Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-07-11
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JEFF. DAVIS AGAIN.
A Characteristic Speech.
State Rights and Secession.
MORE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS
NGLOTURkISH ALLIANCE
State Rights and Secession.
MORE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS
ALLIANCE
SECRE TARy SHERMAN AND THE N. Y. BANKERS.
VAIL FROM JEFFERSON DAVIS.
An Address on States Rfghts-He
Still BelfoYeS I'm SeceSSi0n


lMiss.) dispatch of the 10th says:-The follow
Ingis brief synopsis of the address made
| TO day by Jefferson Davis on the occasion OF
the presentation to him of a gold badge and
! certificate of membership of the Association
| OF the Army of the Tennessee. Col. James
Logan made the presentation speech. Mr.
| kindness and honor conferred, recapitulated
| the stirring events of the war and the hard
| ships endured, and d." The question of
state rights, of secession, in 1861 was at leaS:
| Gehatab!e, but the course pursued by the fed
| eral government after the war had ceased
vlndlcatlng the judgment of those who held
separation TO be necessary for the safety and
| freedom OF the southern states, and Tie un-
| ul attempt to separate left those in
| power to work their will as it had been mani
! Tested when they first got control of the gov
| ernment. The events are too recent to re-
! cure recapltulatlOn, and the ruin they have
| developed requires no other memorial than
| the material and moral wreck which the
| country presents" The speaker reasserted
| HIS UNsHAkEN BELIEF IN THE RIGHT OF Sc
CESSION
and the duty of the citizen to battle in the
| cause of the state after secession. He reviewed
| the campaigns from Fort Henry to shiloh and
| Speaking OF Albert Sidney Johnston, he said:
| with unmeasured confidence and the hope of
| happier days when opportunity should offer?
or was it that your Judgment told you that
| you followed, as verify believe you did, the
| greatest soldier, the ableSt man, civil or mill
| tary, confederate or federal?'' Mr.. Davis then
reviewed the operations about Nicksburg and
| their defenders. He said -" Let no one SUB
| pose that in thus yindicating oUr cause, in
| paying due tribute TO your gallant deeds, | am
| seeking to disturb such peace as We have, or
| TO avoid the logic of events. You have done
| your duty in the past, and / would ask no
more than that you should fulfil equally Well
| the duties OF tie present and the future. The
braNeSt are as rule the greatest, and they
are also the trueSt to every obligation as
sumed. You struck for independence, and
| Were unsuccessful. You agreed to return to
| the Union and abide by the constitution and
| laws made in conformity With it. This far and
| no farther do understand your promise TO
extend"
| REFERRING TO THE LEGISLATION OF THE
| CONGRESS FOLLOWING THE WAR
| he said, The taxpayers know that an in
creased burden was imposed on them by con-
| tracts made with bond holders, merchants and
| ship-0wnerS. They know that We have lost
| carrying trade. and TO what will they assign a
poncy which prevents the registration OF
! American ships tnat had changed flags during
| the war, which imposes such duties on raw
material as TO interfere with ship building
| and prohibit the registration of foreign built
| ships though 1t be by purchase the property OF
| citizens OF the United States. Will the people
| Wouhlly the source of all power, allow
Cng continuance OF such palpable WRONGS 10
| he masses, such ruin TO interests which have
| been equally our pride and means of prOSperi-
| ~ A form OF government must correspond
| 10 the chai acter of the people for which it is
| appropriate. Whenever corruption enters the
| body polite and has rendered the people un-
| worthy to rule, then they become the fit sub
| hand to respond.
| could not subject people who were fit to be
| free, nor could a BrutuS save them if they
were fit for subjugation. The fortitude with
which our people have borne oppression i'm
posed uron them since the war has closed
the reSolute will with which they have strug.
gled against poverty and official pillage. Is
their highest glory, and give the best aSsur
ance OF full triumph. Well may we rejoice i'm
the regalned possession of local self govern
ment in the power of the people to choose their
own representatives, and to legiSlate uncOn-
trolled by bayonets. This is the great victory,
total nOnlnterference by the federal govern
ment with the domestic affairs of the states
The renewal OF
THE TINE HoNoRRD DOCTRINE OF STATE
SOVEREIGNTY,
and the supremacy of law, will secure perma-
nent peace. freedom and prosperity. The CON
Stitution of the United States interpreted AZ
it was by those who made it, is the PROPHETS
rod SWeetenlng the bitter water from which
followed the strife, the carnage, the misery,
and the shame of the past as well as the evils
OF Of the present; Every evil which has befallen
our institutions is directly traceabl to the
peryersiOn of the compact of Union and the
usurpati0n by, the federal government
OF OF, nIn Inndelega6ed power Let one mem
tiOn. When Missouri asked for admission
as a state into the Union, to which She
had a two19d right under the Constitution
and usageS OF the United States and also under
the terms OF the treaty by which the terri
tory was acquired, her application was resisted
ana her ADMISSION was finally purchased by
the constitutional concession called missouri
Compromise" Wien that establishment of a
politico- geographical line was announced to
the apostle of democracy, who full of years
and honorS in retirement, watched with pro-
found solicitute the course of the government
he had SO mainly contributed to inaugurate.
his prophetic vision saw the end of which
this was the beginning. The news fell upon
his ear
LIKE FIRE BELL AT NIGHT"
Men had differed and would differ about
measures and public policy, according to their
circumstances or mental characteristics. Such
differences tended to an elucidation of truth
a triumph OF reason over error. Parties so
founded would not be sectional, but when the
federal government made parallel of lati-
tude, a political line of sectional party could
not fulfil the ends for which the Union was
ordained and established III the limitationS
of the Constitution bad been observed. and its
purposes bad directed federal legislation. no
such act could have been passed. The lid of
the pandora box might have remained closed
and the country have escaped the long train
OF similar aggreSSiOnS which aggrandiZed one
section and Impoverished the other, and ad-
ding insult to injury, finally DESTROYED the
fraternity which had bound them together. It
is no part OF my purpose, as has been already
shown, to discuss
THE POLITICS OF THE DAY.
though the deep interest | must ever feel in
the ar airs OF the country has not allowed ME TO
give them, and will not permit me to be unob
servant of passing events or Indifferent to the
government has of late been subjected Sepa-
rated from my active participation in public
affairs, may nOt-properly Judge of those who
have to bear the heat and burthen OF the day.
Representing no one, it would be quite unrea-
sOnable to hold any other responsible for Opin-
ons which may entertain. How or when a
restoration OF the government to the princi-
pies and practices Of its earlier period may be
accomplished, it is not given US to foresee For
me, it remains only earnestly to hope and
hopefully to believe. though L may not see IT,
that the restoration win come. To disbeleve
his is to discredit the northumberland and
integrity on which self government must nee
essaTiy depend. Though, severely tried. INV
faith in the people is not lost, and prayerfnI
~ trust, though l should not live to See the
hope realized, that it will be permitted me to
die, believing the principles on which our
fathers founded their government will finally
prevail throughout the land, and the ends for
which 1t was instituted yet be attained and rem
dered perpetual as human institutions NAV be.
have said we could not fOresee how O when
thls may De brought to pass, but IL is not so |
dlmcuit 10 determine what means are needful |
10 secure the result. First in order and i'm |
ROrtance Tor It Is the corner stone of the edi- |
nee, the elective franchise must be intelligent |
~ and honestly exercised. Let there be TO |
class legislation, low taxes, low salaries no |
perqu1sites, and let the official be held to a /
aecOnntaHtIfty tn