The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-10-02
JuJsrICE TO THE SOUTH.
state nights, Jefferson Davis
and the Democratic Party.

and the Democratic Party.
It has come to be u well estab-
lished and generally acknowledged
fact that the st. Louis Globe Demo
crat is nothing if not unfair, unjust
and vituperative when it alludes to
the people Of the South and the
Democratic party. An organ bit
terly partisan, it scruples at no ac-
cusations, hesitates at nothing in
it's efforts Ito fire the Northern
heart and awaken hatred against
the Southern people aud the Demo
cratic party. In its issue OF the
18th instant, that paper pours forth
the Walls Gifts wrath upon the head
of Mr.. Jefferson Davis because of his
manly letter written a few days ago.
declining to allow his name to be
used for the United States Senator
ship of Mississippi, and in the same
article eu!ogises q letter written by
Gen Sherman declining in very dis
courteous terms and unpleasant al
lusions, Il respectful invitation to
be present at the reunion Of ex-
confederate in North Carolina. We
have nothing to say Of Gea. Sher-
man or his course and very objec-
tionable letter tutlier than that no
other officer in the army is scarcely
capable of such q letter and that his
effort for political effect in behalf of
his brother John will fall still
born.
The charge of the Globe Demo
crat that Mr.. Jefferson Davis lis rs
much the leader ofthe Democratic
party today rs when at his bidding
the South seeded eighteen years
ago is not only gratuitous,. but it
is absolutely false; and it is a Ease
hood born Ola petty spite, a wicked
malevolence, a pitiful envy. and an
unreasoning, unreasonable hate.
MI. Davissnever was the leader OF
the Democratic party. He was, in
the days when he was Il United
States Senator. a statement taking
and active part in the politics and
affairs of the federal Union; II of
the leaders Of that party, in com
mon with Stephen A. Douglas
John c. Breckenridge, James Buc-
hanan, Andrew Johnson and other
prominent gentlemen, and when the
Southern States seeded he became
President of the Southern confeder-
acv and the acknowledged head of
Southern people. After the war
was over and the Southern states
were coerced back into the Un;Oi
and rchabilitated with all their for
mer rights save one of which the
Northern states were also deprived,
MI. Davis retired to private life dis
franchised and deprived of all polit-
ical rights, so that if he had wished
it and the Democratic party had
willed it he could not be the leader
of that party. In the seclusion of
his private life at his home, in his
retirement in the fullest and most
absolute of the word, from
public life of any nature Or degree
whatever, he is subject to the con
slant bayings of the hounds of
fanaticism. Mr.. Davis never led
the South into secessioa-:lot a sin
Gle state seeded from the federal
Union at his bidding, The South
would have seeded just as it did,
and just rs it believed it honestly
had a right to do, if Mr.. Davis had
never been born. And the hum
hlest private who fought with his
musket in the ranks of the confad-
crate army is just ~ much a traitor
and is deserving of just as much
blame as Mr.. Davis. Why is he
any more responsible than Mr..
Alexander ii. Stephens, who was
Vice-Prcsidcnt of the confe lcratc
states? Mr.. Davis believed that the
Southern states had a right to Sc
cede and when he went with his
State olt of the Union, he did VIC
lcnce to his conscience, his Judge
mcnt nor his sense of duty.
x x
The assertion of the Globe Demo
crat that the state rights doctrines
for when the Democratic party con
tends, mean war, disunion anil an
archy, is the superlatiye ,fa pitiful
demagogucry, the crystalization of
an unb.uShing. meadac.ty. The
Union one nadiyisiblc' is what
Democracy wants, and just what
Republicanism does not want to
centralize the government, and
thereby destroy the union of states.
Secession was bad enough, but a
destruction ofthe Union of States
by a Capitalization of all power in
the, general government is still
worse. The Democracy wants a
free ballot and unmolested local
self government. Republicanism
wants bavonets at the ballot boxes
and a dictation by the general gov
eminent of what the local govern
meat shall be. Now which is in
accordance with the constitution,
which is in accordance with the
wishes of the people?
These Democratic doctrines and
hopes and wishes were that Mr..
Davis harbored and pleaded for.
These were of the things that hon
ored statesman has sacrificed his
life for, his political hopes, his
physical wellbeing, and has sub
jected himself for the merciless criti-
cism of unrelenting and envcnomed
foes. Rsoken down in health, in
fortune, in hopes, not open his lips
least he be overwhelmed with abuse
Misrepresentation ana calumny. 1t
is time these things should cease.
1t is time their agitation should
meet the disapproval of every hon
orable pap r in the credit.
Stouewall Jac,xsOn's Daughter
The Baltimore Gazett says: When
the Jackson statute was unveiled in
Richmond some years ago, after the
professions and the oratory, Gov. KEN
er brought forward upon the platform
a slender little girl, and. addressing the
great crowd of old confederate soldiers