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Jn^rery style, neatly and promptly done.
JEFFERSON DAVIS TN PRISON.
Scenes and Incidents of the Life
of the Ex-Confederate Presi
dent in the Casemate at
Fortress Monroe.
Cttracis from (lie Diary of (lie
Post Surgeon.
ftUJOItS OF HIS CONFINEMENT.
Opinion* of I li«* C onft*derate Ltader oil
Social anti Political Affair*.
[continued. I
</ L/iicis Seriously 111—Change of Quarters official-
Ly Krcoiiunended—T/ie Pictures and Poetry of the
tnUr~Lafayette's Imprisonment-Marvellous Menu
■,ry and great Variety of Knowledge—Mr. Davis
oh Female Lecturers—The True Mission of
Women.
September 1st.—Was called at daylight by Captain
-»*, officer of the day, to see State-prisoner Davis,
•a!io appeared rapidly sinking, and was believed in a
cj.tical condition. The carbuncle on his thigh was
mjch inflamed, his pulse indicating extreme prostra-
noa oi the vital forces. The erysipelas which had
now reappeared, and the febrile excitement
very high. Prescribed such remedies, coustitu-
:. lr1 and topical, as were indicated; but always had
e.- b trouble to persuade him to use the stimulants
so jrjently needed by his condition. Let me hero say
However, that in docility and a strict adherence to
waatever regimen was prescribed, Mr. Davis was the*
model pitient of my practice. He seemod to regard
iLt doctor as captain of the patient’s health, and
obeyed every direction, however irksome, disagreca-
c * r painful, with military exactness.
Mr. Davis renewed his complaints All the vitiated
&nn sphere of the casemate, declaring it to be noxious
al! pestilential from the causes before noticed.
Mould gathered upon his shoes, showing the damp-
dc3* of the place; and no animal life could prosper in
atmosphere that generated these byphomycetous
ungi From the rising and falling of the tides in the
foundations of the casemate, mephitic fungi
<m:mated the spores of which, fluatiug iu tho air,
thrown oil in such quantities, and with such in-
-cs^iLt repetitions of reproduction, as to thoroughly
?emde the atmosphere, entering the lungs and blood
every breath, and developing their poisonous
qualities In the citadel of»life. Peculiar classes of
tLr*e luugi were choracteriatics of.the atmosphere in
vtuch cholera and other forms of plague were most
••sakJy generated, as had been established by the Rev.
Hr iteborne, in a long and interesting series of ex
perimental researches with the achromatic microscope
uanng the cholera visitation of 1854 in England. Men
ii robust health might defy these miasmatic influ-
«L^cs; but to him, so physically reduced, the atmos-
fLiTe that generated mould found no vital force suffi-
.iciiT to r<8jst its poisonous inhalation.
^u»ureJ Mr* Davie that bis opinion on the matter
« aift-j hadcaUeTtlieutteffBofi’’htM*-'
tj tilt- subject. Satisfied that the danger was
sow rtr.oua if he were lorger c mtiuuedin such an at-
mwpiisre, I would make au official report on tbe sub-
...i to tbe General Commanding, recommending a
itngc of quarters.
brierring to the consolation be derived from the
Lt.r, Mr. Davis spoke of its power to preseut beauti
SliLd comforting pictures, lull of promise and in
•suction, apposite to every situation of joy or calami-
7 m life, but never bo well appreciated as in our
aments of deepest despondency and sorrow. No
,zture bad impressed bim more tban that of Abrabam
jrtjarmg to sacrifice Isaac, his son—tho son of
imaisc. Tbe grim fidelity of tbe narrative only
tuhteued its irresistible pathos. Tbe sad journey
*~M nut Moriaii of Abrabam with his two young
art. and Isaac, the father only knowing the terrible
tiri-D of tbe duty imposed on him by aDgclic order.
Tie bait when they came- in sight of the ball of
“ffiSce. Abraham's brief, sad order to his two at-
’/nriinta; 'Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the
ad vu! go up yonder to worship.” The silent proces-
* i to the place of eacrifice, Isaac with tho wood
-c - bis shoulders, the father stndiDg along in dumb
ksj. :. with the knife iu one hand.and the torch in
itr.tber Isaac's child-like inquiry, "Behold the fire
u»d the wood, but where is the lamb for a burut-
anil Abraham's reply of faith Jehovah
..•ab—"My sou, God will provide it.” Last scene of
»* the son of promise bound on the fkggots his
J-sg shoulders had so joyously borne; tbe misera-
-Cher bending over the lad he loved, the joy of
ha :.J age, grasping the knife thst was to slay him,
«nues tbe Divine interference, in the voice of
tugel ouce again. The promise of faith, Jehovah
15 redeemed, and behind the lather, as ho turns,
rtij-da a ram entangled iu the thicket by his horns.
SD ll ' ,ur of bitter calamity the words Jehovah
^ been his only consolation. When troubles
. *eeniei hopeless of extrication encompassed him
tverv side, the words Jehovah jireh were full of
.'"*b' ri bg eoueolation to his spirit. His mind had
r, ea picture in gold, and it was but one of a
■bjfaand.
iaotiar beautiful picture Mr. Davis spoke of as
, "jd in the gallery through which his thoughts,
, Jff 1 *' despondent moments, loved to trace. Dark -1
jS?L 0 . Iei ; Jerusalem. A little group, a Master and
^’Hc.wcrs, emerging from’tbe gates. As they
into tbe valley, their mantles are drawn
•jtiT. rouud tbeir harrying and silent figures,
’■iewivr t ' wmd * 8 cbill and damp. Where the lit-
, . o Aedruu runs, wo see them picking their way
Jtl 8 ton PH ' Uflll nriie fbatp 'jnoiPA atlonflvf ««n flsn
successive scenes pass before the mental eye as though
in the unrolling of a panorama. Huger and Bollmann
were heavily ironed round the neck, and chained to
the floors of separate dungeons, in utter darkness.
