The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-06-01
JEFF. DAVIs'S SPEECH AT ATLANTA
"Tho War settled Nothing.v
DEFENCE OF THE RERRLLrON

The ex-President of the Southern Confed-
eracy had an ovation at Atlanta, Ca, Satur-
urday. The parlors of his hotel were crowded
all day with ladies and gentlemen who called
to congratulate him. When the crowd gath
cred at evening to hear him speak, one
man proposed "!hree thousand cheers for
the hero of The lost cause" Upon be-
ing introduced by General Darlington,
who represents the Elijah Pogram
family in that vicinity, Mr.. Davis made a
speech, the following extracts from which will
prove OF great interest and Importance. It
will be seen that he is hardly in sympathy
with the new departure" movement:
If should speak to you of the past I
should speak OF memories that are sad, If l
should speak to you of the present it would
be TO recount tale of tyranny and wrong
that we have not the power to redress, and
under which, therefore, it is more manly and
noble for us to fold our arms and suffer with
quiet and patient dignity. If l speak of the
future. then, am liable TO be misreprented
and you held responsible for every specuIa
ton that | may chance to utter. But, nv
friends, as stand here TO. night, and look IN
on your kindly, honest faces, feel that there
are lew plain words that may be received nv
you as the expression of my opinion ia re-
gard TO the future. Then, l saw. despair not
OF your liberty. despair not Of the triumph
OF liberty. believe that truth will live eter
naily, and that wrong cannot always endure.
When Gailleo was bound to the torture rack
globe and turned upon its axis and was her.
forced to recant, as soon as the screw was re-.
Taxed he cried out of the deep and irresist;.
BILE convictions OF his soul, "But still If moves
And so the great truths uttered by YOUR ia
theirs still live, and the principles thew enun-
ciated and for which they contended still
move, and will once more be felt, if you will
but be true to the right. Let no one say that
counsel recovery and an enjoyment of
these principles by the red hand of battle. l
trust may not be misrepresented upon this
point. shall die in the firm faith and belief
that "o'o'
THE ERA OF TRUE LIBERTY.
WI, VIII ere long dawn upon the South. If thew
y; WI SalIeo tne victorious banner and exulted
Lno nu '.,enstn OF their Triumph could have
49, To- IN INV mnen you came forward and said
~ 49,. "u 1912 up your arms, and we're now
ready 10 submit to the laws OF the land and
could have understood how trna ,n "a, an1
was, how high were your princinless 81 h wolu
1t would not have been necessarv 70 uo
harsh pleoges and to pass oppressive ,. uM"..
bind you. (Appause.) Force sbould Jaws pav 10
have been exerted when the unimneac hos1a
word of Georgian was pledged ior ,he
world cannot furnish bayonets enonob '' ,e
make a Georgian more faithful to his 9hl;o ~
tons than his oath could do. (Applausel
Peaceful, then, you are DESTROYS Of being to,
day peaceful you have been, peaceful YOU are
ever. When human patience has sometimes
given way there are those who sometimes take
the law into their own hands, because there
is no justice to be secured in any other way;
put these are merely accidental occasions.
There is no organization in the South-there
never was-whose purpose is resistance to the
government. A voice-"that's So" Though
we are compelled to submit to the presence of
power, yet our manhood and our self respect
for. ""a' We hopo
PEACE WE DESIRE.
and peace we will have. l have nothing To
= 70 you to night of politics, and, INV friends
nope you have nothing to do with them.
You have political power, and its exercse is
only postponed until the coming of that event