The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-14

die leave the legacy to your children. VIII
will probably be better than you are il
| this respect. rGreat applause 81
Believe not in those who talk of acceptin,
the situation. Accepting situations Be
lieve not that tyranny and oppression car
long continue If you are but true to your.
selves.
Then the speaker, growing excited over
the remembrance of the wrongs be bsc
enumerated, closed this most extraordinary
lecture upon the great subject of "Magns
Charta" in the following portentous words
And when they can prove to you and tc
me that they can seizs the live thunder as
it leaps and flashes through the lurid
ether, and chain it to the footstool of
tyranny, then | will accept the situation,
and not till then. Tremendous ap-
plause.1
The correspondent adds the following as
to the state of public feeling in Georgia:
The feeling of opposition to and hatred
to the General Government which has all
along existed in the minds of the people. is
being assiduousl " fostered and encouraged
by old political leaders,. who, since the
rulnous termination of their former at
tempts at statesmanship, have, up to with
IN few months past, observed becoming
silence. But their voices are once more
heard in the land, and under the influence
OF such men as Toombs and Stephels and
Davis the feeling OF hatred against the
Government aud its laws, and the work
that 1t has accomplished, is steadily grow
ing and intensifying in strength. and is
only waiting for fitting opportunity to
manifest itself in way that will be felt
throughout the country.
A GEORGIA PAPER SPEAKS FOR DAVIS.
lFrom the Savannah Republican.
We must say that we envy not that por-
ton OF the Southern Democratic press
confined chiefly to Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee-that are now engaged in the
ungraclous task of denouncing our great
leader of other days, and thereby aiding
the Radical hounds, ever on his track. in
hunting him down Soue of these iour-
nails speak as if it were crime in Jefferson
Davis to open his lips--tbat he, of all the |
men IN this broad land, is doomed to eter- |
nal silence-that, feel as he may under the |
wrongs of bis countrymen, he can utter no
word of protest and express no hope of
ielverance. Now, we care not from what
motive this condemnatory policy proceeds.
t is unjust and wrong. We have no SYM
oathy for it,
we would not appease even the wrath
u the North by an act of ingratitude and
elt-aoasement. Instead of joining the
iadical hue and cry and making war upon
dr. Davis for his public expressions of
pinion, SO scandalously falsi6ed by the
sadlcal press, it would be far more be-
omlng and just 10 Southern journalists to
'ut him right before the world, to show
What he did say and mean, and establish
he meanness and mendacity OF those who.
Or q party purpose, do not scruple to as
ribe to him words that be never uttered
nd purposes that he never entertained
q bis recent speeches. so much condemned.
lr. Davis did not utter sentiment that
as not been expressed, and reiterated over
nd over again, perhaps thousand times
y every Democratic journal in the South.
Why not, taen, go forward and defend
i'm 10 the truth, instead of uniting with
is enemies of the North to decry and de- '
ounce him?