The Portland daily press., 1873-08-22
Live Embers.

The people of the North have generally re-
garded the extravagant expressions Of hatred
toward this section of the nation, frequently
seen in the cross-road papers of the South as
the frenzied rawlings OF whiskey inspired idi-
OTIS who were towards during the war rather
than the prevailing sentiment OF the better
portion OF the South. We are still inclined to
believe that the illustrious soldiers on that
side fully II not cordially accept the situation
and that respectable part of the leading
men OF the South, of which the late Gov.
Orr of South Carolina was type, recognize
their mistake and really desire to retrieve the
past by bringing their sections to a cordial
recognition Of the changed condition of af
fairs. Ii we believe any part of the fervant
and profuse asseveratons of hundreds of
Southern leaders pending the Presidential
election of 1871, relative to ''clasping hands
across the bloody chasm," we must believe
that the men who fought so bravely for the
''lost cause" believe it TO be entirely of the
past. II this state of affairs really exists at
the South-if the men, who, from the pecu-
liar institutions of the South have great infiu-
ence iu moulding public opinion are in earn
est to secure harmony between all sections of
the country, the hate and bitterness of the
unhappy war would disappear with the pres
ent generation. There is one man, however,
whose central position in the confederacy
gives him wide influence among the people of
that section, who takes eveey opportunity to
keep alive the embers of resentment-we re-
fer to jeff Davis-he, who is responsible for
all the biunders in the management of the
war on the confederate side, and is connected
with all that was barbarous in its history,
and deserted his army in its hour of great
est peril. now stalks like ghost OF the past
over the country and on every occasion that
presents, fires the hearts of his late deluded
and suffering followers with the idea that the
cause they have suffered so to defend, is not
lost. Last year he contemptuously declared
that he had asked no pardon of the United
States and wodld no.. The other day he took
occasion to revive the dying embers by say
ing that the ''Seuth had been more
cheated than conquered" and that there
"never would have been a surrender had we
anticipated what followed, and we should to-
day have been Free" He has still hope for
the South, for she had never hea d of a re-
constructed woman, whatever the men might
be-"
Now precisely what MIR. Davis hopes for
the South is that it lay cherish sectional ha-
tired and oppose the results of the late war
until such a time as it may successfully de-
mand all that it claimed when he was at the
head of the Confederacy. To this end he
would instruct the young men and encourage
defiance of the laws and keep up the strife
that has prevailed in some sections ever since
the war. This sentiment of Mr.. Davis, the
report says, was warmly applauded by large
number OF Southern leaders who were at the
meeting when he spoke. If this is true it is
TO be regretted, for it indicates too plainly
thattse men who have the most potent inf
ence in the South are disposed to keep alive
the sectional resentments that every patriotic
citizen desires to forget as far as they affect
the future