The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-07-07

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LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS, and
the Secret History of the Southern
Confederacy by E.. A. POLLARD, au-
thor of the Lost Cause, &c" is the
| title of a new book now in course OF
publication by the National Publish
ing Company at Philadelphia, Pa
That our readers may have some idea
of the scope of the work. we append a
few quotations:
"But we shall not linger upon the
history of the several State Conven
tons which successfully and respec-
| lively severed their States from the
Union. The early story of the wal
does not belong there. Its true sea.
and theatre were in Washington City
There was the true dramatic centre OF
the conspiracy, there the real spring OF
the plot and the State Conventions
passing pretentiously their ordinances
of secession, and affecting deliberations
where all had already been advised,
were really but the puppets at the ends
| of the wires.
The true history of the wal takes III
then to Washington takes us to a
small but powerful company of poll
| ticians who had assumed there the
question of peace or war Among
these brilliant conspirators stood con-
~spicuous Jefferson Davis-alert, mag
netic, keen in his ambition, his weal
health restored by excitement, quick
ened with nervous transports, a man
having many quail les of leadership, q
nature easily inflated with great occa-
sions, but without the true and robust
pregnancy of a real greatness. Fol
the present, however, he was the most
observed of all the Southern Represen-
tatives at the capital, and took with
facility and grace the position of their
leader.
Mr.. Davis record on the question
of Disunion was greatly mixed and
contradictory-one of those inconsist-
emf careers which could only have been
tolerated in the loose Eadits of Amer
lean politics, that care but little fol
the a~ntecedents of public men, have a
very feeble estimate of consistency,
and are prone to forget whatever is OF
record in the past, in the busy and tu-
multuous eXcitements of a strained
and excessive partyism. MI. Davis
had first entered Congress as a full
some, young declaimer of that easy
and popular theme-the blessings of
the Union. He had the supplemental
tumour of "the glorious Union" ON the
brain. He sought to excel in the
competitions of devotion to this idol
of the populace, and this commonplace
of demagogues. In his first impor-
tant speech in the House of Represent
t~atives, delivered in 1916, he had said I:
From sire to son has descended
the love of Union in our hearts, as in
our history are mingled the names of
Concord and Camden, of Yorktown
and Saratoga, OF Mouitrie and Platts-
burg, of Chippewa and Erie, of Bow
yer and Guilford, and New Orleans
and Bunker Hill. Grouped together,
they form a monument to the common
glory of our common country; and
where is the Southern man who would
wish that that monument were less by
one of the Northern names that con-
stitute the mass ?"
Yet in 1850, he had opposed the
Compromise Measures" in the SEN
ate, and was repeatedly rebuked there
for the sentiment of disunion. In a
private conversation Henry Clay had
spoken to him in terms of mingled ex-
postulation and warning. Come"
said the venerable Senator from Ken
tucky'--anxious to win another vote
for what he regarded as the supreme
work of his life, then suspended in a
divided Congregation us in these
measures of p~acification, and they will
assure to the country thirty years of
peace. By that time L will be under
the sod, and you, my young friend, may
then hare trouble again" But the ar
dent Senator from Mississippi was in
tractable. He had already conceived
the ambition of taking the mantle. of
Calhoun in the Senate, and In the zeal
of a poor and coarse imitation he was
violently affecting all the ideas
Of the dead statesman and champion of
the South. He would lower none of
demands of the South Hn anil