Once every half hour the Austrian officer of the day
entered, flashed a dark lantern into their faces to
identify them and see that they still lived, and then
carefully examined every link of the chains binding
their necks to the floor and shackling their feet and
wrists. This treatment lasted, night and day, for aix
months, the prisoners being almost skeletons when
Anally obtaining their release, which was secured by
the representations of General Washington, the power
ful advocacy of Mr. Fox and the Liberals in the British
Parliament, and the humane sympathy of the Count
Metronskie, who wielded a powerful influence in the
Austrian court. Lafayette, however, even in his second
imprisonment, was never shackled ; and thongh
treated with the utmost cruelty, no indignities were
offered to his person, save that he was robbed of his
watch and some other trinkets on being recommitted,
reduced to a Bingle suit of clothes, and stripped of
every little comfort that had been previously allowed
him, save such occasional betterments of food—his
regulation food being bread and water—as were certi
fied by his medical Attendant to be necessary for the
.support of life.
It may be hero remarked, that the power of memory
possessed by Mr. Davis seemed almost miraculous—
a single perusal of any passage that interested either
hie assent or denial enabling him to repeat it almost
verbatim, when eulogizing its logic or combating what
he considered its errors. This wonderful gift of
memorizing, and apparent universality of knowledge,
were remarked by every officer of the day as well as
myself, Mr. Davis having kindly relations with all, and
conversation suited to each visitor. As instances of
this—at which I was not present myself, but heard re
lated from the officers immediately after tbeir occur
rence—let me mention two conversations:
An officer of the day, very fond of dogs, and be
lieving himself well posted in all varieties of that ani-
nrtff, once entered the prisoner's cell, followed by a
bull-terrier or some other breed of belligerent canine.
Mr. Davis at once commenced examining and criti
cising the dog's points with all the min.uteness of a
master, thence gliding into a general review of the
whole race of pointers, setters and retrievers ; ter
riers, bull dogs, German poodles, greyhounds, blood
hounds, and so forth ; the result of bin conversation
being best given in the word/* of the dog-fancying offi
cer: “ Well, I thought I knew something about dogs,
but hang me if I won't get appointed officer of the day
as often as I can, and go to school with Jeff Davis."
On another occasion "some lewd fellows of the baser
sort" in the garrison had been fighting a main of
cocks ; the Lieutenant of the guard in the outer room
being the proud possessor of the victorious chanti
cleer. It thus came to paks that the conquering bird,
with dripping plumage, was brought under the priso
ner's notice, and again the same scene as with the
dog-fancier was repeated in regard to game-cocks and
fighting birds of all varieties—Mr. Davis describing
the popularity of the sport in Mexico, and adding,
that when a boy in Mississippi, he had seen only too
much of it, until found out and prohibited by his pa
rents.
On quitting Mr. Davis this day, and in compliance
with the order of Major General Miles, I transmitted
to headquarters tho following report:
Office of the Chief Med ical Officer,
Fobt Monroe, Va., Sept. 1, 1805.
Brevet Major General N. A. Miles.
Commanding Military District,
Fort Monroe, Va.
General I have the honor to report prisoner
Davis still suffering from the effects of a carbuncle.
The erysipelas of the face had entirely subsided, but
yssterdayreappeared. His health is evidently rapid-
I remain. General, very respectfully,
Tour obedient servant,
John J. Craven,
Bv't Lieut. Col. D. S. Vol's., and C. M. O..
Military District, Fort Monroe, Va.
September 2nd.—Visited prisoner early, accompa
nied by Captain Sanderson, 3d Pennsylvania Artillery,
Officer of the Day. Condition of Mr. Davis mny be
seen in the two following reports, tho first being the
ordinary one addressed to Major-General Miles, accom
panied by a verbal recommendation (often previously
made,) for a change of quarters. Tho second, a fuller
report,^covering the same point, in official form, in
tended to be transmitted by General Miles to the au
thorities at Washington. The routine report merely
ran :
‘‘IJiave the honor to report prisoner Davis* condi
tion not perceivably different from that of 3 r esterday
very feeble ; no appetite."
The second report, of same date, intended for trans
mission to the War Department, ran as follows f
Office of the Chief Medical Officer,
Fort Monroe, Va., Sept 2, 18G4.
Brevet Major-General N. A. Miles,
Commanding Military District,
Fort Monroe, Va.
General :—I have the honor to report that I was
called to see prisoner Davis on the 25th day of May
last. I found him very feeble; prematurely old; all
the evidence of an iron twill, but extremely reduced
in physical structure. As he continued to fail, changes
were suggested in his Prison life, and kindly granted;
his food was changed from prison food to a liberal
diet; the giferds and light were removed from his
room; he was permitted to walk in the open air, and
to, have miscellaneous reading. Indeed, everything
was done for him to render him comfortable as a pris
oner.
