Year: 1864

The following correspondence between JEFF.
Davis, of the so-ealled Confederacy and Pope
Plus TX, will be read with interest by people
in every section ~ ~.
.sa5 5..a T-ir RIcHnIoND, Sep. %, 1868.
VERY VENERABLE SOVEREIGN PoNTIFF =


The letters which you have written to the
clergy of New Orleans and New York have
been communicated to me, and I have read
with emotion the deep grief therein expressed
for the ruin and devastation caused by the war
which is now being waged by the United
States against the States and people which
have selected me as their President, and your
orders to your clergy 70 exhort the people to
peace and charity am deeply sensible sof
the Christaia charity which has impelled you
to this reiterated appeal to the clergy. 1t is
for this reason thGt feel it ny duty to express
personally, and in the name of the Confeder-
ate States, our gratitude for such sentiments
of Christian good feeling and love, and to as
sure your Holiness that the people, threatened
even on their own hearths with the most cruel
oppression and terrible carnage, is desreus
now as it has always been, to see thez end of
this impious war that we have ever addressed
prayers to Heaven for that issue which your
Holiness now desires that we desire none of
our enemy's possessions, but that We fight
merely to resist the devastation of our country
ana Ine SneuuinS OF OurErOeS1 .DlOou, anu TO
lorce them to let US live in peace under the
protection of our own institutions, and under
our laws, which not only insure to every one
the enjoyment of his temporal rights, but also
the free exercise of his religion. [ pray your
Holiness to accept on theSpart of myself and
the people of the Confederate States our sin
cere thanks for your efforts in fay or of peace.
May the Lord preserve the days of your Holi-
ness, and keep you under his divine protec-
ton. (Signed) ,r.


JEFFERSON DAVIS.


THE PePE's REPLY


INDUSTRIOUS AND HONORABLE PRESIDENT
SALVATION We have just received, with
all suitable welcome, the persons sent by you
to place in our hands your letter, dated 23d of
September last. Not slight was the pleasure
experienced when we learned from these per-
sons and the letter with what feelings of joy
and gratitude you were animated, Ilustrious
and honorable President, as soon as you were
of our letters to our venerable broth
er John, Archbishop of New York, and John
Archbishop of New Orleans, dated tie 18th
Of October of last year, and in which We have
with all our strength excited and exorted
those venerable brothers that il their episco-
pal piety and solicitude they should endeayor
with the most ardent zeal, and in our name to
bring about the end of the fatal civil war which
has broken out IN those. countries, IN order
that the American people may obtain peace
und concord, and dwell charitably together.


1t is particularly agreeable to us to see that
you, illustrious and honorable President, and
your people are animated with the same de-
sires of peace and tranquility which we have in
our letters inculcated upon our venerable brotI-
ers3 May it please God at the same time to
make the other people of America and their
rulers, rejecting seriously how terrible is civ
il war, and what calamities it engenders, listen
to the inspirations of a calmer spirit, and adopt
the part of peace. AS for US, we
shall not cease to offer up the most fervent
prayers to God Almighty that he may pour
out upon all the people of America the spirit
Of peace and charity, and thai. He will stop the
great evils which aflct them. We at the
same time, beseech the God of pity to shed
abroad upon you the light of His grace, and
attach you to US by a perfect friendship
Given at Rome, at St. Peters, the Sd of De-
cember, 1868, of our Pontifcate 1s.


(Signed) Plus TX.