The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1889-12-07

! them this fact was ever prominent: A man
lost by Grant could be replaced if desired by
three; a man lost by Lee was final loss.
On the "a Of April, 1865, seated in his pew
in ST. Paul's church, Richmond President
Davis received the dispatch from Gen. Lee
announcing his complete discontinue. At 8
p. m. the president, cabinet and other Off
Gals left for DanviIe, at which point Presi-
dent Davis issued his last proclamation, his
last state paper. Ten days later he was at
Greensboro, N. c.; a week later he halted at
Charlotte, where he first learned that $780,
600 reward had been offered for his capture
as an instigator of the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln. Ale men now admit that the
charge was false.
Another week found him almost alone,
fugitive in the forests of Georgia, with his
wife and, few devoted adherents On the
10th of May he was captured near Twins
Vile, Ga, by body Of cavalry under Lieut..
Col. Pritchard. 'Mr Davis, says one of his
CO ptors, chad on when arrested an ordinary
suit, with very long raglan overcoat and a
shawl on his shoulders. In the dim light of
morning he was at first taken for woman,
hence the story SO widely published. He was
conveyed at once to Fortress Monroe, which
he entered on the 10Th of May, to remain
captive for nearly two years
And so aII was over The Southern Con-
federacy had dropped to pieces like house
of cards, and its president, once the beloved
colonel, the honored senator, the Federal sec
rotary Of war, the successful statesman and
aspiring politician, was a prisoner-in ironsl
] Y es, all that was bright and hopeful was
gone; nothing now remained but to hang the
prisoner, as had been SO often promised to
1 write his history SO as to fix his name in in
fanny, and in no long time his own people
would disown him as the cause of their woes
All this, In the opinion Of many sapguine
ones, was soon to be- Only it did not prove So
The world was now to witness another of
those revulsions III popular feeling which so
often delight the emotional and puzzle the
phllosophic. AT sight Of this soroly stricken
man all southern criticism was Instantly
] huahed, and in due time thoughts of some
ching far nobler than vengeance pervaded
he north. Mr.. Davis bore his sufferings
With such Roman fortitude that southern
hearts were knitted to him az never before.
His critics apologized. even when truth was
on their side. His wife shared his captivitv
and excited the worlds interest in his case
His first wife, daughter of Gen. TAYLOR had
died many years before, but the one who shared
ais fortunes as official and as caDtive was
lady OF refinement and intellect worthy of
any station. His oldest and most inveterate
opponents were first to soften; the Abolition
lists asked clemency, and in May, 1861, before
the United States circuit court at Richmond.
Horace Greeley and Gerritt Smith Joined
with many southern men in signing his bail
bond. He had been formally indicted for
treason; but, in December, 1868, by the same
court, nolle prosequi was entered, and the
case of "The United States VS.. Jefferson
Davis" was ended forever and to the satisfac-
ton Of almost every American.
RETIREMENT AND A QUIET LIFE.
After brief tour in Europe he located at
Memphis as president of life insurance COM