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DAVIS, JEFFERSON, President, C.S.A. Autograph letter signed ("Jefferson Davis") to Col. Edgar H. Farrar, Beauvoir, [Mississippi], 15 October 1883. 2 pages, 8to, lightly age-browned.
"THE SOUTHERN VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION"
"My dear Sir, I send you by this mail the 'American Register' of the 6th Inst. The leading article is marked to secure your attention, & if you should think as well of it as I do, would suggest that if you could have it republished in one of your City papers, it might be useful, or if not, the compliment would be no more than is due to an advocate who is not of us, and who if he hopes to gain anything by volunteering for our defense, has been unobservant of the Northern papers which have taken the Southern view of the Constitution and of the reserved powers of the States. The 'Day Book' defied Northern prejudice, and died for the want of Southern support....."
Farrar (1849-1922), a New Orleans attorney, helped organize Tulane University, directed the municipal reform movement in New Orleans, revised the state law regulating corporations and played a key role in the legal and political life of his state, and New Orleans. His wife was Lucinda Davis Stamps, a great niece of Jefferson Davis.
"THE SOUTHERN VIEW OF THE CONSTITUTION"
"My dear Sir, I send you by this mail the 'American Register' of the 6th Inst. The leading article is marked to secure your attention, & if you should think as well of it as I do, would suggest that if you could have it republished in one of your City papers, it might be useful, or if not, the compliment would be no more than is due to an advocate who is not of us, and who if he hopes to gain anything by volunteering for our defense, has been unobservant of the Northern papers which have taken the Southern view of the Constitution and of the reserved powers of the States. The 'Day Book' defied Northern prejudice, and died for the want of Southern support....."
Farrar (1849-1922), a New Orleans attorney, helped organize Tulane University, directed the municipal reform movement in New Orleans, revised the state law regulating corporations and played a key role in the legal and political life of his state, and New Orleans. His wife was Lucinda Davis Stamps, a great niece of Jefferson Davis.