The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-26


could they hold Texas? Sherman's
bummers and a month of pleasant
weather, would, ''for sure" have dis
posed of the army ''lately victorious"
| Mr.. Davis knew this, and this y proved
by the circumstance that all his ener-
gies were bent upon escape from tne
hatred of the friends of the Richmond
| Examiner and the army of the Union.
The talk about the lately VICTORIOUS
armyu and Texas, is more ridiculous
than a balloon-wedding, or the Ameri-
can habit of christening all red-headed.
nur.nosed, ugly male children George
Washington or Thomas Jefferson.
Why, bless your simple soul, what are
YOU talking about? After the surrender
of the great armies of Georgia and
the Carolinas and the s%heathing of
the swords of the captains Of the Con-
federacy, ever Gen. George H. Gordon,
of Massachusetts,, give him men
enough-and they were at hand-could
have taken care of the trans Mississippi,
and the peace of the nation would have
been sure, except so far as it is disturbed
now by gentlemen who took no handin
the struggle while the war was carried
on, and regarded in degree as legitimate
though unnatural. We have n advan-
tage in common with our Richmond
contemporary, and it is well for us that
we have. We are addressing an audi
ence which does not require to go to
England for enlightenment upon the
events of the past four years In America.
W. are addressing readers who,
for the most part, II not all
must we except those who provoked
, this discussion?-took a personal part in
: the wonderful events that have arrest
ed the attention of the universe. We
trust to their intelligence ; to them we
r turn and not to that class which de-
I lights in disturbing the peace sanctioned
by him who led with such success, the
warriors known as the Army OfNorth-
y ern Virginia. We turn from those,
who abused Mr.. Davis when they could
h have served him, to these who offered
+ every sacrifice to sustain him, and ask
them to judge the issue in dispute. The
Examiner is playing for a prize. il
q wishes to be recognized as the great
, southern journal" So is the New York
Daily Meas i; SO is the accommodated
New York Records record as foul as
Vulcan's stithy. If the southern people
\ like this kind of food of course they will
eat it, no matter what Halls Journal o
g Health, which puts out a good deal o
q quaint wisdom on the subject of gripes
las to say. There must have been SOM
% dust removed from the old books o
Richmond, in the preparation OF this
Reply, and we are not surprised
IT at its whey-like weakness. Thu
|. clever historians exhausted themselves
II In the search for supper. for their dog
:. mas, and this counts for the tame
and un-Daniel-like argument, and thu
= absence of that energy which usual!
II marks their peppery editorials and mar
ket-place speech. They held on to tn
unknown E%nglishman as long as the!
r. could; and when he was exhausted the,
a strove to paddle alone. The reader will
do ma the Justice to bear in mind tina
Ia while we have over and over again eA
pressed the wish that Mr.. Davis nigh
N be pardoned, suffered to return to hi
v. plantation, it is the Examiner that !
prating about "a felon's DOOM" and as
sailing, with fiercest speech, the onl.
- men on earth who have it In their pow
ar er to exercise toward him that clemenc.
and that charity which are blessed. l
/. is the Examiner that, in n breatl
a. "~pleads," unasked, for mercy iron
il the Judge, and in another breath dare
d. him to do the act 1t Graves, thus justify
e, ing the belief of many that it is move
to by revenge and hate against the prison
ID er, to accomplish, his destruction. w
N thank our friend in Richmond for citin
M the case of Mumford, and while doing sc
ut will ask him to pardon us--for we car
,e not devote six days to q hunt in I'D
ne Fontaine's Magrinalia" and other work
ID In which it found something to sustai
lie assertions Of atrocities. But touchin
IN Mumford. That person "died the deaf
Id Of a dog" to borrow the language of tn
Richmond press on the passing ava
he of the heroic Colonel Dahlgrer
or Though o convicted criminal, he ws
VS. decently inferred, and no one cut hi
~ fingers off for the jewels that encircle
lie them, or stole the shoes from tn
ur defunct outcast. So much for this b
n, of testimony. The Trent affair will
o. attended to in good time; and the re,
ur son that the Franco-Mexican compile.
i'll tions are still unsettled, may be OWN
ny to the distrust occasioned at Washing
Use ton by the open d~isloyalty of the Ea
We aniner, which possibly hinders timi
[r. men from the assertion of the doctrin
90 of Monroe. How does that do for a
n answer? Is it not true? The distrus
is it may be, is chimerical. The Exam
re- iner knows best. But if that paper
I'd the "great southern Journal" if it repre-
sents the feelings of the Southland W
L. hazard tho asaertion even at the risk 4