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

On Thursday, eflast week, we copied
an article from the Richmond ETdm'n-
rr. and replied to it. 1t was a TRADE
against the Government of the Uniteo
States, and an unjust assault upon 'ho
character of a people who had given
evidence oftraits of character never ye'
denied them by those of the SCUM WIN
had met them in combat, and VINO are
alone capable of judging of their cour-
are and capacity for endurance under
trials that might unnerve the toughest
veteran. On Wednesday of this week
ak DAVIS afterwards-the Examiner re-
sponds. We print what it has to say III
full, a courtesy which every candid de-
batter displays towards his antagonist,
but which the uncandid Examiner
withholds from us; for that journal not
only withllolds our statement OF the
points in issue, but it misrepresents us
to its readers; and, indeed, it misrepre-
sents its own position also. But self
interest obliged it to do this. In no
other way, except by Misrepresentation
and an avoidance of the issue, could II
hold its position. From the hour OF the
revival of the Examiner, untilnow, DAY
has not passed that something was mo
contained in its columns unfriendly TO
the Government and those who defend
it-abuse, which strove to be equal 10
that which the same journal, guided by
another hand, directed against Mr.. JEFF
ferson Davis-the anonymous English
mans lone of the worlds foremost
men, And what have We in the Reply?
or MS he calls it, "Our pleaf for the release
of Mr.. Davis.n Your "plea?" You,
who embittered all his days of great
ness" This audacity is eqaalled by the
other branch of the sentence, in which
we are told that the plea ''has fallen like
a bomb-shell in.the camp of the radi'
calls" If the Examiner is as ignorant
of bomb. shells as it is of the effect of its
abuse upon the people of the North, il
had better let "bomb-shells's alone, al
it did all the while they were of use
We believe it kept pretty well out Of
range of them during Mr.. Davis unna
tural struggle; and we charge nothing
in spite Of It and f tie 'R haomMse guards III gen
orally, to cease firing the d~estructives
into the camps of brother non-combat-
ants. The Richmond Journal is aston
ished that we should have condescendet
to take so much notice of its nonsense
and this is the best point it makesagainsI
us; for we own ourselves a little lame
here. There was nothing IN the series
of hu.labaloos Of the midnightyawning'
OF the ghost to Justify our "four column
editorial;" except the fun it afforded US
which was considerably more than tn
cost. This labor of ours now, i
for fun, and we do not know how
long we shall continue to laugl
at the pomposity and the airs, of tn
s~elf-conceited Mentor, who stands befor
us with all the assurance of a historian
a warrior and a statesman. After a dis
torted %recounting of what it "simply
said" and its "simple statements''-an(
God knows Peter Simple was wise il
comparison with the simpletons witt
c~onfounds Jefferson. Davis with Georg
Washington-the Examiner charges 1t
p'critick" with Misrepresentation. w
asserted that had Mr.. Davis been suf
fered to escape-as war Mr.. Lincoln
wish-we should never have had thi
''plea for his release" from those VIII
assailed him so mercilesslY when it wa
in their power to lend him a friendl,
hand and we likewise cOntroverted tn
assumption of the gratuitous pleader-
unpleasant as the task forced upon us t
utter a word of seeming unkindness to
ward a man in Mr.. Davis unfortunat
~predicament. But how are We an
swered? An unknown Englishman-an'
whether he is known or not is of n,
consequences put upon the stand, t.
fortify the Examiner, in regard to mat
tiers within the reach and knowledge O
every man in Virginia, except, of course
the editors of the Examiner, who seen
to have been out of danger when DANCE
was nigh. Who is this English wit
ness? Is he the chief editor or tn
money-article mai ofthe London Times
the disinterested british friend O
fair play,". with a heart full of venom
and voice full of fury against the gov
eminent which Washington founded
and one of a set of gentlemen, the gen.
tie reader will recollect, who has jus
turned up with pockets crammed wit
the bonds of the empire in the clouds
Is that Mr.. Delane who is testifying
Or is it one of the nabebs of Liverpoo
who built the Alabama and the Shenan
doah? May be it is the nobleman VIII
commanded the Deerhound that fin
morning off C%herbourg; who induced
Captain Semmes to do an act, less capa
BILE of defence, than fighting against thu
dag of his country-namely Ito violatt
the compacts Of soldiers by seeking
shelter in the arms of a third party afteI
he had been fairly ~vanquished in a con-
test that, up to the time of his going or
board of the Deerhound, did honor Il
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