Show Jeff Davis on the Flags BAirnioBE July 1The Sun has a long letter from Jeff Davis in regard to the return re-turn of the Southern battle flags He thinks it the object now to unite the people of the North and the South Every sign of the past conflict should as far as possible be obliterated To retain as a point of pride the capture of the flags would be equivalent to renewed exultation The one element of value in the proposition to return to both tho North and South the flags now in the War Department Davis says is that the restoration storation would be declared such as the old Romans madethat there should be no triumph for victory won in civil war He thinks the excitement over the matter very much like a tempest in a teapot |