Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-13
Il BOURBON OF AMER1cAN POLITICS.

hundred more votes than the Hayes electors.
n BOURBON OF AMERICAN POLITICS.
The ex-president of the late lamented (by
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
of his pet scheme to establish slayeocracy
on this continent-and is sad. He is moved
to exclaim like the prophet, Therefore I
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 imper-
Thence, and no matter how honest OIL sin
cere he may be, his remarks will be liable
to misconstruction and his motives open to
question. The speech delivered at MISSISSIPPI
pi City on Wednesday was in exceedingly
bad taste, and will do the cause he wishes to
assist vastly more harm than good. It was
ill-timed and injudicious, calculated to work
mischief, and to place the Southern people
in a 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.
and justifes the course of the Southern
States in 1861. Happily the question
has been decided for all time contrary to his
idea, and that decision has been honestly &C
cepted as final by the people of the whole
higher than the law-by the source of the
law-the people. 1t is difficult to see what
Mr.. Davis can hope to gain by reviving at
this time the old issue, SO long buried.
"The material and moral wrecks which the
country presents cause MI. Davis much
| pain under his waistcoat. He thinks the
| country has become corrupt and is ready for
| Casar-a fit subject for despotism. 1t is
very evident that this sole remnant of lost
cause has been brooding over-much of late
| upon the moral turpitude exhibited by the
witnesses in the Louisiana case. He takes
| these as representative men and women of
| the whole country, and regards the carpet
| bag scallawags as specimens of Northern
gentility, honor and culture. The bigotry
| and narrow mindedness he exhibits is quite
as reprehensible as that Of some radical par
tisans at the North who claim that all South
ern men are either red-handed murderers or
unrepentant traitors like Mr.. Davis. His
further arrogant assumption that all the viz
tue, honor, patriotism of the country reside
in those who were once his companions in
the campaign against the Union is a piece of
insolence akin to that which claims that all
those qualities are indigenous only to the
section lying north of Mason and Dixon's
line. It is we'll that Mr.. Davis disavows for
the Southern people responsibility for his
utterances, for we are sure that very few will
be found who agree with him. While he
spoke some truths and enunciated
some statesmanlike ideas, it cannot
be denied that his speech was
wholly unnecessary and inappropriate, and
is calculated to place the Southern people,
whom some people still suppose he repre-
sents, in false position before the country.
The great mass of the people of the South
do not cling to the dead theories of the past
do not mourn for the lost cause-as does
Mr.. Davis. They honestly accept the stu
| alton as it has been forced upon them, try to
forget that they were ever arrayed against
the government under which they live, and
strive by every means in their power to aid
in the establishment of fraternity and
good will between the sections. They do not
wish the old issues revived the old sores
re-opened. They are content to accept
things as they are and to labor hand in hand
with the people of the North to restore the
government of this county to its pristine
purity, and defend it from the approach OF
corruption and despotism. They are as
Jealous of it's honor as are any of the people
of the North, and they are the people who
have reason to most seriously complain that
such men as Davis are allowed to place them
in a false position before the world-as de.
string to resurrect the issues that have been
dead and buried these many years. Such
men as he are the worst enemies of the
South; they are the Bourbons of American
politics, who neither forget nor learn any
ing.