Within the last week, I have noticed a great change
in tbe prisoner. He has become despondent and dull,
a very unnatural condition' for bim. Ho is evidently
breaking down. Save a small patch of erysipelas upon
his face, and a carbuncle upon one of his limbs, no
pointed disease, but general prostration.
lately a great change in the atmospliern of the case-
. .. ,, nv HVV HtUUl
IfcmV‘i 0n ^ s - aUt l now they fnove silently up the
- Olives into the Garden ^ OAtiia^mnno
. — —— of Getlitemuie.—
c bcllJr Hunting Jerusalem, they hail sat at
upper since commemorated in all Christian
•upper—; _
. «ad a. tbey sat and did eat, tbe Master fore-
AtdT7;T ecl to*' 10 followers should betray Him.
, Ff 16 ? hace arrived at the garden; and the
j^j 4 ““<5 three of His most beloved disciples,
ttrl’
' i-Jl*?* tbt J move along in the double shadows
■ t .ini the olive grove, that “HiB soul is sorrow-
•i #Tkti ' V, tuat mo DDUl 19 Dulivvf-
Soul?. death.” When sufficiently removed
fctectaiSE oUves,"“ tbey
4 nriAn u Iii the great agony tbit
He to be alone. Already the
Uiitn 1 Uleai1 ** of mankind, whom He so loves
•^He ig about to die for them, grows too weignty
* i HauIi A hiillt a ef/lTln’a naat
^ | t-'hemeiit of fiesh. About a stone's cast from
— t group, the Master falls upon the grouud.and
if,,. '“t* 1 duck sobs into the pitying darkness, that
taiutj tins hour may pass from Him—the
turd nature crying out under its intolerable
0 F.o,’ "J-te away this cup from me; for With thee,
;, ;r , “U things are possible.” But again the
Scotties paramount; faith reasserts her
it, .,7*ncy, and bowing His head upon His hands,
’iai s i bobs ’ "Nevertheless, not my will, bnt
t e, J And here, as with Abraham on the
»tjo ova ?“ i‘ relj . »ugel appears to strengthen
wu u , on the obedient heart. Mr. Davis ssid he
i r . t0 witness the agonizing scene of the
hiti, Ul uut Wla hed to blot from his memory the un-
. nhiess of the watchers.
'-'-c-uFfr 15 “Sinn sfioke of the wretchedness of being
quiiim r wMebed—of feeling that a human eye, iu-
'-'“h pitiless, was fixed upon all his tnove-
“nd dh.V- This was one of the torments
ta.h! T. \f ly ^ tbe Marquis de Lafayette in the dun-
ctt*- .; ,“®deburgh and Olmutz. Indeed the.parallel
tta— “ their prison lives, if not in some other re-
of v E .’ f W‘‘ 9 remarkable. Lafayette wag denied the use
Hot, R ( or f °rk, lest he should commit self-destruc
ts , Was confined in a casemate or dungeon, of
th.„ a , 08t - powerful fortresses of Prussia first,
•heotl in Ji u,trla - Whilejat Magdebnrgh, he found a
ai]o.^t a t the prisoner could not live un-
*t(t breathe purer air than that of his cell;
h^vtrinoo, recommendation—the Governor at first
'r-ouj he "was not ill enough yet”—Ihe illus-
™ r . was ut len 8th allowed to take the air—
h'ay. ^ other times in a carriage, but
* t ‘' 1 twoarm ^turned by an officer with drawn sword
w ° arnted guards.
s “«ten*S*,i ben „ " arrated - with great spirit and
h^Dr ^ 0ort s made by Count Lally-Tolcndal,
of South ^ndmann, of Hanover, and Mr.
10D Mr 2,“°““' effect Lafayette’s libera-
, Atracticn and t JS? * yonn * gentleman of Huguenot
'^cucr. Dr ^^ B ' of , Ml 4 or Huger; the father of bfs
{^lued aix tncnS« U mm VMit to , Vi enng, where he
^ <tady or. •n®’ lulling suspicion by pretending
j“?hg Hnger*sndT f{‘ e ^ ici,le l ht* there meeting with
though da^<7 m “ ner 111 which these two
S* Other thmr shmlSSeJ? 1 ^? “ utuaU y discovered to
wh.ch mev ‘^ 4 'o f object; the code of sig-
v*°hir, and y •f”l duall y esublished with the
rf* captivity bv re8cue / or some brief hours
surest and the caSt^. e f^° ons ’ ‘ogefb* With his
h“ hi* terrible punishment fas.
mates, and would respectfully recommend that bs be
removed from the room he now occupies to some other
apartment. I have no other suggestions to make as
to his treatment. He ha3 the best of food and stimu
lants.
I remain, General, very respectfully,
Y6ur obedient servant,
[Signed.] John J. Craven.
Bv’t Lteut. Col. and Surg. U. S. Vols’. and C. M. O.,
Military Distri.it, Fort Monvoe, Va.
