The daily gazette., 1876-01-22
kST EDITION

I6agette.
EprToK: ] See some exceptions
n lhe Herald to my statements
hmond and JEFF Davis. The
r;rns himself lone who knows"
b;nk him mistaken, at least he
1 where was told jeff Davis
and some other matters; the
I'd Bell Isle in the first place.
<ond is situated at what is called
Nd of tide water, on the James
md on the right bank, as you
On west side, on two hills, q
ravine runs down to the river,
en said hills. and may, for all ]
he called Butchers Run; but If
avis lived on the first hill as you
and south of this, said Butchers
he also lived in sight of the
River: for there is nearly q
n beach in the river from the
boat landing up to Bell Isle,
pond, was about half a mile wide,
nut / i mile long; this run divid'
ia two hills, and entering the
river at right angles. Libby
was a brick tobacco. warehouse; !;
ureat ways from the steamboat
p. and Castle Thunder was an
6rick building, new Libby pri-
pd if Jeff Davis lived In that
4 the town, he probably was in
q distance of the sgonizing cries
said Libby and Castle Thunder
ers. But l was told, when in
boud, that this said JEFF Davis
in the Governors house, which
ii as well as the State house in
wn, that stretches down to the
and opposite, or ut least the up
Ind of the lawn, is opposite the
Bell Isle or Devils Island, which
sed each side by the James river.
Current is very strong and q rocky
md ach side of the Island, 80 tina,
Eoner could not escape, aud they
kept there to roam about as wild
s.
bw as to jeff Davis and his cabi-
Stephens included. They state
|e world that they meant to divide
tountry, and make a separate Re
lc. 1t was supposed they mean
wide on the line of the Potomac
kh would have left Delaware and
land out, with the Northern abo
bists; but as | am a Delawarian, !
D ! wish to speak of, because Ger
men could not fill the Charles
%Convention, they broke it up
burned to this said Richmond, thu
HI June, 1860, but held no meeting
q but come on to Baltimore thu
4 Of June, and because they coul'
bully that Convention, they adj
1fned to the BultimoreMarket house
4 nominated Breckonbridge on puI
=, to repeat and break up the Dem
bic party and elect Lincoln, tn
ublicsn, and divide the country
although Delaware had cut diI
followed JEFF Davis crew to sal
kct house, they left her out to tn
Der mercies of the abolitionists, an
l. u has been the result? A terribi
eternal heavy taxes put on I'll
1iery broken up, ond negroes give
fright to vote. Delaware is drivin
q and wormwood to-day, for folio
\ the JEFF Davis creed from th
Convention in Baltimor,
l6Rn to a Secessher's conventio
II in the Maryland Institute or Ma
4 house. jeff Davis is q pretty sui
81 indeed, to try to make q marty
~ Of, if Congress does it, we ne!
11 hear of the Devil appearing thel
= asking Bill passed, restoring hi
. bis original rights in Heaven.
eU Davis and his cabinet and ST,
g b, for they really were the Co
g. erate government, ought to
e(|sfed with already great clelnenc
I1yen to them-the right to live al
1fAthe the air of Republic th'
red to destroy. | have no desire
stzf Pup Ill feeling, but when such sill
nq< as JEFF Davis attempt to step
q and untrampled, cannot he
~ 1ng st. Peter to not turn the Ike
!. If any resolutions of sympatl
Io JEFF Davis are attempted to
pPple, this year in Delaware, at al
Mmoeratic meeting where | am at
W make it lively before the peop
SAMUEL TOWNSEND