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Show IJEFFli I; Editor Tribune: It Is somewl prising to read or listen to a 1m Jeff Davis these days; there ls. 1 effort In some quarters to Justlf, f slon and tho conduct of som'i . leaders j: It Is a question whethor leptui ' as that delivered In Barratt hall! evening on Jefferson Davis are c of good when listened to by thtiw1 tlon of today, as such talks ar6VL instill lino the minds of the pre, youth, a compromising, If not a Juf. cause for secession and also aE lzlng or Justification of conduct of Its leaders. Surely there could not hav bqJ Anderaonvllle, Bell Island or LIB-oner LIB-oner cf war In that audlenco t; evening, when Dr. Lee was s'flB, that lecture on Jeff Davis, b9' surely could not respectfully slt'4 the doctor say that Jeff was 'na angel. I am sure. If It were pojl those thirteen thousand (13.O0OH murdored and Inhumanly treattd In Andereonvlllo Prison cemeter turn In their graves If they col) to such an eulogy of Jeff Davh t Leo delivered the other evening ti rait hall. 5 l i i The. doctor ought to get the-Ti on Jeff; then ho would not place? j side Washington. Webster. CI Douglas. Out of that thirteen' (13.0CO) poor, stnrved-to-death .iO , Andersonvllle. Jeff Davis has ati j thousand (10.QM) of them' to 'hj without the shadow of an excua j gla has plenty of good water am Those prlsonors had wnter riots t, hog, and no shelter, i There Is no use 111 bringing'-;' old matters of history, only ceia tlon to the youth of today, J. Davis had his good qualities, so, James; but the world would n better. off if neither of them Jj been born Jeff Davis, had n good man (overlooking his trej qountry and tlag he swore to3 would have saved thousands o; Soldiers In Southern prison pens3 I the power and know their condlt was appealed to, But the appeal not as Dr Lee says, "A great a Christian soul." but a hard i reasonable wretch that woul stretched hemp In any other cou this. -i When the trap was eprung brutal Capt. Werlz, who comma dersonvllle. at Uie Capital p. ashington, Jeff Dims nnd throj others should, have been besldea , Ik surprising to mc that these thuscd admirers of Southern lead; , keep ellll. If they djd the, ijo.l Hearing , tho truth now and the more could be said on Davis;, but jbrity of the reading people, these things Dr. Lee oKht -tj on Jeff Davis to old soldiers, w Something' of his word and aca. i , THOMAS LObGy |