The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-08-27
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A Manly Letter from the Old Cone
fcdcrNtc Pre- sideMt.
MEMrIIs, TEN, August Is

Manly Letter from the Old Con.
tcdcrOtc Pre- siLeMt.
MEMruIs, TEN, August Is.
To Henry b. Kimball, Secretary Of tho
WmnebaSo County Agricultural Society,
Rockford. Illinois.
DEAR SIR yesterday sent to you
| a telegram announcing my revocation
of my conditional acceptance OF the In
vitation to address your association at
| their annual meeting in September.
The long period which has elapsed
since the receipt Of your first letter and
tho considerate courtesy which has
! marked your correspondence, make It
| my duty to the board and myself that
| sufficient explanation should be given
OF this change of purpose. Three OBJ
Jects mainly induced me to accept the
invitation.
First-The hope that the personal
intercourse might remove some of
the prciudices which had been genera.
| ted by partisan factions, and nurtured
by individual and sectional hate, anxi.
Gus as III former years to promote in.
tercsts OF our great valley of the Mis-.
sissiPpi and believing that with the
mutual confidence and co-intelligence
much could DO done for their advances
ment. ! only delayed my acceptance
of your invitation until it become, req
sohabty probable that 1t could be met,
| Tho productive capacity of tho North.
west, and needs for it's DEVELOPMENT
! cheaper and safer transportation to the
markets in the Southwest, and also to
those foreign countries. In England es.
peciaily, earnest attention has been for
several years past to Il moro direct and
economical trade with the Mississippi
| Valley. In this connection there was
Il desire to confer with the Patrons OF
Hushandry, in your rich and prosper
ots section to discuss with them the
question involved in securing Il better
| means OF transporting your farm pro.
| duce to the most favorable markets
and providing agencies which should
insure larger returns to freemon, and
by such conference to learn the views
OF one member of family of the
Mississippi Valley II family, the chief
interest OF all members of which Is
agriculture, but cultivators of such
various crops as to make trade among
themselves extensive and lucrative,
while it stamps upon each and nll the
same interests and tho same policy IA
to their foreign trade. TO render such
conference cffCctual there must needs
be Il disposition to attend to the SUBJ
jcct under consideration. Surely not
purpose to smother 1t by the interpost-
ton of matters having no lust relation
| to it.
Second An effort was made to rec.
"gnizc the courtesy of your board, and
was encouraged to believe that your
| reception of me would be beneficial,
| rather than injurious, to your associa-
ton; this was the more suppOsable be-
cause several agricultural societies Of
Illinois, had, in II like manner, invited
me to address them. Yesterday, l re-
! ccivcd II pointed paper, 1t being the
protest of number OF your fellow
! countrymcn, against the action of your
board in their invitation to mo to make
| an address; therefore, l sent you n teIe-
cgraIn withdrawing my acceptance OF
the invitation, under tho conviction
that ii would not be useful or agreea-
bic to participate in the meeting, and
| hope that neither your association
nor the directors will suffer harm by
the delay i'll procuring an orator or by
the correspondence which has caused
| it.
Third-Thc object was to crafty the
| wish, long entertained, to see, in It's
cultivated dress, the country known to
me as Il tracklcss wilderness, but that
being merely a personal qualification 1t
! may be INDUCED in at'my convenience
or may be postponed indefinitely. can
we'll believe that the cause which has
changed my purpose was as unforeseen
by you rs by me, and you may be as-
surcd that / feel no dissatisfaction
| against the directors or yourself, and
have no personal embarrassment from
| the event, us the invitation was unex-
pcctcd, and only acceptable as an ex-
preston of general good will, so nv
| oniyrcgrct is the loss OF the opportunity
to promote the public interest with
which the welfare of your community
is identified.
Again expressing the hope that
neither the directors nor yourself may
suffer injury or annoyance, and thank
ing you for the kindness and consider
| alton you have manifested,
am respectfully yours,
J JEFFERSON DAVIS.
y dispatch from Coushatta dated the
18th, to tho Shreveport Times, reads as
! follows:
| George and j. IL. NichOlson who