Year: 1863

The Mobile Advertiser and Register publishes a


synopsis of speech made by jeff. Davis at


Mobile, recently, in which he asserts with that


brazen egotism characteristic of self conce;ed


simpleton, that the Confederates were born to


be the masters of the Northern peope!' This


simple sentence fully explains the cause of this


rebellion. Reared in Ignorance on large planta


tions, constantly associating with and lording it


over class of degraded negroes, they grow to


manhood, pulled up with the vain conceit that


they were born to be not only the masters of the
human brutes they own, but also of free, educa-


ted white men. Acting on this theory they ig-
more the right of the majority to rule, and claim
that q few thousand negro-driving aristocrats
were born to be the masters of twenty million
white men, and rule them as their slaves


1t was the belief that these natural born mas
ters entertained of their superiority that caused
them to break up the Charleston Convention
rather than submit to the decision of the low
to associate, while in the Union, and it was this
also that caused them to disregard the will of the
majority expressed at the ballot box, and at
tempt to set up the spurious bastard government
called the Southern Confederacy. They prob
ably Judge the whole Northern people by the
miserable crawling sycophants and dough-faces
who esteem it an honor to kiss the great toe of
those who boast that they were born to be mas
ters. Before this war is ended the minions of
this Mississippi nullGer and repudiator this
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learn that in Northern men there is sufficient of
manhood and vaor and selfrespect to be their
own masters, and although the conspirators may
have been born to be the master of brutalized
negroes they were not of Northern freemen In
The same speech Davis gave some advice to the
rebels which the people of the North might pro-
fit by. He told them L" to second with all their
power the efforts of the brave soldiers and able
commanders to whom their defence had been con
fded and to encourage them by their approval
without caviling at the errors which must almost
necessarily be committed. "Even if they do
wrong, sustain them. Better that our indepen.
dence be achieved than submit TO the domination
of the Yankees who are seeking to enchain us in
the same degrading serviude with themselves
with baboon for King" If it is good policy
for the rebels to sustain those who are entrusted
with the management of affairs in the Confeder-
acy, even when they do wrong why is it not
equally SO for those iault-fnding constitutional
croakers to sustain the brave Union soldiers, their
able commanders and the Administration, even
if they do wrong. Would it not be better to
overlook few errors, and preserve the integrity
of this great American Republic, rather than
join those who claim that they were born to be
our masters, and become their willing slaves
scorned and despsed by all good men?


The low remark that the Northern people are
now held in a "degrading servitude with
baboon for King" would be more fitting in the
fish market than before an assembly of the peo-
pie, and sounds more like the mad rawlings of the
maniac than the deliberate utterance of the
President Of negro Confede racy. History will
record that Abraham Lincoln is as much the su-
perior of Jefferson Davis, morally, physically
and Intellectually, as a patriot is superior to
traitor, or statesman to a Barbary ape.