The New Attorney-General.
--The
Petersburg (Va.) Register has the following about
Hon. George Davis, of
N. C., who has been appointed
Attorney-General of the
Confederate States:
‘
Mr. Davis has never been widely known as a public man. A politician, in the party sense of the word, he never was. He is about forty-five years of age, and a man of fine presence and deportment, and respected and beloved wherever he is known.
Blessed with a high order of mind, he has cultivated it assiduously, and has attained high rank not only as a lawyer, but as a man of varied literary acquirements.
Prior to the troubles which culminated in
Lincoln's election he was a consistent member of the Whig party, and up to February, 1861, abided by the "Union."--The Legislature of North Carolinia then, animated by the true patriotic feeling, and throwing aside all mere party predilections, sent a commission to the Peace Congress, and of this commission
Mr. Davis was a member.
Learning from the result of that mission, undertaken for purposes of an honorable and satisfactory settlement of our difficulties with the
North, how impossible it was for the
South to live in amity and honor in a Governmental union with the
North, he returned to his home at
Wilmington, and bade his countrymen prepare for the struggle which he saw was at hand, and not to be averted, except by a slavish abandonment of all our rights.
In a like spirit of abandonment of old party predilections,
Mr. Davis was elected a Senator of the Confederate Congress at the same time that the Hon.
Wm. T. Dortch, an old Democrat, was elected.
Mr. Davis "drew" the short term, and
Mr. Dortch the long term.
At the last winter's session of the Legislature of North Carolina,
ex-Gov. Wm. A. Graham was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of service of
the Hon. George Davis.
’
