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DAVIS, JEFFERSON, C.S.A. President. Autograph letter signed ("Jefferson Davis") to Mr. Clegg, Beauvoir, Mississippi, 3 September 1885. 1 1/2 pages, 8vo, on lined stationery, slightly soiled.
"IN...TIME...[WE] MAY ENJOY THE BLESSINGS OF THE LIBERTY AND COMMUNITY INDEPENDENCE OF WHICH THE CONSTITUTION...WAS DESIGNED TO SECURE"
A very outspoken letter, written twenty years after the demise of the Confederacy, in which the former President obliges a supporter (possibly a Confederate veteran), while wistfully expressing his hopes for a future Union based on Confederate principles: "Please accept my thanks for your very gratifying letter. The sentiment to which you refer as 'common,' is I hope the utterance of time serving self seekers, rather than of the people who dared and did and sacrificed so much for principle, and the rights their Fathers left them. I trust your four boys will imbibe the patriotism of their Father and when in the fullness of time the restoration shall come that they may enjoy the blessings of the liberty and community independence which the Constitution of the Union was designed to secure. With this I enclose the autograph for which you asked..."
"IN...TIME...[WE] MAY ENJOY THE BLESSINGS OF THE LIBERTY AND COMMUNITY INDEPENDENCE OF WHICH THE CONSTITUTION...WAS DESIGNED TO SECURE"
A very outspoken letter, written twenty years after the demise of the Confederacy, in which the former President obliges a supporter (possibly a Confederate veteran), while wistfully expressing his hopes for a future Union based on Confederate principles: "Please accept my thanks for your very gratifying letter. The sentiment to which you refer as 'common,' is I hope the utterance of time serving self seekers, rather than of the people who dared and did and sacrificed so much for principle, and the rights their Fathers left them. I trust your four boys will imbibe the patriotism of their Father and when in the fullness of time the restoration shall come that they may enjoy the blessings of the liberty and community independence which the Constitution of the Union was designed to secure. With this I enclose the autograph for which you asked..."