Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1879 — Pyrotechnic Paragraphy. [ARTICLE]

Pyrotechnic Paragraphy.

Oh! how fit —how passing fit—it was that the Radical party should breathe a final hiss at our Confederate President as its dying carcass was borne from the Senate Chamber of the States Union! Hating all that is good and pure, and grand and true, it was peculiarly proper that it should hate Jefferson Davis with a deathless hate. Its history was one long lie and crime; It flung our country into the war; It murdered 800,000 gallant Southrons, like the common cut-throat that it was; It gave our homes to the torch, like the common incendiary that it was; It plundered our pockets and coffers, like the common thief that it was; It sent its jail-birds to lord it over us, and imprisoned the purest patriots of the North, like the common tyrant that it was; Finally, with bloody hands, and pockets bulging with stolen monoys, it fell before the wrath of an indignant and outraged peoplehood. But its malignant spirit was strong in death, and, while the rattle was sounding in its slimy throat, it managed to utter a farewell hiss at our illustrious chieftain. 1 " „ ~ Bet this fact be forgetless. It contrTbuteS otte moTC shiurng leaf to the splendid laurel-crown of glory that circles the brow of our grand old Confederate President. It intensifies the immortal love and honor for our second Washington! We have captured the Capitol, and the name of Jefferson Davis will hereafter be spoken with reverence in its historic halls, while his picture will yet grace and his memory will yet glorify the place forever. Okolona (Mss.) Southern States.