Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-02-04
JeT Davis Interviewed.
FaiA With tI,r Onr Man Not ~ Citizen
Gf the tati1n-EGr &. nEtticratc
thirf:t Hone.

tHirt = Hone.
PnHNnEIrIHA, Dec. 2lst. .--AlcX-
andcr Mcclure, writing to the TmrS
froin Mississippi, thus describes his
visit to jefferson Davis:
In Il forest OF green live oaks,
richly laden orange trees, and pro-
fusion OF vines and flowers, q large
piantatlan-housC was presented. 1t
is single story IN height, and has
the regulation pillars and broad YER
andahS Of an aristocratlc Southern
mansion. Thcic the cX-ConfcJcr-
ate President lives with his nephew,
General Davis, and their joint fam
lies. The rX-Queen of the Con-
fcdera;c court is u stout, mothclly,
cultured, genial woman, and her
daughter, Il strongly marked copy Of
the mother, possesses unusual at
fractions both Of person ana intel
loct. The house is furnished with
every regarl to comfort, us the we'll
I worn easy chairs and lounges and
the hall and parlol divans, faithfully
attest, and the walls arc decorated
with ancient paintings and modern
/ blic-a-brac, while the wide chimney
place and capacious nantcl tell how
the cheerful pine fire silcnccs the
song Of the knocking bird and the
hlool,hirsty screnade OF the mo-
sluIto.
Soon after l had been politely
bowed into the parlor, jefferson
Davis entered alone, and his greet
ing was
\ CORDIAL WELCOME
OF the proyelbial hospitality of the
South. l confess TO disappointment
Ill the general appearance of the
man who stands III history to-day as
u soldier and statesman without II
country. [ expected to find the
strong unmarked traces OF a griev-
ou>iv Disappointed life, and severe
ciyili:y anl studied reticcnce in dis
cuasing al things of the past; but
those who believe Jefferson Davis to
be misanthropic i'll temperament,
and embit!ereI against the Nation
and world, greatly misjudge him.
Nor is he a broken invalid, rs is
generally regarded. His yet album
dant locks and full beard are deeply
silvered. and his face aud frame
spare rs they have always been; but
his step is elastic and steady, and
the hard lines of his brow, which
are so conspicuous in his pictures,
are at once cfiacol when he enters
into conversation.
Instead OF impressing the visitor
as " political Ycc!use who has no in
tcrest in the land to whose citizen
ship he will live and die u stranger,
he ~ once invites tn freedom of Il
planters home By chatting without
reserve, save when his contemporaries
are likely to be criticised, when he
adloi'ly and pleasantly turns the
discussion into inotiensive channels.
He is yet the same positive man in
all his convictions and purposes chat
MADE HlI THE LEADER
Of Il causeless rebellion. lie well
understands that he cast the die ior
empire or for failure that must make
him IN alien to his country and the
world, and that he lost, and that he
is to-day the most powerless of all
men in the land to retrieve the for
tunes of those who followed him to
bcreavmcnt and sacrifice.
He reads Alright tho inexorable
judgment that makes him eXecratel
for tie Confederacy, while his equal
ly guilty suOordinates have been
welcomed to the fatted calf. His
Vice President, who followed the
slave empire off, when darkness and
doubt gathered about it, made haste
to scramble over the ruins of the
/ Confoleracv and regain the seat in
+ Washington from which he seeded
with Davis to aid i'll guiding the
rebellion. Two Of his unnoted war
riors have sat in the Republican
Cabin It's; Lees ablest Lieutenant is
the Republican Minister to Turkey;
The mau who marched the first rcGl-
ment OF volunteers to Charleston,
and served us Confederate Senator
vntil Appomattox became famous,
died rs the Republican Minister to
Russia, and the Senate and House
and the Washington Departments,
swarm with mon who were abreast
with jefferson Davis in every effort
to dismember the Republic; but
Davis is the embodiment of humilia-
ton, while his fellows 90 in and out
s%ith pleasure | heard no allusion
to or complaint of this injustice, but
it is plainly evident that Davis
ENTIRELY APPRECIATES IT,
And believes it not to be consistent
with himself and the grave respon-
sibilities he assumed, however mis-
taken he may have been in assuming
them, if he did not deliberately re-
mqin an alien to the Government