The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-29
Mr.. Jeff. Davis BathOs.

The proceedings of the Southern His
torical Society reported in our diff
patches from Richmond, may not, as
stated, contain any sentiment of hos
tility to the Federal Government, vet
the remarks of that arch-conspiTator,
Mr.. Jefferson Davis, read very much
like the smoldering ashes of burning
bush, whose motto is g Nee t0men con-
sumobatur." jeff. Davis has never seen
reconstructed Southern woman and
"while the men of the day are mightier
than the principles for which they strug-
gled, he yet hopes the children who sue
coed them shall grow up to maintain
and perpetuate them, and redeem all
that they have lost We have scotched
the snake, not killed it and if the hid
den meaning of these words does not
tell the children of the men who fought
a losing game to bide their time, then
there is no virtue in words or truth in
divination. France to-day has paid her
debt with honor. Alsace and Lorraine
smile beneath the chains of the con-
queror but does that conqueror dream
that the "whirligig of time will not
bring in its revenges, or that the fires
France shall not some day demand a
reckoning? The South may have been
cheated, as Mr.. Davis modestly asserts.
She was cheated, but through that sin
by which fell the angels. In the hands
of just such men as him who now speaks
the feeble echo of his quondam power,
in the belief of false logic and sugar
coated fallacy, she girded on her armor
and fought for falsehood and crime,
and never was she more bitterly de-
ceived than she is at the present mo-
ment, when listening TO the words of
the man who lured her to her ruin. If
Mr.. Davis, in the intervals of rhetorical
imaginings, would take the trouble TO-
examine the matrimonial registers of
the South during and since the war, he
might find that out of ten virgins who
kept their lamps trimmed for the COM
ing OF the great Confederacy five were
wise enough to place their happiness
and their veal i'll the keeping not only of
Federal citizens, but of Federal Off
cers-the very men at whose
presence upon their streets they
once turned up their unreconstructed
noses, or turned aside to let the
IulhcS I)itSS. IL IL safe 10 presume
that at least one-half of those who, dur
ing the war, were the bitterest rebels
are now thorough converts to Northern
principles and common sense The
days of bravado are happily over, and
we think the Southern women are
rapidly awakening to the fact that an
honest, Woodworking Yankee in hand is
worth two poker-playing, whisky-drink-
ing, thriftless, dueling rebels in the
bush, with the melo-dramatic and
chivalric humbug thrown in.
As to the men who are mightier than
the principles for which they fought,
the chances are, with the rapidly-in-
creasing industry and wealth Of the =
Southern States, that these warlike gen.
tlemen, who were won't 10 spend their
leisure hours in reviling men who worked
tor an honest living, and who branded
their Incidence as sin against the de-
crees OF God and crime against the
avs of man, may find upon solid refec-
lion that "peace hath her victories no
less renowned than war, and that the
rue road to greatness and to happiness
rests not in the pursuit of that which
ietied heroes of the crusades and kept
n Ignorance and degradation the age of
but III those more enduring
pursuits and industries which have made
he nation what it is, and given to the
lag of the United States its present
proud position among the peoples OF the
,arth. Inter- Ocean.