The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-12-12

them this fact was ever prominent: A man
lost by Grant could be replaced If desired byI
three; man lost by Lee was q final loss.
On the I'd of April, 1861, seated In his pew
/ In ST. Paul's church, Richmond, President
Davis received the dispatch from Gen. Lee
announcing his complete discontinue. At 81
p. m the president, cabinet and other Off.
cials left for Danville, at which point Prcsi-
dent Davis issued his last proclamation, his
J last state paper Ten days later he was at
] Greensboro, N. c., a wecS later he halted at
Charlotte, where he first learned that 800,
900 reward had been offered for his capture
as an instigator of the assassination of Presi
I dent Lincoln All men now admit that the
charge was false.
Another week found him almost alone, a.
fugitive in the forests Of Georgia, with his
] wife and few devoted adherents. On the
10th of May he was captured near 1rwins
vile, Ga, by body of cavalry under Lieut.
Col. Pritchard. "Mr. Davis" says one Of his
captors, "had on when arrested an ordinary
suit, with very long raglan overcoat and a
shawl on his shoulders" In the dim light of
hence the story so widely published He was
4 cohveyed at once to Fortress Monroe, which
\ he entered on the 10Th Of May. TO remain a
captive for nearly two years
q And so ali was over. The Southern Con
1 federacy had dropped to pieces like house
of cards, and its president, once the beloved
4 colonel, the hono'ed senator, the Federal sec
retary of war, the successful statesman and
3 aspiring politician, was prisoner-in irons!
Yes, all that was bright and hopeful was
q gone; nothing now remained but to hang the
prisoner, as had been SO often promised; to
{ 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.
q All this, in the opinion Of many sanguinc
q ones, was soon to be. Only 1t did not prove so.
4 The world wes now to witness another OF
q those revulsions in popular feeling which Sc
often delight the emotional and puzzle the
u philosophic. Al sight OF this soreiy stricken
3 man all southern criticism was insta0t}y
8 hushed, and in duo time thoughts Of some
q thing far noblcr than Vengeance pcrvaded
q the north. Mr.. Davis bore his sufferingi
with such Roman fortitutle thct southern
q hearts were knitted to him as never before
& His critics apologized, even when truth wa
g on their side. His wife shared his captivity
q and excited the worlds interest IN his case
S His first wife, daughter Of Gen. Taylor, had
81 died many years before. bat the one who sharet
9 his fortunes as official and as captive wa
8 laQy OF reIiEeflfcnI anu iiiclIctG worthy VI
y any station. His oldest and most inveterat'
q opponents were first to soften; the Abolition
g lists asked clemency, and in May, 1861, befor,
81 the United States circnit court at Richmond
a Horace Greeley and Gerritt Smith joine<
q with many southern mon in signing his bal
s. bond. He had been formally indicted fo
81 treason; but, In December, 1sGS by the san
q court, nolle prosequi was entered, and th
q case of THE United States vs.. jefferson
" Davis" was ended forever and to the satisfac
q ton OF almost every Americ an
g RETIREMENT AND QUIET LIYE-
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