Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-02-07
From the NeY Orleans Bee, January %.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.

A Letter 60 the Citizens Of jackson, louis
Iana-Hc is Nominated for the PresI-
dency of the Texas Pacific RaiIroad-Mr.
Davis Mt Present in Mississippi.
The citizens of Jackson, Louisiana, once the
boyhood home of Mr.. Davis, extended their hos
FATALITIES to that distinguished gentleman in
manner that does credit to their hearts, as will
be seen by the following correspondence pub
l1shed IN the Clinton Patriot, of the 18th inst.
JACKSON, La, Jan. 8, 1868.
Hon. jefferson DaUis, West Feljcial1a, La:
HoNoRED SIR-The inauspicious aspect OF the
weather having deferred some Of the citizens OF
this place and vicinity from intended call On
you to-day, 1T is deemed proper to address you p
AS the Chief Executive of the late but now fallen
Confederacy, yon enjoyed the respect of all here
whose fortunes were linked with that organiza-
ton, but as the representative man who has borne
with fortitude and dignity, the insults and abuses
OF triumphant faction, You have won and enjoy
their admiration.
Crushed and impoverished as we are, il is not
III our power 10 extend to you the elegant hospi-
talites that it would otherwise be our pleasure to
bestow; but should either inclination or the dis
charge Of your duty lead you to visit our locality,
you will find a home and hearty welcome in each
and all Of our habitations.
With high respect, for themselves and fellow
:izens generally, p Fishb4rn; Thomas Noonc,
lett, @ w Miller, w Jones, E l. Woodside, F. q
Davis, j i Haynes, JAS Drano, John McKeoweu,
A s Tomb, Thomas Jones, III Reinburg, III Kirsch,
Frank Crilly, Julius Freyhan. ReilIburg, Della
Plane, Bannon, Charles l. Pope, w ii Weldon
Lucius Johnson. JAS Campbell.
| WEST FEIIcIATA, La, jan. 10, 1868.
GENTLEMEN am deeply gratbed for your
very kind letter OF this date and assure you that
it would give me great pleasure to accept your in
VltatIon. My engagements require mo to leave
for Mississippi 80 soon that it will not be in my
power to visit you, and again look upon place
| associated with many happy memories. Your
sutferings and losses have been to mo ever pre-
sent through all the trials to which you 80 feel
iDgly refer The desolation which everywhere
presents itself in that onco prosperous country
fills my heart with sorrow but hope and trust
better time will soon come to us. The patient
fortitude, the cheerful energy, and manly virtue
which our people displayed in the depth OF their
misfortune, cannot fail to bring the due reward
Accept for yourselves and those you represent,
the expression OF my lifelong devotion, and my
earnest prayer, which has so long been daily Of
fered, that the Father will restore our stricken
land in the way to which His wisdom seems the
best.
am, most cordially, your friend,
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
To Messrs. -[Here follow the names apend-
ed to the previous note.l
AS explanatory of the allusion to Mr.. Davis to
membranes of the past, it may be proper to
state that he was at one period of his life stu
dent in Jackson, and that an elder brother and
sister were members OF that community.
From the New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 22l
The Texas Press warmly seconds our sugges-
ton of Mr.. jefferson Davis for President of the
great railroad that is to be hence to the Pacific
but is at first to unite us with Houston, Columbus
Austin, San Antonio, etc. The Houston Telegraph
says
"The Picayune dominates Mr. Davis as the head
of rganization to build the railroad through
from New Orleans via Houston to the Pacific. II
jeff Davis is made the head of such an organiza-
ton, we, that is the writer of this candidate
for the agency of the "concern " in Texas and
the adjacent States, including California. If We
do not get more land and stock subscribed to the
road than ever was subscribed to road before IN
a new country, in the same length of time,
promise to give up all our claim to good judgment.
Such pouring in of help to build the road, from
| from all the South, and, indeed, from tho whole
! Union, would be wlHuessed, would astonlsh
! the world. With many it would grow out OF the
would grow out of sincere respect for the grand
| genius and historical greatness of the man
| Men who have always differed from him III
politics would help. Men who fought against
would preach q sermon in Plymouth Church
| in behalf of the enterprise The New York
Tribune would give the whole force OF its mighty
columns in it's aid. The London Times would SUE
all the respectability and money Of England III lts
| behalf. Dickens would awake English speaking
| Christendom with lectures on the subject. Ia
Texas and all along the route to the Pacific, the
| people would put whatever OF their lands MI
| Davis might desire at his disposal And the
Southern women generally. what would they not
| do? Every remnant of the iewelry they SO freely
contributed during the war they would invest III
| stock And, speaking mere gravely, Mr.. DAVIS
| from his high standing gentleman--and no -
the prince ofgentiemen i'll the whole world could
| make any necessary negotiation in Europe. WY
not stop az Texatious and proftless prosecutions
! against him, and let b m do this great woIk loI
| the country and for the world.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers annouICC
the arrival of MIR. Davis at the residence OF Ms
brother, Joseph Davis, near that city, on January
20, where he is at present solourning