The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-29
JEFF DAVIS IN LOVE.
A Letter to the Lady Whom He After
ward Married.


From The 81. Louis Globe De1Ocrat.
The following letter from jefferson Davis,
then a lieutenant il the army, TO Nj 5 Sarah
K. Taylor, who subsequently became Mrs.
jefferson Davis, was captured by an Illinois
soldier during the war, and is now published
for the fir, time
FORT GIBSON. Dec. 10, 1SS4--'TiS strange
how superstitI, u intense feeling renders US,
but stranger std what aids chance some
times brings TO support cur superstition.
Dreams, my dear Sarah, we Will agree are
our weakest thoughts, and yet bv de ms
have l lately almost crazed. for they were
of you, and the sleeping lmaSlnatl1n
painted you not such as left you-uor such
a. could like and see you-for you seemed
sacrifice to Your parents desire, the bride
OF wretch that your pride and sense
equally compelled You to deSpise; aud a
creature here telling the on dts o, the day
at st. Louis SAID that you were 'ab ut to be
married to DR.. McLarmia, a poor devil
who served with the Battalion of Rangers
Possibly you may have seen him-but
last night the vision was cLanged; YOU
were at the house of an uncle in Kentucky;
| Capt. McCru was walking with you; when
| | met You he left yOu aud Won told me of
| your father and of yourself almost the
same that have read in your letter to-
night. Kind, dear letter! l have kissed it
| often, ana IL mas driven ullu9 lldu uOllOQS
| from my brain.
Sarah, whatever | may be hereafter / will
| ascrIbe to you, neglected by you, should
| be worse than nothing; aud if the few good
| qualities possess shall under your smiles
| yield fruit it will be yours, as grain is the
| huSbandmans
ut has been a source productive of re-
| greet with me that our union must separate
| you from your earliest and best friends. a
n vi n No n fpy
though, giddy with passion or buoyanJ by
the hope of reconciliation, there be many
who brave it. From you ] am prepared to
expect all that intellect and dignified pride
brings. The question as it has occurred TO
you is truly s arting. Your own answer is
the most gratifying to me that | should ex-
pect from you, for as you are the first one
with whom | ever ght to have one for
tune. so you would be the last from whom
| would expect deserton.
when | wrote 10 you l supposed that
you did not intend sooner to return to Ken
lucky. l approve entirely of your prefer
| ence to meeting elsewhere than at Prairie
du Chen, and your desire to avoid any en-
barrasSment which might widen the breach
made already; it cannot be greater than my
own. Did know when you would be in st.
Louis | could meet you there; at all events
we meet in Kentucky. Shall we not meet,
| Sarah, to part no more? O,how | long to
| lay my head upon that breast which be-
10 gs in unison with my own! 10 turn
| from the Sckening sights of worldly du-
| rlici V, ara look in those eyes SO eloquent of
purity and Lowell
I'D you RENE nber the heart s-eaSe' YOU
| gave me! 1t is as bright as ever
"How gravely you ask leave of mo to ask
question. My dear girl, | have no secrets
| from you. Have a right to ask me any
| question without even an apology.
Miss Bullltt did not give me guard for
a watch. But if she had do you suppose |
| would have given it to Capt. McCru? But
| I'll tell you what she did give me-a most
beautiful and lengthy lecture on my and
| your charms, the which combined once
| upon an evening at { air in louisville. As
she was one of the subjects of conversa-
| ton we had apart from ourselves thateve
ing, you can and have left you to guess
| what beside a sensibility to your charms
constituted my offense
| The reporters were absent and the
speech l made is lost.
| Pray what manner of massage could be
| better than Elvin has senDa YOU concerning
| me? | hope no attempt TO destroy har-
mony. | laughed at her demonstrations
against the attachment existing between
myself and a subaltern of dra4oens. But
that between you and me is not a fair game ;
1t is robblng to make another D Jor; but no!
She is too discerning to attempt thing 50
difficult and in which success would be
! valueless.
"'Miss Elizabeth, one handsome; lady, at
Knox. What did you put that semicolin
between handsome and lady fo.a
II hope you fad in the society of the
Prairie enough to amuse if not please
the griets over which we weep are not
those to be dreaded. 1t is the little pains
the constant falling of tiny drops of care
which wear away the heart.
II join you in rejoicing that Mrs McCru
is added to your society. l admire her
more than any one else you could have
| had.
"Since wrote you we have abandoned the
position in the Greek Nation and are con-
structing quarters at Fort Gibson. My lines,
like the besgar's days, are dwindling to the
| shortest span.
| Write to me Immediately, my dear
Sarah, my betrothed. No formality is proper
| between us. Adieu. JEFF
ITO Miss Sarah K. Taylor, Prairie Du
| CHEN, N. s."