Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
Record Of Treason.

necOI0 OF 1Iodouus
Pollard the great Southern Histor.
ian and author of the ."IHe Lost
Cause, &C., is writing the life pi
jeff. Davis, with I aecret history of
the Sodthern Confsaeracy B1chan-.
ans Stupidity and Treaohery. all
taken from his private notes behind
the scenes in Richmond and at Wash
ington.
E. A. Pollard is one Of our ablest
historians, hut unfortunately went
out Of his way, became disloyal, wor
shipped Calhoun and king Cotton,
followed jeff Davis to the last ditch,
then became disguised with the con-
federacy, turned about and has since
been showing it up to the world
He spares nobody connected with it,
nor any of its acts.
We copy as follows from several
advance sheets sent to the Country
press, to show the style and boldness
of Mr.. Pollard as writer
Tho true history of the war takes
us then to Washigton-takes US to a
small but powerful company of polls
ticians who had assumed there the
question of peace or war. Among
these brilliant conspirators stood con-
spicuous Jefferson avis-alert, mag
netic, keen in bis ambition, his weak
health restored by excitement, quick
ened with nervous transports, man
having many qualities of leadership,
nature easily inflated with great
occasions, but without tho true and
robust pregnacy of real greatness,
For the present, however, be was
the most observed man of all the
the Southern Representatives 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 incon-
sistant careers which could only
have been tolerated in the loose
habits of American politics, that care
but little for the antecedents Of pub
lie men, have very feeble estimate
Of consistency, and are prone to for
get whatever is of record in the past,
in the busy and tumultuous excite
ments Of o strained an excessive par
tyism. Mr.. Davis had first entered
Congress as fulsone, young de,
claimer of that easy and popular
theme-the blessings of the Union
He had tho supplemental tumor Of
"thc glorious Union" on the brain
He sought TO excel in the competi-
tons of devotion to THE idol Of the
populace, and this commonplace OF
demagogues. In his first important
speech in the House Of Representa-
tives, delivered in 1916, he had said
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 York
town and Saratoga, OF Moultrie and
Plattsburg, of Chippewa and Erie,
of Bowyer and Guilford, and New
Orleans and Bunker Hill. Grouped
together, they form monument to
the common glory Of our common
country; and where is the Southern
man who would wish that that mon
ument were less by one of the North
ern men that constitute the mass p
Yet in 1850, he had opposed the
Compromise Measures" in the Sen
ate, and was repeatedly rebuked
there for the sentiment Of disunihn
In a private conversation Henry
Clay had spoken to him in terms Of
mingled expostulation and warning
"Come" said the venerable Senator
from Neutrality-suspicious. to win an
other vote for what he regarded as
the supreme work of his life, then
suspended in a divided Congress-
'Join us in these measures of pacifi
cation, 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 haze
trouble again" But the ardent Sem
ator from Mississippi was intractable.
He had already conceived the ambi-
ton of taking the mantle of Calhoun
in the Senate, and in the zeal of a
poor and coarse imitation he was al
ready violently affecting all the ideas
of the dead statesman and champion
of the South. He would lower none
of the demands of the South. He
announced its ultimatum in a high
and menacing tone"
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