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resident-elect; the Vice-Presidentelect that of the left on the President, and the Speaker of the House that on the left of the Vice-President. Invitations to the hall, and to join in the procession from thence to the bronze equestrian statue of Washington, at the foot of which the inaugural ceremony would take place, had been extended to members of the cabinet; the Governor of Virginia and his staff; the Governors of any other of the Confederate States who might be in Richmond, and ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland; the Senate and the House of Delegates of Virginia, and their respective officers; the Judges of the Supreme Court, and of any of the Confederate District Court at Richmond; the members of the late Provincial Congress; the officers of the army and navy who might be in the city; the members of the Press; the mayor and the corporate authorities of the city; the reverend clergy and masonic and other benevolent societies. These assembled, at the hour indicated, and the proc
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 43: visit to New Orleans and admission to Fortress Monroe. (search)
pinion about General Miles's conduct to him, saying that, from Mr. Davis not having characterized it in his book, it was hoped he would say there had been no unsoldierly persecution of a helpless prisoner. To this Mr. Davis sent a most emphatic assertion of General Miles's unmanly and cruel conduct, and also wrote a letter to a Senator from Mississippi which did not reach him, owing to his being out of town when the confirmation occurred, else it would have been read in the Senate. Sir Hudson Lowe has received, in the years that have elapsed since Napoleon's death, the execration of all brave men for severities practised on him in St. Helena; but these were far less stringent, and the insults much less overt and degrading to England and to himself, than those inflicted by General Miles upon Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis's silence in his book was, because he did not choose to appeal to a public tribunal to characterize the wrongs he could not, in his old age and broken health, avenge.
ut each other's threats, until not a man be left on either side, if such a consummation were possible. Such, at least, Lord Russell thinks is her interest. That he is a man of the smallest possible calibre, we think no man who has ever read his compilation of the Holland papers, and his life of Moore, will be disposed to deny. If it be objected that the Duke of Wellington once said "Lord John (Russell) is a heat in himself," It must be remembered that he said nearly the same thing of Sir Hudson Lowe, and that he praised Talleyrand as one of the most upright men in Europe. Whatever may be the disposition of the French Emperor, he will never act without the concurrence of the English Government, and that he will never get while Palmerston is Premier, and Lord Russell Foreign Secretary. The reply of Lord Russell is characteristic enough. He fears that a proposition like that indicated by France might not be relished at Washington. There it is. He is afraid of offending Lincoln
Butler and the New million. When Sir Hudson Lowe, the gaoler of Napoleon, had been guilty of some special atrocity rather worse than those which he was in the daily habit of practising towards his illustrious captive, the latter observed, that governments always knew how to select their agents, and that the English government must have been well acquainted with the character of Lowe, before they made him his keeper. What, he added, must be their opinion of this man, when the very officesLowe, before they made him his keeper. What, he added, must be their opinion of this man, when the very offices they confer upon him are a disgrace to him? What, we take this occasion to ask, must be the opinion entertained of Butler, by the Yankee Government, when the command they have conferred upon him is such as no honorable man would accept? It has been said, that we ought to retaliate upon the prisoners in our possession by the appointment of some person as bad as Butler. But where, this side of Yankeedom, shall we find such a person? In that land they are common enough; but here, we should be