Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-09-19
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
The Voice of an old Confed.

There has been sent us communication
which as bearing the marks of authenticity
we here publish. It is written on that coarse,
rough, dingy paper so common in war times,
and bears for the non,m1e de plume of the
real author the name of "OLD CoNFED."
For reasons that will be appreciated by the
writer we have slightly curtailed the article,
but have of course, added nothing, and give
it otherwise as it is written. For the COM
plimentary allusion to ourself we are duly
grafeful-iti is but one of many like utterances
that reach us on every side-and we never
hear so kindly wordsof cheer but we renew
our determination never, while urpen' can
trace syllable, to forget any man who now
languishes illegally in prison, be it Jefferson
Davis or the humblest private citizen whose
name and whose history are alike to us un-
known:
COMMUNICATED.
EDITOR OF TIE CoNsrlruTIoNALIsT:
There is one thing about your paper which
makes my heart throb warmly for its success,
and for the welfare of that person who writes
it's leading .,ticles-that thing is, you never
forget Mr.. Davis.
How apt men are to forget the suHerings
of others when. they themselves are not
sufferers. The ;ma1 who is ablo to have
his table groaning with thehbest viands the
country can produce, does not know the SYM
pathy he should feel, nor is he capable of
feeling it, for the poor family who go to bed
hungry on such food as barely susta;ns life.
This is matter, however, in which he only
feels humanitarian interest," if he feel any
thing; aud he may, hallway, console his
poor conscience with the reflection. that be
can not feed all the poor. 's
But in the matter which caused the incar-
ceration of Mr.. Davis, very nearly every man
IN this section of the country is uitally in
terestcd. There are thousands of US who
suffered in Northern prisons, and we know
what that Government did for us, notwith-
standing the power Of the Northern press
may have led many persons to believe we
were we'll fed. The report of their own Sec.
retary of War settles this matter. 1t shows
we lost 10000 men by death, out of 100000
prisoners. They lost $4,000 out of 100000
| prisoners.
Now, the effort is to convince us and the
world that Mr.. Davis has all the comforts and
luxuries he desires. he might have all the
WOrlu COulu prOuuSo III laoe "o53 euo Ae'
have his freedom, and what the world pro-
duces would be as ashes upon his lips or as
thorns to his weary limbs.
AS true man to the Confederate States
one who gave his services, his property, Ibis
blood and the lives Of his children to cause
which he believed to be right feel like l
cannot breathe free breath in this country
so long as Mr.. Davis is prisoner. If he is
guilty, I am more guilty-nine-tenths of the
volunteer soldiery of the South are moro
guilty. 49,
believe it is as much'the duty of every
good and true man in the South to "demaud"
the release, or trial, of Mr.. Davis, as it was
his duty to fight against what be thought was
oppression. However much desire to see
the States in the position the Constitution
gives them, think they never can be there;
nav, never should be there, if it we're posi-
BILE. until Mr.. Davis is tried by the proper
tribunal. or is released icrevocably from his
Imprisonment.
Let our people read Of. the infamous con-
duct of Mr.. Holt, in his attempt to fasten the
assassination of Mr.. Lincoln upon Mr.. Davis.
Let them read the report of the Committee
of Congress, to whom this question was re.
ported, and let them not fail to read the re-
port of the minority of that Committee, and
if, with all this infamy staring them in the
face, and staring Mr.. johnson in the face,
they can support him or his measures whilst
Mr.. Davis remains in prison, they can do more
than will do
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