Posted on 10/07/2024 6:58:35 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Thursday, Oct. 5.
The following speech, made by JEFFERSON DAVIS at Macon, Ga., Sept. 23, 1864, is extracted from the columns of the Daily Macon Telegraph Confederate of Sept.24:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: It would have gladdened my heart to have met you in prosperity instead of adversity. But friends are drawn together in adversity. The son of a Georgian, who fought through the first Revolution, I would be untrue to, myself if I should forget the State in her day of peril. What though misfortune has befallen our arms from Decatur to Jonesboro, our cause is not lost. SHERMAN cannot keep up his long line of communication and retreat. Sooner or later he must; and when that day comes the fate that befell the army of the French Empire in its retreat from Moscow will be reacted. Our cavalry and our people will harass and destroy his army as did the Cossacks that of NAPOLEON; and the Yankee General, like him, will escape with only a body guard. How can this be the most speedily effected? By the absentees of HOOD's army returning to their posts; and will they not? Can they see the banished exiles; can they hear the wall of their suffering countrywomen and children and not come? By what influences they are made to stay away it is not necessary to speak. If there is one who will stay away at this hour he is unworthy of the name of Georgian. To the women no appeal is necessary. They are like the Spartan mothers of old. I know of one who has lost all her sons, except one of 8 years. She wrote that she wanted me to reserve a place for him in the ranks.
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Southern News: Desperate Speech by Jeff. Davis at Macon* – 2-3
Army of the James: No News-Late Richmond Papers – 3
Sherman’s Army: Large Rebel Forces in Sherman’s Rear – 3-4
From Sheridan’s Army; All Quiet in the Valley – 4-5
Army of the Potomac: Lee Fortifying Danville – 5
Guerrilla Operations in Tennessee – 5
News from Washington – 5
Editorial: Non-Committalism of the Opposition – 5-6
Editorial: The Logic of the Past – 6
Editorial: Richmond – 6
Emigration – 6-7
A Golden Aphorism – 7
Jeff. Davis’ Macon Speech – 7
Editorial: The Victory We Must Have – 7
Amusements – 7
General News – 7
*From the Richmond Examiner: “Gen. Napoleon B. Forrest continues his effective operations upon Sherman’s communications.”
I think the Richmond newsmen have their military geniuses confused-HJS
2/3 AWOL.....By this time it was fairly apparent that The South was losing the war............
His speech is now properly on record. He did not talk about AWOLs. He did call for militia- all to turn out and was assisted by Joe Wheeler’s harassing cavalry. Of interest, by the time the columns came by Macon they pivoted East. General Iverson and General Wheeler captured 375 Cavalry and General Stoneman at Sunshine Church 30 miles NE of Macon.
Stoneman was held for sometime and then exchanged so he could go pester Western NC/SW Virginia where he is still hated.
Of more current note— when Jefferson Davis was captured he was taken to Macon where he was honored by Union soldiers along the main street at “port Arms”, and treated to a fine supper with the commanding general and his staff.
Of even more ironic note— present at the parade of the capture of Davis was a young boy— Woodrow Wilson- the soon to visit on the US Democrat klan politics, the League of Nations and dragging the US into WWII’s horrors- and also doing nothing to rescue the Tsar Nicholas from the Bolsheviks. The early association of Demonrats with Communists that were to rise in the days leading up to and through World War I. Wilson, whose wife took over as President, much like Jill Biden thinks she is- with the Demented One.
The NYT was a propaganda source then as now............
Holy cow—that’s bad.
They pulled the speech from a Macon, GA newspaper.
Musta been Ukrainians................
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