Letter from W. B. Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 23, 1859

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Letter from W. B. Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 23, 1859

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Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 Brown, Unknown Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 Davis, W. B.Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 King, Rufus, 1755-1827 McWillie, William, 1795-1869 Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 Washington, George, 1732-1799 Webster, Noah, 1758-1843

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Wilmington Nov^r. 23. 1859
Sir,

I send you by this mail,——copy of a letter to M^r. Brown and M^r. Buchanan and [refer?] to page 389 to the power of the Southern Governors to save the South at "the eleventh hour". And, also, to page 392 for the most gigantic and disreputable Puritan trick of fraud that ever disgraced the Statute Book of a civilised and deceived people, of ^by^ mixing up ~~[unclear?]~~, Those northern "pledged platforms" of 1852 and 1856, of both northern parties, in the Presidential elections as stated by M^r, Douglas in his epistle to the Harpers.

A false friend, like Benedict Arnold in the Revolution, born in New England, is despicable the world over: no matter what party he may impose upon.

The Southern Democracy. proper,——although most fatally deluded and deceived by Douglas and his Puritan party of the North and northwest——are honest. They have never attempted or desired to encroach upon the vested rights and Liberty——peace——religion & prosperity of the North and northwest; and if they cannot reciprocate in equal good faith, they had better "through their occupation of pledged platforms," mixed up out of sight in the Presidential elections, as a land piracy substitute for the Constitution; and, also, "throw up their intervention" with the Presidency, and let the wedding be divorced and each party, North and South, take its own Legal and honest half of the joint acquired Territories and public lands, and let them cease stealing Southern valid Territories and negroes, in pollution of the Bible to hide the treason under their blasphemy of "the higher law."

Douglas and Seward are both of the same New England rank Saxon Puritan blood descent. And those false named "Puritans" will not bear the least oppression, tyranny and tribute themselves; not even the trifling tax on a pound of British tea, as proven in the Revolution; and they will fight their "mother country" like tigers, or any body else, rather than submit to a dollar of tribute; and at the same time, work day and night regardless of expense, all manner of sly, undermining deception, and even pollute the Bible and the pulpit, and desecrate the Tomb of

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Washington with their hypocritical eulogies,——and, also, the Constitution, or anything else sacred among honest men on Earth, to get political power for the express purpose of oppressing and tyranising over others in the most wanton, reckless and wicked principles of impostor duplicity of the blackest depths of human depravity and cruelty. And it is utterly impossible for a people who know their own rights and the laws of the Holy commandments as well as they do, can be ignorant of their sins——wickedness and dishonesty towards the people and posterity of the Southern States, in such a plain matter as the joint acquired Deeds, Treaties——Territories and public lands since the Revolution; and, also, to know that they have been most wickedly and blasphemously dishonest towards the Southern States, from their illegally adopted land piracy Sixth Article of the Ordinance July 13, 1787, to the present time in California and Kansas: and, also, their determination to saddle the country from ocean to ocean, with their insidious and tyranical "Specific duty tribute" in premeditated violation of the positive injunction of Art: 1 Sec: 8 of the Constitution. Their own history and the Statute Book proves themselves the most accomplished and classic race of Saxon impostors the world ever produced.

The reason why they are so bold and barefaced in their treachery and treason against the South is, that they think they have founded their impostacy so deep under their pollution of the Bible and desecration of the Tomb of Washington, that no Southern Governor——man, or press, can fathom their fountain of corruption, and expose their diabolical principles of religious and political duplicity to the people of the country, before they can get them tied down to perpetual vassalage and tribute to their "blue——law despotic monarchy in alliance with England".

His Excellency
Gov. M^c_.Willie.

I am Respectfully your obt. servnt
W. B, Davis.

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Note: The vital importance of the foregoing subject to the vested rights and liberty of the people of all the Southern States alike, it seems to me properly falls within the scope of the Southern Governors and Legislatures to take some precautionary action, pointing to Self-preservation——the first law of nature of man to himself and posterity.

I send an "appeal to the 30 Southern Senators"——in which page 353, you will see the true origin of all those Saxon Puritans of the North and northwest, with Douglas, Seward, and others now in the lead, since the death of Rufus King—— Webster &c. And you, also, see that, all they can rob the South of, at, and since the formation of the Constitution, they mutually among themselves of all parties alike.

It is all a perfect plain case of fraud and treason in the heart, on their part, from the begining of their New England infamous Land piracy Article of 1787.

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W. B. Davis
Wilmington N.C.

Circular to the Gover-nors of the Southern states