The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-12
sPIRTT OF TIE NEW YORK PRESS.
beading Editorials from the New YOFk
Paper This Morning.

JEFF. DAVIs-NEw ONENs Of ruE
APpuOtCiTESG END.,
Frcsn iss Tine,
II is not " be wondered az that 30 many people
shorid have douJ I'd tho authenticity oftb report
OF Jefferson Davis eNuao,dinary speech at
Mscou, publ. hed iu tde Times Of Friday last, in
advance Of our conttmporarcs. Il certainly had
the air ofa hoax Davis, up to the present timc
has aded par before tha world very different
from the character which belonged 90 him before
the War,o or from that manifested by hi, public
actions since.
ItwsS Understood In former years, when he
wss Senator OF the United States from Mjsss-
sippi, that he was man OF no great personal
courage, Of irritable temper, and unbounded am.
bitton, but one who, IN general, could cover up
the most diahOnOraOC schemes or the most In.
tense hatred with the manners of a gcntem an.
his forte throughout his administration of this
hehtlion has been thai be has personally acted
"nke ernlenav. With the most suaye pro.
rrioty Of manner, he has let loose a whirlwind
which will desOldto this continent for years to
come.
With perfect good breeding he more than any
other man, has iustigated hundreds of thousands
OF men to cut the thrOais OF their brethren. Sci.
dom losing his sclt-c0ntrol Of manner, he ha
welded an iron and eentless de5potism over his
own subjects. With mild words, and even with
the phrases of a Christian, he has carried on war
as no despot of Asia would suffer il 10 be carried
on permitting prisoners to DO starved, negroes to
be murdered In cold blood, and the most astound-
ing barbaritiCs to be committed.
Yet, through il all, he has preserved his pro-
priCty with one or two exceptions, his speeches
have shown comparatively little temper, aud he
has had the immense self-contrOl Of being able 10
conceal the fearful wounds which war was con
tihually making 10 the resources Of his insurgent
followers. Now vt length, however, he has lost
his temper; he lets ct the savage Southern wild
beast which the slavehOlders' civilization keeps
50 carefully under cOncealmcnt; he bllckguards
his enemies he blurts ont his secrets he bctrays
msudlin.
1t seemed like hoax, that tho first great
Southern commentary on Grants famous epigram
OF "robbing the cradle and the graves" should bo
I'll" Rebel President accepting with pride a recruit
OF eight years, and calling on the aged and the
manned to drive out the invader Then, for the
cool and proper chief of the Rebellion TO speak
OF Butler, the Beast" and " acknowledge that
t,Do.thtrds Of his own armies were absent without
leava, and that Virginia was as badly Off as
Georgia, certainly appeared like practical Joke.
And yet there is no doubt of the genuinenoss
of this speech. 1t Is commented on, in various
style and spirit, in all the Southern papers, and
was copied from the n ICON Telegraph and Con-
federots into the columns Of the Charleston and
Richmond journals. Every day we receive fresh
anDotationS upon It from the Southern editors
The truth was. that the skilful and cunning
conspimtOr, who had brought such unnum-
bered woes on his couutrymen and friends,
as no man, however revengeful, has eva
visited on his worst enemies who had suf-
fered nation TO be plunged into bloody fra'ernal
strife for the sake Of his own wrctched ambition,
now saw all his grand schemes of Wickedness
falling to pieces before his eyes his country desc
lated, his kinsmen and companions killed, him
self an outcast and exile, and his crime to stand
as one Of the hlHckest and most unsuccessful on
the page of history. With these fearful spectres
haunting him of coming ruin, irritlted by defeat,
the willy Rebel leader lost his self-contrOl, aud
let out to the world confessions which he would
now undoubtedly give anything - have buried
up forever.
But We aud the world, looking on, can judge
more clearly ffom such mpassiOned and irrita-
BILE utteraDces Of the true condition of the Con-
tcdeiacy, than from any other evidence We
see plainly that its end must he near when JEFF
ferson Davis calls on the old men and boys the
women and children, to help him, and admits
such fearful disasters as his Macon speech, for
the first time, discloses. "Two thirds of all his
armies absent show what the people feel about
the struggle. Forced details may keep up ap-
peaTances of numbers awhile. Regiments of
negroes may add to the muster-rolls and lessen
the real strength of the Rebels. All these are
but temporizing expedients. The day is fast
approaching when there will be none left in the
ranks to save the failing fortunes of the COnfcde-
racy, and its guilty leader will feel the reLribu
tiOn he now 50 gloomily foresees.