The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-12-02
JEFF, DAVIS as everybody knows,

JEFF, DAVIS as everybody knows,
has returned 10 the United States, and
hA8for tho present taken up his REL.
dsnee ID Memphis, Some detnonStras
llOnso I respect ior bis chafaclet were
made on his ARRIVAL In that oily, and
some Of commIsseratIon over bis blight.
ed hopes and his reversed prospects In
life. The sensation produced by hIsar.
rival, however, scarcely survived The
day on which he came and the chief OF
the rebellion, the foremost OF the men
who denounced their country as unfit
for pOopleof Aplrlt 10 live In, linda him.
self once more on his native soil, o sad
der and perhaps q RIser man for all
that he has done and suffered both at
homeland abroadg There IL point be-
You'd which no applause or adulatlon
will sustain man. Ono soon weafles 81
The mere sympRthYhoi others. md q
lhlghsminded man 10 seldom willing 70
accent Il all,,i ~ .'t'I.iO stni'''t
We cannot be Surprised, 6 However.
that the chief Of the, Late rebellion finds
some golace In the Bympatbles Of the
Southern people, They klndled to.
gather the torches Of Tho civil war.
They endured together it, inequallel
pFivatious, and they have ahared 10.
gether thegbltter, memories Of Its lost
ealSe. q A commonI broodlng over The
past % all they have LEFT to bind them
toeRch other. Bat an occupation like
this ras 10 said, "butters no mans
bread" and Jen. Davis will mot be long
In discovering, what the Southern peo7
pie have generally found out already,
that politics will not yield him a sup
port, and that he must take his place
among the working millions whom he
has all his lie disparaged and dsspIsed,
The Generals who led the rebel armies
have fallen, in considerable proportion,
Into agencies Of express companies, OF
become supstlntendents Of railroads.
In the South, and they have shown theii
good sense In resortIng TO such oooupa
tions for livelihood. Here and there
they are at the head or IN some other
Office OF Institutions OF education, and
are teachlng 10 the young the RoIences
which they acquired Of, West Point
long before the war. We walt to zee
Whist Particular place In Southern life
has been reserved for the man, who 50
long held Southern destlnies In his
hand. " he to be the president Of q
college, or tho agent t6fan insurance
company the treaan rec ofS railroad,
or the head OF q railroad, or the head OF
a military instituts2 .n..,t Hugty
The indulgence OF the American peo-
pie towards the COME defatay p resident
has been the greatest punishment be
could have received. Had no been ex-
eCuted for treason, he would have rank
cd among the heroes OF history; hiE
fate, II not his RchlevmentS, would
have'secUted him fame forever. No
such distinction can now ever belong
10 Hun. He cat never BIZ anything Ia
the estimation Vi mankind but the lead
er OF Rn unsuccessful rebellion, and the
last champion OF American slavery
The lost cause, with which he 10 lden
tilted, Is the cause OF human oppression
and wrong, as we'll Of treason and re.
tIellion. BIS very life, even, Is pun
lAhment. He Ii indebted for II to. the
government he'attempted 10 overthrow,
and he Is 10 spend IL among the ruins
oftbe slavery he sought to perpetuale,
and In the midst OF the people whose
interests he has helped TO blight, and
whose hopes he has aided in running.
In spGriDg his life, and permitting
him 10 return from exile, the governs
ment annihilated his onlyyhold upon
the interest otthe world, and took away
his last chance OF being ranked among
either heroes or martyrs " = j "