Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1871 — Now and Then. [ARTICLE]

Now and Then.

Tub Mobile Register says, in a most uncourteous manner, of a Democratic co-la-borer, that “ The Woild finds itself forced to make a quasi defense of Jeff Davis against the calumnies of the, J'imes after having itself given importance and emphasis to the misuse the Times has made of his speeches. And yet, before it gets through its article, it turns again, like a hyena, upon Mr. Davis. ” The same monitor, in another article, severely reproves what it is pleased to cajl the “ conservative press’’—probably because it sympathized with rebellion—for its eagerness to purge itself of all suspicion of sympathy “ with the renovated treason of the Confederate chieftain. ” But the reason of the eagerness is evident enough. The Democratic leaders of the tew departure know very well that the people of the United Btates intend that the Constitution as amended shall stand; and those leaders are confident that if the people can only be persuaded that nobody means to disturb the settlement the Dem-» ocratic party has a chance of obtaining power. When Jefferson Dayis, therefore, suddenly uplifts his voice and declares that he accepts nothing, and the Maryland and Kentucky Democracy and a large part of ithe Southern Democratic press say '“amen," the apostles of the new departure feel like hyenas toward the gentleman who, while he seas the Confederate chieftain, they treated with profound respect, and they therefore full upon him and rend hitn. The reason of their hostility is not that he doee not accept the situation, but that

M TLUU ; he says so. The apostles whom we mentioned perceive that Davis’s declaration and its prolonged echo reveal the bpllowness of the assertion that the old issues are settled, nnd that there is no danger in the return of the Democratic party to power. The voice and its echo surest to every sensible man in the country that, allowing for all the rhetoric anti gasconade or Southern eloquence, conceding that Davis and Toombs and Stephens are “played out,” that the Kentucky and Maryland Democracy are hopeless, and the Southern press merely silly—all these expressions are the sign of a deep and real feeling, dangerous to the welfare of the country, wholly confined to the Democratic party, and hoping and working for its success. And this, which every sensible man perceives, is a cardinal fact in the political situation. If, the Mobile Register and Davis and Toombs and Stephens were all enthusiastic for the new departure, it would be a most suspicious enthusiasm, a most suggestive unanimity. But, as they frankly say what they think, every body knows that they speak not for themselves only, but for a very large and most natural sentiment in their section of the country. It Davis were the utterly spent force for mischief which some of the Northern papers of his own party furiously assert, they would hardly attack him with such asperity. In the days when they were sneering at Mr. Lincoln as a vulgar buffoon, the same papers praised the courtly elegance and the gentlemanly tone and culture of Mr. Davis, “ the Confederate President." Is he less elegant and urbane because he does not abjure the cause which gives him a place in history? Is his tone less gentlemanly when he says, “ I don’t believe thatldid any wrong,” and “laccept nothing," than when he declared that Yankees wero hyenas—which remark did not in the least disturb the equanimity of the present advocates of the new departure? The Mobile Register will see, upon reflection, that those oAts Northern Democratic co-laborers who formerly toadied Jefferson Davis did so because they thought that he could be of use to them, apd they revile him now because they think that he cannot. — Ilarjier's Weekly.