The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-08-24
We take the following communi-

We take the following communi-
cation from the Dubuque Qowa)
DAILY NepS, which shows that there
are some in the Northwest who do
not share tho littlcness and malig-
nifty Of the Inter- OceaH:
What can be more appropriate and
well timed than the proposed invita-"
ton to the Hon, Jefferson Davis TO re-
visit the scenes of his first service in
the United States army, in this section,
when under the then Colonel Zach
ariah Taylor, commander of Fort
Crawl ford, afterwards commander-in-
chief in the Mexican war, and after
that President of the United States.
President Graves does honor to his
head and his ever generous heart
when he proposes, or has al
ready extended to Jefferson Davis an
| invitation to come to Dubuque on route
to Rockford, Illinois, and the use for
himself and family ola palace car to
soever he and they may desire to go
and come. President Graves recO-
lects or has heard OF the noble, gcncr-
| Gus and humane course pursued by the
then Lieutenant Jefferson Davis, who
was sent from Fort Crawford. now
Prairie du Chem, during the winter of
1884, with peremptory orders to drive
from this vicinity the pioneer miners,
like the Sangmorthycs, the Hnrrisons,
the Camps, the Carriers, the Dodges,
the McCraneys, the Parkes, the Joneses,
the Mcknights, and Others who came
here to work out Julien Duhuque's
lodes to discover new ones. Aye, not
only to drive them out, to burn down
and burn up their mining shantes,
their mining and smelling tools, and
to leave these miners, their wives and
children to starve and freeze to death
in the inclement mid-winter. Instead
of driving them out Mt the point of the
bayonet, he used the most conciliatory
and humane course possible, making
friends of all, and in his reports TO his
commanding officer afterwards his
father-in-law) and through him TO the
War Department., to induce the revo-
cation of the cruel order from the gem
erul government ut Washington City.
President Graves know from tradi-
ton and from the history of Dubuque,
how Jefferson Davis was honored in
this city when the news came here of
his (Brigadier General Jefferson Davis
signal victory over Santa Annals for
eos OF Beuna Vista, which resulted in
the final triumph of our army and the
acquisition Of immensely rich Mexi-
can territory. And we all recollect
how Jefferson Davis stood by Dubuque,
particularly, and all Iowa, rs Secretary
of War under President Pierce, from
March, 1853, TO March, 1857. II is to he
hoped that the executive COM
mittee of our approaching Exposition
will "throw politics to the dogsn that
they will let by-gones be by-gones and
"peace reign supreme" between the
North anu the South, and that they
will send u committee, hence to Mem
phis, not only to invite Jefferson Davis
to deliver the opening address ut the
Exposition on the 9TH proximo, (Sep-
tember,) when he, Davis, who was
born and raised on plantation, and
who Is thoroughly versed in the theory
and practice of husbandry, will make
them and us and all who may be pres.
emit, such discourse M to prove him
to he as great In the sphere of orations
as he was IN war, when lighting the
battles OF his country or rs against
Back Hawk and Santa Anna, he was
IN the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States, ever the
friend and servant of the masses, OF
free trade es,d sailors rlghts.n He
has declinel the Presidency of the
State Agricultural College of Texas,
with a high salary, but Will neverthe.
less, trust come to Dubuque on such
an occasion. ''oleoRaIcus. u