Outlived His Day--davis' Selfishness
The existcnco of Mr. Jefferson Davis is i cleai case of surplusagc. The worlcl 3oukl do without hun, and so mnuh of the universo known as tho Southern States of the United Statfg of Aineriea would be iniimmsrly botter off it' lic had insured his lifo in soine company that takes European risks, and then joinrd the Paris communist. It is a sad Üivng to outlivo one's uscl'uliicss, and sadder atill to b a bnnlrai to one'a frionds. If Mr. Jefforson Davis could enter fully mto the poetry of tliis sentiment, wc are sure that he would settlt; himself down to mcditation over a iuisspent life, and prepáu for that peaee in. the future world which he has feüed to provide for liiin.-rlt' or his adherents in this. One of the objections to tlie freeilom oí' a republican fonu of govcninwut liecoincs :iinfully prominent when we road that Mr. Davis has beon muking nnother speech, for this is mnnifestly a case where the exercise of individual liborty endangers the liberties of a large coinmuiiity. Mr. Davis is now, if he has not been all alongv the worst enemy tho Southern poople have. It is not, as he complains, bcoause his utterances have been miseonstrued, but MOATUM thoy ure saddled upon a pi;cilií wlio practififilly have no synipathy with hún, that Mr. Davis has becoute 80 Rminently supernumeraiy. In forcing himself before the public, or even in submitting to the calis of a few old time friends. Mr. Davis shows himself to be, what tingre mi alway a reason to suspect, an essentially selfish man. Ho siinply contemplates the whole siti;i tion from the view of a disappointed ambition. There ia not, in his jiresent actiois, what even the most onthusiastic reb(;ls eould eull patriotisra. He is not even willing to hold his poace, to nurso his disappoint inent in private, to allow his old assooiates to avail thcinselves of Booh poor chances for recuperation as carpot-bag gorernmentS iifford, but croaks likc an old magpie over the corpse of tho Confederaoy. Yet it is an ungenerous error to confuse the utterances of Juff Davis with the sentiments and actions of tho Southern people. He could not be inore behind the times if he had been born ten centuries ago, and no moro represents the Southern people of to-day than Beu Butler doos the deceney of the Korth.
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