Up.
From the Selma fAlsl psspat.h 7

~ - A-AG JINAAAAe4A 4AN Va ZIG LEOEkllUu
to be embodied, as it were, in one or
more representative men. For this
Southern rebellion, JEFF Davis is such a
man; nor is there any one in the whole
South who could hold that position were
he taken from il.
We cordially agree with one Of the
ablest of our Richmond contemporaries
that IL Is TO be regretted that Southern
papers are thoughtless enough to copy
the above nonsense from Northern
paper.
The idiocy of supposing that JEFF
Davis created g nauon" began with a
London cockney, whose utter ignorance
of our governmental agency for the dis
charge of duties imposed and strictly
prescribed by allied, long organized and
independent nations, led him easily in
to an error which no Southern ma =, not
an arrant fool, is for moment ex
cusable even il repeating. The drivel
was repeated, though, BY lickspittles
who know better, and prevaricated
willfully when they did so. Such erea-
lures are ever ready TO beslaver the feet
of power, and their lOathsome man
worship is no more likely to cease from
the earth than any other pure and self
evident yillainy.
1t is the duty Of men of principle not
to ridicule these toadies, for they fatten
on scorn and castigation, but to dis
abuse that portion Of the public who
are likely to be misled by the sup
porters of fallacy 50 utterly ut wal
with the whole theory of our govern
ment We will not charge that it is
balderdash to say that Mr. Davis is q
representative Of the Southern people
we viii 90 so far as to admit that he is
all that discerning and impartial men
claim him to be-for he is not q low
and obscene buffoon, and he does write
clever English-but, rating him at his
full value, we still deny that the cause
depends on him or on any man or set
7 of men ia the COnfederacy.
If Mr.. Davis were to die tomorrow II
Is more than probable that those who
are best acquainted with his disposition
and his acts would declare that the
cause had not lost by his demise FoI
/ the first business Of his successor would
be to pack of tho cabinet Of needles
to whom he clings so frantically; to re
move the Hindmans, Holmes, Heaths
and other officers of evil luck, and tc
put in their places the foremost civil
and military intellects of the land.
And who does not know that the cOun
try would breathe the more freely from
the instant it became known that the
diseased passion for small men had
given place to clear reason and sound
common sense, and that henceiorth
whatever ability of any sort there is il
the land was TO be put at once where II
could be Of the most service to the great
cause now painting in the agony OF fail
ure upon failure, caused, and caused
alone by the perverse, reckless, selfish
I and wholly inexcusable and unparGOn
! able madness for civil capacity only
/ where it Is abjectly subservient, as il
/ the "cO-inteligence office Of the Stat
Department, and for military imbecili
/ ty, only because it enables one man 4
thwart and launt generals Of the frs
order, and permits him, without a muir
muir or interference, to carry on n wal
Of proportions so gigantic that the in
| comparable mind OF the first Napoleon
would have shrunk from the labor o.
| guiding il single handed Who car
I estimate the relief that would be at
| forded by one Of three dismissals-that
/ of Memminger, or Mallory, or Northrop
And yet we are told that tho cause
hangs on this man, who will retain hi:
coterie of ninny-hammers, though il
cost the Confederacy tho whole, as il
has already the half Of its life, and
/ Southern newspapers have the hardi
| hood to repeat this preposterous fool
/ ishness, and to disseminate it among
! the people, under the sanction Of then
/ appreciation
In a republic, whore every man is q
king, in feeling if not in fact, it is folly
to say that the peoples cause rests upor
any individual Sui less IS their cause
| dependent on a single person. where, a.
in our case, a number Of republics ar'
/ combined, and the government is bu
the creature and agent Of many sove
reign States. A monarch urging wa
/ against another monarch for his owl
behoof and his own viii may claim wha
/ is falsely claimed for Mr. Davis, who i
I simply a servant Of the Southern pee
pie, whose war this is most emphatically
/ for they drove the politicians sorel,
/ against their viii into it, and many Their
be who believe that our sO-called "reI
resentatiye man, fresh from the quas
squatter sovereignty speeches IN Name
T was not the least 10th Of his fellows q
/ abandon the hesh-pOts Of Washington
and visions Of future glory ia the Union
| No, Mr. Davis Is not the only man II
/ the South who is capable Of holding tn
position to which he has been called
/ The people who have borne the loss o
Stonewall jackson, could bear his los
better perhaps than the loss Of Rob
ert +. Lee, and tar better than tn
people OF the Netherlands bore the los
/ Of William the Silent Our case is no
I that OF Prussia, under the great Fred
ericl1, whose single life did not contain
| the destinies Of a people never free ant
\ never accustomed 70 act Tor themselves
| Eleven sovereign ties, each a distInc
nation and organized government, ar
congregated together, 70 battle for
long recognized independence, assaile'
by the revolutionary party which ha
/ obtained control at Washington, anC
these nations have made Dir. DAVIS, an,
not Dir Davis them
Sycophants are loud in their praise
Of what the chief public servant Ia
accomplished IN waglug successful,
this great war; but they are silent con
l corning the organized government
I which were at hand 70 assist him The
talk as II the Southern people were
\ Wild and lawless mob Of ignorant ruff
aus when Dir Davis came into power
and would confirm Europe in the sill
/ conviction that his marvellous facultie
reduced chaos % order, raised armies
I established laws, and intrOduced tn
/ trst elements OF civilization among
I rude and savage race, whose only clam
/ 70 notice was q barbarOu5 courage Tn
/ fact is, that without the State govern
ments, ana the Intelligence and spirit
OF the people, Dir DAVIS could not have
sustained himself Tor an hOur.
81 say, Jones, what DO them plaguey
! letters mean that you see IA the papers
/ % oiteu--C. > a
why, haven you found that out
YETI 4. sLands iOf C0gys4srzts ohtnPlaF
| ter AssDcsz1son, Of course