Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-03-10
Ex-Gov. Foote's Book.

l., What is this new work, emanatinl
from the prolific and popular PUBLISHING
house Of Harper 4 Brothers, consisting
we are told, Of Observations upon TIL
causes, course and consequences OF ths
late civil war in the United States ~
would be difficult to define. what The
exact object of his lucubrations IS, did
we not know the character Of their author
"a man in whom the milk Of human
kindness has no existence, n merciless
Tbersites, whose broad shoulders were
once obnoxious to the chastising rod OF
the King of Ithaca, and who. revived IN
the person of the malignant ex-Confed-
crate Representative, deserves yet more
summary punishment at the hands OF
those whose counsels he once shared
| Though a frebrand and traducer even
there) and whom, in misfortune and DIS
comfture, he feels free to assail with mis-,
representation the most unfounJed and
malice the most unrelenting 8
What though the rebellion has been.
subdued, and its leaders hurled from
power, is this time when submission
has disarmed the conquerors, and the
stricken land is crying out for peace, is
this time, we say, for one prominent
amongst rebels" to drag every South
erper of note before the world, and dis
guising his highest and best QUALITIES
present him only as a monster OF I'M,
outs seeking his own ends alone, ana
obtaining them by means the most dis
graceful? But when he speaks lis
SANDER, whose foul tongue outvenoms all
the worms of Nile.
: Who will credit the assertion that, in
the cabinet of Mr.. Davis, there were only
two functionaries of qualifications even
respectable p They may have been po-
liticalIy erring; they may, some of them,
have Been wanting in the higher attrib-
utes of craftsmanship; but TO say that
their qualifications were not respeeta'
ble." is obnoxious to the common sense
of the whole country, and perfect ex-
qualification Of Mr.. Foote's truthfnlness.
Be lust even to an enemy, is a wise and
axiom, but what shall we
saw of one who is treacherous TO his
friends. let the motive be what 1t may,
and that, too, in time Of adversely, when
,harity would draw veil over their err
r0rS, anu seek W Ieetoic thc"i " "" 49, |
whence they have strayed tits no re-
to the party in power that
. renegade, from the ranks of their po-
itical opponents seeks to conciliate
hem, at the expense of their subjugated
1t is evident from the tone, and feeling
WINGED, in the book before US, that
Mr.. Foote did not receive that support
md consideration in the Confederate
to which, in his own estima-
ION he was entitled. This, we confess,
Ioes not lower that body. in our estima-
ion. rs far as he is concerned-his book
us that he is one governed by
,owerful prejudices, hasty in Judgment,
nd unfair in speech, an uncompromis-
pg enemy and unreliable friend.
His statements, though spacious, lack
Intrinsic evidence of truth. He has not
1T enough even to give an air Of proba.
ility to his monstrous allegations, and
hongh he has furnished text book to
he enemies of the South, yet, has he, in
o wise, contributed to the advancement
f literature, the PRONUNCIATION of verita-
lie facts or his own fame.-Neto Orleans
,icauane s-.I1