The National tribune., 1904-06-30
JEFF DAVIS AT FORTRESS MONROE.

from which they could have good view
Of everything They could see the Silas
B. Pierce slowly approach the VIM. p.
Clyde, until their gunwales touched, when
the engines were stopped, the two boats
made fast, and a staging thrown across.
Gen. Miles and his staff crossed from the
Pierce, and disappeared in the cabin of the
other boat.
"It is in fatigue uniform they all are"
said Serg't Byrnes. Just right for such
dirty business.
Gen. Miles and the rest stayed there
for what appeared an interminably long
time. Presently they reappeared, Gen.
Miles's towering form, rigidly erect and sol
dierlike, at the head, his staff following.
Then came a Lieutenant and set Of fours
OF dismounted cavalry, with their carbines
at a carry, and behind them a tall, thin
man, dressed in gray, wearing a soft gray
hat, and trying to hold himself sternly up
right. Behind him came several men.
| some in Confederate uniforms, and some
in black frock coats and black silk hats
OF befOre-the-war styles. Marching on
either side of these were more cavalry, and
the rear was brought up by another set of
fOurs; at the upper guardrail appeared
women. crying and waving handkerchiefs.
They've got him. That's the old one
eyed thafe Of the wurruld himsilf," said
Serg't Byrnes. Il reminder the ould
haythen. He visited our post while he was
Secretary OF War, during my first enlist
ment."
THAT must be his wife," who's leaning
| on another woman and crying so hard'
| remarked Annabel. Poor thing"
Poor thing" snapped Maria. 'Think
Of how many hundred thousand better
women than she is her husband has made
| feel worse than she can. She's only having
| the same cup put to her lips now"
The Silas B. Pierce steamed slowly back
| to the dock, which was near where the
boys and their wives were sitting, and
| soon after she was made fast Gen. Miles
led the procession ashore. and turning to
the right, marched it along the beach to
the sallyp0rt from the water-battery in
| the rear Of the fort.
AS they passed the boys saw that it was
JEFF Davis beyond a doubt. His resem-
There wepe the high, full forehead,
crowned by thick, unkempt hair. the blind
eye, the beak-like nose, the tuft of chin
whiskers. the hickory" profile, the satur-
nine expression and lowering looks which
the prints had made familiar. He walked
stifly. looking neither to the right nor the
left. with an assumption of cold haughti-
ness that did not sit well on him.
What spectacle it was!
The man who for four years had filled
| the land with bloody war, who had one
million and half splendidiy brave fight
Ing SOiuierS at MS command TO destroy the
Government, now being marched to his
cell by q squad of soldiers. like some mutt
nous camp-disturber taken to the guard
house.
The simplicity Of the procedure was
more impressive than any ostentatious pa
rade would have been.
The head and front Of the rebellion, the
President of the late so-called Southern
Confederacy, the fancied founder of a
Great Slave Empire, the despot of a coun-
try larger than half-dozen European EN-
pires, the man who gave orders to Lee,
ston, Bragg, Pemberton, Hood, and scores
of other leaders Of great armies; the ty-
rant who filled the prisons of the South
with men charged with being patrietic and
loyal; who had let loose more than the ter
rors OF the 1nquisition upon the loyal peo-
pie Of East Tennessee; BY whose orders
Union men had been shot, hung robbed
and murdered al over the South, now be-
ing quietly conducted to q cell by few
files Of soldiers, like the most ordinary of
law-breakers.
The dream of cabal Of unscrupulous
conspirators of an Empire whose corner
stone should be human slavery" and
which should eventually absorb Cuba,
Mexico, Central America, and perhaps
South America, had sunk IN an ocean of
blood. This elderly, sinister-faced, posing
man, going to his cell was the last of it.
| There were no shouts, no taunts, no
yells from the onlookers crowding against
the line of outer guards. They talked
quietly among themselves as to how he
looked and acted. and what would DE
likely done with him.