The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-06-10
I4IDH NH- -alEaLIrUtD LUIDu-J
ChIyaIry In PetticOats.

If the record Of the crimes Of JEFF. Davis i.
destined to be read by coming generations with
a shudder Of horror, the official story Of his
capture VIII be - argument for q week, laughter
ior a month and a good jest for ever The
hero Of Buena Vista, founder Of q new nation
director Of mighty armies, chosen chief Of a
master race, mirror Of chivalry, bright Saladin
Of the South, skulking among the pines of
georgia, disguised III pctticOats hourishing q
bOwIe-kniye. yet afraid To die by his own hand
or the revolver Of Il pursuing Yankee surren-
derIng on the verge Of the last ditch to grace the
charIOt OF a Yankee triumph, instead Of acting
upon the brave counsel he had 50 often given to
others and protesting, as he yielded, against the
energy with which the Government pursued
: women and children - Descending from the
stills OF classic tragedy to the buskins Of the
broadest farce. the mock chiralry of the Confed-
eracy seems 70 be doomed 10 not ONLY be accurseI
Tor its cruelty, but to sink beneath the riliculc
OF the world. The scence shifts suddenly. In
stead OF Brutus and Cassius, dipping cir dag
gers IN the blood Of the murd Ces and
loitIy deyotlng themselves to liberty or death,
we see the chief conspirator transformed into
fais'aft striving to elude detection in woman's
clothes. If the sober history Of the war demands
the descriptive pen Of a Motley and the discrim-
mating Judgment Of a Bancroft, the close Of
the struggle presents incidents that call for a
ceramics Or an Orpheus C.. Kerr. jeff. Davis
turns out U be more than the heavy villain of
drama he u an ImpOster. u humbug, one Of
tho-s historical shams which Thackeray shrivellcd
~ azure ana carlyle delights u puncUurc. Can
iIiaie- Tor the penitentiary who refresh their
>Du4s "ith the Newgate chronicles Of bold sound
fs.@ " dying game, and who were looking hone
i4Ily q the last sccnce Of JEFF. . career, will
turn away with profound disgust. Brave Con-
iT1sfaoSs vii wonder how they came 10 endure
- lynZ tie supremacy Of such a lily-livered
chi"f. and loyal men. alsO, viii feel like kicking
ne fellow fyr his outrage on the prophecies Of
the situation, after being 20 long regarded a. a
terrible fDe. / iew months ago IL was common
." refer . the PRECEDENT u the Confederate States
AZ one fatally cursed with the uubcnding pride
and earnest purpose i Millions Sa,an-a charac-
ter u be feared, though detected, and one likely
% leave among kindred spirits, by Il dauntle-s
death, the memory Of a martyr. To-day, his
name - associated with robbing banks. Peter
FunkIng ms furniture at Richmond, skulking
flight with a body guard Of women, Inasquerad-
ing IN female attire 70 be betra ycd by his boots.
and craven surrender mt the first pointing Of a
pistol. IL was thought 10 be a fearful descent
when the late President Of a COnfederacv, with
n legion of admirers in both hemispheres, was
Pnbilciy proclaimed a sneaking assassin, for
whose arrest the Government would paw a hand
some reward. If Davis had died as Booth died
ana ms Bobadllian talk and naughty pretensions
had led many 10 suppose he would so make an
might have stopped at Booths level.
now he has fallen below even that low Grade
If vIllainy into a Jimmy Twitcher rank of
'ontempt, from which a transfer 70 the scaffold
would be an elevation in more than one sense of
he word. Hanging would add n certain crimi-
lal dignity to such n character. Some Southern
iotspur ought TO " brain him with his lady's