The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-08
The Rebel Chief Reviewed.
pAvIs's SPEECH EXPLAINED.
New Orleans Times1

pie In certain parts of the South will ner.
sist in calling out Mr.. Jefferson Davis. and
padgering him for speeches. It is also a
great misfortune that Mr.. Davis will make
speeches like that reported from Georgia.
wherein the hope and confidence of the
eventual triumph of the PRINCIPLES in
volved in the Confederate struggle. are az.
pressed. There is no form Of expression
which even so ingenious rhetoriciap as
Mr.. Davis can employ, of the idea here
shadowed forth, that will not be subject to
misconstruction and baleful distortion.
We, who know Mr.. Davis, understand well
what is meant by his language-that
when he hopes to live long enough to wit.
ness the resurrection of the principles in
which the Confederate movement origina-
ted, he referred TO his cherished and sim
cerely-held doctrine Of States rights, which
ne has ever maintained with Jefferson.
Madison, Monroe, and the other Republi-
can fathers, as the cardinal idea of our DO.
litIcal system. This, Mr.. Davis has ALWAYS
thought, was the real issue in the late So
called "Rebellion, and with a great ma
Jorlty of the Southern people he does not
admit that SO plain and fundamental
truth has been destroyed by the result of a
physical conflict and preponderance of
material force.
DAVIS NOT A NERO.
[Pittsburg Dispatch.1
The speeches of jeff. Davis at Auousta
and Atlanta, Georgia, seem to us to COM
mand more attention from the press than
their intrinsic merits deserve. The fact
that ne is delivering speeches at the South,
and that these speeches have tendency to
revive the old antagonisms' of the South |
toward the North, is worthy Of some atten- |
tion--just as Ku-Klux outrage is deserys
ing of notice. The Government made pre-
cisely one mistake in its treatment of |
Davis--it ought to have tried him by
military commission, and have hung or
shot him within a week after his CAP.
lure. Ut course it will do little good
to arrest him now, as, even could
ne be punished for bis utterances.
t would only serve to render him
martyr. The parade of martyrdom
1e e, now makes is simply disgusting. To
,iflrm, as he does, that the government
ia its worst toward him, is to utter a
alsehood. OF course his thought was
nat the disgrace put upon him was more
'alnful to bis proud spirit than execution
would have been. Few will believe it
ie was shut up in a comfortable casemate,
lalntily fed, and eventually turned loose
Without trial. A man who seeks to es.
ape capture by adopting womau's guise
not so high-sprited as to be more
rushed by such treatment than he would
e by hanging.
JEFF. DAVIS A PowERfN THE LAND.
[Cincinnati Gazette.]
These words are of solemn import. We
them both to Republicans and
Democrats. They cannot be pooh-poohed ,
nd overlooked. They come from the
cry heart of man who is still power S
the land, a man who has influence in 1
'emocratic councils, a man who Is the a
ookesman of thousands upon thousands J
Southern Democrats. They are the
Ipresslon OF his deepest and most pro-
und convictions. and the convictions of
IS followers. We ask Northern men
Nv they like them? How do YOU f
ke them, Republicans, who fought that d
an and these doctrines for four long ID
'ars How do you like them, Demo. il
ats, who struggled side by side with the R
epublcans in the ranks of the Union
my? Is this the man you wish to place
'ain in high power ? Are these Southern
who cheered Davis on, the men d
whose side you now wish to fight? Do n
Vt the speech and its reception by the au- r,
ence, and the remarks, too, of Mr.. Hill CT
'rd, show you how wide is the difference
tween you and the men who are enrolled
der Democratic banners of the South ? T
is the virtual announcement of a Demo-
attic wing pledged to overthrow the o,
undo all the war has settled. .,
pudiate the debt, and make final at. "'
npt against the Union.
GENERAL COMMENT.
The Memphis Appeal calls on jeff Da- fiji
not only to speak, "but to speak dis be
city, definitely aud fully his whole qo6
nd" Is
The Missouri Republican Dem calls Fl
temperance of Jefferson Davis on the -.
mp ''a stupendous anachronism.D It q,
tainly was most infelicitous resurrec-
n.
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