Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-01-20
The COrrespouderoo between Jsa, Davis

inc correspondence between Je6s Davis
and the Pope.
The text Of the correspondence between
JEFF. Davis AMI the Pope, is as follows;
RIcHN0SD, September %, 1868.
Very Venerable Sovereign Pontiff-The
letters which you have written to the
clergy of New Orleans and New York have
been communicated to me, and have read
with emotion the deep grief therein ex-
pressed for the ruin and devastation
caused by the war which is now being
waged by the United States against the
States and people which have selected me
as their President, and your orders to your
clergy to exhort the people to peace and
charity. l an deeply sensible Of the
Christian charity which has impelled you
to this reiterated appeal to the clergy. Il
is for this reason that feel it my duty to
express personally, and in the name of the
Confederate States, our gratitude for such
sentiments of Christian good feeling and
love, and to assnre your Holiness that the
people, threatened even on their own
hearts with the most cruel oppression and
terrible carnage, are desirous now, as they
have always been, to see the end Of this
impious wsr; that we have addressed
prayers to Heaven for that Issue which
your Holiness now desires; that We desire
none of our eneDy's possessions, but that
We fight merely to resist the devastation Of
our country and the shedding OF our best
blood, and to force them 10 let US live in
peace under the protection Of our own
institutions and under our laws, which
not only insure to every one the enjoyment
Of his temporal rights, but also the free
exercise Of his religion. l pray your Holt
ness to accept, on the part Of myself and
the people OF the Confederate States, our
sincere thanks for your efforts in favor Of
peace. May the Lord preserve the days of
your Holiness and keep you under his di-
vine protection. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
REPLY OF THE POPE.
Illustrious and Honorable President
sslutation. We have just received, with
all suitable welcome, the persons sent by
you to place in cur hands your letter,
dated 2Sd of September last. Not slight
was the pleasure we experienced when we
learned, from these persons and the letter,
with what feelings of joy and gratitude
you were animated, illustrious and honor
able President, Rs coon as you were inform
ed Of our letters to our venerable brothers,
John, Archbishop of New York, and John,
Archbishop of New Orleans, dated the 18th
Of October Of last year, and in which we
have, with all our strength, excited and
exhorte3 these venerable brothers that in
their episcopal piety and solitude they
should endeaVor, with the most ardent zeal,
and in our name, to bring about the end
Of the fatal civil war which has broken
out in those countries, in order that the
American people may obtain peace and
concord, and dwell ohsritably together.
Il is particularly agreeable 10 Us to see
that you, illustIious and honorable Presi-
dent, and your people, are animated with
the same desires ef peace and tranquility
which we have in our letters inculcated
upon our venerable brothers. May it
please God at the same lime to make the
other peoples Of America and their rulers,
rejecting seriously how terrible is civil
Hsr, and what esiamities it engepders
listen to the Inspirations of a calmer spirit,
and adopt resolutely the part Of peace. As
for US, we shall not cease to offer up the
most fervent prayers 10 God Almighty
that he may pour out upon sIl the people Of
America the spirit Of peace and charity,
and that he will stop the great evils which
stfiics them. We, at the Same time, be-
seeeh the God of mercy and pity to shed
abroad upon you the light Of His grace,
and attach you to us BY perfect friend
ship. Given at Rome, at st. Peters, the
% of December, in the yesr of our Lord
1863, Of our Pontjf,ate Is. PIUs TX.