The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-07-27
THE JEFF DAVIS SCANDAL.
What a Memphis Paper Says Of the
Affair.

The Memphis Appeal, OF July 21st,
says:
w are not disposed to speak in I'M
due haste even in defense Of an injured
fellow-citizen or friend. We think that
a life OF integrity and honor as pure and
as much above suspicion as the driven
snow or Caesars wife; as irreproachable
as the chaste name of Calhoun, or the
fame Of a Lee or a Washington, which
has endured for a period bordering ON
three score years and ten, should be a
sufficient shield against all possible cal
umny. Upon this have we thought
proper to rely in the case of q certain
charge brought by his enemies against
Mr.. Jefferson Davis. We have hitherto
declined in his behalf, lest we might
give c%ountenance to the idea that q de-
NAL might he required, but we are told
the silence OF the Appeal is misconstrued,
and that an inference is drawn there
from that the charge brought to dcfame
him cannot be denied. While we can
be responsible for no mans honor but
our own, we find it necessary, in self
defense, to say that we both deny and
disbelieve the accusation made by the
correspondent Of the Louisville Com
mercial. We believe it originated in
malice alone, and hat it is as false as it
is infamous. This same individual, we
are informed, visited Mr.. Davis for the
purpose of interviewing him, and was
expelled by MIR. Davis from his office
only the day or two before. He was a
correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing for so much a line in the Louis
vile Commercial; and Immediately after
his expulsion, we have been told, in the
presence of two or more gentlemen in
this city, he said that he would get even
with Mr.. Davis. He has essayed to do
it by this SANDER. He was expelled for
using publicly the contents of a letter
marked private and confidential, written
by Nj. Davis. He was too degraded to
know, or too vile to refrain from an in
fanny impossible to honorable men. 1t
is not strange that such q creature should
be a little sore and become malignant
from the touch of MIR. DIS boot, nor is it
strange that N capable, of violating
confidence among gentlemen should also
be capable Of any SANDER necessary to
CRAFTY his revenge against q man he
had injured. To such q reptile the mo-
tive was irresistible, and no possible tes-
timony from BIN is worthy of thought,
or could receive attention from any not
the enemies of Mr.. Davis.
Men of as high character as live in the
world are to be found here, and through
out the State of Mississippi, whose
voucher in behalf Of the distinguished
statesman, soldier and ex- President, goes
back for forty years. We have ourselves
had more or less acquaintance with his
public and private reputation since 1895
and living before 1910 four years in the
country with him, never heard a
breath to sully his fame from that day
to this, Notwithstanding the readiness
with which, as Wing antagonist and
editor, we may then be supposed to have
welcomed charges against a political OPP
ponent. If a private life like that Of JEFF
fcrson Davis, known intimately by mil
lions, is not to 60 unscathed among men,
then we despair of finding a faultless
gentleman.
The card Of Mr.. D. appears in another
column. He has never been suspected.
much less accused, Of falsehood. The