The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-03
STORY OF
 JEFFERSON DAVIS
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 No formal treaty of commerce could be concluded on account of the block ade of Southern ports by the Lincoln Government, and the failure of Euro- pean powers to recognize the independ- ence of the Confederacy. The constf- tution adopted at Montgomery foroade q protective tariff.
 There was much anxiety to have Mir. Davis assume the direction or af- fairs in Virginia. As recently stated, From Richmond, on the 1lth, Rev. pr. W. N. Pendleton of Richmond. wrote to President Davis: As you vafue our great cause hasten to Rich- mond--the very fact of your presence will almost answer. Hasten, then, entreat you; don't lose & day. The capital was sosn moved to Richmond; Mir. and Mrs. Davis were received en- ssusiasticaily by the people, and driven in a coach and four to the spottswood Hotel.
 For many a weary day. with consum-
 mate skill. and in the face of most stupendeus difficulties, President Davis directed the affairs of the Confederacy. The details of how he did this is his tory and need not be recited here.
 Events far beyond the desperate bravery of the armies. the wisdom of the statesmen or the possible control of the executive were slowly but surely crowding the confederacy to its end.
 MT. Davis had anticipated the neces- saty for evacuating Richmond. and did not consider such a movement as nec- essarily disastrous to the cause of the Confectionery; he rather felt that being relieved of the care of defending the city, Lee could unite his forces with those of Johnston in the Southwest, and thus make an effective resistance.
 On Sunday. April 2, 1885. while at church. he received q telegram an- nouncing the withdrawal of Lees army from Petersburg. and immediate ly prepared to remove the seat of gov ernment to Danvflle, Va. Mfr. Davis writes of this: The event was fore seen. and some preparations made for 1t. though. as It came sooner than was expected. there was yet much to be done. The executive papers were ar- ranged for removal. This occupied myself and stan until late in the af- ternoon. By this time the report that Richmond was to be evacuated had spread through the town, and many who saw me walking toward my resi- deuce left their houses to inquire whether the report was true. Upon my admission of the painful fact, qualified. however, by the expression of my hope that we should under better auspices soon return. they all. the ladies espe- ciaiIy. with generous sympathy and patriotic impulse. responded. If suc- cess of the cause requires you to give up Richmond, we are content The affection and confidence of this noble people In the hour of disaster were more distressing to me than compla- cent and unjust censure would have been.D Mr. Davis proceeded to Dan vllIes expecting the army to meet him there, and made energetic efforts to collect supplies for the soldiers. The enemy interfered with the march to Danvfile. so General Lee turned toward clared he could carry on the war for twenty years. But his army became exhausted. and he found surrender un- avoidable.
 President Davis telegraphed General Johnston that Lee had surrendered and then went forward to Greensboro. N. C.. requesting the general to meet him 4here. where General Beauregard had quarters. Mir. Davis wrote of this meeting: "In compliance with my re- quest, General Johnston came to Greensboro. N. C., and with General BeanxeEard. met me and moSt of my cabinet there. We had effective armies in the field, and a rich and productive territory both east and west of the Mississippi. whose citizens had shown no desire to surrender. Ample sup plies had been collected in the railroad depots, and much still remained to be placed at our disposal when needed. AS long as we were able to keep the field, I had never contemplated a surrender. except upon the terms of a belligerent, and never expected a Confederate army to surrender while 1t was able either to fight or retreat. Lee had surren- dered only when 1t was impossible for him to do either, and had proudly re- 3ected Grants demand until he found himself surrounded and his line of re- treat cut of. was not hopeful of ne- eotiations between the civil authorities of the United States and those of the Confectionery. believing that, even if sherman should agree to such a prop asItion, hls government would not rat afy it. After having distinctly an- nounced my views, l yielded to the Judgment of my constitutional advis- CTS, and consented to the surrender of General Johnston's army"
 Preident Davis moved westward. but the country swarmed with the enemy, every avenue of escape was blocked. and finally he was captured.
 He was carried to Fortress Monroe His nartyrdom there and the sufferings he vieariously bore for his people with such grand fortitude, is also a matter of history.
 Mr. Davis's friend and physician waa not present when the prisoner was ironed; his account of the shaclxling scene is not accurate for this reason MT. Davis was ''too resolved and too proudly conscious of his relation to a sacred, though unsuccessful cause. for nuch exclamation and manifestation as were imputed to him by Dr. Craven's informant, and given to the public in his book"
 Mir. Davis said to pr. Craven: "Ii was cIear-that the object was to offer an indignity both to myself and the cause I represented-not the less sa- cred to me because covered with the nsu of A military disaster. It was for this reason I resisted as a duty to my