Daily globe., 1878-07-13

n BOURBON OF AMERICAN POLITICS.
The ex-president of the late lamented (by
a few Confederate States of America mourns
Figuratively speaking he has covered him
self with sackcloth and ashes. He contem-
plates the ruin of his hopes-the overthrow
on this continent-and is sad. He is moved
to exclaim like the prophet, Therefore [
will wall and howl: I will make wailing
like the dragons, and mourning as the owls;
for her wound is incurable.'
Jefferson Davis has had the good sense,
up to recent days, to keep his tongue tied SO
far as politics are concerned. Suffering per-
petual disfranchisement on account of his
treason, his interference in the political
affairs of the country he sought to destroy
must inevitably be regarded as an imper-
Thence, and no matter how honest OF sin
cere he may be, his remarks will be liable
to misconstruction and his motives open to
question. The speech delivered at Mississip-
pi City on Wednesday was in exceedingly
bad taste, and will do the cause he wishes to
assist vastly more harm than good. 1t was
| ill-timed and injudicious calculated to work
mischief, and to place the Southern people
in false position-a position they are not
| anxious to occupy
| Mr.. Davis re-asserts his belief in the right
of State to secede from the Union.
States in 1861. Happily the question
has been decided for all time contrary to his
idea, and that decision has been honestly ac-
cepted as final by the people of the whole
country. 1t has been decided by tribunal
higher than the law-by the source of the
Iaw-the people. It is difficult to see what
Mr. Davis can hope to gain by reviving at
this time the old issue, SO long buried
"Ihe material and moral wrecks which the
country presents cause Mr. Davis much
country has become corrupt, and is ready fo,
Cnsar-a fit subject for despotism. It is
very evident that this sole remnant of a lost
cause has been brooding oyer-much of late
upon the moral turpitude exhibited by the
witnesses in the Louisiana case. He takes
these as representative men and women o1
the whole country, and regards the carpet
j, bag scallawags as specimens of Northern
gentility, honor and culture. The bigotry
, and narrow mindedness he exhibits is quit,
as reprehensible as that of some radical par
tisans at the North who claim that all South
ern men are either red-handed murderers O
unrepentant traitors like Mr.. Davis. Hi
further arrogant assumption that all the vir
tue, honor, patriotism of the country resid
in those who were once his companions il
the campaign against the Union is piece o
E nsolence akin to that which claims that al
, those qualities are indigenous only to tn
section lying north of Mason and Dixon
line. 1t is we'll that Mr.. Davis disavows TO
the Southern people responsibility for hi
utterances, for we are sure that very few vii
be found who agree with him. While h
spoke some truths and enunciate
l some statesmanlike ideas, it canno
be denied that his speech wa
y wholly unnecessary and inappropriate, an
e is calculated to place the Southern people
D whom some people still suppose he repre-
Q sents, in false position before the country
The great mass of the people of the Sout
do not cling to the dead theories of the pas
b do not mourn for the lost cause-as doe
t Mr.. Davis. They honestly accept the sitr
:, alton as it has been forced upon them, try
v forget that they were ever arrayed againt
e the government under which they live, an
: strive by every means in their power to al
Q in the re-establishment of fraternity an
o good will between the sections. They do NJ
wish the old issues revived the old sor,
e-opened. They are content to acce]
p things as they are and to labor hand in har
a with the people of the North to restore Il
} government of this country to its pristil
Is purity, and defend it from the approach
L corruption and despotism. They are
)" jealous of it's honor as are any of the peop
at of the North, and they are the people wi
so have reason to most seriously complain tn
le such men as Davis are allowed to place the
in false position before the world-as
string to resurrect the issues that have be,
e. dead and buried these many years. SUI
, men as he are the worst enemies of t
in South; they are the Bourbons of Americ;
in politics, who neither forget nor learn an
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