THE TRUTH OF HISTORY. The friends of Jefferson Davis are very assassination of Mr Lincoln. Southern news- erson Davis which held the most horrid passions The italics are not in the original. They are placed there so as to emphasize what is claimed with what will be said herein. Contrary to the assumptions of the Register, history will finally sum up the career of Mr. Jefferson Davis in a very different manner, more especially in this matter of "civilized warfare." One fact is noticeable in scanning the southern annals of the civil war, and that is, that such prominent politicians and officers as were noted during the continuance of hostilities for ultra language, bitter deThe Mobile Daily Register, is edited by a nunciations of the northern people, cruel veteran in southern affairs, Mr Forsyth, and treatment of prisoners or loud-mouthed propwhat he says is always noteworthy. In an ositions for war a-la-outrance, were in every editorial of June 11th it quotes Sherman's sense the chosen friends of Jefferson Davis, account of his remarks to General Johnston, in his personal and public position. Every when informing him of Mr Lincoln's assassi-year adds to the evidence that the men who nation: "I told him I could not believe that in the Confederate Congress, sought to estabhe, or General Lee, or the officers of the Con-lish the fact that the war was one amenable federate army, could possibly be privy to acts to the laws and usages of civilization, were of assassination; but I would not say as much for those regarded as hostile to the confederate Jeff Davis, George Sanders, and men of that administration. stripe. The Register proceeds to argue that Sherman had no right then or now to say this; that Davis was a reluctant secessionist; that he made union speeches in the canvass of 1860; that in fact he was behind the south and not in advance. It then says: "After he accepted it he pleaded for the laws and usages of civilized warfare when many who are now high in the regard of the Northern people, and some who have sold their birthright for a mess of pottage, were in favor of raising the black flag and consigning all alike, guilty and innocent, women and children, to a common butchery. It was the iron hand of Jeff In military affairs, Early, Hood, Bragg, Forrest, D. II. Hill, Beauregard, Hindman, and many others, notorious for brutal warfare and loud denunciation, were the favorites of their chief. The rebel archives, porions of which have been published, offer abundant proof of the direct and official sympathy of Jefferson Davis with propositions for raids on unarmed territory, like that of St Albans; with the efforts made to organize a systematic plan of guerrilla warfare in such regions as Western Missouri, East Tennessee, Kentucky and elsewhere; with movements for enlisting Indians and exciting the hos 88 tility of the wild tribes on the plains and mountains of the central territories; and more atrocious than these, with the conspiracies hatched in Canada and Richmond to raise riots in defenceless cities, to burn hotels, to poison the water, and infect the dwellings with contagious diseases. No one has yet denied the authenticity of publications made in 1872, from the rebel archives, of the reports made by C. C. Clay jr., of Alabama, Prof. Holcombe of Virginia, and Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, in which accounts are given from Canada to the Confederate State Department, on the subjects alluded to, and These others of the same general character. papers from which the publications were made, bore the formal marks of reception by Judah P. Benjamin, their reference to Mr. Davis, and his approval of the same. eral orders, emanating from Richmond, while their officers were slain when captured, or in a few instances only escaped that fate by claiming to belong to white regiments known to be in the opposing force. Two compa Mention has been made of the early employment of Indians by the Confederacy. Albert Pike, acting under the direct orders of Davis, appeared in the Indian Territory as early as June, 1861, and as Special Confederate Commissioner, commenced the work of raising an Indian division, among the semicivilized peoples living there. nies of Choctaws entered the Confederate service at Fort Smith, Arkansas, as early as the middle of July, and were engaged under Sterling Price at the battle of Wilson's Creek, or Oak Hills, Missouri, as the rebels term it, on the 10th of August, 1861. It will be reIt is hardly necessary to refer to the treat-membered as the scene of Nathaniel Lyon's Albert Pike, himself, comment of Union prisoners at the pens of An-heroic death. dersonville, Salisbury, Belle Isle, Tyler, and manded an Indian division at the battle of It has never been seriously other places. controverted that General Winder, the brutal federels, officer in charge of captured 66 Pea Ridge, in March of 1862. These occurrences were long before Indians were enlisted in the Union army-which enlistments as Home Guards to defend the terri At the same time Pike was the direct choice of Jefferson Davis for were that service, or that he was steadily sus-tory from which Pike's Indian troops had tained by him in the barbarous policy so driven them at first. thoroughly pursued-of systematically keep-was engaged in