Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-20
Jefferson Davis.

While referring to letter from the Hon.
Jefferson Davis contradicting character
lstlc falsehood of Senator Simon Came
ron's, the New York Post took occasion n
few days since to remark
"The best thing that can be done with
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, both for himself and
for the country, is to let him drop out Of
sight and cut of mind as quickly as DOS
sible. His narrow mind and poisoned
heart, his cruelty to brave foes when in
his power, and his frightful mismanape-
ment Of the resources wrested from O.
people whom he first deluded and then
crushed, his melodramatic efforts at TRAGIC
grandeur at Washington and in Richmond.
and his farcical flight, under a cowardIv
and ludlcrous disguise, when the ruin he
nad wrought came home to him in short.
his execrable crimes and childish bIunders
will still occupy page in history, and he
Will always be the most contemplate figure
among men prominent in the affairs Of
this century.
"But let him remain in history, and not
rise with all his shame upon him, to affront
and excite US now. We want peace
brotherhood, oblivion. union"
Neither on behalf of Mr. Davis, nor of
the South, would we deign to reply to this
low scurrility. But We venture TO ask
whether the Radical faction proposes to
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! ton in which it is dominant by persisting
in tho mendacious and silly Trades by
which 1t imposed upon popular credulity
during the exciting period of the war
Will Radical journals never learn that
tom-toms and stink-pots are the weapons
of imbeciies? This insensats c'amor again. t
Mr.. Davis only recoils heavily against
themselves and against the cause they pre-
tend to have at heart. No amount Of abuse
! they can hurl at him can, in any way,
affect him. His calm courage has been
proven upon the battle-fi field and in the
dungeon, his intellect has given to the
world State papers scarcely matched bv
| those in the archives of any other nation
his purity and integrity no man ever ques-
toned, down to the day he left the United
States Senate. They who now rave about
his. cowardice, his narrow mind and
poisoned heart, his execrable crimes
and childish blunders, merely ex-
pose their own idiotic maignity; and
reap contempt. 70 the petty politicians
who are pratlng so continually about union
and brotherhood, we undertake TO say that
! neither are permanently attainabIe II
| sought after IN the fashion adopted by the
Post. The South has accepted defeat and
its legitimate results. Humiliation and
establishment we earnestly trust she in
tends to recoil from to the end of time
| she mas no apology to make for the past
no reputation of her acts to Offer no re.
proaches upon her great leaders to tender.
! She bore herself throughout the greatest
struggle the world has ever witnessed with
a noble constancy and courage which has
won for her the worlds applause, and
while time itself shall last she will eternly
reject the command to groVel before the
conqueror and acknowledge her utter
vileness. Brotherhood on such terms we
hope she will teach her children for cen
fury to come to spurn with scorn. If adj
venturerS and hirelings are still to be sent
to rule over her. if the black race there is
to be elevated over the white if her
whole people are to be dealt with as
| treacherous and brutal vassaIs, then, in
deed, is the seed being sown and watered
which will spring up into a harvest that
the next generation will gather i'll bitter
sorrow.-Baltimore Gazette.