The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-08

Prssidsnt Johnsou saved Davis from
chance OF further p~rosecusion.
Il cannos bs .aii Of Jefferson D.v,. thu.
he ever held q warm place in the popuIar
heart, North OF south. Robert Z. Lee was
hero OF the confedsracy. Especially dur
Ing ths two ANAL years Of tho war, Presi-
dent Davis utterly failed To the
love OF his followers, and. when finally he
Ned from Richmond. the leading rebel
newspaper thanked God that he had gone.
When, I'm 1854. President Lincoln opened
negotiations I'm am unofficial way, Mr..
Davis was offered an opportunity 10 end
the war by recognition of the Union, with
general amnesty for the South. and the
payment OF 800, O0O,O 100 for the
in slaves that the Southerners had lost.
The answer came from Mr.. Davis i'm
added horrors In rebel prison pens.
when. years afterwards, there arose I'm
congress- the question of removing disa-
btlities which amendments To the consti-
tuition had provided. the continent trem-
bied beneath ths applause that followed
James u. Blaine's memorable speech i'm
which he expressed his willingness to
grant amnesty To all save only Jefferson
Davis, because ne was distinctively the
author and the promoter Of the horrors of
Andersonville h was the speech to
which Robert q. In9ersoll referred when,
IN . national convention, he said that,
like an armed warrior, like u plumed
knight, James G.. Blaine marched down
the halls of the American and
threw his shining lance full and fair
a9ainst the braxen front of every defamer
OF this country and maligner of its
Now that jefferson Davis In dead. 4, n.
not required that any man bcspcak chari-
~ i'm his behalf; his countrymen have
long evinced toward him n spirit SO far
removed from resentment that IL ap-
forgiveness II need not he
urged that he was moved by the convict
ions that prompted some Of the Rrandest
names linked with the fatherhood Of the
nation. These men nobly defended their
views, but they bowed before the majesty
Of the popular will and yielded submits
siveiy To the p voice. IL need not
he pleaded that Mr.. Davis WAS honest in
his vieww; he was an Observation-Disclosures
he was as a~mbitious--as many n red
handed socialist whose head has not been
spared because his heart may have been
right. He is n Of the great re-
public's mercy i'm that he did not step
FROM q 9allows frame to tho hnal
accounting with his Maker. His
country may deplore him but IL will not
lament him. The nation may forget him
hut It can never forgive. Grass-Rrown
hillocks OIL southern fields are too many.
patriotism 10 too stalwart, tears are too
sacred. love IL too gentle, In 100
enduring for that. The man and his
cause have persisted, but happily. the day
OF his death finds federal sovereignty UNI
speakably stronger than 1t was at the hour
of his birth. Millions of hearts,, within his
lifetime's span. have come to he more
closely knit to the Union i'm the breast of
every citizen the sentiment of more ar
dent love for the flag has been quickened.
And IL. hereafter, the minds of men move
along the accustomed ines which, i'm the
past, have prompted praise or blame, his
tory, taking calm ccoun of the career of
Jefferson Davis, will never grant him alb
solution.
ANACONDA, Dec z, 1883.