The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-10-25

from time to eternity. Ohder sue
irving circumstances, separated, as b
is, from the bosom OF kind AM
christian family, with nothing befor
him but an apparent ignominion
death. ii should arouse the sympathiet
Of his most deadly enemies. In orle
that We may do orr duty AS good cit
liens we would suggest the proprietJ
of calling public meeting for the
purpose of petitionmg the President
OF the United States to release Jeffer'
son Davis on a parole of honor, "a
be, and appear before the United
States Court whenever summoned
under due process Of law; where he
will be willing tostand fair and i'm
partial trial on any charge that may be
brought against him. Petitions. to
this effect, circulated North and South,
will, when presented to the President,
show that we have been actuated by
the agency of the holy spirit Of phi
lanthfophy, so that he will be gov
erned by the same and act according
ly. MANY CITIZENS.
There is honor, honesty and true
manhood in the above; its tenor is hui
man, not political. 1t is subject
worthy the particular attention of our
Legislature-worthy the thoughts and
tongues of the men of Mississippi
Mr.. Davis is man of whom no cit
izen of the United States should be
ashamed. He has played his part on
the nations board and been foiled-
jacta est oiea, and he has lost Defeat,
Imprisonment, and broken health are
his reward, coupled with the frenzy of
the currish crew that pursue him
1t is not honorable to the only impor
tant and self-sustaining Republic that
the world has ever seen to keep this
gentleman in prison. But we are
afraid that nations only feel the sun
shine for a while, and then down
wards go like ''lawine loosened from
the mountains belt" San Marine is
a trife; Switzerland is the ready tool
of the hirer; the Republics of Greece
and Rome lives only in history.
Gracious and Garibaldi are alike the |
idols of a day, and are then doomed
to be covered by the dust Of centuries. |
Shall this great els Atlantic Republic |
fill the same page on history as Greece
and Rome? Shall the genius Of Re
publicanism, of Democracy, degrade
itself here on this side of the swelling
Atlantic? II not not why keep the
honest representative of half nation
in chains? Why doom him to a dun
geon whore death will too soon over
take him ? Isit nota disgrace to a
great nation to be afraid OF a man :, or
still worse to be possessed Of the petty
spite that would immune a man in a
dungeon till the last of his days. The
character of the United States and of
1
It's actors in Congress will be forever
1arkened by this shameful proceeding.
Some man will yet write the history of
ibis Republic which shall go down to
the third and fourth generation,
md the verdict of our descendants
must be shame on us all, North and
South, East and West. Shame on us
all, Radicals and Conservatives. |
Shame on the nation claiming to be
irst in civilization and progress
hat could have repeated history so
lisgracefully as to make peoples
dol play worse part than that of the
nan with the iron mask Too late
hey will know it. /
We think the North and the South,
ne East and the West, have all alikei
IN interest in the disenthralment of
he good and great man imprisoned
n Fortress Monroe Are the people
n the United States too young to
earn history? Tell was successful
"a ROchequeline defeated Who
amongst US fails to rejoice at the sue
'ess of the first, or sigh at the defeat
If the latter? La Hoche IN justiica
ion of the ''rebels' of Lavendee while
lie commanded an army Of the French
Republic there, said, "if all men were
there would be no SOL
Tiers and no wars" Must we consign
he history of this great people to
ate worse than that Of the hero Of
switzerland OF the victim Of Laven-
lee 4? God Forbid
Our Legislature, the voice Of our
,eople and common humanity must
end him home to weep ont the for
unes that have befallen himself and
be people Of whom he was the
let him die in peace,
,reathing the free air Of Heaven--not
n a prison-hOuse. but in his own be-
owed Mississippihome.
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