The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-12-26
THE DEATH OF DAVIS.
Bill Arp Writes OF the Leader of the.Con-
federacy.
atlanta Consultation.

Z Old rather Lime Is W0n0erlul QOclOr.
It is real comfort to the south to read the
words Of the northern press touching the
death of Jefferson Davis. My faith is that
the spirit of the illustrious dead is reading
them too, and is comfor How sweet
and tender are the benedictions upon the
dead. This is right, and it is Christiaui.
ty; for when man has gone before his
Maker it becomes all earthly judges to be
silent if they cannot be generous. GLOW
would we be if He, who is the top of
judgment, should butjudge us as we are ?"
The New York Sun dared to say: "There
is now no one to revile and there ere
many to honor and respect his memory.
He has oulived sectional enmity and Der
sonal detraction."
! Is that so :? I wish that could believe
it. The Sun says: "Many years of peace
have been required to convince the
men who fought and suffered for Che union
that Jefferson. Davis was entirely sincere
aud was powerfully fortified by teaching
and example, and the ill-started president
ofthe southern confederacy did but carry
to their conclusion the doctrines formu
lated by John @. Calhoun and avowed by
such representatives Of New England as
Timothy Pickering and Josiah Quincy"
Yes, and be might have named scores
of other northern men Who we're of the
same States right faith, and then include
the Hartford Convention, which made the
frat secession from the union. New
never produced nobler, grand
er man than Quincy, and he vac in all
of the faith and principles of
Calhoun and Davis. Young men of the
south listen for a moment to what the
great Webster said about Mr.. Calhoun:
a. He had the indispensable basis Of all
high character, and that was unspotted
and unimpeached honor. There
was nothing groveling or low or meanly
selfish that came near the head or the
heart of MI. Calhoun, whether bis politi-
cal opinions were right or wrong, they
will descend to posterity under the sane
tion of a great name. he is nov an his.
torical character. We shall indulge in
it as grateful recollection that We have
lived in his age-that we have been his
contemporaries-that ne have seen him,
heard him, known him-we shall delight
to speak of him to those who are rising up
to fill our places. And when one after
another we shall go to our graves, We
shall carry with us q deep sense of his
honor and integrity-the purity of his
private life and of his.exalted patriotism.
Isn't that splendid. and yet every word
of it f:s Jefferson Davis. You might
substitute his name for Mr.. Calhoun with
the utmost propriety, and Webster would
do it if he were here. Daniel Webster
had no prejudices, and his great regret
was that. his people had not conquered
theirs. How ne all do love and honor
great mana pure man-men like Web.
ster aud. Clay and Calhoun and Jefferson
Davis. 1t used to be triumvorate but
another name has now to be added and
Mr.. Davis will go down into history as
the peer of these historic names. He
was their equal in everything that makes
q man statesman and patriot.
He was their superior 10 one thing; for he
was a great soldier, and illustrated his
patriotism on the field as in the forum.
"Papa, what did. Mr.. Davis do that
makes everybody talk about him so ?"
"My boy, I will tell you in few words.
The north and the south had been quar-
reliug for fifty years about The negroes
and the tariff and therights of the States.
At last they concluded to fight it out and
Jefferson Davis was chosen as our leader.
He did not seek the place, for he was
modest man, but We made him take it.
He believed that the States were greater
than the government at Washington, for
the States created that government as
their sgent. But the government at
Washington soon became very bold and
powerful and began to control the Slater.
It was a question whether the dog
should wag the tail or the tail wag the
dog. Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Davis and
most all of US down south were for the
rights of the States, but The people up
north thought the government at Wash.
ington was bigger thing and ought to
control, and so the quarreling went on for
years and years and at last it broke out
in war. We left the union and wanted
to go back where ne were before we went
into the union, but they whipped us and
so we are in the union still. 1t was much
like little children who gather together to
play, and some of them get mad and say,
'Fm going to take my things and go home
you don't play fair and shan't play
with you any more Then the others
get mad, too, and cay, we do play fair
aud you shan't go home,' and so they
ta';e hp'd of them and keep them and
make them stay whether they wish to or
not. And SO the States had to give it up
and now the tail is wagging the dog"
The Ohio River is before me while I
write. This is part of Mason's and
Dixon's line that I never saw until yes
terday, and I wondered how river could
make such a difference in people. "Do
your people in Maysville mix and mingle
with those across the river at Aberdeen ?"
said I. mo, sir, not at all. They never
have and they never will. They don't
like us and We don't like them. We pass
and repass like the feller did his Jersey