The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-10-12

which his name has been made prominent
| CORRESPONDENCE.
Io,,v Jrxxrvs ESQ; Finding during my travels in the
interior of our this summer, that the opinions OF Col
Jefferson Davis Were if not M greay mus
party and his feelings towards the administration, adj
him letter upon the ana ws s ns
with the President relative to the Dngadief gehefa
This reply and correspondence will am sure satisfy
all unprecedented minds that Col Davis is what zoe have
Away; known him to bs yours pur n h0s' upright s0
'lous democrat ''"'' CHARLES j. sEARLEs
| BRIERrrEID, Sep. 10, ls47.
| c. J. SEARLEs, Eso.-My dear sir Your highly valued
sc and have not been able earlier date reply to
it. Accept my thanks for your kind sohcude iof my
| welfare.
and am therefore doubly grateful.
The political information you communicate was entirely
new to me- and only under the belief that the crisis
renders important the views o. every Ts aon v
opinions the next presidency have never antlc
Of Mississippi and if such intention expectation has
been attributed me, it is not only unauthorized but err
roneous.
| That it might become necessary to unite us southern
men and 10 dissolve ties which have connected
majority of the non-slavehoding States has led me to
tear Yet am of those who decry national conven-
ton but believe that circumstances with more than
usual force indicate the propriey OF such meeting On the
question of southern institutions and southern rights is
rue that extensive OBJECTIONS have occurred among north
ern democrats; but enough OF good feeling still exhibited
sustain the hope that as party they WIN show e
lies the SOUTH and will meet us upon Just constitutional
ground At consider sde TO DC m sn
and furnish for failure by seeming distrust or aver
would saw them let our delegates those from the
NORTH not paramount object to nominate candidates
ing upon such selection demand of their political breh
of the north dsavowalof the principles OF the Wmo
Provso, admission OF the equal right OF the sonh win
the north to the territory held the property of the
United States and declaration in favor OF extending the
Missouri compromise to all States to be hereafter admitted
into confederacy.
If these principles are recognised win happily avoid
the worst Of all political divsonsone made by geographi
cal lines merely The convention, representing every
ton the Union and elevated above local jealousy and
lacous strife, may proceed to select candidates, whose
men fit for the time and the occasion.
If on the other hand, that spirit of hostility to the south,
that thirst for political dominion over u.s. which, within two
past has displayed such y @ % power ana sys
delegates withdraw from the convention, and inform
their fellow citizens of the failure of their mission We
shall then have reached point at which all party meas
sink into ingncance under the necessity for self
pescrvation and party divisions should be buried in
But, until then let do all which becomes avoid
democratic sures the practical exemphcation
of those great principles for which we have struggled as
Though the signs of the times are portentous evil and
the cloud which hangs northern horizon threat
it may yet blow over with only the teardrops
ad ,ha Whenever the has
republic and threatened it with wreck brohery
have subsidized to rest Thus may be and
If we should be disappointed in such hopes lorbear from
Enough for the day viii be the evil thereof and enough for
the evil will be the union and energy and power of the
south.
Ihope ii will be in my power to visit you and other
friends vicksbug, from whom have been long sep
am, as ever, trulyyour friend,
JEFFERSON DAVIS
| WAsuSGros Cry, May 49, Isf7
My DEAR SIR; The Secretary of War will transmit you
a commission bgadier general of the United States
army The brigade which You will command Will consist
volunteers called out to during the war with Mex
co sincere pleasure confer this important
command upon you. Your distinguished gallaniry and
command, and especially in the bales Of Monterey and
Vista eminenty eptitle you to it, hope that tho
seon be healed and Dit your country may have the benz
ets your valuable services at the head ofyou
am, very faithfully, your friend lend, :, pot,
To Brigader General JEFFERSON DAVIS, u S. Army, in
! WARREN COUNTY. Mss, June 20, 1si7.
Nix DEAR Your very kind and complimentary letter
of the 10Th May last received in New Orleans together
with the commission to which you therein referred
| To be esteemed by you whose services entitled
him to promotion, of the highest graica
opinions compel me to decline the proiered honor
] will thiS day address to the Adutant General u 8.
Army an official informing him that the sson
has been received and is declined To You wish give
eS oa snd sny ay
to any hazard OF Misrepresentation OF the motives
| which have decided my course
You inform me that my command will consist of volun-
teers still entertain the opinion expressed by me- as
member of Congress- in May and June 1896 that the vol
uneers' militia As such, they have constitutional
right be under the immediate command of officers ap
any pei anent organization made after they pas sed
into the of the United Sates by which they lose
new formation, disciplined by corresponding and only
cognised through the head which the federal government
Such consider the organization of volunteer regiments
under s % sPs @ s ns
this opinion my decson stated you, was the necessa