The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-02-20
WHOLE No. 325.
TEARa,

! er OF the eye, because Bragg Was beaten ct
Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge.
So We are assured by the Richmond CORES
/ pondent of the Mobile Advertiser. The
Dictator of the Confsderacy Ia tears, with
1.-THE Richmond Enquirer crying to keep him
IcompanY, presents about the most dismal
| spectacle which the world has Witnessed
since Bslisarius carried about his hat. and
Caius Marius stumbled among the rocky
ruins Of Carthage. We must, however.
regret that our Information of Mr.. Davis
tear-shed Is so little particular. There arS
tears OF rage, Of JOY, Of despair-men cry
because they are glad and because they are
soTrE--there IS the weeping Of the uisspA.
ole and the weeping of the rnauiliu: but
Judging from all the collateral information
which we have been able TO obtain, we in
/ cline to the opinion that Mr.. Davis cried
| for the all-sufficent reason that he could not
help himself; and that hegave way to these
manly gushes after reading few melan.
choly, groaning, and grieVous articles in
the Richmond Enquirer, aud, among 9TH
ers, the following sorrowful prognostica-
uons: owe may yet realize the vision Of
our country struggling in the slough of
debt, with Labor resting on her rested IN.
plemen's, Commerce furling her wings, de.
Jected Trade in prison garments, and the
Genius of Liberty weeping over her people,
PROSTATE, bankrupt and disqraced.' A
very bad lookout indeed-worse than Look
out Mountain itself. If we we're asked to
give reason why Mr.. Davis should not
cry, when he Is forced to read these dolor.
Gus outgivings over his meager breakfasts.
we shonld be very much puzzled to assign
a plausible one. He certainly cannot be
ratonally expected TO laugh, when he sees
the "Genlus of Liberty believing with
briny tears population fiat, cashless, and
dlshonoFed. We ask to be reckoned AMONG
those who regard this natural moisture az
a sign thai the Davis moral nature is not
entirely depraved; and that he can vet feel
for the mlseries which his mo0siag ambi.
ton has brought upon his friends and neigh
bors. We only wish that he had been
equally sensitive when heprojected the ter.
rlble crime which must nov threaten him
with relentless northumberland be did
not with moistened orbs think of the blood
shed, the burnings, and the bereavements
which his Satanic speculation must enisiI-
thrt he did not, before shifting at the life of
the land, turn, in natural tears, from fell
onious speculation. involving both perjury
and parricide, the infsmy of violated vows,
and the shame of an unnatural crime
But better late than never The Davis
tears may not be profitable now, but if the
Confederate chief pleases to pstain with
grief' the death ring of his short lived ns-
tionality, he certainly has ample lugubrious
provocatives. He can cry over deplora
ble lack Of gunpowder, over the naked
back and empty bellies of his soldiers, over
fields left fallOw by his remorseless couscriu.
ton, over widows and orphans. and moth.
ers mourning for their sons. Or If none of
these objects can move him, the selfshness
OF has nature must exUort them, when his
common sense exhibits to him the shocking
disappointment which inevitably awaits him
In the ruin Of his nefarious undertakings
ruin which will leave him irnpaled with
Arnold and Burr upon the gibbet of his
tory, his name by word, his career warn.
ing, his deeds smutoh upon the page of
history and his Posterity permanently and
cruelty dishonored his reason must be
beginning TO pursuade him that he has risk-
ed too much, and that if be bad sought for
what no honorable spirit would fam win, he
has gained the infamy which the truly chiv.
alrous would die to avoid / Weep 4! Why
should he not weep, morning and evening.
IN els outgoings and his mornings, in his
bed and at his board !?
But tears are said to be contagious. On.
less Mr.. Davis sets better eYsmple. We
shall soon have the whole Confederate army
roaring in regiments aud blubbsringby balta.
hons. This will be disappointment to
amateur admirers Of indominabIs pluck.
We Rave, iDnumerable times, been told that
the rebels would die, hang, starve, freeze.
burn their houses, SOW their field with salt.
kill their wives and children, and even
emancipate their slaves, rather than bend
before the barborons Yaukees-and here
we have the ferocious martyrs fpgering his
pink eyes, and allowing the fugitive tears
TO chase eachother down his patrician nose.
It is pretty condition Of affairs, indeed,
when puryeyer of intelligence ia Rich
mond thinks it necessary to telegraph or
write TO Mobile that the stern chief Of the
fallen spirits is then and there CRYING The
Devil himself, the great proto rebel cursed,
swore, blasphemed beautifully, desperately
struggled, and made red-hot speeches of
uncommon length, when be found himself
and his fellow friends in the hottest Of
places, but it is nowhere recorded that he
pulled out his handkerchief and found re-
lief in fit of weeping. It nay be consol-
atory to the discontinued Bragg to hear that
Davis sobbed over the catastrophe of Mis-
sionary Ridge. but most generals would
have preferred the reinforcement Of a few
regiments. We have only to advise the
psuedo-President to husband his lachrymal
resources, unless. indeed, he fancies that his
coming misfortunes will be too great to ad-
rnitof other than the dryest kind Of agony.
~ r. tribune.