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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 12 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 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 17: Begins his political life, 1843. (search)
An arrangement was made by our respective parties for a debate between Mr. Prentiss and myself on the day of election, each party to be allowed fifteen minutes alternately. Before the day appointed I met Mr. Prentiss, to agree upon the questions to be discussed, eliminating all those with regard to which there was no diffewas bound to make timely provision. To return to the incident spoken of. Mr. Prentiss and I met at the court-house on the day of the election, improvised a stand ussion. There was but one variation from the terms originally agreed upon. Mr. Prentiss having said that he could not always condense his argument so fully as to st was present at a part of this debate told me it was a most striking scene. Mr. Prentiss was small and lame, but his glorious head once seen made one forget that he ran for my brother a block off. When we got back, the Whigs were shouting for Prentiss, and I was dreadfully cut up. It would seem that if ever a man could be stimu