_Failure will compel us to drink the cup of humiliation even to the bitter dregs of having the history of our struggle written by New-England historians_." The same lack of moral courage to face the inevitable and deal frankly with friends and supporters was still more palpably shown by Jefferson Davis when he sent a message to the Confederate Congress on March 13, three weeks before the fall of Richmond, in a tone similar to that of the famous address.

Even after he was a fugitive, and the Capital of the Confederacy was in the possession of the Union Army, Mr.Davis halted long enough at Danville, to issue a proclamation in which he said, "We have now entered upon a new phase of the struggle.

Relieved from the necessity of guarding particular points, our army will be free to move from point to point to strike the enemy in detail far from his base.

Let us but will it, and we are free.

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