The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1884-03-11

Consideration of the substitute was then
resumed and the matter having gotten into
a tangled condition requiring some time to
straighten. and the hour of reception being
close at hand, by unanimous consent of
the House further consideration of the mat
ter was suspended and the Hall was pre-
pared for the reception of the Senate and
the distinguished guest, Hon. Jefferson
Davis.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor informing the House, that he had APP
proved the following entitled bills:
To incorporate the BALDWIN, Marietta
and Purple Shell railroad company and de-
claring its powers.
To prohibit the sale of liquors in Copiah
county.
To authorize the board of supervisors of
Leake and Covington counties to levy a
special tax to pay outstanding school war
rants.
In relation to building and repairing
bridges in Marshall county.
To incorporate the Hunt and Huddleston
College Faculty Association.
In relation to fines assessed and collect
To prevent the sale of liquors within
three miles of Tocopola College.
SENATE AND HOUSE IN JOINT CONVENTION.
The Speaker appointed the following
committee to inform the Senate they were
ready to receive Mr.. Davis.
Mr.. Warrington offered the following res
olution
Resolved, That a committee of three
from the Joint House be appointed to in
form the Special Committee who who were
appointed to meet Hon. Jefferson Davis
that the Legislature of Mississippi is now
ready to receive our distinguished guest
Adopted.
The President appointed Messrs. Wat
lington and Norfeet of the House and
Sykes of the Senate as the committee.
The committee reported that the guest
was ready to enter.
Mr.. Davis entered, accompanied by
Governor Lowry, the Judges of the Su-
preme Court and Others Mr.. Davis was
presented to the joint assembly and WISH
tors by LIEUT. Governor Stands, who spoke
as follows:
REMARKS OF LT.-Gov. STANDS.
Nh. DAVIS: 1t is eminently fitting that
people should pause on an occasion like
this and bring their minds for a moment to
the contemplation of those things which in
the past have stimulated the highest human
endeavor. This joint convention of the Leg
islature of the State of Mississippi stands
uncovered in your presence this day while
our minds are busy with the memories of
long ago, in which times our hopes,
aspirations and ambitions clustered
around your erect figure. You now
stand before us, embodied history.
Throughout your life, which is now far
spent you have chung with such heroic te-
nacity to your solemn convictions of
right that your character now stands be-
fore the world as marked in its individual
ity and as lustrous in the honesty of its
purposes, as is the character of any mas
ter mind of other ages, whether he rejoiced
in success or mourned in misfortune.
l present now to you, Mr.. Davis, this
silent and admiring assemblage, all of
whom are proud that you are proud to be
known as Mississippian. In its numbers
are the servants of the people of this com
monwealth; their Governor and State OIL
GERS, the Supreme Court, with all of its
members, and their Legislature, and be-
side no mean assemblage of citizens and la
dies. These latter are always near when
deeds of greatness and heroism may be re-
counted, and their hearts lean tenderly
to him whose name, in all this land, was
once potent enough by its attraction, to
draw away by their consent, from their
arms, their husbands and sons. They none
the less love and revere you now, and we
all know that your arm is still ready barred
to labor.
"For the cause that needs assistance
For the wrongs that lack resistance
For the future in the distance
And the good that you can do"
Ladies aud gentlemen, / introduce to
you Mississippi's most distinguished son
The remarks of President Stands were
received with great applause by one of the
largest and most select assemblies the old
walls of the Capitol ever held, andwhen the
venerable form of the ex-President rose,
erect as in days of yore, and glanced over
the assembled beauty and manhood, the ap-
plause redoubled, and the old chieftain,
after the joyous noise of the welcome had
subsidized, said substantially:
REMARKS OF NR. DAVIS.
Friends and Brethren Of Mssissippi-In
briefest terms, but with deepest feeling,
permit me to return my thanks for the I'M
expected honor you have conferred on me.
Away from the political sea, have in my
secluded home observed with intense inter
est all passing events, affecting the interest
or honor of Mississippi, and have reioiced
to see in the diversifcation of labor
and the development of new sources of
prosperity and the increased facilities
of public education, reason to hope for
future to our State more prosperous than
any preceding era. The safety and honor
of Republic must rest upon the morality,
intelligence and patriotism of the commu-
nifty.
We are now in transition state, which is
always a bad one, both in society and in
nature What is to be the result of the
changes which may be anticipated it is
not possible to forecast, but our people
have shown such fortitude and have risen
so grandly from the deep depression in
hicted upon them, that it 10 fair to enter
tain bright hopes for the future. Sectional
hate concentrating itself upon my devoted
head. deprives me of the privileges &C
corded to others in the sweeping expression
of without distinction of race, color or
previous condition." but it cannot deprive
me of that which is nearest and dearest to
ricrbt n he n MiSg1seip-