The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-22
THEY CAN'T HELP 1T.

lou, duu bnOSC III NuiSA OuC S1CduOou oSSA
bity crops out are when the northern press
make reference to the heartfelt demon
strations of the southern people toward the
| late JEFFERSON DAVIS. 1t seems as though
some of them were disposed to envy the
fallen chieftain the love which his people
bear him, even when he has passed beyon d
the reach of mortal interference.
Referring to speech made by HENRY R.
JACKSON, who was minister to Mexico
under the administration of President
CLEVELAND, the Wilmington Delaware)
Nclcs thinks such displays very foolish.
JACKSON was a brother officer with
DAVIS in the Mexican war, and
the Ne,cS concludes that the southern tenn
permanent often leads to extravaganza of
speech, but, it thinks, none of these facts
can fully atone for what it is pleased to
term the 'blasphemous absurdity'' of ex-
tracts like the following; LAS surely as
the word of God is true, so surely will the
memory of JEFFERSON DAVIS be borne to
the coming ages to make them brighter by
its own peculiar lustre."
The paper quoted from then goes on to
find fault with the resolutions presented
in the Virginia legislature, which, it says,
are written in plain English, but they are
also concerned with Mr. DAVIS position IN
history. This particular paragraph in the
resolutions is the occasion for particular
fault finding:
His name is inseparably connected with the
history OF our country, and historians OF the fu-
| ture, when passion and strife have cleared
away, will assign to this hero of the lost cause
| place among the wise and good men of all the
| ages.
This statement, our Delaware contempor-
airy says, is characterized by absence of the
historic sense. 1t claims that in any
respect in which Mr.. DAVIS was wise and
good, he did not rise to the height of his
tory. He was not heroic at all, and so far
as that goes history generally forgets
single acts of heroism, unless they are very
picturesque or directly produce large cor-
sequences. Mr.. DAVIS in his better career
was simply useful and essentially common
place. In his worse career he was in nc
sense ''hero of the lost cause''-a good
many of his associates in the confederacy
judged him to be rather the marplot Of
that undertaking. History no doubt will
| hlo hc1L4C III lOo ICldGlOuS W lila
conspiracy against the integrity of the
union, but it ought to occur to his warmest
friends that the natural order of such per
petuation is not pleasant"
The exchange is then partisan enough
politically and vile enough socially to say
that "BENEDICT ARNOLD, AARON BURR anG
JEFFERSON DAVIS are names that convey
| ha i1noc CT mil OFF ~
cover common intention" Never were
words more inaptly used nor conclusion:
more unsatisfactory drawn. To place
JEFFERSON DAVIS, who contended for prin
ciple which was upheld by millions of hi.
countrymen who were bright, intellectual
experienced and brave, in the same cate
CORY with AARON BURR, who was an as
sassin, rogue and scoundrel, and BENE
DICT ARNOLD, who through pique and envy
betrayed his country-neither of whom
had any following after their treachery
ripened into overt acts-is to go at once
into the face of common sense and vel
understood facts, besides being a very
palpable attempt to pervert history itself
1t is such performance as only deep
dyed Republican journal could be expected
to perpetrate.
Utah has had in many respects an ex
perience similar to that of the Southern
states. Its settlers had a leader whom
they revered and held in high esteem, {
man whom they looked upon as states
man and spiritual guide. He was once
honored and respected by the governmental
authority, being elevated to the highes
position within the territory. But there
came day when the same authority
which had honored, condemned, opposed
arrested and prosecuted him. The fac
that he had never performed disloyal &C
or done anything personally repugnant tt
duly constituted authority did not proven
a certain set Of jackalls from houndinl
him while alive and attempting to be
smirch his memory when dead. There arr
people in the east who propose to erect ;
monument to JEFFERSON DAVIS whether
the truly loyal like it or not; there arr
those in Utah who would if they coul(
erect monument to BRIGHAM You've, ant
the dislike of the element previously
spoken of would but add zest to their worl
if they could carry it out. The writer
knows of one man who resides in Sanpet,
whose express intention it is to see tina
the outlines of both chieftains, especial!
the latter, are preserved in enduring
marble. And what is the sense of oppos
ing such sentiment or hoping that he anC
others like him may not succeed? You can
not extinguish cherished sentiment witt
malignant utterance nor drive out reyereC
tradition with such petty spite as is con
tanned in tho foregoing extracts. Blood il
thicker than water, and those who Low,
their leaders or those whom they choose t,
look upon as heroes will do so no matte
how much the disgruntled organs on tn,
other side may belch forth their displeasure
|
TuF rNDIcTNFNTS apainst certain off ioI