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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 22: the secret service fund--charges against Webster, 1845-46. (search)
our morning, Madam, with my dull talk? My husband, partly conscious that he had, and fearful lest I might not be able to cope with the emergency, answered quickly: Oh, no, my little wife is trying to be a statesman. They both laughed, and the President then said he was going to make a call upon James Seddon, a young member of Congress from Virginia, a promising young man if his health proved equal to severe labor, and then spoke of Mrs. Seddon as a handsome creature, who was, you know, Sarah Bruce. We did not know, but cheerfully said we would call upon them at another time at his request, and he bade us a cordial good-morning. I never saw him again until he came on the arm of his beautiful wife to visit us in the Mansion, at Richmond, sixteen years afterward, and two years before my sister became his grand-daughter-in-law. When I reached home I straightway wrote to my father, Who do you think drank out of the same tin cup with me to-day? Why, ex-President Tyler, and he is n