On this occasion, Mr. Davis referred to some remark
of Miss Anna Dickenson, hostile to himself, which he
had seen In the papers; also recalling that he had
heard of the lady's honoring. Fort Monroe with her
preaenco some six weeks before—he supposed to de
rive her inspiration from an actual view of his case
mate, or possibly to catch a secret view of him
through the admiring favor of Gen. Miles or some
smitten officer. Ho bad noticed that Miss Dickenson
had figured largely upon the lecturing stage, and had
undoniahle talent, but the talent rather of a Mtenad or
Pythoness than most of the mild virgins whojworship-
ped Vesta and kept the fires of faith and charity for
ever burning on her pure altass. Woman’s appear
ance in the political arena was a deplorable departure
from the golden path which nature had marked out
for her. The male animal was endowed with more
than sufficient belligerency for all purposes of healthy
agitation; and woman's part in the social economy, as
she had been made beautiful and gentle, should be to
sOvth asperities, rather than deepen and make more
rough-the cross-tracks plowed in the road of life by
the diverging passions and opinions of men. It was a
revolutionary ago; transpositions and novelty were tho
fkncics of the day, and woman on the political rostrum
was only an outcropping of the disorganized and dis
organizing ideas now in control of the popular mind.
The clamor of certain classos of women for admission
to the professions and employments heretofore en
grossed by men, was another phase of tho same mala
dy. They demanded to be made self-supjiorting, for
getful that their most tender charms and eafeBt ar
mor lay in helplessness. Woman’s office embraced
all the sweetest and holiest duties of suffering human
ity. Her true altar is the happy fireside, not the fo
rum with its foul breath and distracting clamors.
Physically unable to defend themselves from Injury
or insult, tbeir weakness is a claim which the man
must be utterly base who disregards. The highest
test of civilization is the' deference paid to women.
They art} like the beautiful vines of the South, wind
ing around the rugged forest trees and clothing them
with beauty; but let them attempt iiving apart from
this support aDd they will soon trail along the ground
in muddy and trampled imparity. While woman de
pends on man for everything, msn’s^ove accepts, and
his generosity can never do enough to discharge tbe
'delicious and sacred obligations ; bnt lot woman enter
Into the ruder employments of life as man's rival,
and she passes herself as a slave nnder those inexora
ble laws of trade which are without sex or sentiment.
Perhaps in one branch of medicine there might ap
pear a fitness In her claim to matriculation ; bnt even
in that branch, circumstances of sudden difficulty and
danger were of every day occurrence, requiring the
steadier nerves, cottier judgment, and quicker action
of a medical man to deal with. If asked for hts sub
limes! ideal of what women should be In time of war,
he would point to the dear women of his country da
ring the recent struggle. Tbe Spartan mother sent
forth her boy bidding him return with honor—either
carrying his shield, or on It. The women of the South
sent forth their sons, directing them to return with
victory ; to return with wounds disabling them from
further service or never to return at all. All they had
was flung Into the contest—beauty, grace, passion, or
nament ; the exquisite .frivolities so dear to the sex
were cast aside ; their songs, if they had any heart to
sing, were patriotic; their trinkets were flung into
the public crucible ; the carpets from their floors were
portioned out as blankets to the suffering soldiers of
their cause ; women bred to every refinement of lux
ury wore homespuns made by their own hands; when
material for an army balloon were wanted the richest
silk dresses were sent in, and there was only compe
tition to secure their acceptance. As nurses of the
sick, as encouragers and providers for the combatants,
as angels of charity and mercy adopting as their own
all children made orphans in defence of their homes,
as patient and beautiful household deities, accepting
every sacrlfloe with unconcern, and lightening the
bunkne of war by every art, blandishment, and labor
proper to their sphere—the dear women of his people
deserved to take rank with the highest heroines of
the grandest days of the greatest countries. Talking
further upon woman, Mr. Davis stated his belief that
when women prove unfaithful to their marriage vows,
' in almost every instance be found the hus-
Mr. Davis referred to some financial frauds in Wall
street, then exciting much attention in the Northern
press, remarking that these insanities or spidenjee of
tinancial and other kinds of crime appeared by some
unknown law to foljpw every period of great political
excitement. Perhaps the average of crime was at all
times tbe same iu every given population—as many'
eminent statisticians had maintained—tile apparent
increase of viciousnesa only arising from the fact that
during the greater excitement, whatever that might
be, we could sj>are no attention to minor matters, and
now they struok us with a sease of •novelty. The
Northern press had been working with treble power
and at fever-heat for some years, and would require
another year to calm back into ordinary journalism.
Sensationalism was tbe necessity at present, and of
fences which would have been dismissed with a para
graph in the police reports fbnr or five years ago, were
now magnified into columns or a page of startling
cajtitals. Tbe cruelty of dragging In family hisfory
and tbe names of relatives Mr. Davis dwelt upon,
speaking with great sympathy of a venerable fitfher
whose grey hairs, heretofore without a blemish, were
now sprinkled by tbe reports in Northern papers with
the mire into which his son bsd fallen. With the
criminal, and all bis conscious aiders and abettors, the
law and public opinion were entitled to deal; but when
journalism passed beyond this limit, and dragged be
fore the gaze of unpitying millions the lacerated and
innocent domestic victims oi a son’s or htubaod'a
crime, the act was so inhuman that to term it brutal
would be to wrong the dumb creation. True', in trac
ing out and developing a crime, we had often to enter
upon the otherwise sacred privacy of domestic rela
tions; and if anything therein found could materially
forward the ends ofjustice, the lesser right would have
to be sacrificed to the greater. But the practice of
dragging before the public the whole history of a
criminal in his non-criminal relations—his wife and
wife's family, his father and father’s family, their
manner of life, circle of friends, and so forth—deserved
reprobation. It is the innocent and pure—and always
ja the exact measure of their purity and innocence—
who must suffer from such offence^ as thtt one he was
noticing. To the guilty man himself, unless hardened
beyond reach of conscience, or dread of shame, the
explosion which consigns him to prison must be a
i positive relief. The agony of anxiety is ever; pride
use suffered its benumbing shock, and the pain of its
former protest ia paralysed. In tbe solitude of his cell
he ia at peace, or In the companionship of tbe convict
yard there are none to mock his degradation. .Mr.
