The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-05-22
BY GailIard & Desportes. |
'TNE TRE-WEEKLY NEWS
Jefferson Davis.

iS"u i'' WaSlilnSlon dispatch
that the government has granted Mrs.
DAVIS permission TO visit her husband at
Fortress Munroe. Although a partisan
'pres' has seized upon this simple piece
'oi clemency to denonnce 1t and vil;fv
THE motives of the Executive, we cannot
believe that there could he found n man
IN the whole length and breadth of the
land, with The slightest feeling of human
sympathy IN his heart. who does not
regard the indulgence exhibited in this
instance, ns proper humane and mag.
unanimous. The name of Jefferson Davis
belongs to history, and the evernowinp
tide OF human events has swept past
INN forever. IF the Macedonian con.
qnerer, known TO this day in Persia as
the mighty mur lerer, understood how
To extend generous protection to the
wife OF the fallen Darius; if the blood.
stained Caesar c'ud weep over the fate
ot his illuslrols rival, The unfortunate
P"mpey,; and the warlike Aurelan illus
trate his virtues 10y the pardon Of Zcno.
ba, his mo formidable enemy; surely
Al drew Johnson, the Christian PresI.
dent ct a Christian people. should not
'be maligned for the practice of similar
Indulgence. We should not be driven
ITO Pagans tor our only example of mag.
nania.iiy-
We blush to admit that so MANY of
our colatymen are dead to the instincts
"f humanity. IF the Confederate chief.
'tnln's name belongs to the page OF his.
tory, The pen Of the historian will not
fail to innortalize, he it with honor or
lniamy, the men who accord hlm Justice,
aud hose W ho would wreali their ma.
aice un his helpicss head. Arguing
from the most Rarlicni staud point.
Whatever may have been his errors
they We're errors of which millions were
enally guilty. When the cry for re.
laliaiion was wruug in his ears, and the
power to enforce it was lodged in his
lie p NJ his uniform and detcrmucd
reply was-"no, never; the Innocent
must not he punished for the crimes OF
others" lie was charged with obstna.
cy, sel'wi'l and disregard of the
opinions of his advisers; but il was an
obstinacy, which should be remembered
TO his advantage to-day. H. saved the
life of those who had been drawn by lot
to suffer similar fate 10 that mc,ed
ont to the gnerillas, and other Coniedn
rate soldiers, executed by Federal con -
manders. We we'll remember with
what bitterness Mr.. Davis lcnicncy
was denounced, what clamors were
raised for his removal, and amid it all
his steady adherence to The most hui
Mane usages of civilized war. He was
an open, honorable and formidable foe
the fortunes Of war have placed him in
the power ofthc Government, and struck
down the Eagle from his quarry. Vitu
perat!on, revenge, sectional rancor and
petty malevolence, have followed like
vultures the bound Promethens TO his
lonely cell, and Wi. doubtless pursue him
TO the end-'ull bursts his mighty soul
from the tabernacle ofthe flesh. And
who is this man, that he should have
thus attracted the gaze ofthe world and
stirred the heart OF a great nation to
tumult of stormy agitation2 An Amer.
can citizen, who once added lnsler to
the name, and trod the paths OF great
ness; giant among the Titans Of the
field, tile Senate aud the Council. Ma.
ture endowed him with an elegant per
sen, a demcanor OF grace and dignity
and among his natural gifts, heightened
and embeliished by profound cultivation
are numbered an elcqnence which flow
in ordinary conversation, aud manners
of SURPRISING lacination, He sat in our
national forum, with Webster on one
side. Clay on the other, and Benton and
Douglas members ot the same conclaye.
"Athos and Mount Ida. a
With dashing seas Of elsquencc between"
Nor was lie an unworthy peer of those
illustrious personages. He breathed hs
native atmosphere amid the intellectual
lights whose exiingaishment would seem
to have left disastrous eclipse over the
legislative halls Of the nation. 1t was