SOUTHERN NEWS; Jeff. Davis’ Speech at Columbia, S.C.; His Views of the Copperhead Plan of Adjustment (10/26/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/26/1864

[Homer_J_Simpson]

We have received full files of Charleston papers as late as Oct. 14, and Richmond papers to Oct. 22. They furnish us some interesting extracts, which throw additional light upon the state of affairs in the South.

JEFF. DAVIS AT COLUMBIA.

HIS VIEWS REGARDING A CONVENTION OF THE STATES.

The Columbia South Carolinian gives the following detailed report of the speech delivered at that place on Oct. 4, by JEFF. DAVIS:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE METROPOLIS OF SOUTH CAROLINA: Your Mayor has welcomed me to your home. I receive his greeting with that gratitude which one only feels when he hears expressed the language of commendation from those whose silence would have made him realize that his conduct had been bad indeed. If, in this great struggle for the rights of the States and the liberties of the people, to secure the possession of which, and to transmit which to us our fathers of the revolution shed their blood, South Carolina, who has stood for thirty years in the vanguard, should give him who asserted these rights no word of well done, he might turn convinced that he had failed as a public servant to perform his mission, and as a man had proven unable to cope with the responsibilities of his position. Therefore it is, Mr. Mayor and fellow-citizens of Columbia, that I feel heartily grateful for the welcome received at your hands.

South Carolina has struggled nobly in the war and suffered many sacrifices. There is, indeed, no portion of our land where the pall of mourning has not been spread; but I thank the Giver of all Good that our people still remain firm there, above all other places. I am told there have been none to waver and none to doubt.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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Southern News: Jeff. Davis’ Speech at Columbia, S.C. – 2-3
More Pirates Afloat: The Tallahassee and Edith Escape from Wilmington – 3
Later from Bermuda: Further Particulars of the Capture of the Roanoke – 3-4
The War in Missouri: More Murders – 4
The War in Tennessee-Forrest Concentrating at Jackson – 4
The Gallant Dead – 4
Sherman’s Army: From Atlanta – 4-5
General Sherman and the Presidential Election – 5
News from Washington – 5
Editorial: Jeff. Davis at Columbia – 5-6
Editorial: The Tallahassee Again – 6
Editorial: The Roanoke Pirates and the Border Thieves – Their Game – 6
Jeff. Davis’ Candidate – 6-7
The Rebel Agents in England – 7
Naturalization: Unprecedented Rush for Papers – 7
Amusements – 7
The American Bible Union – 7
Fair of the Union Home School – 7
The Pennsylvania Election – 7

[CharlesOConnell]

“The Freedom of Southern Manhood Reposes Upon the Institution of Slavery.” Jefferson Davis

Though most Southern Whites who fought in the ranks of the Confederate armies were not slaveholders.

“The Freedom of Women Reposes Upon the Institution of Abortion.” Abortion Feminists

Though most American women had never had an abortion before a Texas Millionairess and two women lawyers recruited a poor white woman whom they dispised and who didn’t have an abortion to stand as the symbolic figurehead of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton in 1973.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Sanford v. Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade have some striking similarities.