The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-06-28
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nIr. Jefferson Davis.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, speaking OF
the report of Surgeon Cooper upon the
health of Mr.. Davis and commenting there
on, it continues:
~"This is the treatment that is accorded
to q man who, for four years, was ut the
! head of more than one-third of the States
of the American Union, and represented
. their Government both at home and abroad
1t is the kind of revenge that is taken upon
an individual who was the chief exponent
OF o national sentiment, embracing a couu
try nearly rs large rs the Continent of Eu
rope, exclusive of Russia. 1t indicates the
manner in which the dignity Of the country
is displayed toward that great conbatant,
who for years wilded power that resisted
forces that would have overthrown any of
the mighty monnrchies upon the Continent
Of Europe. 1t is completing tho record
that We are making up for future history.
BY that it will appear that tho great hero
Of eleven sovereign States, after long and
desperate struggle with their twenty five
coEpeers, ut last, by the fortunes OF war,
fell into their hands. There were many
times when triaing change of circum-
stances would have suficed to have thrown
the balance into the other scale. A long
q, career Of success shone resplendent upon
the banner of these Southern belliyercnts
in the strife. The names of Bull Run.
first and second Shiloh, the Seven Pines,
of Gaines Mill, of Fredericksburg, of Cedar
Mountain, of Harper's Ferry, Of Chancel,
louisville, OF Antietar, OF Chickamauga, OF
Murfreesboro' and Gettysburg, of SpUttsyl
vania, of Coal Harbor of the Wilderness, of
Charleston, and Richmond, and Petersburg,
suggest the greatest military events, both
in tn 3ir magnitude and in the bravery and
determination OF their contestants, that ap-
pear in modern history. "Prisoner Davis"
as he is called, in this Fortress Monroe dis
patch, had under him military commanders
as consummate as Marlborough, yelling.
ton, or Prince Eugene. He commanded
Others who possessed the FIRE, the dash, the
intrcpidity and the heroic bravery of Mar.
'shals Ney, Murat, Lannes and Davoust.
thcIg7eat military palIadians, that surroun
Napoleon /. For four years " Prisoner
Davis" was at Richmond, with his so.called
Confederate Government within one hun.
dred and twenty miles of the seat of the
American Government. A million of SOL
diers under arms, the best in the world,
were not adequate to its capture. 1t re-
quired force as large as that which fought
upon both sides at Austerlitz, or Jena, or
Eylau, or Waterloo, or Friedland, to pro-
tect our Government in its Federal Capital.
Men talked about its being rebellion, an
insurrection, but, in fact, it asserted equal
belligerent rights with ourselves and all of
the nations of Christcndom Its guns were
heard for months with trembling and alarm
at Washington, and its hosts were seen in
great numbers from its capitol spires and
domes Its government was rs strong and
as perfect In every respect, as much found. |
ed'in the choice Of the people as the one
that ruled over us at Washington.
While we, blinded by the fumes of rage
and passion, had outlawed all this mighty
mass Of people at the South, of US who |
were conteDding for the Constitution as it |
Lad been interpreted by the ablest Ameri. |
can statesmen, their deeds and achieve
ments had awakened feeling ekin to ad- |
mlration in their behalf in ali the disinter
ested nations of Christendom.
l. The names of Davis, of Leo and Stone
wall jackson, of Joe Johnston, of Long.
street, OF A. 2. Hill, of Beauregard. Of
Hood, Of Ewell, of Forrest, of Stuart, were
carried to the remotest boundaries of ciyi
lization and inspired even at the North
something warmer than mere respect.
At length vastly superior numbers and
some grave political mistaken of Jefferson
Davis decided the day against the eleven
sovereign States Of the South. Their
leader fell into our hands, and we, to our
shame and disgrace, have been treating
him like felon and malefactor. The
treatment of Napoleon Bonapart by the
English Government upon the island of St.
Helena, which has been dark stain upon
the honor and famo Of Great Britain, was
excellent and liberal compared to the mis-.
srable prosecutions and torture Of our great
antagonist We have sought most ridicu-
lously to belittle great national transac-
ton down to the dimensions Of an odious
and treasonable conspiracy. We havo
prsctieed upon our illustrious prisoner tho
refined cruelty, Of the Chinese, 10 condemn