The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-02-15

them this fact was ever prominent: \ man
lost By Grant could be replaced if desired by
three; a man lost by Lee was a final loss.
Ca the ID of April, 1865, seated III his pew
ID ST. Pauls church, Richmond, President
Davis received the dispatch from Gen. Lee
announcing his complete discontinue. AT s
T. IN. the president, cabinet aud other Off
Ci9i, left for Danville, at which point Presi-
iaat Davis issued his last proclamation, his
last state paper. Ten DAYS later he was at
Greensboro, \. c.; a week later he halted at
Charlotte, where he first learned that $780,
b1 reward had been offered for his capture
~ all instigator of the assassination Of Presi-
dent Lincoln. All men nov admit that the
charge was false.
Another week found him almost alone, a
fugitive in the forests of Georgia, with his
wife and q few devoted adherentS. On the
10th of May he was captured near IrNias-
Vile, Ga., by a 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 a.i 4
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 vas
conveyed at once to Fortress Monroe, which
he entered on the 18th of May, TO remain u
captive for nearly two years.
md so all was over. The Southern ton
f~eieIacy had dropped to pieces like a house
Of cards, and its president, once the beloved
colonel, the honored senator, the Federal sec
T.tarY of war, the successful statesman and
aspiring politician, was a prisoner-in irons.
Us, ali that was bright and hopeful was
gene; nothing now remained but to hang the
prisoner, as had been SO often promised; to
write his history SO as to Tx his naine in iu-
fanny, and in no long time his own people
would dlsOwn him as the cause Of their woes.
AL this, in the opinion O. many sanguine
ones, was soon to be. Cnly it did not prove 80.
The world was now to witness another Of
those revulsions III popular feeling which SO
often delight the emotional and puzzle the
pniiosophic. At sight of this sorely stricken
man all southern criticism was instantly
hushed, and in due time thoughts OF some
thing far nobler than vengeance pervaded
the north. Mr.. DAVIS bore his suiferngs
with such Roman fortirude that southern
hearts were knitted To him as never before.
Ills critics apologized, even when truth was
on their side. His wife shared his captivity
ard excited the worlds interest in hi, case.
Ills first wife, daughter of Gen. Taylor, had
died many years before, but the one who shared
his fortunes as official and as captive u as
q lady of refinement and intellect worthy OF
any station. His Oldest and most inyeterate
opponents were first 10 soften; the Abolition
lists asked clemency. and in May, 1861, before
the United States circulteourt 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, a nolle prosequI was entered, and the
case of The United States rs. Jefferson
Davis was ended forever and to the satiSfac-
tton Of almost every American.
RETIREMENT AID A QUIET LIFE.
After a brief tour in Europe he located at
Memphis as presideutof a life Insurance com