The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-11-11
Jeff. Davis.

rest from the country A Captain D.. u.
HOWELL is lost with the Pacific, BOAT ne
and the eountry is sensa-
tiouaiized by the telegram with the
startling news that he was :" rela-
tive" "a brotber-in.law) of JEFF: DAVIS.
The announcement that he was brether.in.
law of Captain Kidd would hardly have
produced greater sensation in certain quar-
tess of the Union. Probably 10 the " " estern
Reserve Of Ohio the people are not yet done
with " thanking God" II.
If there ever was an ear that heard or a
voice that chauted "Te Deuna " 10 that CHARM
ing district of Ohio 1t is still chanting that
grand chant gratefully to Heayen-serVeo
him right for being brother.in-law to JEFF.
DAVIS! Perhaps the only regret in that dls-
trict, where they wbitewash the ends OF
their wood-piles and grind their prayers
from q grindstone, was that JEFF. DAVIS
himself was not on board the Pacific, and
himself boen transformed into jelly fish.
Perhaps we are amongst those who never
in the South admired very greatly JEFF. DA'
WIS. rquestioDably be is an accomplished
and iecorous gentleman "a statesman OF un'
common merit; but as statesman with the
common denerit of limiting his statesman
ship to the hoEizon by which his vision was
Ia sort of statesman Win
which the North is crowded. MOTTO be trusted
il on administration which inevitably in
+staded within its scope that statesmanship
which is for the good Of mankind.
Eff. DAVIS failed along with the cause for
which he stoodein bold relief before the
world. We do not think that be was the
fair representative. of that cause: hut it is
too late to help either the cause or "-3EER'
DAyls," as our no9thern friends will persist
in calling him. instead Of Mr.. JsERERs On
DAVIS, late President of the late Southern
ConSeSeracy, which they should; and for
which display of peovish aRtagonism and
wicked proneness TO disparagemeat of
everything southern ws are very indignant
togards shem, and we.Wish them to eleeMy
understand this fact.
Having beaten JEFF. ,DAvIs, whom We
were Obliged to ackno Mledge as our Presi-
dent while We were republic, will they not
be content? What do. they want? They
have all the offices and the sructifying jobs
OUT of which money has been made to tue
increasing Of taxes, which fall like "tse
gentle rains Of heaven ON the just and the
ugiust';'; and couldn't they let us pay taxes
10 Hetce, and let JEFF. DAVIS eest bis frugal
fare ia quiet, without suSpecting every NOR
sci he SWALLOWS az a torpedo that is to blow
the Union to atoms?
WeGry your mercy, gentlemen. Mr.. JET.
FEggoS DAYS is avery civil gentleAsa of very
moderate physical proportions. Ua!ike the
modern GULLlvER, he cannot ia physical
way dcteud himself against all ua5aiauts,
whether 1t the head oil newspaper columns
or With hose and Gozzle. lie is without
army and without Gl%aitions of war, aad he
has entirely changed bis line CT defence, and
now only taiks of hay and horse and
the arts of domestic concern, which are
the matters Of general concern and general
harmony. Why prosecute or prosecute him
further? Let US have peace. The "la'
HOWELL may have been his broth !
er-in.law. But he couldn't help if. HOWELL
would be born whether or mo: and now that /
be is gone never TO return, we trust the peo- |
Pile that are frightened every TING JEFF. |
DAVIS appears may belieye that ne has a
brotber.in-law less, and to that extent is less
to- be feared:
The recent victory Of the Conservatives in
was the occasion Of fresh scare,
apd a telegram was made up in the South |
for the Western Reserve" say
,pg tbatJEFF. was to be Immediately sent to
lhe United States Senate. This spread alarm
Ses a laIge surface; but we imagise that he
arsg a ,brother.in law less strong than he
g y, ahe fears excited by his predicted rise
, the world are smartly diminished.
Nyecan imagine but one use that our date
re si&apt Gamble put to, and that Is Tie SER
Ice il which the devil Is employed to |
light en- vicious people. This he has often
one, very muehito national advantage. But
is iii 9e this thing was done with. We re-
eat, III SUuIsJ thattHc uSSct hCIc ule iJkfLls !
40 bu the affectes horror of him ia Ahe
forth Kettles our sympathy for him, and
We have % say sshat,we know of hinl-that1
.e is quiet aaa good citizen, aud that his
mind is turned whollytsn peace and the
sosperity Of the arts of peace, and that be
xs just met the sGietion OF the loss Of bis
and the ordinary rules Of
/, 'ilization, tuaat command somewhat of re-
ere, Nes in the senerabIe presease OF Misery,
ouire that .l#F. DAVIS shall he shielded
om fur. beg anpeyance.
We beg .als ip behalf of liberty and hu.
anity.
If tina. does uOs,neach the aWestern Re-
rye" We give U.
We are indebted 10 de Hon. G. j. FAUX.
.R, of West Virginia. Cor the report of the
ecias commission amp, ,iAted to investigate
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