Show THEY CANT HELP IT We keep on having differences of opinion opin-ion and those in which the greatest acerbity acer-bity crops out are when tho northern press make a reference to tho heartfelt demon I strations of the southern people toward the late JEFFERSON DAVIS It seems as though somo of them were disposed to envy the fallen chieftain the love which his people bear him even when he has passed beyond the reach of mortal interference Referring to a speech made by HENRY R JACKSOX who was minister to Mexico under the administration of President CLEVELAND the Wilmington Delaware focus thinks such displays very foolish JACKHON was a brother officer with DAVIS in tho Mexican war and tho Xcics concludes that the southern temperament tem-perament often leads to extravagance of speech but it thinks none of these facts can fully atone for what it is pleased to term tho blasphemous absurdity of extracts ex-tracts like the following As surely as the word of God is true so surely will the memory of JEFFERSON DAVIS be borne to the coming ages to make them brighter by its own peculiar lustre The paper quoted from then goes on to find fault with the resolutions presented in the Virginia legislature which it says are written in plain English but they are also concerned with Mr DAVIS position in history This particular paragraph in the resolutions is the occasion for particular faultfinding His name is Inseparably connected with the history of our country and historians of the future fu-ture when passion and strife have cleared away will assign to this hero of the lost cause a place among the wise and good men of all the ages This statement our Delaware contemporary contempor-ary says is characterized by absence of the historic sense It claims that in any respect in which Mr DAVIS was wise and good he did not rise to the height of history his-tory Ho was not heroic at all and so far as that goes history generally forgets single acts of heroism unless they are very picturesque or directly produce large consequences con-sequences Mr DAVIS in his better career was simply useful and essentially commonplace common-place In his worse career he was in no sense a hero of the lost causea good many of his associates in the confederacy judged him to be rather the marplot of that undertaking History no doubt will perpetuate his name in its relations to that conspiracy against the integrity of the union but ought to occur to his warmest friends that the natural order of such perpetuation per-petuation is not pleasant The exchange is then partisan enough politically and vile enough socially to say that BENEDICT ARNOLD AARON Bum and JEFFERSON DAVIS are names that convey the same ideas suggest similar efforts and cover a common intention Never were words more inaptly used nor conclusions more unsatisfactorily drawn To place jEFFERSon DAVIS who con tended for a principle prin-ciple which was upheld by millions of his countrymen who were bright intellectual experienced and brave in the same category cate-gory with AARON Bean who was an assassin as-sassin a rogue and a scoundrel and BENEDICT BENE-DICT ARNOLD who through pique and envy betrayed his countryneither of whom had any following after their treachery ripened into overt actsis to go at once into the face of common sense and well understood facts besides being a very palpable attempt to pervert history itself It is such a performance as only a deep dyed Republican journal could be expected to perpetrate Utah has had in many respects an experience ex-perience similar to that of the Southern states Its settlers had a leader whom they revered and held in high esteem a man whom they looked upon as a statesman states-man and spiritual guide He was once honored and respected governmental authority being elevated to the highest position within the territory But there came a day when the same authority which had honored condemned opposed arrested and prosecuted him The fact that he had never performed a disloyal actor act-or done anything personally repugnant to duly constituted authority did not prevent a certain set of jackalls from hounding him while alive and attempting to besmirch be-smirch his memory when dead There are people in the cast who propose to erect a monument to JEFFERSON DAVIS whether the truly loyal like it or not there are those in Utah who would if they could erect a monument to BRIGHAM You m and the dislike of the element previously spoken of would but add zest to their work if they could carry it out The writer knows of one man who resides in Sanpete whose express intention it is to see that the outlines of both chieftains especially the latter are preserved in enduring marble And what is the sense of opposing oppos-ing such sentiment or hoping that he and others like him may not succeed You cannot can-not extinguish a cherished sentiment with malignant utterance nor drive out a revered tradition with such petty spite as is contained con-tained in tho foregoing extracts Blood is thicker than water and those who love their leaders or those whom they choose to look upon as heroes will do so no matter how much the disgruntled organs on the othersidemay belch forth their displeasure |