The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-11-29

.H1mEa DAVIS nnd nnIa Rnml1y.
Soon after The captprc "a MI. Davis
the report went abroad Mat Ne had 4
great deal of Treasure reserved III 4
Arniuy day This was at once y * Inn
"a beentfrelg false, aud the evidS K
| that he was poor man adduced 81 4
shape Which len no question ol 1
/ fact
Next. about Tie time when
Davis WIS permitted 70 visit her a 5.
band, the papers published mum s|Isis
Instances Ii which merchants reiiss6'
10 permit haf to pay for PURCHASES.
and some cases of donations al
money. We always feared chat these
| publications would make 4 wronRN i'm
preston. That they did Is now ev-
ident; and the result is that Mr.. Davis
and his family are in want, and have
been so for some time past This dis
tressing fact has been accidentally re-
vealed through the late visit Of some
intimate friends Of the family at For-
tress Monroe, and comes almost
startingly to the minds Of the many
who had permitted loose and vague
reports to CONVINCE them TO the CON
trary.
Mississippi has very properly taken
the lead in the duty Of raising fund
for the prisoner and his family One
Of the plans adopted is the formation
of an association of ladies in each
county, to prepare subscription lists
and superintend their circulation and
the ministration of the results. To a
meeting of this kind at Holly Springs,
the following letter from Judge Clay
ton was addressed. Its suggestions
will meet with d hearty endorsement,
not only in Mississippi, but through
out the South Other States will feel
that they also are ntitled.to ne priv
ilege Of assisting in this noble work,
and none more deeply so than Texas,
to whose borders the President Of The
Confederacy was making his way whep-
he was captured Nothing more will
be necessary, therefore, than to pre-
sent the opportunity to the. Indies of
Texas--as we now do, by this pub
LEGATION of facts--to induce them TOT
unite at once with their sisters Of Mis-
sissippi in forming regular assoc
ciations for the furtherance OF the
proposed object
Holly STRINGS. Nov 3, 1885,
TO Me Ludies cf Marshall County:
regret very much my inability to
attend your meeting this afternoon,
having for its object the raising of
fund for the benefit of the martyr Of
.fThe Lost Cause We all feel deep
ly the effects Of this fesult--b1t one
alone has been psade the ss1ject of |
pnnishment His satIerings for the,I
whole South, must awaken the deposit
'sympathy.itibehalf himself and of.his
loved ones.
That sympathy can now take but
one practical directfon---and that is
to malSk:his children. the children of
the Southern people by adoption. Let
him feel in the dark hours of impris
onment-and, II Heaven shall so de-
cree, in the still darker hour of death
T-thdt 1lc pSOl)lS VI MS own lONeu
State, take his wife and his children
as Their heritage and that they stand
pledged and bound, before God and
before the world, for their well-beingt
and their protection. AS the means
of giving shape to this resolution, let
me suggest that there be an obligation
to pay certain sum at this time, and
a like sum for four or more years to
come, payable annually. This places
it in the power of our people, out of
the little which is left them and out of
their future accumulations, to evince
by their acts their feeling for the in
terests Of those who are endeared to
them by their sorrows and their suf-
ferings.
x X
/ make this suggestion in no spirit
of dictaton, and am very willing to
yield tand adopt any other which may
be deemed better.
With my hearty wishes for the sue
cess of your undertaking.
/ am, very respectfully,
Your friendand scrv't,
NJ ~. |