The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-01
The Hon. Jener.on Davi. Ia Eag and.

We copy from the London Standard. of the 9th
instant, the following article on the arrival 10
England of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, ex Presi
dent OF the Southern Confederacy. Ii pays de-
seryedly high compliment TO Mr.. Davis, and the
gallant soldiers who fought so nobly to sustain
cause which was dear TO them. Ii VIII well re-
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the Confederate States, has naturally excited much
interest and attention. IL could not be otherwise,
considering the deep and anxious feeling with
which men of all parties and OF opposite sympa-
thies watched for four long years the progress OF
the American struggle. To the enthusiast OF that
political sect which makes species OF reigion OF
Its devotion TO the negro and It's aohorrence OF
slavery. Mr.. Davis was, during those Tour ears
the representative incarnation OF ponucsl anu So
cial eyi-ihe leader Of the last effort OF the falling
cause of tyranny in its conflict with the spirit OF
progress and humanity. To an opposite CLASS Oh
minds he was the representative OF tue cause OF
law and order against the snArcnlcal ana demo-
cratic tendencies Of the age; the chosen cham.
MON of a people who, from the peculiar time and
circumstances of their struggle, appeared 70 De
maintaining the critical aud decisive contest oil
the old order against the new, OF arlstOcracy
against democracy, of liberty against the despot-
ism Of msjorites of conservatism ag alnst ponueai
chaos and social revolution. In the opinion oil not
a few OF those who dissent most strongly from the
prevalent worship of " the nineteenth century,
the interest of the South was the common interest
of all monarchical and aristOcratic sOcieties-of
all orders whose position rests upon settled law
andnncient tradition, as against the leVelllng TEN
per of American Democracy.
"This By no narrow bosrds cireumscribsd,
1t was the cause Of ehivary at large"
And there can be no doubt that the fall OF the
South gave an impulse and encouragement TO the
Drogtess of the democratic spirit throughout
Christendom greater than any it has received since
the French revolution. To q much larger class
than either Of these two extreme parties Mr..
Davis is simply the chief and representative OF
lost cause, in which millions OF Engl.shmen telt
and "a which thew
TO be the cause Of constitutional right and suestan
fial Justice, as well as national independence ana
pupnc liberty, and whose fall they still regret.
he is the defeated leader OF gallant but nnforta
nate people, whose heroic struggle against over
wheiming odds elicithd the reluctant admiration
of their enemies. anc excited the warmest interest
among multtudes q men Indifferent 10 or lguo-
rant OF the original Iherlts OF the qnarrel. ne Is
the Representative OF the nation which, for four
wears, asserted lis Independence against armies
fourfold greater thar its own; which, with hall a
dozen cruisers, almost swept from the seas the
commerce of power whose naval force was sec
ond only TO our own which, without money,
without foreign trade, blOckaded by sea and land
held its own during that long period agansi
a Zoe possessed OF boundless resources, and
layisbing them without stint; when fOughl
to the last in spirit of chiyairous cour
age and generosity, never provoked by
its sufierings into saVagery, or exasperated oy
outrsges into cruel retaliation aud which. alter
its surrender, commanded as much reverence by
its patient fortitude and loyal acceptance OF the
Inevitable, as during the struggle il had excited
admiration. by its gaantry and endurance. Mr.
Davis comes 10 us as the representative OF Nr
gnia and her sisters in struggle and suffering a.
fhe commander n-chief Of those armies which
under Lee and Jackson. Johnston AMI Beaurega-d
achieved so long a series Of extraordinary thOug'
finally fruitless victories; the chosen chief an
firally the long suffering martyr Of the cause 10
which Lee and Johnston fought, for which stuart
Stoneyall Jackson, Morgan, Cleburne and Ashb.
fell, IL is in this capacity that he chiefly cal
forth the sympsthies OF Englishmeu; il is not a
an enemy Of the North, not as the representative
m secession least OF ell as the champion Of sla ve
~ that he is welcome to Us. II is the chief OF th
Southern armies the head of the Southern people
the statesman whose wisdom, skill aud tenacIos
courage we learnt during that srdnous strugsl
10 appreciate and admire-the suffering prisone
of Fortress Monroe, the exiied patriot, who w'
SO heartily cheered on the quay al Llve'pool, 40
will be cheered with equal hesruness ShereVe
he sppesrs before a crowd OF Englishmen'
II would be most unfortunate as wen as amo
unjust Interpretation Of the reception given