The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-06

We
tiondItst'-"We are hero to welcome you.
do not know that any higher tribute can be
paid to any man than that which we offer to
you this evening. You see around you these
who come to offer you the unbought tribute
of their respect and admiration" History
will vindicate you" s'I know that you were
net rash. You did what you could to save the
republic to promote peace to adjust the
quarrel. do not propose to review the dread
drama that closed in the overthrow of the
Southern cause That is not a lost cause. 1t
Is the cause of constitutional liberty, and will
yet triumph"
Another of his ''indorsers" is the Lexinp
ton (Ky.) Press. This Democratic paper, in
its issue of Friday morning last, says -"Mr
Davis has no fears of any personal conse-
quences to himself because of any opinions
which he may entertain or express. The
cowardly malignity of sectional hatred and
partisan rancor has exhausted itself in his
persecution, and little recks he what his
foes may do or say to him. But he is still
great leader of the popular opinion of the
Southern people. They reverence him for
his purity, dignity, and untarnished honor
They admire him for the manliness, cour-
age, and devotion which have ever
been his distinguishing traits, and they love
him as one chosen by their oppressors to bear
the full brunt of persecution, wrong and
lgnomlny, as the representative of that cause
which was to them as Just and holy one as
ever drew libation of blood from the hearts
of gallant people. But what a
commentary upon free institutions, when q
man like Jefferson Davis must stife the utter
ance of his abhorrent Indignation at the out
RACES inflicted upon his fellow-citizens and
fellow-suferers, lest his words be made a
pretext for further ignominy and wrong!"
In an issue subsequent to that from which
we have quoted above, the Columbus (Ga
San says that Davis expressed the whole
truth in a nutshell when he asserted that he
did not ''accept the situation, and that such
cant phrases are but ''the excuses of COW
ards" 1t refuses to go on any new depar-
ture, saying:-''We have no ambition to fight
in radical uniforms. We believe that honesty
wins when duplicity loses. We wish no Re
publican corks' ON which to float into power,
but with the aid of God and the people we
will breast and buffet the pillows of radicalism
with true Democratic arms and hearts. If the
old ship goes down in the storm, let it be
with her guns blazing from every portfolio,
and her old constitutional flag floating in
triumph from her tallest mast. We fight
under no piratical colors."
The Petersburg (Va.) IpdeD, which pro-
tests that the North must not think the South
will take Davis as O leader, also says that the
people of the North may as well understand
oAce for all that Mr. Davis is and will for gen.
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Southern people; that while they ask ''but
| justice, equal laws, and peace and quiet"
nevertheless they will never believe that they
are traitors, r or that Jefferson Davis was or
q traitor. The Iodeg continues: -"The ex-
| ertions of three years and all the talent aud
all the hate of the North failed to convict
him of q shadow of treason. May our right
hand forget its cunning when we forget that
Jefferson Davis is bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh; that in long career in public
lie he ever displayed the purity, bravery, and
patriotism which do honor to the race from
which we spring, and that when the fate of
war and the force of brutal malice placed him
in dungeon, he was there as our representa-
tive, and honored himself and us by an un-
complaining fortitude and heroic constancy
worthy of Hofer or Falkland"
There is another class of Democratic papers
in the South which ''regret" that jeff. Davis
should say anything, not but what he ex-
presses right sentiments, but because his
words are sure to be distorted at the North,
ETC., etc. The Montgomery (Ala.) } Ad0eviSer
and Mail closes a leading article with these
| words:-''lf the very natural enthusiasm of
our fellow citizens, who behold in Mr.. Davis
the leading statesman in cause once SO dear
to them, and the martyr of cowardly VEN
| geance which shocked the world, would testify
their love and respect for him without re-
| qulrlpg addresses or speeches in return, the
wisdom Of such course could not be we'll
| questioned.
| Another paper of this class is the New Or
leans Commercial Bulletin, which SAYS it
thinks Davis speech, however forcible it was
IN argument, was unfortunate at this June
ture, and it adds:-''Mr. Davis knows the
hearts of the people and they know his. 1t
Is not always wise, though, to tell the world
what we think or what we feel. His silence
would be more eloquent than words hereafter.
! 1t behooves the South now to exercise all of
her self-control, discretion, ano temperateness
to insure peaceful and fair participation in
the next general election. Thinking men see
and realize this "
IL is somewhat too soon to obtain any very
elaborate expressions of opinions from South
ern Democratic journals on the new Demo-
| cratic policy enunciated last week by the
Ohio State Convention. The platform
| adopted by the State Convention the Louis
vile Ledger explains away thus THE reso-
lutlons are evidently the result of compro-
mise, and no doubt the action of the conven-
tlon was the wisest thing which could have
| been done, in view of the necessity for per-
feet harmony in the party. The Yallandigham
! platform was adopted in a modified form, the
amendments accepted as accomplished facts,
but with construction which will render
them harmless. No one questions that the
amendments are accomplished facts, and the
resolutions do not accept them as finally or
irrevocably accomplished, but only pledge
the party In Ohio, according to the eonstruc-
! tion given, to an enforcement of the Consti-
tuition as it now is"
| The Selma (Ala.) Times and Messenger is
| one OF those which advise the Southern De-
mocrats to keep still, to be quiet, as jeff.
Davis said, and wait for their Northern allies