Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-08-26
AN UNNECESSARY EXCITEMENT ALLAYED.

AN UNNECESSARY EACIIEMENI ALLA1ED.
Jefferson Davis having been invited by the
managers of Winnebago County, Illinois, Ag-
ricultural Society, to deliver the address at
their approaching fair in September next, on
accepting the invitation-which he delayed
for several weeks-a storm of indignation from
the "Heroes of America" and similar organi-
cations in that State, was the consequence
Mr.. Davis was objected to as being the head
and front of the Contederacy, albeit the peo.
pie of the seeded States placed him in the
position he occupied. The fact is not denied
in the South that Mr.. Davis prominency in a
cause which failed, will forever prevent him
from resuming the position which he formerly
sustained toward the people of the whole
country, and as this fact is equally patent to
the people of the North, we think all repre-
hensiblity, if any there be in the matter, is
attached directly to the managers of the fair,
who, in extending their invitation to Mr.. Da-
Wis, we're, no doubt, actuated more by the
mercenary motive of filling their Golfers by
the sale of tickets at the entrance gate, than
the desire to promote agricultural interests or
the spirit of Cancellation between the two Sec
tions. No one can censure Mr.. Davis for &C.
cepting the invitation and since it produced
the ebuliton it did, he is entitled to all praise
for inditing the following letter to the Secre-
tary of the agricultural society, revoking his
acceptance:
DEAR S1R:-I yesterday sent to you tel
egram announcing my revocation of my con-
ditional acceptance of the invitation to address
YOUR association at their annual meeting in
September next. The long period which has
elapsed since the receipt Of your first letter,
and the considerate courtesy which has marked
your correspondence make it duty to you
and myself that sufficient explanation should
be given of this change of purpose
Three objects mainly induced me to accept
the invitation First. The hope that a per-
sonal intercourse might remove some of the
prejudices which have been generated by par.
tisan factions and matured by individual and
sectional hate. Anxious as in former years to
promote the interests of our great valley of
the Mississippi, and believing that with mu-
tual confidence and co.intelligence much could
be done for its advancement, | solely delayed
my acceptance of your invitation until !. be-
came reasonably probable that it should be
met The productive capacity of the North.
west needs for its development cheaper and
safe transportation to the markets of the
Southwest and also to foreign countries: In
England especially, earnest attention has been
directed for several years past to more direct
and economical trade with the Mississippi
valley. In this connection there was desire
to confer with the Patrons of Husbandry and
prosperous sections to discuss with them the
securing of better means of transportation for
YOUR farm produce to the most favorable mar.
kets, and provide agencies which should en-.
sure larger return to freemen, and by such
conference to learn the views Of one member
ofthe family of the Mississippi valley, fam.
lily, the chief interest of all of which is not
only agriculture, but the cultivation of such
various crops as to make trade among them.
selves extensive and lucrative, while it stamps
upon each and all the same interests and the
same policy. AS to the foreign trade, to rem
der such connections efficient there must needs