Davis spoke with great feeling on this matter, men
tioning several cases which had come to his knowl
edge, and in particular the default of an army officer
whilo ho was Secretary of War. It had been a most
painful case, for, up to the moment of the exploitation,
lie had been on terms of intimacy with the defaulter’s
family.
Speaking of arm? defaults, Mr. Dsvis remarked that
our Government seemed to have trouble with the offi
cers appointed to take care of tbe negroes. The bet
ter plan would be to remit their care and future to the
soreral States. None could manage the black for his
own good and the public interest so well as those who
had been reared with them and knew their peculiari
ties. Once free, tho necessities of labor and the laws
of supply and demand would interfere to secure jus
tice to the black laboring class, even were there any
disposition to deny it, wbiehtiie did not believe. Mr.
Davis said, judging from the inevitable logic of tbe
ease and reports reaching bim during tho war, that
the class of civilians who rushed South in tbe wake of
our unities, professing intense philanthropy for tho
negro ss their object, were about tbe most unsub.
class to whom the destinies of any ignorant and help
less people, out of whom money were to be made,
could have been entrusted. Men, the most pure and
upright in previous life, when suddenly given control
of wealth for distribution to the ignorant and helpless,
in too many cases, if not the majority, will gravitate,
by force of protracted temptation, into corruption. He
instanced the dealings of the Department of the Inte
rior with tbe Indians—a hideous history, for which
the country should blnsb, though not a little of the
peculations and extortions practised by our Indian
Agents against tho various tribes, had been placed on
record. Mr. Davis then spoke of the various Indian
nations with whom he had been thrown in contact
during his earlier lito whan serving in tbs army, giv
ing the habits and leading characteristics of each, but
with a rapidity aud fluency of Indian names which
(the subject being new to me) I could not follow. Tbe
t 'eneral spirit of his remarks was kind to tbe Red Man
amenting his wrongs,-and the inevitable obliteration
of hia race as a sacrifice under the Juggernaut of civil
izatlon.
Recurring to the management of tbe nearoea by pro
feeeed philanthropic civilians of the North, Mr. Davis
said that all the best men of both sections were in the
armies, aud that these civilian camp-followers par
took injtheir nature of the buzzards who ware the camp
followers of the air. He said they reminded him of an
anecdote told in Mississippi relative to a professed re
ligionist of very avaricioas temper, which ran as fol
lows :
Driving to church one Sunday, tho pious old gentle
man saw a sheep foundered in a quagmire on one sido
of the road, and called John,his coachman, to halt and
extricate the animal—he might be of value. John
h iltcd, entered the quagmire, endeavored to pull out
the Bheep; but found that fright, cold, damp and ex
posure had so sickened the poor brute that its wool
came ont in fistfuls whenever pulled. With this dolor
ous news John returned to the carriage.
"Indeed, John. Is it good wool—valuable ?’*
“Fust class. Right smart good.JMassa. Couldn't be
better.”
“It’s a pity to lose the wool, John. You’d better
go see; is it loose everywhere ? Perhaps his sickness
only makes it loose in parts.”
John returned to the sheep, pulled all the wool, col
lected it in his arms, and returned to the carriage.
“It he's all done gone off, Massa. Every hair on him
lifting up TheH-ui^aln^of his wagon. "Htlrow it in here,
and now drive to church as fast as you can; I’m afraid
we shall be late.”
"But de poor sheep, massa," pleaded the sable dri-
Shan’t dis chile go fotch him ?”
Interesting day’s service exchanging some three or
four hundred Confederates for about an equal number
of oar own wounded boys. Brigadier General James
F. Hall had been our officer of exchange, and Surgeon
Bontecue my asaociste. We stemmed up Charleston
ffiStWjsgs ^stss^srsi
wounded. Tho Bishop, had been extremely kind, re
ceiving the MMairigs of ofer'boye, who spoke in warm
terms of his Christian humanity- So far as I could
j odg* from that speoimen, ow woundsd had not any
thing to aemplain of in tbeir treatment—at feast
nothing which the necessities of their situation ren
dered avoidable. To thiB Mr. Darla replied in warm
eulogy of Bishop Lynch, as also of tbs Sisters of
Charity, not one of whom he could oyer pass without
raising his hat—an act of involuntary reverence. They
had indeed been the silent angels of war, carrying
comfort and religious faith to every couch or suffering.
Of wbat they had done, history might make no men
tion ; but it would remain forever engraven upsn the
hearts of tbe tens Of thousands they had helped and
oamtorted. Emblems of purity sad mercy, no lives
in the whole world could be more beautiful than flieirs.
Their hymns were an undertone or diapason of tacred
melody through all the crash of arms and the harrow
ing ohorus of groans. If tt bsd been Does ibis in hia
estimation to elevate tbe respect for woman, the con
duct of the Sisters or Charity would.' have dene so.
Meeting Bishop Lyucb caatfeHy one day,-he isked him
in thq usual commonplace bow the world weig with
him. Never should ho forget—for it was bnt aa echo
from his own soul—the tone in which tite
plied, “This war Mr. Davis; this war. I sin
heart-sick, heart-sick!”
