Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-08-07
9 WHY JEFF DA WIS rs SPARED"

l"WHY JEFF DA Wis rs SPARED"
| Some of the "unco good" at the
North are grieved that Jefferson Davis
still lives, while General Grant is dead
The sentiments of these "good people
are singularly out of harmony with
the almost universal expressions, North
and South. The following commu-
nication explains itself:
ST. LOUIS, July 31.-The "great
religious daily" published dispatch
yesterday from one of its emmissaries,
at Hillsboro. ILL.,, relating how "Rev.
H. @. Hoffman, an emilent( p Meth
odist divine of Bloomington, ILL.,, de-
livered an eloquent Grant memorial
sermon on last Sunday, in the course
of which he said what an inscruta-
BILE Providence that, which allows
traitors to live on, while heroes and
patriots die. 1t humiliates one that
Jefferson Davis should live to see the
death of Grant. 1t may be a mercy
of God to lengthen the life Of culprits,
to give them time for repentance.
And if that is the ground upon which
Davis is spared, then may we expect
that he will live yet thousand years,
for a thousand years of repentance
will not equal the enormity of his
traitorous offenses.'"
Now it is just such pygmies as this
reverend" specimen. who-taking
refuge under the ermine of the pulpit
and the press-seek to keep alive the
bitter sectional and personal prejudices
which retard the peace, prosperity and
happiness of the country; and which
all true citizens and patriots are seek
ing to allay. Did the Rev. Mr., Hoff-
man ever smell gunpowder burn or
hear a bullet whistle? Would the la
mented Grant approve such speech,
if still alive?
AN ORIGINAL UNION MAN.
The following noble sentiments ex-
pressed by Jefferson Davis about Gen.
Grant is in singular contrast with the
utterances of the Bloomington preach
or. "Instead of seeking to disturb the
quiet of his closing hours, I would, if
it were in my power, willingly con-
tribute to the repose of his mind and
the comfort of his body"
The Second District Levee oues-
tlon,
Editor Commercial Herald:
"The mountain labored and brought
forth mouse" This was my reAec-
tion when had finished reading the
grand flourish of words in the criti-
cism which appeared in the Indianola
Times of the 25th, upon my letter to
THE COMMERCIAL HERALD of the 2lst.
1 searched, in vain, for an argu-
ment, but it concluded with the same
little speech, in substance, that all of
the advocates of a cotton tax have
memorized so thoroughly and repeat so
feelingly." "We must have cotton
tax or Mr.. Wilson will not lend us any
money"
The editor Of the Times has made a
grand discovery; he is sure am no
statesman, and must cheerfully plead
guilty. l am neither a statesman nor
the son of a statesman, but was
brought up with old-fashioned ideas of
Justice and am rather slow to concede
to any invasion of my primitive edu-
cation.
GLOW rapidly he (Sunhower) would
develop the interests of the State with
his short-sight policy" 1 would
develop the interests of the
State, hut 1 would do so by
imposing upon the people only such
laws as wise craftsmanship would
declare to be just. l would have the
levees constructed, and make them as
strong as human labor and the best
engineering skill can make them. ]
would have the laws so framed as to
induce immigration, and not frighten
those who are here away, as well as
those who might come, by making
, them pay for the protection of proper
} ty which they do not own. Let those
who own the property make it valua
BILE and attractive to immigrants by i'm
, proving and protecting it, and they
: will have a powerful argument with
which to draw immigration.
He tries to leave the impression or
the minds of his readers that / do moi
, know that the railroads pay levet
J tax under the present law. OF course
: they pay a levee tax, though no State
! and county tax, and any one who has
read the article knows that it distinct.
ly and plainly says so,
The Times finds little cocoanut
with milk in it, he seems to think. HI
would leave the impression on hi'
readers that my article taught that the
subject of the opposition to the cottor
tax is to force Mr.. Wilson to build thu
whole levee. Now the most violent
distortion of my meaning could not be
made to imply anything Of the kind
t and the very idea is contradicted BY
the construction and animus of my
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