The Copiah Signal

Jefferson Davis And The Union.

The American Sentry, printed in New York, has the following just remarks on Mr. Davis' late speech in New Orleans. It is gratifying to find so just an estimate of public sentiment in the South in a Northern newspaper:

In closing his recent speech at New Orleans, before the Benevolent Society of the Army of Northern Virginia, Jefferson Davis said:

"Brothers, you have endured all the fatigues of many campaigns, and the dangers of a hundred battle-fields. You remember how, amid the toils and hardships of the trying times, a comrade gave you a piece of bread and a draught of water from his canteen. There are no ties like those which grow up under such scenes; and you are indeed brothers. You have written your record; you have done your duty. The principle you then asserted as necessary for the preservation of the American Constitution are now as they were when you struck for them, and the existence of the best government the world ever saw, the American Union, is still indissolubly bound up in the principles for which you fought. Be still ever ready to fight for the Union, as I would be willing to unsheath my sword for it."

The above is a faithful index of the prevalent feeling throughout the South To-day the fire of true patriotism, love of the Union and of justice, is stronger in the South than in the North, and the time is near at hand when all comprehend the truth that the South is rapidly becoming the bulwark of our nation's liberties.