(2D be Continued.)
THE HTAY LAWs
Constitutionality Argued Befog* the
Supreme Court.
band’s fault. Men throw the(r wives, or allow them
to be thrown, into the companionship of male asso
ciates whom they know to bo dissolute ; neglect them,
while the illicit lover pays every attention, and then
grow angry at tho result of their own criminal folly.
It fa either this, or that the man has chosen, without
sufficient inquiry a woman whose unfitness for tbe
relations of wife might have boen readily ascertained*’
-No woman will err if treated proporly by a husband
worthy of the qame ; but she is tho weaker of the aex
and must be protected.
Mr. Davis on Sensation News—The condition of
Che Negro—Oen. Butter at Drury’s stuff—Bishop
Lynch and the Sisters of charity—a story after
the manner of President Lincoln.
September 3d.—Called upon prisoner, accompanied
by Cspt. Evans, 3d Pennsylvania Artillery, officer of
tbe day. Had passed a comfortable night, the erysi
pelas again receding, ana the carbnncle cornmendnu
to slough out. Reported to Gen. Miles: "Prisoner
Davis slightly better thismorning.” Still complained
of tbe unwholesome atmosphere of his casemate
pointing to some <rumbs of bread which he had
thrown to tbe mouse only a day or two before, now
covered with mould. Made no reply -to this, not
knowing what would be ihe action of the authoritiefc
on my recommendation, though hoping, and. Indeed,
fully trusting that It would be fkvorabto.
Oh, never mind him,” returned the philanthro
pist. measuring tho wool with bis eye. "aven if you
dragged him out, he could never recover, aud his
flesh would be good for nothing to the butchers."
Bo the sheep, stripped of his ouly covering, was leit
to dio in the swamp, concluded Mr. Davis; and such
will be the fate of the poor negroes entrusted to the
philanthropic but avaricious Phariseos who now pro
fess to hold them in special care.
I remarked that this story reminded mo of Mr. Lin
coln’s happy way of arguing his own position, while
not appearing to argue at ail.
Mr. Davis said he had heard many ot Mr. Lincoln's
stories, or stories attributed to him, but knew not
how much to believe. When a man once got a reputa
tion of this sort, he was given credit for all tho curious
stories afloat; nor could he oonceive how a man so
o|>pressed with care as Mr. Lincoln, could have had
any relish for such pleasantries. Recurring to tbe
subject of tho philanthropic guardians of the negro,
he asked me, if ever released from duty iu Fort
Monroe—which be as solfishly hoped would not be
until he also was released, eithor by order of man or
the summons of death—to visit New England aud
count for myself how many doughty talkors for the
negro, before the war, had worn sword on thigh or
carried musket in bund during its continuance V For
the agitators of the South, aa they were called, this
could be said: that they had veritably staked life,
property, and honor in support of their ideas.
or the negro race Mr. Davis spoke most kindly,
saying thst the irregularities into which they had
been betrayed, arose from misinformation spread
amongst them by these civilian philanthropists.—
They were taught that the General Government was
about transferring to them iu fee the estates of the
Southern whites, thus enabling them to live in
opulence and idleness (as they hoped) through all
future time. Whatever might be the designs of the
future, this had not yet been done; and hence the dis
appointment of the negroes, who began to regard
freedom as a much less blessing thau they at first
supposed. They took their idea of freedom from
what they had seen of their masters, and Imagined
that to be free—pure and eimple—implied as a con
comitant all tho comforts and luxuries which they had
seen their masters enjoy under the old system ol
labor. He was sorry for the poor negroes with his
whole heart. The future might possibly better their
condition—in the next generation, notin this; but to
him, the freed slaves seemed like caged-hird* en-
oyiug their first hour of liberty, hut certain to pay a
'terrible penalty for it when night and winter came,
and they knew neither where to find food « shelter.
Mr. Davis said that we—himself and the writer-
had once, from my account, been opposite each other
in battle. It was on May the 16th, 1866, at the engage
ment which we called Drury's Bluffi but not nruperly
so, the battle having its central point at the Bouse of
the Rev. Mr. Friend, and both its wings resting on
Proctor’s Creek. There were several lilies of defence
between that battle-ground and the works at Drury's
Bluff. Beauregard had been fooling Butler for some
days by skirmishing and falling back, in order to
draw Butler on. Davis was present on the foggy
morning of the decisive day—the day which rendered
Butler permanently powerless lor futber evil, and
hoped that morning to capture our entire army. This
would have been done if Gen. Whiting (I think) had
obeyed orders. His orders were to flank Butler,
while the battle was going on in front and cut him off
from his base and works at Bermuda Hundred. This
might easily have been done, but the orders miscar
ried in some manner and General Butler, with the
loth aud 18th Corps, forming his force, escaped—
though Mr. Davis heard we hod hardly enough shovels
fh our army to bury the dead. General Terry, with
the loth Corps, had been allowed to carry-xfieir ex
terior liue or rific pits. Then, Beauregard massed his
forces, charged out of his works, cut the 18th oorps
to pieces, cud very badly crippled the loth.
I replied thst I remembered all the Incidents of the
day very well, having been nearly captured by some
of his cavalry bushwhackers while endeavoring to
take care of my wounded near Chester Station, on the
railroad from Richmond to Petersburg. Nothing but
letting them count tbe nails in the hind-shoes of my
horse had saved me. Returned about half an hour
after that, aud brought off my wounded without diffi
culty. Then related to Hr. Davis tbe incident ol Gen.
