The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-21
umnnAar or MIssIssIPPIANs.
one Of Mrs. Davis Letter Was Net UNnvnNxlar. 4zf1.l

Tone Of Mrs. DMvfa' Letter W@@ Not " Popular.
 N A special to The Mobile Register
 from Gulfport, Miss, says
 The letter written six years ago 'by
 Mrs yerina Davis to her life time
 friend, Judge Kimbrough, which was
 styled a post mortem justification,
 was heard by the Daughters of the
 Confectionery in convention assembled
 in profound silence, and on It's conciu-
 sioY a motion was made and unani-
 mously adopted that the letter be ac- cepted without discussion. There was
 considerable discussion outside the as-
 sembly hall, however, especially on those parts which seemed to reflect on Mississippi. While acknowledging that Governor Lowry of Mississippi, with deputation had called on her immedi- ateIy on the death of Mir. Davis to say that his interment in this State was expected, and that she had at that time | had no other idea, she states that she was deeply wounded by Mississippfs silence during the year which followed | in which other southern States were ceaselessly clamorlng for the honor of entombing the remains Of the Confed- eracy's first and only president. That | which decided her at last to yield to Virginia's importunities was hearing that the governor of Mississippi. on
 being asked why he was not more ac- | tive in the matter, had replied that The did not think 1t fitting that the body of the dead president of the Confed- crate states should be made subject of barter and saie'-added to all this she | continued, was a growing preponder- ance of the negro population here ana
 she did not feel that the sacred dust | would be safe from outrage in this State.
 With regard to her continued resi- dence in the North, Mrs. Davis com palined of being competeiy misunder' stood. That she and her daughter ! could not possibly live at Beauvoir on l their meagre income Of $l'pVu per an- mum and that none of the newspapers l of the south would accept her daugh- I ter's writings, save one, which was so poor that 1t could only afford to pay 1 s15 for three columns of copy. In the | North, she says, Miss Davis was | enabled to earn from st,50O to $1,S0O ! ner year with her pen, while she her | self added to their earnings amounting | to from S1.O00 to s1,50O per annum. 1 With the addition of their annuity of S1 GOO, this small stipend enabled them | to eke out a scant existence In the
 North, but was not sufficient to allow l them the Au4uAf OA &' Sp@eAS NANNN " the South no matter how greatly their hearts longed to come. Her daughters 2 life, she said. was sacrificed to their | ioyalty,>shs having died from malady ! brought on by exposure while attend | ing a veterans reunion. Mrs Davis then touched on her hope that Beauvoir would be ultimately adopted as home for indigent and dis I abled soldiers of the Confederacy and expressed regret that her great poverty made it impossible for her to give in- stead of selling the presidents old home | for this purpose.
 While the letter did not contain a : word which was actually derogatory to this State, yet those Mississippians who listened to the reading could not but feel that serious reflection had been
 cast on their commonwealth, and it is
 doubtful If the letter. which was in tended as a Justification, did not add
 to- instead of dispelling that feeling
 which she said was plainly evidenced against her by many in the South, who
 while they reverenced her as the wid-
 ow Jefferson Davis, still silently ac-
 eused her of disloyalty to her country.