Helena weekly herald., 1873-09-18

| Ex-senator EOOte On Jeffer1OM DAVIS,
At the close of long letter, chiefly re
lating to r. j. Meigs and the late s. 8; Prem
tiss, which was published in the, Washington
Chronicle recently, ex-senator Feote, of Mis-
sissippi, adds the following remarks in regard
| to Mr.. Davis recent speech 1T the meeting o1
| the Southern Historical Society:7 RS. 71o.
''The fine expression used in Mr.. Meigs
elegant note, shameless front of faction,
brought to my view at once the language OF
u certain chief of faction the other day q,
the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs OF
Virginia, where he again attempted, almost
amiably, to revive the excitements connected
with the late unhappy war; charged Generals
Lee and Joe Johnston with having been
Cheated by the Presidents and Generals of
the United States into q deceitfM peace ;; as,
serted that had the subsequent conduct of the
Federal Government been anticipated, moth
ing would have been more easy than for the
Confederates to have won their independence
in arms praised the ladies of the South for
not having yet submitted to reconstruction !;
absurdly menaced renewal of the struggle
of arms for the principles contended for for
four years unsuccessfully, and did all in his
power to rekindle the feelings of sectional
unkindness which good citizens everywhere
over: the land were hoping would soon be ex-
tinguished forever This 1.-THE spirit of fac
ton with q vengeance, and will, fear, bring
more detriment upon the long suffering South
than fifty such men as Mr.. Davis would be
able to compensate in century. trust that
the Union-loving men of the Republic will
soon find that Mr.. Davis speaks only for
himself and under the promptings of his own
restless ambition, and not for the high-soul-
ed and patriotic men of the South, by whom
he is now exceedingly well known. ~
There is one other assertion of Mr.. Davis
which may demand a graver and somewhat
more pointed response. He says he has yet
to meet with the first Southern lady who has
been reconstructed d-that is to say, who is
means sweepingly to declare that all the
Southern ladies still cherish the spirit of re-
bellion, he certainly does them most cruel in
justice, and may in certain cases, which I
could specify, bring upon them . miscon-
struction on the part of the government OFF,
GERS at Washington that might result in o.
rious injury to claims now pending before
them. If he does not mean this, but only
intends to make known to the public that he
has not happened to fall personally into the
company of any Southern female not now
breathing forth war, pestilence and famine
against the authorities at Washington and to
those who submit quietly to their power, why
| can see no earthly objection to admitting
this to be true, since it may be that Mr.. Davis
has not been quite so select of late in his
choice of political counsellors of the gentler
sex as he might have been. If he expects |
now to stir up rebellion again in the South by
such pitiful and slavering commendation Of |
southern woman as trickled so deceitfully |
from his lips three days ago at the Montgom-
Try White Sulphur Springs, can tell him
hat he never made greater blunder in his
life. Our women of the South are not vet
Ill Amazons, and all the more refined and in
elligent among them do most ardently desire
,eace and the universal diffusion of kind +
ceilings among all classes of cur people,
rom the wave-resounding shore of the bois-
erous Atlantic to the sweet, quiet margin of
he far-off Pacific" .-r