Walker, of Beanregqyd’s staff; which forms the intro
duction to this volume.
From this point the conversation diverged to the
treatment of our wounded by the Confederate Sur
geons. I said that complaint had been made; and
with justice, as I could personally certify In some
cases, that uuncccssary amputations* bsd been per
formed ou Union soldiers falling into the handifof Con
federate surgeons. Mr. Davis said this Whs undeuia-
able; but not more so with our men «*»«" with the
boys of his own people. Thev had been obliged to ac
cept as surgeons in the Southern army many lads who
had only half finished their education in Northern
colleges. Besides, their facilities for transporting and
taking care of the sick were greatly deficient; nor had
they bad proper hospital storas.norappliancee for cure
in any such abundance,as with ns. To bunglers in tbe
art of surgery, or men loo. hurriedfar scientific treat
ment ampntation is always a readier remedy than the
alow process of splints, removing daily dreatings; and
sll he would claim on behalf of hia surgeons wee, that
they’had treated an the wounded. Confederate or
Union, with impartiality; find that if toomsny ampu
tations had been performed on the one, they had like
wise been performed on the other. He thenYnbrred
to the courtesy of the medical profeseWn towards each
other, as exhibited when surgeons had bean taken
prisoners. They were always treated on hie side, aud
so far as he knew upon oar aide, with th* xcqpect due
to scientific non-combatants, whose Imstnsss was the
healing, not the wounding, art. It washy times UW
humanities war endeavored to soften tha natural bra
tabtiM of its nature to the educated Sutikd.
Mentioned to Mr. Devi* that Ihudenoe hada vefijr
[From the Mlfiedgeville Recorder, f
As noticed in our last issue, Hon. A. H. Stephens, an
Wednesday last, discussed the constitutionality ef the
"stay law " Below we give his main points and
masoning. * >
Gen. Cobb replied, maintaining the uncaastitn
tionality of tbe few, as
points as signed.
Aa to who to right and who la wrong, wi will
patiently await the decision of the Supreme Court.
Mr. Stephens maintained that the law poatppn
tbe period for the levy and sale of property under exe
cution. was of the nature of a statute of limitatiot. Its
constitutionality waa to be tested upon the sameprin
ciples. If the time was reasonable and definite it could
not bo said to interfere with or impair the obligation
of contracts. ' This was a few regulating therenedy.
The obligation of a oontract is one thing, and tho
remedy another.
Tbe obligation of a contract Is lntrinhic in iiaelf.
It springs from its validity, with a proper luterfretaJ
tion of ife terms under the laws regulating contracts
themselves, where it is made, and not the laws regu
lating Judicial proceedings for holdiDg parties to their
legal responsibilities for tbeir breaches. The htter
class of laws are kuown every where as the lays of
remedy. These latter vary with every Stati or
nation. They never enter into or become part of the
obligation of the contract. The obligation of the ton-
tract is perfect in itself and travels with it unde) the
“lex loci contractus” wherever it goes or in whatever
forum it seeks redress for a breach. Ho coml
broadly ane thoroughly the idea that the obligat
a contract included in the leaat degree Ihe laws
to enforce thorn. Strictly speaking, there is andean
be no such thing ss enforcing contracts by Judicial
proceedings of any sort. AU that the Coarts andthat
class of laws known as remedies can do, is, to provide
compensation for contracts broken before the Coirts
or remodies are appealed to. The obligation of a con
tract is as counsel who had proceeded him (Hon. Un
ion Stephens) had weU stated, “the liability which ihe
law attaches to the terms used by the parties.” Ibis
liability or iesponsibiUty, this “juris vowulumr as
Judge Story styles it, or this “legal tie, 1 ’ asthe
French term It, exists separately and distinct!?
every valid contract without any reference or conic,
tion whatever with the laws or judicial proceeding! in
stitiited for the purpose of holding 'parties to tkoir
legal responsibilities for breaches of contracts. Every
perfect and valid contract has not only e legal uiity,
but in the language of Story, a legal ubiquity of
obligation; which could not be if the remedial la*i of
the place where it is made entered stall into the es-
cence ot its obligation—that obligation which, by Ihe
Constitution of the United States, no State can im
pair.
Hence any dealing with the remedy, any change in
tbe language of Story, as to .the “times and modes”
of giving redress for breaches of contracts which
does not impair this obligation ss stated, doeanot
come twithm the prohibition of the Constitution ot
the United States. Tho legislature may say, that no
suit shall bo brought on a note after six years from
its maturity, No one has ever contended that such
an aot impairs the obligation of the contract. The
legislature has equal right and power if they saw fit
to declare by law that no suit should be instituted on
promising notes after two years from their maturity,
or one year, or any shorter time, provided it was rea
sonably long iu the judgment of the Court for parties
interested, to look after their rights, Such action of
the legislature it is admitted on ail sides, would affect
notes made before, ss well as after. It is also admit
ted, that such action would be constitutional. Wi
it is constit itional for the legislature in provi
remedies for broken contracts, to deny all remedy
after six years, or two years, or one year to the hokter
of a note without impairing the obligation ot ths
contract, is it not just aa constitutional to prqvide
that when parties come into Coart to seek redi
breaches of contracts, thst
ed without impairing the obligation of the contract l
That certainly remains aa intact by the legislature in
the one instance as the other. If the obligation is un
impaired when all remedy is barred in the one case,
equally so is it in the other when there is only a rea
sonable postponement of the compensation awarded
for its breach.
