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should do what he did; and even admitting
that, 1t was the toughest use OF sovereign
will ever witnessed, and think cannot well
be repeated with safety
UNWRITTEN HISTORY.

will ever witnessed, and think cannot we'll
be repeated with safety.
UNwRITTEN HISTORY.
Mr.. Davis Position In 1850 In Reference
to Secession.
jackson Clarionl
In another column we have copied from the
Cnrthagenian an extract from a late speesh OF
Hon. o. r. Singleton, in Congress, purporting
to give "a chapter of unwritten history con-
Confederate chieftain. The other portions of
the speech were published in the Clarion at
the time OF its delivery. 1t is represented by
the distinguished Representative OF the fourth
district himself q worthy and conspicuous
actor In the trying senes to which his state
ment refers-that q meeting OF the Mississippi
Representatives and Senators was held In this
city after South Carolina passed her ordinance
OF secession, in which Mr.. Davis opposed the
withdrawal of Mississippi from the Union,
and insisted upon delaying action until nine
or ten States could be induced to move In con-
cert and pass ordinances Of secession at q
history Of the times referred to, do not not
sustain this hitherto "unwritten history"
On the contrary, the speeches Of Mr..
Davis, before the people and Legislature
Of his OVID a ST State Ito whom he always ae
was in full accord with the other trusted lead
ers Of the Cotton States. And especially LIS
this fact shown by the following letter which
he and other Senators and Representatives
from the South addressed to their constitu-
ents on the fourteenth Of December, 1860,
which, by the way, was issued ten days before
South Carolina passed her ordinance Of seces-
sion, and not afterwards, as stated. This LETT
ter recommends "separGe State secession"
and so far from limiting at "hopes Of an ami
cable settlement" warns the people Of the
South that "the arguments fwasl exhausted"
and that the honor, safety and independence
Irf but
and that was the "fina1 alternative" to which
he had alluded on q previous occasion In a
public address at the capital OF his State:
TO OUR CONSTITUENTS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA, 1860.
The argument is exhausted. ALI hope OF
relief In the Union through the agency Of
committees, congressional legislation or con-
stitutional amendments Is extinguished
and ,ce trust The South aritl not be deceived by
appearances or the preter,se of neU guarantees.
In our Judgment the Republicans are reso-.
lutte in the purpose to grant nothing that will
fled that the honor safety and Independence
of the Southern people require the organiza-
ton OF a Southern Confederacy-a result to
be obtained only by separate State secession
State ought to be its speedy and absolute
separation from Union with hostile States.
J. l.. Pugh, Of Alabama.
David Clopton OF Alabama.
Sydenham Moore, OF Alabama
j. l.. M. Curry, of Alabama.
j. A. StallwOrth, Of Alabama.
J. W. II. Underwood, OF Georgia.
L. J. Cartrell, of Georgia.
James Jackson, Of Georgia.
John j. Jones, OF Georgia.
Martin j. Crawford, Of Georgia.
Alfred Iverson, United States Senator,
Georgia.
George s. Hawkins, of Florida.
Z. G. Hindman, OF Arkansas.
Jefferson Davis, United States Senator
4. q: Brown, United States Senator,
William Barksdale, of Mississippi. .
0. r. Singleton, OF Mississippi.
Reuben Davis, of Mississippi.
Burton Craige, of North Carolina
Thomas Ruffin, of North Carolina
John SHdell, United States Senator, LOUISE
J. P. Benjamin, United States Senator, Lou
isiana.
J. NJ. Landrum, of Louisiana.
Lewis I. Wigfall, United States Senator,
John Hemphil, United States Senator.
Texas.
J. H. Reagan, of Texas
NJ l.. BOnham, of South Carolina
w. Porcher Miles, of South Carolina.
John Mcqueen of South Carolina
John ID. Ashmore of South Carolina.
This address, like the shepherds whistle,
which, ringing through the darkness to give
notice to the flock that the wolf is on the
walk, warned the Southern people of their
danger and indicated the course they should
pursue. Pending the civic struggle to avert
the necessity for this 'fnal alternative and
during the long struggle in the cause to
which Mr.. Davis dedicated his life and fame,
and to which his name has become immor-
tally welded, ne has held but one language
Through good and through evil report he has
been its same unchanging devotee,. assum-
ing all the responsibilities which have at
tached to the action Of his people, fit imper-
sonation OF cause whose justice, as he him.
self often expressed it., was not lessened
by having been overborne by the brute force
OF superior numbers. And in keeping with
his previous history, is his very latest utter
ances- his letter of Aprikl1, 1878, to the COM
mittee OF the memorial celebration at Macon,
Georgia, In this letter, undaunted BY the
prosecutions which have made him vicari-
Gus sufferer or by the detraetion with which
he has been pursued, he still rises to the
height OF the argument and admonishes the
survivors OF the patriots who have fallen not
to impugn their faith, by spenitential pleas"
to propitiate unreaseuing and implacabla
foes.
Lottery Circulars in the Mails.