Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-01-13
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LANCASTER, JANUARY lS, 1855.
Tho left Davis Scare.Crow.

The jeff Davis Scare.CrOw.
left Davis is the Republican scare-crow
and about the only one left them since the
bloody shirt has been worn out i'll its ap-
peals to the passions of the people. The
Republican senator's evidently think that |
there is still virtue in the jeff Davis buga-
boo. and they INDUCED themselves III the
Senate in what was seemingly very SHY
talk about the eX-president OF the
Southern Confederacy. 1t might have been
of some account to them, pending point
ical canvass, to endeavor to fire theNorth-
ern heart against the SouthemConfederate
who are now the Southern Democrats, but
It cannot avail them now, at the outset OF
Democratic administration. IT they de-
sired to show more clearly than now ap-
nears that so far as the Democratic party
is concerned the issues of the war are
over. and that the Southern Con-
federate has the same standing III the
restored Union as has the Northern citl-
zen. they are welcome to the successful
result of their effort. 1t is just what the
Democratic party aims to establish i'll the
policv of the country. There is to he ur-
der its administration no distinction main
tanned between the citizens of the North
or the South, who are now citizens OF n
common country,
The pretext for the Senate debate was
found by the Republicans in communica-
ton made by General Sherman to the war
department, intended to show that Davis
when president of the Southern Confederacy
maintained the right of coercion by the
Confederacy upon its constituent states 10
preserye them therein. 1t is upon the face
of it unlikely that Mr.. Davis would have
maintained doctrine so wholly at variance
with that of the right of secession upon
which the Confederate states withdrew
from our Union. But it is of no impor-
tance at all now what doctrine he held as
the Confederate president, the confederacy
being dead, with the issues it attempted to
maintain. The whole establishment has
passed away, save its president, who still
remains to point a Republican shaft and
adorn their tales.
General Sherman's brother i'll the Senate,
ex-Secretary Sherman, who has made
profitable profession of his patriotism and
does not enjoy the reputation of being hon
est in any manner OF form, inquired
whether anyone in the next thousand years
would dispute the fact that JEFF Davis was
"A traitor. Whereupon Senator Lamar arose
to say that no one would ever call Jefferson
Davis traitor III his presence without meet
ing with an emphatic denial of the truth
of the statement. So that Senator Sher'
man had not to wait a thousand years tC
hear denial of what seemed To him
an undeniable fact. What else could h'
have expected from Senator Lamar, who
was lust as much of a traitor as Davis was
So were all the other Southern senator
who stood by their states i'll secession. ~
were all the Southern people. except tn,
small minority, who stood aside, rs did TN
Tories in our revolution, from their fel
lows. They were called traitors 10y tn
people of their states loyalists by us; jus
as in the revolution England called tn
Tories loyalists. We called the Souther
people traitors; they styled themselve
patriots. What boots it now who wa
right ? The COnfederates declare that the
seeded from the Union under their belle
that they had reserved the right to 81
cede. They come back into it becaus
they failed to maintain their position /
heir arms. They have surrendered ii
and now accept the doctrine thi
the Union is one to be maintained by fore
They have profted 10y the new doctrine
Their land is prospering. 1t is not the
interest to deny the Union. The next st
of traitors are much more likely
be found in New England or {
the Pacific slope than in the South. Thi
section now takes warmly to its embraC
the doctrine of an enforced Union, whic
hereafter it will be treason to deny, Il
question of the right of secession being fo
ever settled by the issue of the rebellion.
The Republican effort to put on Je
Davis the approval of the doctrine of {
enforced Union smacks of Il desire to ma
the idea unpopular Can it be that sin
the Democracy have captured the Union
has less sweet smell in the Republic
nostrils, and that they contemplate cutti
off safe Republican section of the cou
try Ia be all their own?