The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-08-16
JEFFERSON DAVIS
Mlsconcepilon OF Facts nnd
Purposes.
Blunders Of Hlstory-Morgan's Men.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 9TH, 1881
[special Correspondence l-Mr. Jefferson
Davis. in his recent letter to Cen
eral Capell, says: at would be very graft
fving to me to attend the reunion at Nc
Kinney, but my health will not permit me
to do so. Texas, born Of a determination
10 be free and rocked in the cradle OF
bloody revolution, was fifty represented by
the gallant men she sent forth to maintain
the equality, sovereignty and independence
of states in the union. would be pleased
to learn, even at this late day, that MIR. Da-
Wis ever sent forth men to fight Tor any such
purpose. l, with the great body OF soldiers
and people Of the south, thought we
were lighting for separate, independent
coterie of nine or ten absolutely indepeuu,
ent republics, called states. each having, the
right to kick quietly out of the traces when-
ever 1t saw proper. A confederacy so cas-
ily bursted up, many of the boys used to-
saw when contemplating the gyrations OF
Governor Joe Brown, of Georgia, was it
worth fighting for. Did Mr.. Davis Know
what he was talking about when he Wroie
this extraordinary letter? DID ne seceue
and fight to "maintain the equality, soyer-
eighty and independence of states in the
union?" Was not Mr., Davis grievously
and wholly misunderstood and when Alex
ander II. Stephens met President Lincoln
at Newport News was he not wholly at
fault in supposing that the separate lnde-
pendence of the confederacy" was
ever dreamed of as sine qua non py
MIR. Jefferson DavisP No; common
FIGHTING men of the south always thought
thew were pegging away for the creation OF
another union Just like that we were fight
ing to escape, except. the "nigger on The
wool-pile," and the right Of Joe Brown to
tote Georgia out of the concern whenever
he chose, and Joseph, you will remember,
had made up his mind to get out when
Sherman smashed things to the sea, ana
Joseph was done for.
We expected to have two beautiful I'M
ions, perfectly free and perfectly ,independ-
ent, of course. They would have been
MORALLY Jealous and afraid of one another.
The people of both were NOR
tally tired, too, of playing soldier
in order to create double the original mum,
Der of grand offices for the, politicians and
generals, and patty leaders. therefore
they would have gone back to their farms
and work shops and left their rulers to
create armies of negroes liberated Tor the
nurpose, We hoped to see "Marse jeff"
and "Old Abe" Jogging along in half,
friendly sort of way on opposite banks OF
the Potomac and Ohio, like pair OF snarl-
ing grand Turks, each at the head OF hall
million black janissaries. Great names,
too, and a pair Of Bill Chambers must have
been maintained. The vague suspicion OF
such results broke the spirit of the Confed-
S eest ever h hoped for by the fighting men
of the south, professional office holders
of course, having better prospects. -.
Why didn't Mr.. Davis explain himself
beforeP Who ever dreamed before that ne
was fighting for the freedom of states in
the union?'; But we all live to learn, and
twenty three years have elapsed since we
should have known what Mr.. Davis tells us
| TODAY. Is Mr., Davis letter, as printed, a
COPY of the original 1t appeared hrst
| in the Dallas Daily HERALD.
BLUNDERs OF UNCOMFORTABLE JOHN hoR-
| CAMS DEATH.
After reading the speeches made at
Louisville by Morgan's men and their rep
resentatives, am clearly OF the. opinion
that governments should put armies in the
field, not only wholly unarmed, but aoso,
lutely naked. Then they must forage"
on the enemy Morgan's. Confederate
cavalry were the best mounted ana best clad
soldiers of the south and most OF their
fighting was for munitions, grub and morse
flesh, They were terror to the country
through which they passed. Morgan was no
disciplinarian and soldiers soon acquire
very rude ideas of meum ct tenn. In
yery truth Morgan's untimely death re-
suited from these facts. A most truthful
account is given of his taking of in b
modest book of personal adventures
entitled "Fagots from the Campfire.
But SO grievously were the iactt
distorted and misunderstood ID
this reunion of Morgan's men that
will soon tell of the event precisely as
occurred, giving all details. l have ful
memcr .pda written in Greenville, East
Tennessee, and in the very room in which
Morgan slept the night before his death.
/ gathered my facts from the men who sur
rounded Mrs. Williams home and who slew
Morgan. | gathered them from the three
colonies who planned and executed Nor
pan's overthrow. Gillem, made major
General for it, had nothing to do with It,
Morgan was killed in Mrs. Williams vine.
ward at sunrise and Gillem didn't know II
iii ii O'Clock that day when he sent liam
ing account of his victory to Washington.
BY the way it may interest Morgan's ~,
lowers to know that the very man who
threw Morgan's bleeding body across the
pommel of his saddle and rode about the
Village exhibiting "the great horse-thiei,
as the asst TennesseeaDs called him 70
neighbors of Andrew johnson, is now post
master az Greenyille. His name, Al a
1900, ,-o,,r uyorshIn IL Warrington,