The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-18
VOL. VIII.
MR. JRFFRRs ON DAVIS IN THE
UNITED STATES SENATE.

The Vicksburg Herald alleges, with
share of unkindn:ss TO Mr.. Jefferso.
Davis, that he constitutes a grievOui
obstruction TO the restoration Of good
feeling between the North and South
When it is alleged that Mr.. Davis
would be the next chosen United States
Senator from Mississippi he is silent,
and many think thst he yearns for the
place. In any event Gen. WalthAli, AT
accomplished gentleman and learned
lawyer, who has sspired to the posi-
tion. has withdrawn from the candida.
ture, and mainly because, as many be-
lieve, he would not, as an asplrant, col
lide with Mr.. Jefferson Davis. 1t i,
greatly feared that DAvis's election will
only give violence and strength to Stall
wartism; but then, the South is used
to it, aud each YszoO incident perpet-
utes the sway of Radicalism, and the
counter irritaut IS found in thInstipg
men OF Mr.. Dsvis's sort and OF his his
tory into Office in the South. The two
processes balance the account, and
while those in Office are doubtlessly
perfectly blest, We do not discover that
people or States are gamers. The old
war of secession still RACES delightfully."-
iE Congress; but then our CONNIE rec
languishes, our ships rot, our nearest
neigh bors have no intercourse with us.
Germany is sggTandized by Mexico,
Costa Rica trades, like Vera Cruz, with
England and our intercourse with Bra
I'll is conducted through London and
Liverpool. The mouth of the Missis-
sippi is open. and no line of foreign
steam packets has its depositories at
New Orleans or Vicksburg or Mem
phis. The politicians have the country
by the throat. The war between the
North and South is still progressive,
and the people are plundered to desti-
tuition by taxgatherers. We can have
no peace and no prosperity till these
accusations against Mr.. Davis are base
less and until a new class of men are
sent up to Washington.
Suppose we send up Jefferson Davis
himself. Every bloody-shirted Radi-
cal in the Senate will greet him with
''bloody hands to this hospitable
grave" OF course he can do the South
no practical service and only serve to
exasperste sections and revive memories
and hates that should be obliterated
from the pages of books and of human
memory. But the shotgun Democracy
use him to show their ardent pluck,
their heroism, their irrepressible and
chivalrous spirit. The world must
look on in rapt wonder and admire.
But who will discover the practical
good To come Of i'll 1t will be fine for
the psrty-leaders. 1t will consolidate
sections and hates and fierce antagO-
nisms of both the hspless sections in
office; but the people will remain poor,
taxation will be enormous, there
will he no reforms, the politicians, as
IN the last Congress. would never have
time or temper to deal with mere mat
ters of commerce or money. They are
after higher, nobler game. The sec
tional war RACES and they are great
leaders in intellectual battles of the
passions.
And thus the best interests of the
North and of the South are forever sac
rifced. The sooner the people dis
card these men representative of Sec
tlonal passions and of partisan hates,
and the sooner the South secures prac-
tical instead Of theoretical legislation
in Washington and the future Mr..
Days is removed from public notice,
the better for the whole country
and especially for these impoverished
States. Mr.. Days should consecrate
the remnant of his days, his life and
great intellectual energies to the sane
tification of the cause in which he in
duced myriads of his countIymen to
embark their fortunes. He should
justify his acts and speeches in the
eyes of posterity. He should make
principles sacred for which so much
blood was spilled. Godlike purity
and truth and unselflshness should
haYe clothed with raiment of divinest
beauty the purposes and acts of those
in whose train million men fell, their
virtues chanted in the ssddest litany
of broken hearts. There is enough
here for Mr.. Davis's head and hands
to do, and there is nothing good that
be can do in the Senate of the United
States. In his very nature and moral
organization he is utterly incapable OF
promoting the restoration of union and
peace, and God knows we want nc
more war. His capacity was tested al
Hampton Roads as Hunter, Stephens,
Campbell and Abraham Lincoln have
told mankind. He wrote his epitaph
| when he wrote that UltimdtUm, even 81
it was the blackened, blood-stained
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