The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1883-07-12


Sunday afternoon, and, although no
announcement OF his intended trip was
made until the day before, our car was
| surrounded at nearly every station by
crowds Of his admiring c0untrymen,
who cheered and implored him to speak
10 them. They were Of the constituent
CIV who had forced him to become their
chief magistrate, as they had always
| done before to I'LL any and every post OF
honor which had been conferred upon
him. The day before got to BeauyoIr
he drove his buggy out TO the depot TO
meet and escort me to Lis house--ths
steamer White having been delayed that
| morning, some four miles above New
Orleans, by heavy fog, and failed
TO telegraph him at New Orleans as
did at Arkansas City. also found
Mrs. Davis in splendid .hcalth--slie
| who, by throwing herarms around and
between him and the cavalry officer
who arrested the president, saved her
! husbands life, and proved herself the
devoted wife and true heroine as she Is
and was when she voluntarily shared
| III hts cruel imprisonment at Fortress
Monroe, Old Point Comfort, where
there never was afforded one moments
comfort to either of them or their limo
cent little children.
| saw, whilst with my old and dear
| friends, their old slaves who stick to
them .'througll good and through evil
report" and who shared with them4inF
| their DAYS of prosperity as they did in
those of adversely. conversed partic-
larry with the good and true cid Robert.
who laid sprawling in the dust the ne
gro tyrant who offered to whip,th gem
| erals little son at Savannah, when
Mrs. Davis was there as a prisoner Of
war with her little children under the
great and chivalric government of the
| United States of America.
Whilst on the coast, ] visited alter
nately with our mutual friend, General
! VIM. $. Harvey. st his splendid summer
residence at Pass Christian, fifteen
| miles west OF Beauyoir. He, Who with
Coy. III Dodge, his sons, Lieut.. Jeffer-
son Davis, aud others, by disobeying
the orders of the commanding general,
! Henry Atkinson. put al end 10 the,
Black Hawk war in August, 1882, In
stead vi pursuing their march 10 Fort
| Wnincbago for provisions. The heroic
general, VIM, when he was about to
set out from Washington CITY 70 put AN
end. as he did, to the Seminole war in
| FLORIDA, when admonished by General
7 Winfield Scott mot to hang the lndi-
| fans" replied, 81 will not, general. il /
dos, catch tllcm.' The general Whom
! Pres iIent Lincoln sent for to ST. Louis
taad when Il, the White House rendered
fiim ;issytcuma'f N tl,eariny he might
.i--ise. H., rep led that he venerate.
aud loved the stars and stripes Of his
country, but that he could never Issue
lau order to fire upon the people OF the
sonth, with whom he had been born and
raised aud under tie eye of The hero Of
the Hermitage, who first conferred on
him 4 eoinmaBtliii the army.
told General Harvey OF the prodne-
! tion of ..Jollannes Factutuni, - and when
| came to where The writer said JEFF
Davis had been slapped square IN the
! face BY the lieutenant at the card table
| the old brother officer sprang to his
| feet. and. with clencbe,l fist and in n
1 stentorian voice exclaimed: ''No man
ever dared to offer any indignlty to JEFF
! ferson Davis, and what is more, Davis
never in his life was a gambler or played
! for money, he never drank liquor or
was inebriated in the slightest degree,
and WAS always gentleman in every
sense OF the word, the soul of honor,
truth aud bravery" The general was
furious, and would, old as he is, have
! thrashed the editor or the author Of
Johannes Fsetotum," II either or both
had been there at the time. He is the
truest Of friends, the most hos pitable,
! generous and brave Of Gods creation,
/ rs have found and proven him to be
ever since 1924, when became acquain-
ted with him at st. Louis, Mo. We
we're then and have ever since been in
4 innate and warm personal and political
friends. May God help and prosper,
as | believe He is doiag now, him and
our friend, Jefferson. Davis, and all who
are near and dear to them.
Their section, too. is prosperous be-
yond anything that could have antici-
pated, and New England will yet rue
the day when she fitted out slayers,
bought for trinkets the negroes Of Afri-
ca. brought them to the United States,
sold them to the south as slaves, and
| then waged war upon IL because they
] held those slaves as property. The
southern people are manufacturing ex-
tensively, as saw on my recent excur-
sion to and through it,, and will not
much longer have use for New Eng
lands cotton manufactures, or for tariff
ldWc W ieNy tN4cr upOu tuc pcopit VI
the south and west for the benefit OF
the Yankee nation Of some six or eight
states in the northeast aud the injury
aud downright robbery OF the poor OF
every section, the emarcipateh negroes
not excepted.
need not tell you here how gcner.
ously and Hospitality | was received ,en-
tertxined and honored by the people OF
the south wherever l went, because
sent you newspapers from ST. Louis.
Hot Springs, Little Rock, Russellville
and New Orleans. with highly compli.
nientHry editorials illustrative thereof.
But I am not 30 vain as to believe that
those were conferred upon me for any
other reason chiefly than that Was on a
visit to such friends AS Jefferson Davis.
Vim. $. Harvey. Henry u. Sou lard, an
other college mate OF Davis aud mysel
upwards OF sixty years ago, the Knapps
oftlie ST. Louis Republican,. the Frosts,
Cooks. Crittendens, SCOTS, Rollers.
fergRons, Perkins, and hundreds OF
others whom / could name. 1t was
enough for such mea to know that
was on a visit to my friend. ex-Prcsi-
dent Davis; that had been iDcarccrat-
ed In Fort Lafayette, because, forsooth,
4 wrote letter of mere friendship to
y their great chief magistrate from Bogo-
4 Ia, and before il was known there that
civil war had actually commenced IN
the United States; and, also, because
they knew that whilst sixteen years 4
| uemhar of panyress | had magyar east :.