The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-15

and unjust. Is sue lrfeVOcaDl1 anu III
dissolubly tied to the body Of such
death? God forbid
Written and "UnwriGGen HistOrJ.
In another column we have copied
from the Carthagenian an extract from
a late speech of Hon. O. r. Singleton,
in Congress purporting to give "a chapter
of unwritten history" concerning Hon.
Jeferson Davis, the il!ustrious Confeder-
ate chieftain Tle other portions Of the
speech were published in the CLARION
at the time Of lis d-iiV ry- 1t is repre-
scented by the disting ulshed Representa-
tive from the 4th District-himself a
worthy and conspicuous actor in the
trying scenes to which his statement re-
fers that a meeting of the Mississippi
REPRESENTATIVE and Senators was held in
this city after South Carolina passed hes
ordinance of secession, in which Mr..
Davis opposed the withdrawal of Mlssls
sippi from the Union, and insisted upon
action until nine or ten States
could be induced to move in concert and
pass ordinances of secession 8" at a given
hour on the same day" The written his
tory of the times referred to, do not sus-
tain this hitherto "'unwritten history"
On the contrary, the speeches of Mr..
Davis, before the people and Legislature
Of his own State Go whom he always ac-
znowiedged his accountability show
that he was in full accord with the other
trusted leaders of the Cotton States.
Aud especially is this fact shown by the
letter which he and other SEN
ttors and Representatives from the South,
to their constituents on the
4th of December, 1860, which by the
way was issued ten days before South
tuoli,la passed her ordinance of secession,
nd not afterwards as stated. This letter |
''separate State secession"
nd so far from limiting at "hopes of an
micable settlement" warns the people of !
he South that the argument is (was) ex-
austed, and that ''the honor, safety and
OF the Southern people
equred but one step, and that was the
final alternative" to which he had al
lded on a previous occasion in a public
ddress at the capital OF his State;
TO OUR CONSTITUENTS.
WASHING ron, Dee. IA, 1860.
Til argument is exhausted. All hope of
eliet in the Union through the age lcy of
Ommittees, congressional legislation or
institutional amendments, is eXtinguiShed,
nd zoe trust the South toU not be deceived by
ppedrdncsS or the preteHce Of neU guarantees.
n our Judgment the K publicans are reso
lte in he purpose To grant nothing that
ill or ought to satisfy the south. We are
lti-fied that the honor, safety aud indie
endence OF the Southern people reqaire
ne organic alton of Southern Confederacy
"a result to be obtained only by separate State
the primary object of each
ave-holdiug State ought to be its speedy
nd absolute separation from Union with
ostile States.
j. l.. Fugh. of Alabama.
David CloptoA, of Alabama
Sydenh1m Moore, Of Alabama.
j. l.. NJ. Curry, of Alabama.
j. y. StaliwOrth, of Alabama.
J, w IL. Underwood. of Georgia.
l.. j. Cartr"ll, of Georgia.
James jackson, of Georgia.
John j. Jones, of Georgia.
Martin j. Crawford. of Georgia.
Alfred Iverson, United States Senator, l
Georgia. 6
Georges Hawkins, of Florida
L. G. Hindman, of Arkansas. l
jefferson Davis, United States Senator, !
Mississippi.
A G. Brown, United States Senator {
Mississippi. >
William Barksdale, Of Mississippi.
Q. Il. Singleton, of Mississippi.
Reuben Davis, of Mississippi.
Burton Craige, OF North Carolina.
Thomas Ruin, of North Carolina. a
John Slidell, United States Senator, ,
Louisiana.
j. +. Benjamin, United States Senator,
Louisiana.
j. NJ. landrum, of Louisiana.
Lewis L. Wlgfall, United States Senator, &
Texas.
John Hemphill, United States Senator, a
Texas. n
J. II. Reagan. of Texas.
NJ l. Bonham, of 5 puth Carolina. Z
N.Porcher Miles, of South Carolina. g
John Mcqueen, of South Carolina.
John ID. Ashm0re, of South Carolina. I
This address, like the shepherd whistle, a
lioh ringing through the darkness to u
We notice to the flock that the wolf is "
the walk, warned the Southern people II
their danger and indicated the course G.
ey should pursue. Pending the civic .
,uggle to avert the necessity for this IL
inal alternative" and during the long a
uggle in the cause to which Mr.. Davis u
dictated his life and fame, and to which ST
) name has become Immortality welded, .
has held but one language. Through
Of and through evil report he has been
same unchanging 3evotee, assuming all i,
responsibilities which have attached u
the action of his people, fit imperson- ie
on of a cause whose justice, as he him o'
ofte1 expressed it, was not lessened II
having been overborne by the brute u
&c of superior numbers. And la y
ping with his previous history, is his -
Y latest utterances-his letter of April he
h, 1878, to the Committee of the c.
mortal Celebration at Macon, Georgia De
this letter, undaunted by the persecu
rs which have made him a vicarious tn
erer, or by the detraction with which sh'
has been pursued, he still rises to the to
ght of the argument and admonishes 1n'
survivors of the patriots who have thi
en- not to impugn their faith by ''pen- G Go,
tial pleas" to propitiate unreasoning col
implacable foes.
IR- HAYES is reported to have said
!. he believes the election and canvass Sn'
he returns in Florida, were o. K. sue
y not investigate, and give him a -