Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-08
JEFF DAVIS AS A STUMP ORA
TOR


The costly lessons and bloody accompa.
niments of our late civil conflict, it would
seem. exerted no abiding influence upon
the minds of many who led the REBEL.
ion. I The arch-traitor. the cheiftain and
Boanerges of the Southern iinsurrection is
as conspicuous indefiant rejection oftheis
sues Of the war, to the arbitrament of
which he referred his wicked cause, as he
was prominent in the formation, manage
ment and demolition of his ill-starred Con-
federacy.
The vanquished. crest-fallen. Mississippi
Ex-President, who vainly essayed to add
the splendors of imperial rule to the mag
ni6cence of his lordly wealth, raves over
his decisive failures and misfortunes, in a
manner disgraceful to an average man.
hood and disgusting to the loftier senti-
ments of those, who followed his blind
and fatal leadership. He has resumed
his old avocation "of instructing the
Southing mind and firing the Southern
heart" and seeks every occasion to vent
the secretions of rebel bile that have been
accommodating ever since his proud empire
collapsed into LeghOrn, crinoline and q
pair OF cdcdlry boots. Memory is fast
forsaking him, and he now but family re-
members the wrathful days. when the
lightnings of war lettered the doom of his
Confederacy on the lurid clouds which
canopied his throne; when he fed in pre-
cipitate and terrified haste from the
smoking wrecks Of his Capitol, when in
the captivity of Federal bayonets, the
terrors of the Jail and gallows rose before
his appalled, vision as spirits of implacable
vengeance; when he stood upon the para
pets of Fortress Monroe or reclined in his
prison chamber, listening, with sad ear, to
the means of the Potomac as if they
measured the hours of his guilty life, yes,
when incarcerated, with a career blasted
and blackened With The sin and shame of
the most enormous felony known to the
laws of God and man. with the deepest,
basest and most infamous ingratitude, he
forgets the magnanimity and tender at
t~entions of the government he assailed
and which repaid his treacheries, damning
p~erjuries and atrocious crimes with kind
nesses that astonished and rejoiced the
civilized world.
Now he is upon the stump, pouring
forth excruciating platitudes and TRADES
of abuse, ransacked from all the diction-
aries of epithets, explosives and phillipics
known to Grabbed and vulgar English.
4 few days ago. at Atlanta and Angus
ia, JEFF boldly proclaimed the resurrection
of the Confederacy in due time, ''that
the principles of the rebellion were not
dead, and POLITICALLY assured his delighted
and gaping audience that truth crushed
to earth would rise again." He could not
recognize the decision of the sword.
The war had settled no material ques-
ton. The State is a sovereign, and its
connection with the Federal head must be
voluntary. The lost cause sis only lost
for the time being. The rebellion was a
struggle for constitutional principles, and
20 on dd nduSedm.
Davis is a most improper person to ut
ter such bold and defiant harangues. In
his reasonable career, he perpetrated
thousands of acts, for every one of (which the
penalty is death. He was chief among
the chiefs who plotted the great criminal
conspiracy against Liberty, Law and the
Constitution, which spread desolation
with fire and sword, giutted the rapacious
grave with a half million of brave and no.
bic men, and reared a mountain of debt,
whose accursed shadow will not disappear
in the next two centuries. G
Davis is amenable to the act of 1890,
whose language no one can mistake:
"Ifany person. owing allegiance to the
United States, shall levy war against
them, and shall thereof be convicted,
such person shall be adjudged guilty of
treason and shall suffer death"
Davis is guilty of levying war. He is
guilty oftreble treason. He owed allie
glance to the government, as an Ameri-
can born citizen he was educated for
military service at the public expense, and
when he precipitated the South into re-
bcllion, he was bound by an oath as a
Senator to support the Constitution. How
long shall this red-handed conspirator be
allowed to insult the leniency Of the Gov
eminent and the liberty of disseminating
fresh discords and terminating the per-
ishing energies of as Goddess q rebellion
as ever left its CHASTITY impress upon the
annals of civilization and republican gov
eminent?
Whilst JEFF is perambulating the South
on the unholy mission of stirring up a new
rebellion and renewing the hot dissensions
and the bloody drama of the past ten
years. a large and influential portion of
the Northern Democracy, headed by Val
l~andingham Of Ohio and John Quincy
Adams of Massachusetts,, have cut loose
from the ancient moorings of slavery and
State sovereignty and repudiated by one
bold stroke, all the principles and ideas,
which the Democratic party of the nation