The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-26
MFR. Davis in Eng1and-OpiniOn Of the
English Conservative Organ.


From the London Morning Herald, August IL.
The arrival of Mr.. Davis at Liverpool has
naturally excited good deal Of interest
and attention. Nor is there any reason to
wonder at the warm reception he has met
with, though there is much cause to rejoice
at the quiet and transformations character
which the demonstrations of respect and
sympathy have assumed. Indeed, wherever
he may show himself among Englishmen,
Mr.. Davis is sure to be welcomed with every
mark of esteem and admiration. The he
roes of an unfortunate cause are always
popular with us, especially when they have
struggled and suffered on behalf Of Q peo-
pie struggling for national independence.
kossuth, fresh from Turkish detention
and from the Hungarian rebellion, was
greeted with enthusiastic applause by every
class of the community; even Mazzinl's
name was popular until the recollections OF
the gallant defence of Rome was efaced
by other and less honorable associations.
Political exiles always find us predis-
posed in their favor, whatever their party
and whatever the cause for which they
suffered. But no man could appeal more
strongly 10 English sympathies than Mr..
Jefferson Davis. In the first place. he repre-
sents kindred people, nation Of English
blood and English speech, whose assertion
of their independence was based on princi-
Piles thoroughly congenial to our own, and
whose gallantry in the field and fortitude in
endurance awakened in the hearts of Eng
lishmen the strongest feelings of affection
and admiration that were ever excited in
this country by any foreign people or party.
Again, the southern cause had peculiar
hold on our sympathies because it was, to
begin with, the cause of constitutional right
and established law against the domination
of mere numerical majority; and because
it was the cause of the weak against the
strong-of eight millions against twenty.
That hold was constantly deepened by
the heroic courage and brilliant chivalry
of the southerners, and by the SPLEEN
did achievements and admirable qualities
Of their leaders.
Moreover, Mr.. Davis commands our sym
pathies on his own account. Little known
to US when he first took his place at the
head of the Confederate Government, his
character, as it was displayed under oil the
trials and responsibilities Of that high posi-
ton, under the vicissitudes of war and in
craftsmanship, his administrative skill, his
unbending courage, his answering rcctl-
tude, his unfailing resolution-won for him
individually regard only second to that
felt for his country, and made him appear
a worthy representative, in his own person,
of the cause for which he labored and the
gallant people who had entrusted their for
tunes to his hands. His subsequent suffer
ings, and the cruel wrongs he has endured
with such unbroken spirit and such I'M
daunted fortitude, have attracted towards
him still deeper sympathy and respect;
and outside of small sect OF fanatics whose
sympathies and wishes are always on the
opposite side to those of their coantrymen,
there is no Englishman who would not pay
to Jefferson Davis the tribute OF reverence
due to a great nature and great calamity.
1t would be unfortunate, and 1t would be
unworthy, were the American people to
take offence at the welcome given to the
chief Of the fallen Confederacy. We may
request them to remember that we have no
thing to do with their present teuds and
merely political squabbles-with the abro-
CATION OF southern State rights and the pro-
scription of southern citizens. To us,
South and North are now parts OF one Anne
rican Union, and Mr.. Davis is a man ho-
norcd and esteemed throughout one-half or
that Union, as few unsuccessful Leaders
have ever been honored by those whom they
conducted to defeat and ruin. We welcome
not the enemy Of the United States, but the
chief of the southern people. We honor
not SO much the living as the dead; we