compelling the Cherokees to ing prisoners in a state of semi-starvation, so violate their treaties, and serve unwillingly that when exchanged, if ever, they should not (a majority of them at least) on the Confedbe in a fit condition to do more service. The erate side. endorsement of Mr. Davis can be found to re Nor will it be denied that Mr. Davis was the author and promulgator of the atrocious announcement, as soldiers or that colored men enlisted ideas of civilized warfare." of He also directed the resistance to and pursuit of the loyal Indians, who under ports, and other documents setting forth these the Creek Chief, O-poth-le-ye-ho-lo, finally fought their way to Kansas. Long before that event occurred, however, Albert Pike, acting under the instructions of Jefferson Davis, had endeavored to incite the nomadic tribes of the central plains, (the Kiowas, sailors, in the Union forces, were not to be re- Comanches, Cheyennes, etc.,) to a violation but war, of treaty relations and the assumption of The. garded, if captured, as prisoners were to be sent into slavery, or shot on sight, hostility towards the United States. while "no quarter" was the order fulminated British have always been condemned by hisagainst the white officers, by whom they torians, for uncivilized warfare, in employMr. Davis can be proven ing Indians and inciting them to hostilities to have been cognizant or approving of the against the Americans, during the war of Inexecution of such orders, notably at Fort dependence. Under the influence of Pike a Wagner, Fort Pillow, and on the Steele- council was held during the later summer Banks campaigns of Arkansas and Louisiana, of 1861, in the western portion of the Indian In these and territory, at which representatives of the Inin the early summer of 1864. other movements, where colored troops were dians, from as far north as Wyoming and engaged, wounded men were shot in the field Dakota, were present, and every induceby Confederate soldiers, acting under gen-ment was offered to bring about an offensive were commanded. particular favorite of Jefferson Davis, General Hindman, shot, after the war, by some person unknown, who, it was reasonably supposed, thus took revenge for preceding cruelties. Pike published in 1833, several-pape s addressed to the Confederate government and detail, the atrocious tyrannies perpetrated by Hindman and denouncing them in very vigorous language. For these remonstrances, private and public, Albert Pike was driven from the Confederate service and reliev d by Davis himself from all command or duty. What was true of Arkansas was true of Gover nearly every other Southern State. vis at home: alliance with the Confederacy. The Creek As to the treatment of the Southern people, who were supposed to be disaffected, it is not necessary to seek any other evidence than that of public men of the South, who were in unmistakable sympathy with the rebellion. Albert Pike, still living and practicing law in Washington, " can a tale unfold, if he chooses to, of atro-ious cruelty and tyranny exercised in Arkansas, under the orders of a 90 have become so sensible of the anger of God generation and a half in spinning political that he never would have followed the child-, theories as a reason for liberticide and trea son, are not likely to surrender their hopes, ren of Israel to the Red Sea !-no, sir, not one inch! Cannot officers be reduced to the ranks for permitting this? Cannot a few men however they may change their method and be shot for perpetrating these outrages? Un- curtail their ambition, because defeat came less something can be done, I shall be com- in the field of war. There is a systematic movement to bring out the old leaders, and pelled in some sections to call out my mi itia I beg and levy actual war against them. your early and earnest attention to this mat- the gallant men they once betrayed into a losing fight, are to be led into political supter. Very respectfully yours. port, by the appeal to their pride which is found in Forsyth's declaration, that thorns must not "be placed on the brow of the leader, while flowers are being strewn on the graves of those who followed." (Signed,) Z. B. VANCE. The rebel commander of the department, which embraced North Carolina, was General D. H. Hill, who is still one of the warmest of the friends of Jefferson Davis, as well as an exceptionally vituperative assailant of all Northern views and public men. The But why extend the indictment? It could be done almost indefinitely. The facts are too recent to be forgotten, though the bitterness of the memories they evoke have so far faded as to arouse no opposition to the spirit of reconciliation, which finds lodgment in the Northern heart, and is only disturbed or veiled when, as in this case, an attempt is made to falsify history and torture the records. It's explanation is object in this is plain. found in the general effort now making in the South to rehabilitate the old secession abstractionists and State sovereignty politicians and leaders, under whose advice that section plunged into civil war, and to put them forward as the proper representatives of a people they deceived, and over whom they ruled with cruel vigor during the period of belligerant authority. The loyal men of the Union who were in