The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-25

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and gatfsrAel hssiyzthe tsIBls ahsei, af La
eria aisEarIsrs ssit Il efsss pslH
hAo sir MI, Ltsican did nrs aiiihefst ifia Il
orr tou any terms. bss think both b. nnd lbs
Northern PEOPLE, for the sake ct peace. Would coil
sent TO some such conditions
"Ikey are very generous replied NJ. DAVIS: fol
the inst time during the interview showing som,
angry feeling. But amnesty, sir, applies 10 erimi
nals We have committed no crime. Coniiscatibr
Is OF no account unless YOU enforce it, Aud
emancipation Ton have already einaucipat.d
neatly two millions of our sla,es, and II You vii
take care Of them you may cnlancipate the rest,
had u few when the began. was OF SOME p'
to them, they never Of any to me Against
their will You emancipated them, and yon may
emanoipate every Negro iii the Confectionery nut We
will be free We will govern ourselves we VIII d'
II II We have to Southern piahlatlof
sacked ana every Southern city IA fame9,"
81 see, Mr. Utvls, IL IL useless Ia continue thi'
conversation replied, land you will pardon 1t
if We have seemedto pre4s our views with too mh'i
pertiHa,,ty."
Noto,sy can read this account without being struth
with the eslmness and equanimity OF the President
department. and the ignorant presumption OF hi
visitors These men went there primod with ali tt1'
logic they had cuiei from the New York HTefd
and the Tues and 2T,jUHe ffum the beginning o
the war They went into the President house an'
there vcm,uret to lecture him i'll the genuine New
York Herald style upon the grandeur and strength
Of the Yankee States, upon the mposs!b!lty oi re
sistng their power, upon Shemah's conquorln& II
Georgia, aud Grants destroying Lees army. Every
topic and every lie which is used by the New YoIl
press to cheat thc Yankee public, aud which presi
dent Davis Is IN the daily habit of reading III tn
public prints like genuine Yankees they went .er'
aud snolted to HIM though he Were an ignoramn
who had never been in Moo Yolk - for that the,
al consider a, tie strongest possible eVdcnce o
ignorance Ne VIII give more specimen At :,
such as are seen in the Hefold and I.t5soir eveTl
day
The radical Republicans, who 80 ior dave sat
frage and thorough COnhscatIor, are those who Wi
defeat him. If he Is to be defeated But II he II de
feated before tIf people, the House viii elect I
worse mani mean the worse for YOU Ii Is more
radical than he Is, YOU that from Mr.. Ash
lcy's Reconstruction Bill and the people are mur'
radical than the House. MIR. Lincoln, | know, i:
about To call out five hundred thousand more men
and | cannot see how You can resist much longer
but If YOU do You will only deepen the radical ie"l
ing of the Northern people. They vii! now gave
You fair, honorable generous terms but let then
suffer much more-lct there be a dead man In every
house, as there is iii every village, they vii
give you no terms; they will insist on hangine
every rebel south OF ---. Pardon my terms.
mean no offence"
"You give no offence" BE repld, smiling plea
sanity. II wouldn't have You pick your words -
This is a frank free talk, and I ike You the better
for saying what you think. Go on
81 was merely going to say, that let the North
ern people once really feel the war-they do not fee
it yct-and they will insist hanging every one Of
your leaders"
We say We admire President Davis for his calm
temper and mild department Surely he could not
have been blamed had ne fung tor servant and
ordered him To show these rtscals the way 10 IL,
street