The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-10

aocm alngly conducted. There was a reason
for this use OF the option offered. which II ia
not necessary to state) The convergatjo,
a Ina, W Gpiomea v Is not correctly reported BY
Wess Point, which was introduced nv himself
those who know Mr.. Davis keen ser,aes ~
social and official propriety will NOT neesi ~
nv so' iha sas wnat Is said of his criticisms
| purely fictitious. No such conversation on,
| CURED, and it is simply impossibla that Il
| couid have occurred under the circum stances a.
deny Inc statement on the best authoritv
put no authority besides that OF The marsaI
evidence would be necessary to resata thn aa
sertlon that the Confederate President no,'iI
talk to stranger and an enemy in stroi,
o. gushing gus N confidence which he never in
uulged III con VerSatlOn with his own fami1ia,
friends, 1t is but charity to presume that
Gen, w lson has confounded opinions attrib~
uted to Mr.. Davis by popular rumor fwhethe,.
righlt or wrong With imaginary expressions
In the course Of the interview Gen Wilson
abruptly ana rather indelcately introduced
the subject Of the reward offered by the Pres.
ldent OF the United States for the arrest of
eompie Ht in af tho Inc charge against him of
CON- CO q, lnqulrlng whether he had heard of it,
nave" was the answer, "and there ia one
man an :, VINO sl Knows IT to be a lie
sunny 10y vol, one man man, rejoined Wilson 81 pre-
5 2I you mean some one particular man2'
Il 40. answered Mr.. Davis; ii mean the
man Andrew Johnsonl who signed the nrnn o
lam "a .,, Tor he knows that would q thou
da a , sitlles faEer have Abraham Lincoln to
t ueal WIN, as PRESIDENT OF the United States,
than to have him. This was said with liz,
full expectation that it would be renortad '"0
Inc statement that he expressed appreben-
# would NJ ' ei caaf re- q treason as which
manliestly absurd. For two years Of imnris.
ohinent ana another year while on ball the
most m strenuous efforts Of Mr. Davis and his
70 ft the js were 20 hrng this charge of treason
ment OF the United States never dared r.
. sla put, AFTER delays and postponements
from l Time to time, under various nretexta
, niany opsfnissed the charge with noWe
me remark about Col. Pritchard is not cor
ae ss. stated. No expression of o choice of
custodlans or request of any sort was noda
tire y to thnt " wh1 6s IRON the time Of his cap
aeter ,,il to ask nothing Of his captors
t nor d hn ne say or intimate to Gen. Wilson
s slat ne had shown any lack of dignity and
tbinpp said 80 or express regret for any
, there IRE, are so many other msstatemep ia in
Gen; Wilson'S narrative that it would he ..
waste OF time to point out and contradicI
1el. . Win regard to one only of them.
the shadow-of the ncomparabie tirtit thl,,sl
ness ALREADY exposed, it would be q sort Of in
lustlce to the people of Georgia tn Give an1,
t hsgti.DloiA W "naC Gen. Wilson would have ,Is
p pll1 OF Their lack of sympathy with their
PRESIDENT and his family Ia the hour Of
To revert for moment to O
THE FOOLISH AND MALIGNANT "pETrr1coAr
STORY"
which, with some modification Of ita orioino1
dralt, Gen Wilson has attempted. at tbis late
gay, ana Ia opposition to the slowly return
ing tlde on peace and good will. to revive and
!!ecolisCl utt, IL mas no support from any con-
temporary official statement that basy boan
given to the public. 1t has been renao+ oeu
and positively denied by eve-wit nasaos ~,
both sides One such denial hv '1 Tedor VI
soldier, which was published IN a Nnrth
ern paper a few years 400 an Az IL,
been copied more than once since A IT,,
IlTst appearance, was reprbished in The
So 1 Historical Society PnDers for Augnat
1871. The statement OF James n .f5nas,
PRESIDENT Davis coIored coachman now 2
respectable citizen of Raleigh, N q. raeent,ts
fepubllshed in the Philadelphia TI,nes ID nIeayy-
ana satisfactory on the same point altbonnh
IL mas some mistakes in names of n,ersopa
Places etc.. as might be expected from q Wit,
ness s OF limited education, after SO long a Ianse
Still later, but entirely independent Of al1
9Iher evidence, has appeared the letter Of the
~ non; Johh H. Reagan, Confederate Postmaa-
t te benefal, published in the PhiladeInhia
Innes, entirely corroborating the STATEMENTS
! l ,sl. appended, and giving emphasis If
that We're possibly to their exposnre Of the
OF Con. Wilson's narrative In
us beginning, Its middle, and it's end.
W. L. WALTHALL,.