From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus entitled "Circular to the Southern Governors" outlining alleged conspiracy by the North against the Southern States.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus enclosing a circular calling on Southern governors to save the South from alleged Northern tyranny.