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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix E (search)
Appendix E
in the summer of 1858, Davis being in Portland, Maine, a vast concourse of its citizens assembled in front of his hotel to offer him a welcome to their city, whereupon he made to them an address, from which the following extracts are given:
Fellow-Citizens: Accept my sincere thanks for this manifestation of your kindness.
Vanity does not lead me so far to misconceive your purpose as to appropriate the demonstration to myself; but it is not the less gratifying to me to be made the medium through which Maine tenders an expression of regard to her sister, Mississippi.
It is, moreover, with feelings of profound gratification that I witness this indication of that national sentiment and fraternity which made us, and which alone can keep us, one people.
At a period but as yesterday, when compared with the life of nations, these States were separate, and in some respects opposing colonies; their only relation to each other was that of a common allegiance to the Govern
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)