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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 13: at Lexington and Galena. (search)
iar color, and everybody tumbled up out of wigwam and hut to take a look at this strange creature. However, being savage, their curiosity was well-bred, they troubled him no further, and he and the friendly villagers parted on the most kindly terms, his own Indian guide returning with him to the camp. When Lieutenant Davis was on an expedition in the neighborhood of Fort Gibson once, he met Washington Irving and also Eleazur Williams, the person who believed himself to be the Dauphin of France. The original of the once famous article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled Have we a Bourbon among us? His impression of Washington Irving was that he was a most amiable and charming man, lamentably out of place on that frontier, and he suspected Mr. Irving of secretly coinciding with him. Of Mr. Williams he had only one memory, and that was that he looked like a preacher and had a measured cadence in his speech like one. He said, If I only had my books here I could read a great deal.
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 15: resignation from the army.-marriage to Miss Taylor.-Cuban visit.-winter in Washington.-President van Buren.-return to Brierfield, 1837. (search)
st. He went at the appointed time, and the President paid him special attention and talked to him of the army, of general politics, and many more subjects which derived interest from Mr. Van Buren's rich stores of memory and graceful deference of manner. In the midst of a serious conversation after breakfast he looked at Mr. Davis, whose handsome arched feet were at their best in a pair of New Orleans shoes, and said, Where did you get your shoes, may I ask? I had a pair like that made in France, but have never seen that stitch since. Mr. Davis told him that he had the shoes made in New Orleans. Of course he liked his shoes all the better for the President's notice of them. This attention to details-personal and governmental-wise reticence, and perfect breeding was probably the source of much of Mr. Van Buren's success. In the spring Mr. Davis's health was sufficiently recuperated for him to return home, and once more pick up the threads of his life, which had floated wide a
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 28: the Oregon question. (search)
the consequences to civil and religious liberty which would flow from the exercise of sovereignty by them over the country of which they may take possession? Mr. Davis then showed the fallacy of the theory that the inviolability of the law, as it exists at the period of acquisition of new territory, could convey the power to exclude slavery from a Territory of the United States; although under this principle slavery could be established in Oregon, as it had existed under the laws both of France and Spain in the provinces and at the dates referred to. But, as he demonstrated, the laws of a proprietor, as far as they conflict with the principles of the Constitution, are abrogated by the fact of acquisition; that territory of the United States is the common property of all the people of the United States; that sovereignty of the territory remains with them until it is admitted as an independent State into the Union; and that each citizen of the United States has an equal right to emig
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 37: Fourth report (search)
n the West, on the Mississippi, at a point convenient to transportation of its product to that river, and a fourth on the Pacific coast, will secure the advantages of greater uniformity and economy in constructing, and at the same time afford practical instruction to the officers and men in all the various duties of this branch of the military service. The Secretary made laudatory record of the commission of three military officers whom he had sent to Europe during the war between Russia, France, and England, to collect information that might be useful in our own service. The work on the military roads in the various Territories had made gratifying progress during the year, as also the surveys of the Northwestern lakes. The progress made in the transcontinental surveys had also been satisfactory, and a brief summary of its work was presented. The arrival of thirty-two camels in the country since the Secretary's last report was noted, and their acclimation in Texas. The very
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 39: Cabinet life. (search)
s sorely the opportunity to mourn in secret. While we lived here, Colonel Delafield, Major Mordecai and Captain McClellan were sent as a military commission to the Crimea to study the methods of war adopted there. They were to visit England, France, and Russia as well. We invited the general officers of the Army and the ambassadors from these countries to meet the Commission. Generals Scott, Jessup, and Totten were present. Colonel Delafield was an alert soldierly man with much of scient nature, to teach the whole company at once. Each one of the ministers present had given assurance of the willing co-operation of their Government with the labors of the commission; but our officers were afterward not granted the facilities by France for which Comte de Sartige hoped — in fact they received scant courtesy, which was amply made up, however, by the kindness of the English and Russian Governments. They proceeded to the seat of war, where they messed with the English officers,
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 4: enters West Point. (search)
been admitted in June or the first of September; that the classes were engaged in their studies; and that the rule was absolute as to the time of admission. But Captain (afterward General) Hitchcock, then on duty in the Academy, had known my family when he was on recruiting duty in Natchez, and asked a special examination for me. Chance favored me. There was just then a Mr. Washington, who had been permitted, on account of his health, to leave the Academy for a year or two. He had gone to France, and, because of his name, had received the advantage of the Polytechnique. He had returned to find that his class had been graduated, and asked to be examined on the full course. The staff were in session examining Mr. Washington. This chance caused me also to be examined, and to be admitted out of rule. As soon as permission was given to appear before the staff, Captain Hitchcock came and told me that I would be examined, particularly in arithmetic. He asked, I suppose you have
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 42: summer outing. (search)
are our countrymen, endeared to us by ties of consanguinity, but that they are from some foreign country, that they belong to some French or British or Mexican enemies. (Cheers.) There never was a day in which the forces of war were marshalled against the most flagrant abuses toward the United States--there never was a war in which these United States have been engaged — never even in the death-struggle of the Revolution — never in our war for maritime independence — never in our war with France and Mexico--never was there a time when any party in these United States expressed, avowed, proclaimed — ostentatiously proclaimed — more intense hostility to the British, French, Mexican enemy, than I have heard uttered or proclaimed concerning our fellow-citizens-brothers in the fifteen States of this Union. (Great applause.) It is the glory of the Democratic party that we can assume the burden of our nationality for the Union--that we can make all due sacrifices in order to show our r