Mr. Jefferson Davis, once President of the Southern Confedera- tion,
now seventy-eight years old, is making a kind of memorial tour through the South, delivering speeches in which he glorifies secession, but advises Southerners to accept the result of the war. Mr. Davis was a stronger man than Mr. Parnell, had about as good a case—for he also revolted in defence of Home- rule and the unjust acquisition of property—and controlled, perhaps, ten times Mr. Parnell's material resources. Yet his movement so completely failed, that this generation of Englishmen forget bow near the -Union was to disruption, and hear of Mr. Davis without knowing what he really was. There never was stronger testimony given either to the advan- tage of strenuous resistance to Disunion, or to the good results of mercy after victory. The Union spent half a million lives to maintain its integrity, and pardoned Jefferson Davis.
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