Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-07

Ihrce years ago JeHeTSon Jaws GOV
in the Senate of the United States, with
at his command that heart
could desire. Though but little
past fifty years Of age, he had achiev-
ed wide and honorable distinction
both as a soldier and statesman.
He had received Military education
at the National expense, and served
with credit as Lieutenant of regu-
lars and as colonel Of volunteers in
the Mexican War. He had been an
extensive and prosperous planter, an
elector Of President, a representative
and Senator in Congress, and for four
years Secretary of War. In his &C.
tive public career, he had encountered
but two defeats--one, in his attempt
to bully Colonel afterwards Govern
orr Bissell Of Illinois on the floor of
the House, and afterward by sending
him challenge, which he was at last
constrained to back out of the other,
when he run on the Estate Rights !"
(mcaning Scccssion) ticket for Gov
ernor of Mississippi, and was beaten
by Henry s. Foote. A winning speak.
er, respectable in private life, and gen.
orally esteemed in spite of his inordi-
nate conceit, Col. Davis might have
closed his career in tranquil prosperi-
ty and honor but for the insane and
guilty ambition which fmpelled him
for years to foment and at length to
lead the atrocious Shareholders Re-
bcllion.
He left Washington on or about the
22d Of January, 1861, having resign
ed his seat in the Senate on the 2Ist.
He was favorite of the upper caste
of both that city and Baltimore, and
he little dreamed that he was bidding
a long adieu to SO many of his enthu-
siastic admirers. On the contrary, he
utterly refused to credit Gen. Butler
and others who assured him that dis.
union involved q long and terrible
War. He left his pew still rented in
the most. aristocratic Episcopal church,
with his name in silver on the door.
He expected to be pressing it's velvet
cushions within a month, the tenant
Of the White House, the President Of
Slaveholding Confcderacy stretching
from the Rio Grande to the Susque-
hanna and the Missouri, with bound
less prospects of speedy expansion
southwark and westward. Such were
the roseate dreams that sped his pas
sage southwark, the observed of all
observers "-cheered, dincd, wined,
as If he were barely less than God.
Three years have not since passed,
and Mr.. Davis is called to face his bo-
gus Congress- new one--at Rich.
mond. His expose of his and their
position might suffice to draw blood
from q turnip. It's sum and substance
is this-Thc Confederacy is played
out !! It has not soldiers enough to
withstand the Union Armies, yet it
can neither feed. clothe nor shelter
those it already has. Its people as
well as its armies are ragged and
furnishing. It's credit is gone, and it's
paper money is worth lowing to the
high price Of cotton and the scarcity
Of rags) some six or eight cents per
pound. It's people know that the reb-
ell cause is "gonc up" and must be
hunted by the bloodhounds to drive
them into its shivering, dying legions.
In short, 1t il used up.
OF those who embarked with him
in this desperate yet sanguine adven-
ture, the majority are already dead
Ben. McCulloch, Albert Sidney John
ston. William. l.. Yancey. John w. FL.
lie, o. Jennings Wise. Claiborne F.
jackson. Thomas j. jackson, Maxcy
Gregg, William Barksdalc, Hood. and
ever so many others. The South is a
cemetery /; nearly every white family
within her borders is in mourning.
Many have lost every male adult.
We doubt that there remain SO many
white males of fit age for military
service as are this day gathered
around the Union standards, and
these are daily increasing.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis !, You know
that to prosecute this contest further
is a wanton and wicked waste Of hn-
man life Your men have fought gal
lantly they have dared and suffered
heroically but the odds were too
great, and you are at the end of your
rope. Why not throw yourself at
once on the generosity of nation
that will not be divided, but is ready
to be magnanimous What use or
sense in holding out when there is no
longer rational hope of success