Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-05-21
Jefferson Davis.
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Editor Vindicator.
The people of the North are sending up
q terrific howl, in consequence of the re-
cent doings of.that much prosecuted old
Roman, jefferson Davis. All Yankeedom
seems stirred to its very centre with ex-
citement. Indignation meetings are be-
inc ED; the keynote of alarm is being
sfvsucsS by would-be Solons; cOwardly and
scurrilous epithets. from the lips of bla-
tant GemagOgues are being hurled with
out stint, at the devoted head of him, who
IS the innocent cause of all this cemmo-
ton. These demonstrations indicate clear
ly that the yankees still fear the grand old
N an, now shorn of his power, almost as
much as in this days when he with his
armed cohorts shook the walls of this
government till they trembled to their
foundation stone.
The fear that paralyzed the heart of
every crowned head in Europe, when Ma
poleon returned to France. after his brief
rusticatiOn on the island of Elba. was not
greater than that which seized upon the
yankees on learning that, 1.-THE antiquated
relic of SECESSION had left his voluntary
exile and was roaming at large over the
country. The Ohio State encampment of
the Grand Army Of the Republic, Heaven
save the mark inspired, doubtless with
the most appalling apprehensions of inn
pending calamity, with every physical
nerve and mental faculty strung to its ut
most tension, expecting mOmentarily to
have their ears greeted with the notes of
Southern bugles, sounding the dread toe
sin of war; passed resolutions condemnins
'the grand reception rendered to that
arbitrator, Jefferson Davis" character
ceptlon as "tendlng to stir up the
old spirit of rebellion Of 1861" and enter
ing their protest against all such proceed.
ings in the future" Had bomb ex-
ploded in their midst, or Jeff Davis in per-
son, suddenly and mysteriously appear ed
before them, and demanded the uncondi.
tional surrender of the encampment, it
could scarcely have caused greater con-
sternation in their ranks, than did the
news that this private citizen had emerged
from his retirement at Beauvoir and gone
on mission, the object of which was an
eminently peaceful and legitimate one.
Let me hasten to allay the fears of the
0. s. E. G. A. R., by assuring them they
need entertain no apprehenslons whatever
of personal violence at the hands of that
Government allows to haunt the South. .
Don't be frightened, e. A. r., you shant
be hurt. This ''decrepid old arch.demon'
shall not cross Mason and Dixon's line
Let this assurance dissipate your fears, OF
it this be impossible, trust they may in
some manner be mitigated by the further
assurance that this Briareus of the South
shall not, gobble up the G.. y. P.
1t is said that for years after the death
OF Richard C9ur de Lion, the Saracen
mothers were won't to quiet their fretful
babes, by threatening them with this re.
doubtable champion of Christendom. And
doubtless the name jeff Davis is destined
to have the same talismanic effect on gen.
erations of Jonathans yet to be born. Try
it Ye Yankee mothers, and my word for 1t
the remedy will prove far more efficacious
than either Godfrey's Cordial, or Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
GUILLAUME.