The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-01-15
JEFFERSON DAVIS.

1865:
. his Exceilency Andrew Johnson,
President Of the United States.
We the undersigned acting on de
ri Of the women of your excellen-
s native city and actuated by the
lirii which dominated the women OF
!e entire south, most respectfully
ag leave to present your excellency
II petition
This is in behalf Of Jefferson Davis.
tely invested with all the preroga-
ives of a position similar to the one
a which your eXcellency by the di-
.ect interposition of the hand of God
as been placed. now captive IAN
fishing in prison.
Whether that prison be the just
com of him. who is suffering from
S effects. Is not a question to be ar-
ned y us. If it be conceded that the
lan. WHO is the representative Of a
eople, must suffer the consequences
f such representation, then the de-
rec Wi.ich consigned Mr.. Davis 10
Imprisonment in a land which has
4jtherto been the worlds synonym for
freedom. was 4 most proper one AMI
he IS UNDERGOING only fitting eXpla-
nation for the offended majesty of lie
'aw 3ut has re not suffered suiii-
aicntly long?
Is It impossible for Justice to he
tempered with mercy? VIII not the
resources Of your eXcellency's MUD
deYise some means by which Their
antaeonism may be removed?
Is not America sufficiently glorious?
Has she not been proved sufficiently
great TO allow Der 10 rise sunerior o
the petty conventional codes of small
ar nations and exhii it to tie world
ut once her lower and her ma%naninl-
itv. by extending free pardon to one
who, though he may have erred grew
ously against her is still her c'1i!d
and still loves her?
Will not your eXcellency be Ama:i-
cas- agent in this matter? VIII you
not, as the embodiment of her
strength and greatness, unloose the
bonds of the patient sufferer, who has
so meekly and uncomplainingly seen
the spring blossom into the summer
and the summer fade into autumn
seen it through his prison bars?
Will you not release him before the
dreary winter comes, bringing with it
so much of material discomfort to his
frail and delicate body, and what is
far more than the most acute phys
ical suffering, the wintry chill of hope
deferred to his soul which pleads for
pardon
Give him back, we implore YOU, to
the women of the south. He is ou s.
and we love him.
We bound up our hearts and souls
in him and the cause which he once
represented. God has seen fit to per
NIT that cause to be lost forever and
we bow TO his decree. In all the broad
south there is no one so mad as to
cherish the hope that Mr.. Davis may
in any way be connected with q future
consonant with what our wishes WEI c
when he was invested with the digni-
ty, which has proved so fatal to him
No such thought has an existence;
he has no future and all our hopes in
him were connected wholly vita the
past and are dead forever.
But we would be less than women
If we forsook him with whom The
cause which we loved and have lost
was identified and, women-like We
cling to him all the more closely, be
cause he is suffering and stands in
need of our sympathy.
The sweetest and hottest season oil
the year is fast approaching bringing
TO human remembrance Him vic
opened the prison doors of the tn
changed universe and gave freedom to
a ransomed world.
Will not your excellency make the
Christmas of 1865, year which has
witnessed the reunion of Il glorious
country and made you its chief mag
istrate. ny giving as Christmas Gift
TO the women of the south the free
dom of Jefferson Davis?
Listen. we implore your eXcellency
to our pleadings; give us the boon
we ask, not so much because you may
consider the gift right in itself, but
because there is no wrong in it, and
because we want ii so much and beg
for ii so earnestly.
Give hack Mr.. Davis to his own lit
tie children-give him back to us
who once stood in that relation to
wards him. Do not, we beg you, per
nit death to anticipate you and give
to his sorely tried spirit the freedom
which it is now in the power of your
eAceliency TO bestow; and by his re
lease make yourself home in every
southern woman's heart-cause your
name to ring with praise in every
southern woman's mouth, and go NJ
TO God. night and morning with every
southern woman's prayers, loaded
with blessings and shielded by petit
tons for your long life and felicity.
Give us hack Jefferson Davis. and
so giving in your own right, do what,
as your exce!lency is well aware, has
never yet been done, conquer the
women of the south.
All of which is most respectfully