The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-05-06

~ A~eW18 4SOuMVA 0tAVnAOs
The progress of Hon. Jefferson Davis
through Alabama and Georgia was at
tended with remarkable but not surprising
manifestations of popular enthusiasm.
His journey and his sojournings linked
into continuous ovation from his home
on the Gulf coast to Savannah by the
Atlantic, and it was not surprising that
it should be so, for this was his first APP
pearance before the general public for
public purpose after twenty years had
elapsed since he exchanged the con6ne
ment of prison for the seclusion Of pri-
vate life. 1t was not surprising that
surging crowds of people should flow to-
ward one whose official position made
him the foremost figure in the brief he
roic life of nation which died after the
most tremendous struggle for existence
that history records. Thousands who
were little children at the sunse; of the
Confederacy are now grown men, and
mere curiosity, if nothing else, would
add them to the crowds fiocking to see
the venerable man who was the Presi-
dent Of the South that their fathers
fought fora living monument, as it
were, of mighty events of absorbing in
terest to them especially. 1t was not
surprising that most who could went to
see and hear Mr.. Davis, and that con-
tagious enthusiasm should sway the
multitude, though no thought Of dis
loyalty to the government of the coun-
try should mingle.
But great number of our Northern
fellow-citizens are not disposed to accept
the simple and natural causes of the Da-
Wis demonstrations. To their ears the
peoples cheers are but rebel yells, and in
their view the peoples assemblages but
disloyal meetings. We must infer that
there are great number Of our Northern
fellow-citizens who feel this way, for
many of our Northern newspapers, which
are considered the mirrors Of popular sem
timent, are wrathfully rampant about our
great Southern show, in which good old
Mr.. Davis was the head and front that
made it "draw" so we'll Indeed, they
are raving in such disloyal manner
against this conservative portion OF the
country that it is quite astonishing they
don't secede from Union which tole-
rates us-and put us to the trouble OF
licking them back into it as they did
US. We are much stronger to-day than
we were score Of years ago, and would
have on our side all the right minded
men of the North-principally included
in the ranks of the National Democratic
party. But though there is no fighting
to be done, this Davis demonstration is
going to make work for the National
Democracy, tor being perverted and
misrepresented the bloody shirt will
be encrimsoned anew, waved more
frantically than ever, and sectional feel
ing-the principal stock in trade
of Republicanlsm - be excited and
embittered to villainous degree OF malig
nifty Blaine smiles now, if not before
~;~-~ he woo hAaten on the line of section
alism, and his disciples say unto their
people-Behold that South, which is
Union on its face and rebel in it's heart
verify we have here the damning prooftha,
shall overthrow at the polls that nation
of political hypocrites, and we will take
and keep the government over them for
evermore lest they elect to rule over us a
wicked rebel, bloody and cruel as jeff:
Davis, who should have been hanged on
sour apple tree in the day when oul
valor prevailed against him.
We fear there can be no other interpre-
tation than that the bitter denunciation
and abuse of Mr.. Davis by Northern pa
pers extends to those who honored him,
and that thee will be marked revival OF
the baneful sectional feeling thai holds
together the republican party-the enemy
of the republic because it is sectional.