We give but an outline of the-argument of Mr. Ste
phens. as we understood it. He >IKlke for upwards of
two hours, and the main object of his speech, after
settling the principles upon which he rested his case
in a legal point of view, was, to show thst the act of
tho Legislature was founded upon a wise and prudent,
policy. It looked as much to the protection ot tbe
rights of creditors as debtors.
If he was right in showing that this act of the Legis
lature fell properly within that class ot laws as reme
dies. then he quoted Marshall's remarks as not only
applicable bnt potent on the question, when he ssid:
’'Without impairing the obligation of the contract,
the remedy may certainly be modified as the wisdom
of tbe nation may direct.”
He also quoted aa pertinent and having great force
on this question, in his opinion, the remark of Justice
Johnson, of the United Btstes Supreme Court, in a
case where ho ssid: •
The right, then, of creditors to the aid of the pub
lic arm for the recovery of contracts is not absolute
and unlimited, but may be modified by the neceabti-a
of society.”
The policy of this set of the Legislature Mr. Stephens
vindicated at great length, and maintained that it was
as essential for the creditors aa a class, as it was for ths
debtors.
Without It, or something like it, the obligation of
the contracts of creditors as a class, though perfect
would he almost worthless, while under the providona
of the act, the obligation remaining unimpaired, full
compensation might be obtained.
Gen. Cobb held the act of the Legislature, called
‘‘stay laws and installment laws,” Impaired tbe cbli-
gation of contracts, and consequently were unconsti
tutional and void.
Tho true doctrine to be drawn from aU the argu-
meut and authorities he said, Is this: That the Ltgu-
lature had no anthority to interfere with the contracts
of parties neither directly by changing them, nor kidl-
rectly by legislating oa the mod* of enforcing them.
The Legislature can, for the purpose ot .giving eflfcacy
to contracts, and thereby advance the ends of justice,
deal with the remedy; but this power can neve.- be
exercised with th* view end for fhw purpose of reliev
ing the parties from the legal effects of the contracts
which they have voluntarily assumed. Where there
Is just cause of coihplalfit by either party, that the ex
isting remedy' promised by the few tails to- sited
the benefit or relief to'which ha Is entitled by his
contract, he can call upon the Legislature »> to
modify .the remedy, as to furnish (he benefit or
relief to which hia contract entitles him. end
the Legislature can constitutionally respond to such
an appeal. But where the complaint Is not against
the remedy which the law gives, bnt against thecon-
tract which the party has made, then there can to no
constitutional response to tbe complaint
General Cobb quoted largely from the opinions of
Judges Marshall aud Story in defence or his positions.
Ho argued in extenso that the Legislature of the State
imniiira (!ia nhliofttinn nf pnnfnipfa *
impairs the obligation of contracts.
1st Because in the modification of remedies for the
collection of debt, the collection of the same is on
hampered with conditions and postponements, is to
greatly lessen tlieirlvslue, and almost renders the cof-
^^^tt^jdktttiv^tonewever
old creditors.
3d. Because it gives precsdence to foreign over do
mestic creditors, as the former can collect their debts
through Urn Federal courts, whilst the hand* of the
latter ere tied up.
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arithmetic^ of tednctloe, of simple and compound
‘ velgar aad decimal fractions,
osie for ueett Bsaatorlal District) will
i beard and tuition without charge;
Every arrangeeasat has been made by the Board
ofVfeitora to main tel* the high scientific character
of the Institute, and to pat In fall operation its w*U
tried end distinctive system of discipline and lust rue-
HOTEtS AND STEAMBOATS
KN-;
S
FURNISHED.
PARLOR SETS, extra well upholstered.
FINE BED ROOM SETS, Walnut and Ma
hogany.
COTTAGE BED ROOM SETS, of every
variety.
Broad
ORN-
DINING ROOM and LIBRARY SETS.
MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS and PILLOWS
of all kinds.
Tne graduating exercises of the institution will
take place at the institute on the 4th of July. The
tdnaUona Will commence on the 27th of Jute,
b* centmed fiaily until competed. The public
wpmffMIr invited to all of these exercises.
For all farther Information, application-will be
made tafthe Superintendent.
; U FRANCIS H. SMITH,
Augusta Constitutionalist please Insert six times,
and send bill to this office.
J. W. bTRrjLe,
Orate STCele A Burbank,)
11 Merctouta’ Raw, Hilton Head, So. Ca
And cornerXina and Georgs »a, Charleston,
and B.U11
And
COOPUR, OLOOTTS A FAERELLY.
tel-’f ,
NOTICE;
B Y the Otdl—co-ja*md hr the nij nnaiffl.
thotTth dav of December, IMS. the
Military - An# ffitvil Clothing,
FURNISHING GOODS,
W tit ii. fffetira, H—j titooda. J
Ware,
PROPOSALS WANTED
3*
KITTLE’S FOLDING SPRING BEDS aad
’ MATTRESSES, the best Bed in tue,
i and WARRANTED SUPERIOR to all
others.
LACE AND GAUZE MOSQUITO CANO
PIES, and CANOPY FRAMES.
WAREROOMS,
178 Broughton Street,
Dearly (Me St. Aiircw’s M.
jeU4m
NOTICE.
Bmn
