Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-08-21
ILLusTRI EFT HONORABLE PRO
PREsIDI FoEDERATARUM AMERIc4E REGIoNUM
RICHMOND

JEFFERSON DAVIS,
PRESIDE FoEDERATARUM AMERIc-E REGIoNUM.
RICHMOND.
The sheet perhaps an inch wider and longer
than ordinary foolscap. Two pages were closely
written over from top to bottom, in very large,
perpendcularly formed letters. The language
used was Latin, and the signature, in different
hand from the body of the letter, that of Pope
Plus TX. The letter is accompanied by another
to Mr.. Davis from A. Dadley Mann, who trans
mits the formidable Latin document, which is
nothing less than a recognition of the Govern.
ment of the Confederate States. Mr.. Mann was
slightly mistaken in his prophecy that it would
grace the Executive office of the Confederacyl
to another executive office, and it may, when
sufficiently enlightened by other documents re-
ferred to. and the testimony of living men, become
sufficiently important to find mention in the pages
of the true history of the rebellion hereafter to be
written.
The following is the glowing letter of transmits
sion written by Mr.. Mann. A. Dudley Mann was
formerly an Assistant Secretary of State of the
United States, and was sent abroad by Davis as
diplomatic agent or Commissioner.
BRUSSELS, May 9, 1864.
Mr.. PRESIDENT: Herewith | have the honor
to transmit the letter which his Holiness Pope Plus
IN. addressed to your Excelency on the Sd Of
December last. Mr.. w. jefferson Buchanan has
obligingy undertaken Its conveyance, and VIII
deliver it in person.
This letter will grace the archives of the Ex-
ecutive Office in all coming time 1t will live, too
forever in story the production of the first poen-
tate who formally recognized your official posi-
ton, and accorded to one of the diplomatic repre-
sentatives of the Confederate States an audience
in an established court palace. like that Of st.
James or the Tuileries.
l have the honor to be, with most distinguished
consideration, your Excellency's obedient servant.
A. DUDLEY MANN.
The following is translation of the letter to
the President of the Confederacy:
LLUsTRIoUs AND HONORABLE SIR: Health !!
We have received with all fitting kindness the
gentlemen sent by your Exceuency to deliver us
your letters bearing date the 23d of September
last. We certainly experienced no small pleasure
when we learned from the same gentlemen and
the letters of your Excelency with what emotions
of JOY and gratitude toward us you were affected,
illustrious and honorable Sir when you were first
made acquainted with our letters to those reverend
brethren, John, Archbishop of New York, and
John, Archbishop of New Orleans, written on the
18th of October of last year. in which we again
and again urged and exhorted the same reverend
brethren that as bchooved their distinguished
piety and their episcopal charge, they should most
| zealously use every effort, in our name also, to
bring to end the fatal civil war that had arisen
in those regions, and that those peoples of America
| might at length attain mutual peace and concord,
| and be united in mutual charity. And very CRATE
| full was it to us illusrious and honorable Sir, to
perceive that you and those people were animated
with the same feelings OF peace and tranquility
which we SO earnestly inculcated in the letters
mentioned as having been addressed to the afore-
said reverend brethren. And would that other
people, also, of those regions, and their rulers,
seriously considering how grieyous and mournful
a thing is intestine war, would be pleased with
tranquil minds to embrace and enter upon counsels
of peace. We indeed shall not cease with most
fervent prayers 10 beseech and pray God, the
oninpotent and all good, to pour out the spirit of
Christian charity and peace upon all those people
OF America, and deliver them from the evils so
great with which they are afflicted.
And of the most merciful Lord of compassion
himself, we likewise pray that lie may illumne
your Excellency with the light of His grace, and
may conjoin you in perfect love with yourself.
Given at st. Peters. Dec. g. in the year 1868,
and of our pontifcate the eighteenth.
Plus p p. IN.