Browsing named entities in Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1. You can also browse the collection for Briscoe or search for Briscoe in all documents.

Your search returned 5 results in 1 document section:

Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 19: in the twenty-ninth Congress, 1845-46. (search)
nds had about this time brought many bickerings and much dissatisfactions into the party. Mr. Briscoe, the leader of his party in Mississippi, and a repudiator per se, announced that he would notere they were generally distributed. His friends implored him not to express this opinion to Mr. Briscoe, as he could and would defeat him. However, Mr. Davis went to Briscoe with his pamphlet, and Briscoe with his pamphlet, and after a little conversation M\r. Briscoe said, Didn't you know I said I would not vote for any man holding these opinions? Yes, said my husband, and therefore I thought you ought to know mine. But Briscoe said, Didn't you know I said I would not vote for any man holding these opinions? Yes, said my husband, and therefore I thought you ought to know mine. But Mr. Briscoe did vote for him nevertheless, and Mr. Davis was nominated without any considerable opposition, and immediately left home to make the usual so-called canvas, which was merely becoming intMr. Briscoe did vote for him nevertheless, and Mr. Davis was nominated without any considerable opposition, and immediately left home to make the usual so-called canvas, which was merely becoming introduced to his constituents and examining into their peculiar needs before he left Mississippi for Washington. Then I began to know the bitterness of being a politician's wife, and that it meant