The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-06

self to a distinguished company in cf- der to see my friend James Jones' Jones, now employed in the s.attonery room of the United staies senate. is full of refniniRcences of h.s master. and nothing makes him more indignant than to hear the story about Mr DAsis' dis gufsa when captured AmenM .4is treas ures are letters and pictures from the Davis. family and 6 stick that Mir Da-
 wis once used. Jones claims that on tic retreat through the carolinas Mir. Da- wis gave him the Great Seal of the Confederacy to hide and that for b while he had charge of the coin of the Confederate treasury. While it ie cer- tain that Mir. Davis gave him Jsoms- thing to hide, 1t Is doubtful whether 1t was the seal Jones eays that his mas ter was a me evefy-day man. wAo didn't take nobody into his bosom toe soon.'
 Robert Brown spent his whole life in the service of the Davis family He went with Mrs, Davis and her children from Fortress Monroe to their captivity in Savannah. and was nurse and protector to the family. On the vessel that brought Mrs, Da- wis to Savannah. a sailor was very abusive of Davis and seemed anx- ious to teach Brown that he was now his masters equal. Brown askeoS Am I your eduaiT' Yes, certainly the saiior replied. Then taka this from your equal said Brown. and Knocked him down.
 "In lses Mrs Davis was allowed to go to Fortress Monroe and live near her husband Frederick MaSinnis. q former free servant, then came, and insisted upon re-entering the service of the family He gtoutly resented all un- friendly conduct toward 1T criticism of Mir Davis and saved him from much aA ct Tn spite of the fact that General Bur ton, who succeeded General Miles. was liked bv the Davises. Frederick refus- ed to invite the General to his wedding when he married Mrs Davis maid Nu one. he explained. who held his master in prison should come to his wedding. Of this kindly devotion, Mrs. Davis delicate-minded man did for us could not be computed in money or told in words; he and his gentle wife took the sting out of many indignitles offered to us in our hours of misfortune. They were both objects of affection and es- teem to Mir. Davis as long as he lived
 During this period of enforced seclu- sion Mir. Davis talked and wrote more about the negro problem than about any other topic. The disturbed condl- ton of the race excited his pity; he did not believe that million had peTished during and just after the war. as some asserted, but thought that the negroes who had left the plantations had Suf- fered greatly. for as slaves they had been cared for. now no one looked ef- ter them and they were n3. yet com potent to care for theniselSs. Most of the mortality exhibit was due, ha said 10 the removal of the restraints of slavery: the state of freedom was more than the negro could comprehend. kA q FRrfa ffrffftnH
 Tn regard to the economic condition of the freed negroes, he deplored the fact that they had fallen into the clutches of the Frcedmen's Bureau. an adjunct of the War Department, estab- lished by act of Congress March 5. 1885, to have charge of eonhscated ana a0an- doned lands, and to allot them 10 the negroes and to control any public funds devoted to the freedmen. Among other acts, 1t set up freedmen's bank. The operations of the bureau continued until 1870. by which timc is had dis. posed of SI5.0oo.000 and left the bank nenniIess. But there Is nc question" saId Mfr, Davis, hut that ghe whites are better of for the abolition of siav- erv: 1t Is an equally potent fact that the colored people arasnot The plant CT would no longer be obliged to pur- chase his labor at high prices. nor cars for laborers and 6heir families in sick
 
 master would loce no1htug; when slave died he lost $1.J00 or more. True, all the wealth invested In slaves was swept away, but the, labor itself re- rnained, and 1t wasspossible that tfe ne- gro race might develop into an efficient tenantry that would make the south again proapefous. For the immediate future the operation of the laws of sup ply and demand would. he thought serve to adjust relations between whites and blacks, but if theorists continueI to interfere the result would be had
 As to social problems MT. Davis said:
 "The more political equality wfs given ar approached, the gr sater niqss be the seeial antagonlsm of the Faess. In the South, under slavery. there T'as no such feeling. because there could De no such rivalry. -,,...
 "The attainment of political equality bv the negro will revolutiontze all thts' Tt win be as if our horses were given the right of intruding into our par Iors ar brought dipectly into conpe- tition with human labor, no longer aid- inc it hut as rivals. Put large gangs of white laborers belonging to differ ant nationalities at work beside each other and feuds will probably break out. Emancipation does this ,,nop A gigantic scale, and in the most R9Rravatsd form. It throws the whole black race into direct and aggressive competition with the laboring classes of the whites. apd the ignorance of the blacks, presurning on their freedom. will embitter every difference. The principle of compensation prevails ev- anywhere through nature, and the me- eroes will have to pay. in harsher eo- ciaI restrictions and treatment, for the attempt to invest them with political eauaIIY."