New-York tribune., 1879-09-17

will remove his political disabilities, "and thus
spare our State the aifrOnt OF DENYING 10 out
"Saie the right 10 choose her own repf'seh-
"tatiyer He then proceeds to say that " the
vital issue before the county Is the con
4" test between State Rights and Consoliua-
" ton -; and in further definition OF the
issue TO declare that I" 1t was for sell govern
"ment that the States declared their inde-
"pendcnce and fought until they were sew
"craily acknowledged to be free ana III
"depenlent nations" All other political
questions he considers subordinate TO TINS, ana
he expresses great confidence that the prln-
cples he has laid down will sooner or later
be vindicated To hasten this Contamination
he homes some one will he selected =" who has
ono poltica disabilities to obstruct his ad-
"mittance to the Senate, and against whom
there are no bitter prejudces to I'M
/" pair his usefulness" In other words,
the object of the Democratic party OF
Mississippl is to hasten the vindication OF the
principles which they failed to establish 10y
rebellion, chief of which is that the States
are "free and Independent nations" Ana
that simply as n matter of policy 1t would D.
better to select some one for Senator who VIII
be admitted to the Senate. and whose useIul-
ness is not impaired. All very true, no DOUBT
but an ayOwal not calculated to bring much
strength To the party at the North, where
they are strenuously insisting that the State
Rights issue is n bugbcar, and that under no
circumstances can the issues of the war be re-
vived If this does not look to a revival of
the vital question upon which the war was
fought we should like 10 know what would I
And so Mr. jefferson Davis considers that
the State Of Mississippi Is at1ronted because
the Congress of the United States has not re-
moved his disabilities, so that Mississippi can
elect him to the Senate to hasten the cOnslm-
nation he names, tO-wit, the vindication or
the principle of State Rights, which the United
States Government lately at some cost put
down. Aflrontedl Was there ever such cool
assnrancel Is il possible that this man has for
gotten his own history as well as the history oil
lis State7 Why, it is less than twenty years
since hc a Senat0r-hOlding then the Office lie
whines about tn-day-tOrswore his allegiance,
threw down his office, and went out to lead "a
bloody rebellion and for five years neither he
nor his State was heard from except across
hostile lines, through the mouths OF cannon
and muzzles Of musketry, and the thin, plnched
lips of The boys they starved and sent back to
us. Not twenty years since his State TebeUed
and he stalkcd out of the Senate. And not
fifteen since his State was brought back and
he was in prison for treason. And here ne
comes up whining that his state Is at-
frontcd, because Congress, in addition to grant
ing him the life he forfeited and the freedom
he abuses, has not removed all his disabill-
ties and made him eligible to the seat In the
Senate which he thinks Mississippi wants him
TO fill. Is there any parallel Oh record for
such impudence Well, he does serve one
purpose at least he Eliminates the politics
Of bis party AMI his period. Perhaps it is
part of the penalty the South pays for Its
crime against the Union that this man lives Oh.
And it may be his punishment, too, that, like
the Wandering jew, he has to stay.