The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-14
srrr. DAvIa ANN nrs RDlroRs.

AEFFs DAWN AND NhN EuAAnkWa
The Rebel President is likely 70 have nice
time oft with his subjects. His last message
haz stirred up q hornets most about his ears,
and already they are whilzing around and
planting their -tings in his face. They did not
take quietly the proposition that "the condition
offrcedom IL much better for the slave than that
Of aeryltuJc;" (" or "that tine Confederate Gov
ernmeut has o right TO acquire possession Of
the slave, by purchase or impressment with
compensation, and then emancipate them
without the consent Of the States, or Of The
masters" That was 2 disturbance Of their
equauimiLy not TO be borne, and 20 they are
pitching into Mr DAVIS numerically, accus-
ing him Of being a more effective abolitionist
than Mr.. LINCOLN.
But The last straw on the cameps back is
his suggestion that the military be instructed
20 detail editors for conducting the nows-
paper press throughout the South. Mr.
DAVIS wants men TO lght, and has come to a
conclusion directly opposite 90 that Of RIoui-
uulu, for he thinks the sword Is mightler than
thc pen and he intends to put those editors
who have been lighting with gooso-quUls for
four year, past, in the fore front Of battle for
a while. This is something they did not anci-
cipotc. All the time that they have beon Al-
lng thoir columns with donunciltions OF the
"NoItbern tyrant," they were IN blissful
ignorance Of the fact that their august master
had "a rod inpiclle' for their own backs; that
he was concocting a plan to drive them into
the service. with musiet on their shoulders
and cornmeal in their lnapsaclls. But the
rod has been exhibited, and the Richmond
editors are in terror, Stil they show pluck.
and the fight has commenced.
DAVIS urges on his Congress that men are
needed and to the end that they may be
raised, ne advises a system of detail by the
military Of only such persons as are absolutely
necessary to carry on the various mechanical,
scientific and educational professions Of the
South. He believes that there are largo num-
bers Of men who can be spared from the
workshops the mines, and the newspaper
Offices in the Conlederacy; and TO get hold Of
these men, the military authorities are to ex-
anime into the matter, and set aside certain
persons to continue the work in the different
branches of industry and the publishing Offices
of the Confedcracy.
The editor of the Enquirer sees a fearful
evil in the system, and styles il "cesspOol of
corruption" from whose depths no man could
come forth TO assume his old position Of infu-
erce aud rcspectablity before the people. He
even grows frantic over the prospect, and
eXclalm5 mol for Gods sake put US IN the
army-lhe trenches-anywhere but save us
" from the degraded position of detailed
g. 4 Al.
ENQUIRER man is no coward; it is not because
he fears Yankee bullets or bayonets that he
finds such fault with the idea. BY no means
He breads the greater evil, that Of the loss of
the freedom Of the press. He does not want
TO be ''an underlng to an underling," Just as
If he has not been an "underling" for the last
four years. But, after all, this rampant editor
does see danger lurking in the obnoxious
proposition, and he quotes the case Of
"UnIAH, whose beauteous wife,
Made DAVID seek his lie;'
and intimates that the modern DAVIS, not
DAVID, might take advantage Of the license
warranted by the new system TO put some
! Southern URTAH of an editor in the "Core
| front of the hottest BATTLE" for the purpose of
getting rid of him forever.
This prospect is disGgreeable, and the En-
q,iror writer enters his protest. If there is a
RATEsmBA in question, we do not blame
him for exhibiting such concern.
How this war at home is to end remains to
be seen, but if the Southern press can prove
in the fight with "His Excellency' JETFEB'
son DAVIS, that "the pen Is mightier thar
the sword" they viii gain triumph of whicb
they can afford TO be proud.