Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-05-20
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
From the N. Y. Evening Post.l
THE SPIRIT OF TIE cOTrTu

Hs
They who talk of the united spirit of tho
south, ana echo the stuff which Davis used 10
| utter abput the inyincibe hatred of the Sontb.
ern population for the North and the Union. will
md singular comment upon their theories in
ahe pur3ult and capture OF Davis. That person
hed from Greensboro. in North Carolina, thronob
western South Carolina and central and sonths1n
Georgia. lie was vigorously pursued by a consd
erable cavalry force but the region through which
he fled was such that Davis and his party, had
the people been friendly 10 them, might have
IAN concealed there in perfect safety, and been
passed fIom house TO house without tba -.
risk.
But the capture shows that the spirit of tho
country people is not friendly but hostile to the
rebel leaders. Davis line OF fight was traced
WITHOUT difhculty from information furnished by
the country people; and lie was not merely can
tuIed-he was surprised-not one OF the people
near ir"insVlIle 30 far favored the arch-rebel as
TO warn him oil the approach of the soldiers.
Now compare this with the fact that Union sol.
dlers escaping frJm the prison at SALISBURY near
10 greensboro, during the war, have travelled in
SAFETY IRON there to Knoxville, in Tennessee. and
IN another direction TO Beaufort, in south Caro-
lima. TheEe men without money. without ac
qualntance, with no protection but their known
loyalty 10 the Union, were concealed from their
pursufefs ana passed in safety from house tn
house, unit they reached the Union lines; Jeff.
DAVIS, with plenty of money and well known
through tae country, could not obtain even a
days concealment could not for even a few
hours throw his pursuers off the track. and was
at last 20 totally frendless iat not a soul warn
ed him of the coming of the officers of iustice
In ais desperation he tried to escape in the dis
guise of a woman-but no friendly hand was
stretched out to help him. Had the southern
people been friendly TO him he would never have
been caus ht. His capture proves the falsity of
his own professions that he was the exponent of
southern sentiment.
From the New York Commercial Adyertiser
sUBMIssIvRREs' OF THE SOUTH.
No more conclusive proctor the utter submis.
sion OF the Sou therner is needed than the fact
that they permit Union dispatches to pas, to
and fro from Macon to Washington and espe.
cially such kilograms Gs those announcing tbe
Illuminating circumstances connected with the
capture of their late chief. We have now teie-
graphic communication between Was ington
and Salisbury; but all he region Intervening he.
tween the latter place and Macon, with the ey.
ceptiOn of one or two points, is unoccup ed bv
Feceral forces. Yet the Sou herners do moi rno.
| lest the old lines, but leave them intact IN hs
| used by US at pleasure.
With the sure lder of their armies the snirit
ofresistance appears to have completely disap-
| peared among the people from one end of he
south to the other, Generals Canby and Wilson
have been repairing the telegraph wires be-
| tween Macon and the g1lf so that our Wash.
| ington authorities expect to be in direct com.
| munication with Mobile to day or to. morrow.
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