The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-26

While referring TO n letter form the Hon.
Jefferson Davis cOntradicting a characterist-
&c falsehood of senator Simmon Cameron's.
the New York Post took occasion a 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 out of mind as quickly as possi-
BILE. His narrow mind and poisoned heart.
his cruelty TO brave foes when hi his power,
ahd his frightful mlslnanagement Of the re-
sources wrested from people whom he
first deluded and then crushed, his melo-
dramatic efforts at tragic grandeur at Wash
ington aud In Richmond. and his larcical
flight, under a cowardly and ludicrous dis
guise, when the ruin he wrought came home
10 him; IN short, his execrable crimes and
childish plumbers Hill still occupy page In
history, and he will always be the most con-
tempSIble hgure among men prominent In
the affairs of this century.
But let him remain In history, and not
rise with Pll his shame upon him, 70 affront
and excite us now. We want peace. broth
erhood, oblivion, union.
Neither on behalf of Mr.. Davis, nor Of the
south. would we deign 20 reply TO this low
scurrility. But we venture TO ask whether
the Radical faction proposes TO forever de-
grade itself and disgrace the section In
which II Is dominant by presisting In the
mendacious and silly TRADES by which it
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 imbeciles /?
This insensate clamor against Mr.. Davis on
ly recoils heavily against themselves and
against the cause they pretend 10 have at
heart. No amount of abuse they can huTl
at Nun can, IN any way, affect him. His
calm courage has been proven upon the bat
tlc-field and In the dungeon; his intellect
has given TO the world state papers scarcely
matched by those in the archisves OF any
other nation; his purity and integrity no
man ever questioned, down 10 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 expose
their own idiotic malignity. and reap con-
tempt. To the petty politicians who are
prating so continually about union and
brotherhood, we undertake 70 say that
neither are permanently attainable ifsOught
after in the fashion adopted by the POST
The South has accepted defeat and its legit-
innate results. Humiliation and self-abase-
ment we earnestly trust she intends to re-
coil 70 the end OF time. She has no opolOgy
u make for the past, no reputation Of her
acts tn offer, no reproaches upon her great
leaders To tender. She bore herself through
out the greatest struggle the world .Ias ever
witnessed with noble constancy and cOur-
age which has won for her the worlds APP
plause, and while time itself shall last she
will sternly reject the command 20 grovel
before the conqueror and acknowledge her
utter vileness. Brotherhood on such terms
we hope she will teach her children for n
century TO come 70 spurn with scOrn. HAD
venturers aud hirelings are still 20 be sent
TO rule over her: IL the black race there IL
TO be elevated over the white; II her whole
people are TO be dealt with "a treachetous
and brutal vassals, then, indeed, Is the seed
being sown aud watered which will spring
up into a harvest that the next generation
will gather in bitter sOrrow.-Baltimore
Gazette,