The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-09-20
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Mr EawaM A. Pollard pHMshcs )
card in the Baltimore American which,.
la saws + his farewell sb8t II tho
rx.Coalclerase Chief He says that il
haI been bapel tbal Jefferson Davis
would rest quietIy iu lae grave dug hv
his aWh hsa3s but his ualyinE vanity
has compelled him g come before the
public again llr speaks 0i Mf Davis
. de asslssia 70 country aad
the greatest murderer sc hs times
also al uueleau ghast. an evil and
damned spirit 6r &e Mr Pollard
WRITES 81 make a personal explanslion
ID regard t. DE accusation iu southern
papers thar he has yi4ihcl y JEFF
Davis 81 q historian lie admits that
he despises Mr Davis bot not IN q
personal sense. lie has turned an un-
elentiag pen upon him, be says. as tie
real assassin q The Confederate cause ;
literally. practically more hateful
tban tlo Yankee enemy, inasmuch as
he. aud not thc arms " the North, was
par real destroyer
Mr. Pollard adds tilat when he nm
doiook to write a history of the late
war nHe thing was certain. that the ex-
posure of Jefferson Davis was the ono
ouly explanation 20 save the future sem
tenee al history which impended over
the people " the South If disg ace for
thc loss II 4 cause which The best iutel-
iiacnce ai tie world had decided they
were bound a. win lle had chosen to
yindicate the people Of the South,
thongb al the expense Of the head Of
their Government lie yet adheres 70
such choice and takes al the reproach
that may attach 60 it. rather than be
numbered among the blind and exces-
siye tools who, in adoring Mr. Davis,
are consigning their whole country and
people to the inevitable aud endless re-
proachcs Of history. Let il be rcmem-
bored despite excuses now made by
Southern men as 10 the numerical and
material superiority of the North, that
these very same men were those who
prOtesscd 60 have considered the ine-
quality Of the contest At its beginning
the very same men who then declared
that the South had advantages on her
side that would completely and Ger.
tainly outweigh the superiority referred
TO- The intelligence Of the world made
the same estimate. The South had ad-
yantages which were then calculated TO
make her success a ioregone conclu-
sion
Those who profess such tenderness,
he says in guarding from the least re-
proach the scnsbilities eff Mr., Davis,
forget how shameless is the attitude Of
this man to-day, what defiance his self
deceit and selEassertIon have constant
~ offered to public opinion, and what
invitations his own habit Of accusing his
contemporaries offers to criticism upon
himself. If Mr.. Davis had at any time
confessed that he was wrong, ii he had
ever taken the least of blame upon him
self instead of so industriously casting
It upon his associates II nc nau ever
breathed the least word Of regret, OF
cOHlpNntJluuJ VI CAtH HioW a hCt'He
melancholy at any time in surveying
the ruins of the war, even SO slight a
concession might have tonched us IN his
behalf.
II is seldom, too, that men who have
lost great causes in history have been
satifed to live in the scenes Of their
former greatness, and amid the ruins
they have precipitated upon their coun-
| try. The dignity Of exile has generally
remained for those who have wrecked
the hopes Of their country, and even
where the law has suffered them to live
on the theatre of their former career,
the instincts Of decency have led them
to withdraw to foreign lands, rather
than to remain in brazen insensibility to
public Indignation, or in concentrated
blindness TO the littlencss into which
/ they have fallen Jefferson Davis, once
President Of the Southern Coniederacy
the autocrat OF eight millions Of people
/ is satisfied to exhibit himself III these
latter days as the manager Of life in
snrance company in Memphis, Tenn
Public opinion IN the South is no longer
sentimental aud it appreciates Jeiier
son Davis's true character, and the part
he took ia the destruction Of the South.
em Coniederacy