the army or out of it, have no animosities to cherish; no revenge to serve. They were only the defenders and servants of an assailed country. To them, to-day, Jefferson Davis is utterly insignificant. He is almost forgotten. His name is a mere echo, but when he is indecently thrust before their notice, memories are stirred and in behalf of principles, there comes the nenecessity of truthful statement. He may His acute brain represent the old South. and eloquent tongue; his haughty temper and narrow prejudices; his sectional pride and provincial limitations of thought; his restless vanity and ornate courtesies of manner-the veneer of a bastard aristocracy— and his bitter personal animosities, as well as his inordinate self-pride, are all personal exaggerations of a prevailing type of character created by slavery and the habit of exalting it into a political system. The cruelty Much is now said about the fraternization which so completely marked the conduct of his administration, military, civil and local, of the citizen-soldiery of both sections. heart or brain that holds kindly feelings for also found in him a logical and proper exits fellow-men, can fail to rejoice at the recent ponent. There is no desire on the part of the North to prevent the eulogizing of Jefferson Davis. It could not do it if it would, manifestations of this spirit. Yet, it behooves all thoughtful persons, who recognize but when it is done so systematically as at the essential distinctions that were the anipresent and in pursuance of an evidently mating cause of the civil war, to lose sight of understood design, those who know the facts no one of the principles on which the nation of his remarkable career, do well when they will be founded, if it is to remain great, pro- recite them, not to adorn a tale, but to point gressive and undivided, as the centennial the moral of continued watchfulness. The anniversaries call into recurring decades. people of the South may be trusted. That Above all must there be more and constant is a lesson of Republicanism. But their watchfulness of the southern politicians. aspiring, ambitious and faithful leaders, are to be avoided. All the North desires is "to What is "bred in the bones" must out in the flesh," and men engaged for a let 'em alone.” 66 come No RECONSTRUCTION AND THE REVIVAL OF INDUSTRY IN A majority of the reports that come from | of political regeneration was to maintain the the South speak more favorably of the re- results of our victory, and gather, for the prosvival of industrious efforts and interests. perity of the nation, and of the States also, the Northern business men, politicians and jour-harvest which can only come from the efforts nalists, concur in the chorus which the of free labor. Obstacles were in the way; the Southern press itself has raised. This last-old structure had to be used, rent as it was named fact is a proof that the break in the armor of sectional prejudice and pride has been found, and that there, as well as everywhere, in this age, it is in the region of the pocket. It has been evident to all thoughtful observers that the regeneration, so needed and desired, must be largely aided by the results of material reconstruction. from foundation to roof; our various fortunes Manifold evidences of this are to be found on every hand. The letters now being published in the New York Herald and Chicago The great staples appear to be flourishing. Tribune, the one an “independent" but sen- Cotton promises exceedingly well. Texas sational newspaper, and the other an "inde- sends cheering accounts, as to increased area pendent" Republican journal, faithful to and promise of yield. This State has had every principles, critical of persons and policies, are opportunity to do well. Escaping as it did worthy of study in this connection. Both writ- the ravages of the civil war, and benefitting, ers have traveled in Mississippi, Arkansas, in fact, thereby; being, as it was, the storeLouisiana, Alabama and Georgia. They unite house of the confederacy, Texas met reconin denouncing the corruption of "carpet-bag-struction with a bolder front than other States ism," though not with that keen discrimina- did. A public domain of over one hundred tion so necessary to justice. They agree that Democrats are no more honest than the Republicans they assail; and both unite in showing that the "color-line" is still maintained, with more or less ferocity of manifestation, as there is more or less effective resistance to its spirit. million acres in extent, dedicated by a Repub- On one thing these writers agree most heartily, and that is, the good working qualities of the colored laborers, and the widespread effort that is now making to insure a crop and rebuild the waste places. It is also certain, that where Democratic success has been most marked, this spirit is most feeble and spasmodic; and that wherever, on the contrary, the ideas of Republican equity have successfully fought their way to recognition, as in Mississippi, Louisiana and South Carolina, there the greater harmony prevails between employer and employed. All this is in the line of reconstruction. It has been prosperous. evident from the first, that to sustain the work tion. hundred millions. It has been the chosen A wider area is under cultiva |