The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-12-12

them this fact was ever prominent: A man
lost by Grant could be replaced if desired by
three; a man lost by Lee was n final loss.
On the I'd of April, 1865, seated in his pew
in st. Pauls church, Richmond, President
Davis received the dispatch from Gen. Lee
announcing his complete discontinue. At 8
p. m. the president, cabinet and other off,
cials left for DanviIle, at which point Presi-
dent Davis issued his last proclamation, his
last state paper. Ten days later he was at
Greensboro, N. c.; 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. 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 a few devoted adherents. On the
10th of May he was captured near Irwins-
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 a very long raglan overcoat and a
shawl on his shoulders" In the dim light Of
morning he was at first taken for a 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 a
captive for nearly two years.
And so all was over The Southern Con-
Of cards, and its president, once the beloved
colonel, the honored senator, the Federal sec
retary of war, the successful statesman and
aspiring politician, was prisoner-in ironsl
Yes, all that was bright and hopeful was
gone; nothing now remained but to hang the
prisoner as had been so often promised to
write his history as to fix his name in in
fanny, and in no long time his own people
would disoun him as the cause of their woes
All this, in the opinion of many sanguine
ones, was soon to be. Only 1t did not prove SO
The world was now to witness another Of
those revulsions in popular feeling which SC
often delight the emotional and puzzle the
philosophic- At sight o: this sorely stricken
man all southern criticism was instantly
hushed, and in due time thoughts of some
thing far nobler than vengeance pervadeG
the north. Mr.. Davis bore his suffering
with such Roman fortitude that southern
hearts were knitted to him never before
His critics apu.n-ized, even when truth wa.
on their side. His wife shared his captivity
and excited the worlds interest in his case
His first wife, daughter OF Gen. Taylor hae
died many years before but the one who shared
his fortunes official and captive wa
a lady of refinement and intellect worthy O
any station His oldest and most inveterat,
opponents were first to soften; the Abolition
lists asked clemency, and in May, 1867. before
the United States circuit court at Richmond
Horace Greeley and Gerritt Smith joinet
with many southern men in signing his bal
bond He had been formally indicted fo,
treason but, in December. 1868, by the sam'
court, a nolle prosequi was entered, and th'
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 a
Memphis as president of a life insurance com