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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
Chapter 19: in the twenty-ninth Congress, 1845-46.
In the summer of 1845 Mr. Davis's name began to be mentioned very often as the proper nominee for a seat in Congress.
In that day the nomination was equivalent to an election; it was not by districts but was by a vote of the State at large.
The question of the payment of the Union and Planters' Bank bonds 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 not vote for any one but a repudiator.
My husband heard of it, and sat up all night at the printing-office of the Whig paper and furnished copy to the compositors; for, on account of the business pressure of issuing their campaign documents, he could not get it done at the Democratic office.
Thus he got out by the next day a pamphlet in which he expressed clearly his disapproval of repudiation.
He advocated the payment of the Plante
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 21 : Mr. Davis first session in Congress. (search)
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
Chapter 22: the secret service fund--charges against Webster, 1845-46.
Mr. Davis saw that he had been approved by Mr. Adams, and generally recognized as a personage in the House, without any one having an exact reason to assign for this distinction, and was subsequently brought more prominently into notice by an attack made upon Mr. Webster by Mr. Charles Jared Ingersoll in the House of Representatives.
The hands of the public men of the time had been clean of plunder, or the imputation of dishonesty — it was not a day of personal investigations.
Wall Street had no subterranean passage leading to the White House; and an imputation upon the honor of a senator startled his colleagues like a fire-bell in the night.
Mr. Ingersoll astonished the House and Senate by moving an inquiry into Mr. Webster's conduct as Secretary of State.
lie asked for the papers relating to the killing of Durpree, an American.
In 1837, a party of Americans had made an effort to capture and occupy
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 24 : the storming of Monterey , 1846
Chapter 24: the storming of Monterey, 1846.
The army arrived at Walnut Springs, two or three miles from Monterey, September 19, 1846. Two days afterward offensive operations were begun.
They ended in the capitulation of Monterey, a city strongly fortified and stubbornly defended.
Mr. John Savage, in his Living representative men, gives a brilliant account of the part taken in these operations by the Mississippi Rifles. In the storming of Monterey, he writes,
Colonel Davis and his riflemen played a most gallant part.
The storming of one of its strongest forts (Taneria), on the 21st of September, was a desperate and hard-fought fight.
The Mexicans had dealt such death by their cross-fires that they ran up a new flag in exultation and in defiance of the assaults which at this time were being made in front and rear.
The Fourth Artillery, in the advance, had been terribly cut up; but the Mississippians and Tennesseeans pressed steadily forward.
Under a galling fire of copper
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 34 : first year in the Cabinet . (search)