West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-08-22
JEFF DAVIS.

Wonders will never cease. The world is
out of joint. Time is requested to stay in
his flight, and to put back the state of af-
fairs existing twenty years since; rewrite
In the Constitution, SO loved by the rebel
Democracy of the South, the words, ''held
to service for iabor;" and re-people the rebel
States with generation of young, lively,
and fruitful niggers! The crowded years
are asked to unburden themselves of the
worlds progress and to reproduce the black
and fiabby social and political iniquities of
the dread past. Men whose names are no.
| torious for their notorious deeds implore
oblivion for their crimes, while they boast
OF their commission, and urge the remem-
brance of their names that their owners may
profit thereby. The murderer, pointing to
his lifeless victim, demands recognition of
his manhood attested by his bloodshedding;
and, though the land mourned the loss of
the best and the bravest of her citizens in
defending the Union from wreck by the
Southern rebellion, southern rebels today
are demanding Cancellation from the men
who suppressed the Rebellion on the BATTLE
field and sent the criminals home to lead
better lives.
But what sort of lives have these rebel
Democrats lived since Grant dismissed them
at Appomattox? The South, instead of
cultivating peace, good order, and spirit
of brotherhood has made the soil of that
section run with Republican blood, and the
bodies of murdered men in the States of
Mississippi and Louisiana, yet warm, lie on
the roads; and there are other Republicans
marked for Democratic assassination. Has
Jefferson Davis no responsibility for his
part in the rebellion? While all Christen-
dom regards him as a blasted malefactor,
living through Republican clemency, no
sense of sorrow or of shame seems to move
him. He comes forth in the light of the
sun to deliver disloyal addresses and keep
alive the unpunished disloyalty in that part
of the Union which he tried to wrench from
it, and called the Confederate States.
Had he been forced to take his place in
the ranks and fight in the rebellion, Jetfer-
son Davis would have been miles away from
the place of an engagement, and found in
the hut of a slave, Or under house-any-
where but fronting danger. He aided Sc
cession that he might become President of
the States in rebellion. The great Republi-
can North put him down, and he fled from
his Presidency in woman's petticoat.
Since then he has been allowed to live in
seclusion or vaporing in speeches to keep
alive the hate he bears to loyal men and to
fire the Southern heart. He has never been
harmed; the good men despise both him
and his cause.
But like all whose lives are unworthy, and
whose one object is to accomplish evil, he
has brooded over his career until he has az
rived at conclusion that he was personally
wronged while occupying his high rebel of
flee; and he wants to be concliated. He
wants to wipe his nose upon the public
sleeve, and to perform the delicate act in
the face of the public. And Mr.. Jefferson
Davis thus announces the wrong he has en-
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applied:
81 was interrupted" so Mr.. Jefferson
Davis is reported to have said, 81 was inter
rupted while performing the functions of
my Office as President of the Confederate
States. think the time has come for rep
aration. In the interests of Cancellation,
propose to serve out the time for which l
was elected to the Presidency; and that l
shall be allowed to supercede Mr.. Hayes in
the Presidency of the United Statesr'