The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1875-08-21
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JIrrrnsoN DAVIS ~ ihL's"'s'
We rcpublish this morning a
special dispatch to the Chicago In
tcr.Occan, conveying to the aston
ishcd readers of that journal, the
startling information, that Jefferson
Davis has accepted an invitation to
lecture at the town OF Rockford,
Illinois.
Tho local announcement of this
fact, seems to have produced some
thing akin to CONSERVATION IN that
ouiet Illinois town. What the
truitorous leader of tho wicked re-
beion; tho arch enemy OF the
American Union, coming to tins
loyal city, and as its guest, to oo
given the opportunity OF talking
treusen TO our faces. Monstrous ]!
But tho alarm of these worthy
people is rs needless, rs were the
manaclcs and chains with which
tho limbs of this feeble old man
were loaded, when without an arm
cd follower in the world, he was
seized aud thrown into Fortress
Monroe. They will see man bow
cd with tho burden of nearly three
score years and ton, who, without
surrendering the political convic'
lions of II lifetime, does not come to
talk "treason. but to tell the pco-
pic of the north that whatever these
convictions were or are, hc fully
recognizes tho fact of u restored
Union; and that the day for cher
ishing animosity, either by those
who wore the blue or those who
wore the gray, or their descendants
has passed away; and to express the
hope that, during the short rem
nant of life still left him, he hopes
to witness a thorough and cordial
reconciliation between the people of
the two sections. They who fear
that he would avail himself Of the
opportunity afforded by this invita-
ton, to offend the prejudices OF his
entertainers, arc incapable Of CON-
pretending tho true nobility OF
Mr.. Davis character.
IT was mentioned, yesterdays
issue of TIE HERALD, that eX- -PreSl-
dent Davis had accepted an invita-
tion to lecture in + town in Illinois.
The er-Ocean, Of Chicago, IN
which this news item appeared,
seems to have had its breath taken
out of it, by this audacious an
nouncement and for whole twen-
ty.four hours was moodily silent.
But, by the next day, it had recov-
cred from the shock, and in its is
sue of the llth, opened wide the
food gates of it's wrath, and poured
it in an overwhelming torrent
upon the devoted heads of the Win
ncbago Society, for daring TO out
rage the loyal sentiment Of the
country, by inviting "the arch trai
tor Davis" 10 breathe the patriotic
atmosphere of Illinois ; and then
proceeds to howl upon his trail like
4 hungry Tiger at the smell Of blood.
An entire library Of unabridged die
tionarics is exhausted of offensive
epithets, to characterize one who,
whatever may have boon his politi-
cal errors or herosies, is as llype-
rion to Satyr, compared to the NAL
ignant editor of tho Intor-Ocean.
We trust Mr.. Davis will yet de-
cline the invitation, for as there are
blackguards, even in Illinois, it is
plain how they will conduct them
selves towards him, when bounded
on by the public press. If they
should not insult the invited guest,
it will be proof that the worst ruf.
fans oflIlinois are thccditors who are
degrading themselves by unmanly
abuse of q noble old man, tottering
upon the brink of the grave.