The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-01-15

Of Davis at the helm So down with Davis
and up with some one else. The conscious
ness that all is lost If Davis holds his place
is, says the Ecdniaer, Gin the air; it Is
in the eyes and voices Of men; it goes with
them to church; 1t attends them to the markets"
and the people thus haunted by this conscious
ness is Irrational, logical, consequent people,"
Therefore it is inevitable that Davis must 60
down. But howl Davis is greater than Con-
gress greater than the press, than the people,
than the constitution, and can ride easily over
all and have his own way. But q convention,
"the highest political tribunal" is greater than
all these at once and greater therefore than
even Davis. Call convention Immediately,
then, and first in Virginia. 1t is true that the
Virginia people have opposed conventions; but
that was because Georgia and North Carolina
wanted them, and 1t was feared that through
them they would make peace. They could
not be trusted with that edged tool-poor
little things But now it is Virginia that calls.
OF course every one can trust Virginia, espe-
cially the Virginiana
Such is the tone in which the Examiner leads
the bitter clamor against Davis, and urges its
great political nostrum: convention. 1t does
not exaggerate the opposition to Davis, and 1t
shows as forcibly that that opposition is, as it
says coming to ahead" He must have strange
eyes who can still see any chance for Southern
success. Reduced to their last man, their only
chance would be in united effort, and they are
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ruler is ridiculed as fool, whose vanity has
'frittered away" nation, and influential men
advocate his deposition as the only hope of
success. Moreover Georgia is still in the van,
and goes further than those who merely
oppose Davis. 1t is evidently arranging its
return to the Union. And if the news of the
recent elections in several counties of the
State prove true, it intends to return very
soon. And while all this goes on, and 'whirls
the confederacy to the Devil" while no
step is taken to prevent the final defeat, the
"iron circle Of necessity" closes with terrible
certainty and swiftness. But little while ago
Lee and Hood were the rebel hopes. Now
Hood is lost in Mississippi and Lee only is left.
Grant confronts him on the James and stands
against him like an anvil, while Sherman comes
on like Titanic sledge to smash him on that
anvil Now, also. the enemy tells US that
Thomas will move through East Tennessee and
Virginia to Lynchburg, and also operate
against Lee. Can he do it? Most undoubt-
eddy. Sherman has just shown what can be
done in that way. Thomas can be supplied by
the government through Tennessee and in Vir-
gina or North Carolina he can move through
counties as rich as any touched by Sherman in
Georgia. "Every part of tho Southern coun-
try" says Sherman, "will support armies by
judicious system of foraging." And therefore,
bad as are appearances in Richmond now, the
only prospect is that they will soon be worse
For, whether JEFF. Davis stands or falls, and
whoever is put in his place, the end Of March or
April will perhaps see Grant, Sherman, Thomas
and Sheridan moving against Lees lines, and
will see the last vestige of the great rebellion
utterly crushed out of existence. Driven from
Tennessee and Missouri crushed out Of Ala
bama and Georgia, under the iron heel in South
Carolina, alive only in virginia-and despe-
rately menaced there-so stands the confcde-
racy; and the only remedy that the Richmond
doctors can propose is convention to remove
JEFF. Davis and then submission.