The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-27
Not One Word Of Kindness, but Curses
Loud and Deep.
Clay and Mitchell Asking to be
Released.
mitchell WILLING TO ACCEPT A PARDON,

fOHIhtSS MONROE July 10, 1000
JET Davis last evening allowed to out Of his
and take walk inside the fortress An officer
and guard accompanied him. He protracted his walk
nearly hour This the first occasion Of his being
allowed outside his since he first put in
there the 2lst Of May last Dr. Craven, his medical
custodian am told advised that unless he be allowed
outdoor exercise he would not live much longer The
late extraordinary heat-he thermometer one day ndi
eating hundred and seven degrees In the shade in
side the fort-has had very debtating well as de-
pressing effect him. 1t s known that Mr.. Clay was
SLOWED daily walks the representation Of his surgeon
shat continued close confinement would kill him. II is
reasonable to infer that the privilege has been
accorded TO JEFF Davis for the In recent
letter stated that notwithstanding contradictions Of
my previous statement that Davis in declining
health and would survive six weeks longer close in
generation not prepared to modify that statement,
but fully and implicitly believed the facts set forth to
be The truth Of this statement s confirmed in the
permission just given Davis 10 take outdoor exercise
It s understood that this permission is to be allowed
him every day. least TO extent giving Of
preservation Of his health and life.
ASKING NO PRIVILEGES.
Finding that his very moderate requests be allowed
70 write 10 his wife and read her letters, and 70 be
granted wider range Of reading matter than the Bible
were not complied with, has made Davis very quiet on
doubtless do in influencing this Of conduct
Gradually he grew depressed and morose and his
health declined and with increasing depression, grow
ing goominess and increased physical debility, his stub
bornness Of will kept him obdurate He had made up
his mind TO ask favors, and he has not The prison
authorities might do they pleased with him, and he
would patiently, passively submit
HEALTH DECLINED.
He has taken no exercise His only care looking TO
preserving his health has been his morning baths He
has eaten his three meals with decreasing appetite,
and the intervals has sat looking out Of his casemate
opening Through each velong day, and till the shadows
OF night obscured and cloud and passing ships and
the distant woodland om his dimmed view be has here
nat In suen, dogged silence
WHY Is ALLOWED OUTDOOR EXERCISE
His pride and obstinacy combined were killing him.
he was dying by inches. What should be done with
himS Il would hardly do; h would not look well; IT
would not sound WE'LL might revive unhealthy SYM
pathy in the hearts of his old supporters 10 let him die
his casemated CELL Exercise daily in the open air
accordingly enthusiastically urged The Secretary Of
War was consulted and gave his consent perhaps
date. Such is the state Of facts gather them. am
told that Jef Davis did not ask this privilege He
cepted the privilege most joyousy and made disguse
Of his pleasure. II bright CLEAN Of sunshine pene
srating the darkness Of his prison abode
WALK
A strong guard accompanied Davis In his walk The
walk was SLOW and with nothing said on either SIDE He
walked with more ease and with nrmer STEP and
sreot than II supposed he could. The excitement
and novelty Of his position doubtless had something TO
% with He returned strengthened and more cheerful
than be has shown himself for weeka
SURVEILLANCE OVER DAVIS.
Over all the ssate prisoners the gard numbering
altogether seventy officers and men, Ia now kept TO
watch them at the commencement Of their incar
eeration II may, in fact with the utmost truth be said
that the great Napoleon at Eba 81 Helena the lesser
Napoleon at the Fortress of Ham, any State prisoner
Of the last several centuries were not subjected TO
etxicter surveillance than that 10 which JEFF Davis still
subjected here The great Corscan conqueror did
from Elba, the present Emperor Of France performed
hke exploit at Ham, and tothers whose overlapping
bon plunged them into crimson crimes that only could
be expaied on the galows successfully euded their
vigilant guards.
DAVIS CANNOT
But there is no such hope for Davis. The people may
rost easy on this point He who could plan treason
who could by nod Of his august head stroke Of his
facilc pen delude thousands into following him and
abettng TO destroy government, Is helpless now,
forsakcn uncommisserated, except by very few
NONE TO SAVE
He has not had sent him, except from his wife, O
single letter Of genuine heartfelt sympathy But there
have been letters in which all the bitterness of hate and
taunting sarcasm, and maledicton have been
condensed into words Of most singing rebuke and
sharply pointed anathemas II s well he does not sec
these letters In them he would read a fato more
cruel than the gallows With the collapse Of
the confederacy he could see had been sundcred
every tie Of profcsscd friendship His strong allies are
gone and give out no word Of coincidence stretch out
hapd On ali 10 d
the wall of widows mourning for husbands and who
are not Curses loud and deep Of the thousands whom
his treason has robbed Of home fortune and friends
whispered about his pillow Then at night pore visions
of long trains Of his deuded, poor miserable, ema.
ciated victims, pass in review before him. The South
could raise men and TO conspire TO assassnats
that true and noble man. President Lincoln but she
raise none 70 rescue Je Davis that pseudo President
and de hco deccivcr robber and Wholesale murderer
All Of his old friends busy looking after them
selves and they have decided TO let him look after him
self
TRIAL
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