The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-11-07

| They had argued and reasoned, and asked
| for simple justice on the floors of Congress
from the hands of the stronger half of the
| United States; and they now believed that
there was no hope and no resource for them
| but in severing their connection from q
| Union whose predominant section was bent
on crushing out their independence.
Contrast with this he,wellknown facts
that Tennessee had cast majority OF
$4,000 against Secession, and was manu-
vered and dragged into the rebellion by
the Vaccinations of Isham Harris, ct al;
that North Carolina never could be
brought to really secede that Virginia
had TO be overawed by rebel troops from
other States before she would reverse
her former decision to remain in the
Union that one-third of the State
was loyal to the end, and fought gal
lantly for the Union that Georgia was
only tricked into reversing her Union
majority by cunning representations that
she could make better terms by going out !;
that jeff Davis had run for Governor of
Mississippi on a Secession ticket and been
defeated by Unionist candidate, and
that the Border States, which, if any State
had suffered by reason of the Abolition
lists, had suffered much more than all the
rest of the South, remained in the Union,
despite all the efforts of the conspirators
to drag them out.
With one more extract from the au-
thor's sketch of jeff Davis we will close
this weeks instalment of our review,
since there is too much more that needs
mention for the space at our command:
He was political follower of John C.
Calhoun, and firm advocate Of the doctrine
Of State Rights; but he was also a conserva-
tive man, and wished and Iabored to main
tain those rights within the Union. As an
orator he had no superior His voice was
silvery and his arguments wei.ntv. Gen.
Cushing, of Massachusetts. characterized him
in 1858 as eloquent among the most elo-
quent in debate, wise among the wisest in
council, brave amongt the pravest on the
ba tlefeld" While doing al that he
thought consistent with the honor of The
South to avoid a DISRUPTION Of the Union,
Mr.. Davis considered that by the election OF
a sectional President the Southern States
were forced to secede., His speech on TAX
ing leave of the Senate in Washington was
said to have moved his opponents to tears.
AS President of the Southern Coniederacy
Mr.. Davis found himself in position of ex-
ceeding difficulty. His loyal adherence TO
constitutional liberty prevented him from
exercising the arbitrary authority which
proved SO efficient in Mr.. Lincoln's case.
Indeed, the Southern people and Congress
would hardly have sustained him in doing
so. His conduct throughout the eventful
four years showed him TO be an earnest, I'M
selfish, devoted patriot aeains. whom not
even the bitterest enenir couId bring any
charge TO sully the purity OF his character
or the loftiness of his moves. His after
life was one prolonged martyrdom to his
eountry's cause.
Think Of Jeff Davis-who made the
whole South vast prison, and filed it
with murders of those who wished to re-
main loyal TO tie Government-being
praised for his "loyal adherence to con-
liberty" and contrasted favor
ably with the gentle, long-sufiering,
much sparing Lincoln! 1t makes one
feel that words are shams and history a
lie to read such stuff as this.
And yet, as we said last week. the
book has been strongly commended by
scores, if not hundreds, of the most
prominent men in the South-Govern-
ors, Senators, Judges, doctors of divinity,
leading educators, etc.-as an eminently
fit one to be placed in the hands of the
children of that section to teach them,
i" in a fair-minded, dispassionate way,
the real history Of their country"
GREAT BRITAIN has suddenly awak-
ened to the fact that she is very much
alone in the worlds politics She has