Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-01-25
FROM THE SOUTH.
A SARCASTIC VIEW or THE PEACE NfssIos-wHY
JEFF. DAVIS SHOULD GO SoRrH-sISGLKroS MOI
OF MUCH ACCOUNT.

a SARCASTIC VIEW or THE PEACE ~NIssIos-wHY
JEFF. DAVIS SHOULD GO SoRTH-sISGLRroS NOT
OF MUCH ACCOUNT.
From The Richmond Examiner, January Is.
Ii must be hoped that everybody in the con-
federacy, except the president, % at last tired Of
Y sits from foreign enemies, whether on private
business or for the purpose of.-holding converse
tions looking, or tending, or pretending to look
or tend to peace. 1t would perhaps be cruel to
expect that Mr.. Davis should deny himself the
intense delight of grasping, with effusion, the
hand OF an old Washington jobber, like Blair,
the very sight OF whom must have called up ten
dered souvenirs of the log-rolliBg of other days.
a morning paper has given an effecting Gescrip-
ton of their first meeting which, especially ION
the part of Mr. Blair, was marked by a degree OF
cordially that was as refreshing as it Was unex-
pected He shook the presidents hand warmly,
assuring MIN Of his undiminisbsd regard and e.
teen How kind
This Blair IS one of those who, for four years,
have been sending invading armies to lay waste
our soil, aud slay, aud burn. and starve our
people. Ii any southern family have lost a ia
Their, or brother slain ia this ioal war, Blair is as
mnch a murderer as Lincoln or Grant. Yet,
now the noble fellow is ready TO forget aud for
give, and comes 10 assure Mr.. Davis that bis re-
gard il undiminished. These touching private
meetings between the president aud alien enemies
III Alu1t ID Wat OtHiu 70 pc bfe-Dtu6 10 ll6 quo
lie. not 10 say provoking and offensive for
while no confederate is allowed 70 90 TO Wash
ingtOn, under any pfetense whatever, except a. a
prisoner, there seems nothing TO prevent any of
the enemy's politicians or Legislators from stroll
ing over the country at pleasure, and making
notes OF what he can see and fnd out Especi-
all IL is singular 10 remark with what gushing
warmth of feeling our chief magistrates heart
ALWAYS flows out towards the public enemy. To-
wards the confederate he is a lite cold and
hard, but let the said Colonel Jacques, or
Kirk. or Blair one appear before him, and say
he esteems him, and his whole nature at once ex-
pands aud he o~yerfows with tender feeling. He
presses both hands of the Illinois colonel, hands
vet red with confederate blood, and assures him,
with tears in his eyes, that he reyeres that col
onel's character.
The public has not yet been favored with an
account OF the scene that passed between him
and Mr.. Blair. when they went into secret SEES
sion. but the description when il appears will.
doubtless, be calculated to stir up all the finer
sensibilities of The heart. Ii may seem hard to
retain Mr.. Davis in this chilly confedsrate at
mosphere-cut off from those gentle sympathies
to which his soul responsive thrills. If be were
on the other side of the Potomac he could meet
Blairs, Kinks and Jacquesses every day, inter
change with them "reminiscences of the past, aud
weep with them, tear for tear.
Is he true object of this Blair's visit was, beyond
question, to fail in a pretended overture for
peace and union, and thus to give a stimulus to
the draft for three hundred thousand new thieves
and murderers to be let loose upon US next spring.
He could easily, in the confidence of private dis
course. get from the president a fresh avowal
that the south is really fighting for independence
and nothing else.
A statement which, though it has been repeat
Ell 40 often as to be almost monotonOus, yet al
WAYS seem fresh aud surprising to the northern
mind. Every time they learn on the authority
Of the Yankee who heard the thing actually said
with his own two ears. Ii is matter OF new
amezement and Indignation 10 them, and they
set about with more zeal than ever fitting out
armadas and gathering fresh troops A Mr..
Singleton, a member of congress in the enemy's
country, is the last. as We learn, who has thought
OF saunteTing within our lines. Two of the New
York papers say positively that he also is an IN
official commissioner, but that be denies it him
self. One thing is very certain, that he can have
no legitimate business here.
INDEPENDENT RECOGNITION DEMASDED-NR ORR
KNOWS HOW TO OBTAIN II MEMBERS OF CON
GRESs LECTURED-A RADICAL CHANGE OF ADMIN
IsTRATIoS DISQUALIFICATION SESSIONS IN con
GREss.
The Richmond Examiner Of the 18th has the
following
Now, this is absolutely all that we want-to be
recognized as an independent power without any
oreteutiOn to interfere in our domestic affairs. and
TO put an end 20 all federal or other connection
with the northern states, and Mr Orr, of Mi-sis
siopl, knows the way TO secure us all this nav.
lie IS resolved to accomplish it and is accomplish
ing il bT negotiation, in spite Of Lincoln and all
YaBkeedom ID defiance of everybody a, the
south a. yell as AZ the north. Well, if gentle
men be go determined, Of course there il DO more
to he said. We are going to awake some fue
morning and find ourselves at peace. and all eiti-
Zens of the free aud triumphant confederate
states, whether We ike it or not.
But enough, il i :uil lime 10 be done with
this. Members at congress have not been elect
Ell by their constituents to hand over those con
-%tituents, bound hand and foot. to their enemies
but to make provision and take order for eff
GENTLY carrying on the war. Ii congress would
attend diligently to IL own business. would fear
lessly investigate the causes Of the lxte disasters
and as feArlessly insist on 8 practical amendment
of our administration or ev en- its radical change
and show in all this a genuine. hearty sympathy
with people who are wiling to strain every nerve
70 vindicite their independence. and q determin
alton to share their fortunes and fate 20 the end
aud If they would avoid secret sessions, and let
the whole public know what they are about 10 a
time OF anxiety and peril like the present. We
fairs.
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