The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-13
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JEFF. Davis GeorgIa speech.

The following speech, made by JEFF
fer5on Davis at Macon, Georgia, Sep
tember %, 1864, is extracted from the
columns of the Daily Macon Telegraph
and Confederate of September PA
LADIES AyD CESrLEwEN, FRIENDS AxD
FELow,CITIZENS; lt would have glad
dened my heart to have met you ia
prosperity instead Of adyersity. But
friends are drawn together in adyersity.
The son of Georgian, who fought
through the first Revolution, | would
be untrue to myself If / should forget
the State in her day of peril What
though misfortune has befallen our
arms from Decatur 10 Jonesboro, olr
cause is not lost Sherman cannot
keep up his long line Of communica-
tion, and must retreat SOouer or later
be must, and when that day comes the
fate that befell the army Of the French
Empire in its retreat from Moscow will
be re-enacted. our cavalry and our
people viii harrass and destroy his
army as did the COsssacks that Of Ma
pOleon; and the Yankee General, like
him, will escape with only a body
guard How can this be the most
speedily effected2 BY the absentees Of
Hood army returning TO their posts,
and viii they not? Can they see the
banished exiles. can they hear the wall
Of their suffering eountryWomen and
children, and not come
BY what Influences they are made TO
stay away, it is not necessary TO speak.
IL there is one who will stay away at
this hour, he is unworthy the name Of
Georgian. To the women no appeal Is
necessary They are like the Spartan
mothers of old / know OF one who has
lost all her sons, except one Of eighteen
years. She wrote, that she wanted me
to reserve a place for him in the ranks
The venerable General Polk, TO whom
/ read the letter, knew that woman
well, and said it was characteristic Of
her, but ] will not weary you by turn
ing aside to relate the various incidents
Of giving up the last son 70 the cause Of
our country. known 10 me Wherever
we 90 we find the hearts and hands Of
onr noble women enlisted They are
seen wherever the eye may fall, or the
step turn. They have but one duty TO
perform; 20 buoy up the hearts Of our
people n knew the deep disgrace felt
by Georgia at our army falling back
from Dalton TO the interior Of the State.
But I was not OF those who considered
Atlanta lost when cur army crossed
the ChattallOochie ] resolved that Il
should not, and | then pat a man in
command, whom ! knew would strike a
blow for the city, and many Yankees
blood was made 70 nourish the soil be-
fore the prize was won. Ii does net be-
come US 70 revert 10 disaster Let the
dead bury the dead Let az with one
arm and one effort. endeayor 70 crush
sherman. am going 70 the army 70
confer with our Generals The end must
be the defeat Of our enemy
II has been said that ! abandoned
Georgia 70 her fate. Shans upon such
falsehOodi Where could the author
have been when Walker, when Polk, |
when General Stephen j, Lee vas sent /
to her assistance2 Miserable man. The /
man that uttered that was = scoundrel /
lie gas mott a man 70 save our eOutry. III
/ knew that a General did not possess 4
the qualities 20 command, would ] not 1
be wrong, II be were not Tem0Tcdf Why.
when our army was falling back from
GeOrgia, I even heard that I
] had sent Bragg with pontoons to
eros il At CHA Bat We must Be chari-
table. The man who can speculate.
ought 10 be made 70 take up his mus.
ket When the war j. over and our
won,-and we will esta.
blish oar hdepenltenco, who viii b.
our aristoereeyf ! hope the limpirg
soldier To the young ladies would