Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-15
an extract or two. After speaking
Of the rapid progress being made

IN extract or two. After speaking
Of the rapid progress being made
by the Southern people, the Courier
Journal says:
It is tbs which, perhaps, more
than anything else, gives touch Of
bombast to Mr.. Davis declaration,
that the cause of the Confederacy
{" was founded in truth and justice. u
History will not SO record it, and the
present generation of Southern men
does not believe it. History will
record that handful of politicians,
of whom Mr.. Davis became leader,
brought about condition of things
which, placing the South at a great
Disadvantage and much in the wrong,
precipitated the people into a most
unlustlied and ruinous war. With
the gradual disappearance of the
consequences of this war, mems
minds are beginning to be able,
calmly, to consider it. From the
first twas paradox. A struggle for
freedom, which was to continue four
millions of human beings in perpetual
slavery, was to be maintained. only
by misleading sophistries and artificial
agencies. These were copiously sup
piled by the secession leaders and
wantonly applied by the secession
managers. Nevertheless, a great
majority of the Southern people adj
hered to the Union; and it was not
until, by coercive appliances the
most indefensible, a casus belli was
precipitated, that Mr.. Davis and his
followers, looms, Wigfall, Slidell
and the rest, were enabled, by ap-
pealing to the gallantry and senti-
mental nature Of the South, to array
a sufficient force in line to make o
show of war, and so, step by step,
to embarrass, compromise and
finally enlist the great body OF the
population.
It is just as we'll, therefore, for
men occupying the peculiar po>
sition of Mr. Davis, to
leave the history and rationale
of the question out of the account.
He and his associates succeeded in
running the South, happily only for
the time. They cannot complain of
lack of brave and loyal support
whilst the contest lasted; and, now
that it is over, they need not fear a
revival of the argument, whose logic
is destructive to themselves, unless
they revive it themselves. The pres
ent generation of Southern men
owe Mr., Davis no thanks that they
have survived the disaster and stand
once more on solid ground. But
they owe him no ill>will. By his
ambition he rose, and by his ambi-
ton he fell, and he is welcome tc
the sacrifices which were caused by
him, great as they were. Indeed
standing by the marble effigy Of
Stonewall Jackson, and speaking TO,
himself, the spectacle of this bril-.
liant but not great man, maintaining
and defending the error which cost
his coun'rymen so dearly, has about
it dismal, heart-sickening pathos
which may we'll move the sensibili>
| ties of generous people.
Mr.. Davis is an old man, not with
out the garrulity and the vanity Of
his years. He is all unconscious Of
the new generation which has sprung
up in the South. This generation
is not in the least concerned about
the war of the sections, and il
abundantly able to take care OF
itself without the help of either 6
history or dictionary of the South
ern Confederacy. Old woman
and cripples only need such
consultations as may be had this side
of the grave to which the living bave
long ago consigned the dead. The
race that is, looks forward, not back
ward. It sees in united country {
hope. It sees in the end of slavery 1
blessing. It has mourned over it,
loved ones. It has placed it's flowers
around the graves of its heroes, ane
| there they are, deep~rooted, fresl
and sweet and odorous in the earl,
ispring. In a word, the young man
| hood of the South, that fought s,
gallantly under Mr.. Davis, may an,
does say of the Confederacy, a
Philip Van Artevelde of the Lad
Adriana-
Well, well-she's gone,
J And have tam'd my sorrow. Pain an
grief
Are transitory things no less than Joy,
And though they leave us not the men v
were,
Yet they do leave us. Behold me here
3 AS one bereaved, with something of a bligl
, Upon the early blossoms of his life;
And its first verdure having not the less
7 A living root, and drawing from the earth
It's vital juices, from the air its powers;
And surely as mans health and strength q
5 whole,
q Hisappetites regernlinate, his heart
Reopens, and his objects and desires
Shoot up renewed"
Carr Ing Concealed Weapons.
We have had occasion b heretofore to r
- mark that carrying concealed weapons
one of the most pernicious practices tb