Jefferson Davis, who has been makim soavo speeches recently, repudiates any purpose or wish to re-establish African slavery in the Southern States. In a private letter he says: "Ifc is enough to remember that conventions, representing the sovereign power in those States, have passed Valid acts of emancipation, and there is no power to repeal them. But it may be as well to add that, if there were such power, there arc few, if any, in the bouth who would now wish to exercise
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 496, 16 January 1879, Page 2
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84Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 496, 16 January 1879, Page 2
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