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Are we, in this age of civilization and political progress... to roll back the whole current of human thought, and again return to the mere brute force which prevails between beasts of prey, as the only method of settling questions between men?

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Name: President Jefferson Davis

Summary: Identifier: belleoffiftiesme00clay (find matches) Title: A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Clay-Clopton, Virginia, 1825-1915 Sterling, Ada, d. 1939 Subjects: Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Confederate side Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Company Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: nklin Pierce, President of the United States, i853-57 • 60 Mrs. William L. Marcy, of New York . . .62Mrs. J. J. Crittenden, of Kentucky . . .84Mrs. Chestnut, of South Carolina . . .94 Jenny Lind 102 James Buchanan, President of the United States, i857-6i 108 Miss Harriet Lane, mistress of the White House, i857-6i . . 114 Lady Napier and Her Sons . . . .116 Mrs. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi . . . 134Lord Lyons, British Ambassador to the United States ........ 140 Clement C. Clay, Jr., United States Senator, i853-6i 148 L. Q. C. Lamar, 1862 164 Mrs. Philip Phillips, of Washington, D. C. . . 166Senator James H. Hammond, of South Carolina . 212 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS—Co;z/mw^c? Facing Page General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama . . 232 Dr. Henry C. Vogell, Fortress Monroe, 1866 . 334 Dr. George Cooper, Fortress Monroe, 1866 . . 350Mrs. a. S. Parker, of Washington, D. C. . . 368Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay, Jr. (after release from Fortress Monroe) . . . .374 A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES Text Appearing After Image: Published bv E. Antlionv. 501 Broadway. X. Y.,from photojrapliic negative Irom Bradys National Portrait liallery, 1852-1859 PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES CHAPTER IChildhood, Girlhood, Marriage MY infant days were spent in North Carolinaamong the kinsmen of my mother. I do notremember her, save that she was young andfair, being but twenty when she died. She w^as thetwenty-fifth child of the family united under her fathersroof, which remarkable circumstance may be explainedas follows: My grandfather. General William Arrington, who wonhis title in the Revolutionary War, having been left awidower with twelve children, wearying of his solitude,mounted his horse and rode over to visit the comelywidow Battle, whose children also numbered twelve.The two plantations lay near together in the old TarHeel State. My gallant ancestor was a successfulwooer, and Mrs. Battle, nee WilHams, soon became Mrs.Arrington. Thus it happened that the Httle Anne—mymother—the one daughter o Note About Images

Description: English: President Jefferson Davis Identifier: belleoffiftiesme00clay (find matches) Title: A belle of the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66 Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Clay-Clopton, Virginia, 1825-1915 Sterling, Ada, d. 1939 Subjects: Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives Confederate side Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page & Company Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: nklin Pierce, President of the United States, i853-57 • 60 Mrs. William L. Marcy, of New York . . .62Mrs. J. J. Crittenden, of Kentucky . . .84Mrs. Chestnut, of South Carolina . . .94 Jenny Lind 102 James Buchanan, President of the United States, i857-6i 108 Miss Harriet Lane, mistress of the White House, i857-6i . . 114 Lady Napier and Her Sons . . . .116 Mrs. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi . . . 134Lord Lyons, British Ambassador to the United States ........ 140 Clement C. Clay, Jr., United States Senator, i853-6i 148 L. Q. C. Lamar, 1862 164 Mrs. Philip Phillips, of Washington, D. C. . . 166Senator James H. Hammond, of South Carolina . 212 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS—Co;z/mw^c? Facing Page General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama . . 232 Dr. Henry C. Vogell, Fortress Monroe, 1866 . 334 Dr. George Cooper, Fortress Monroe, 1866 . . 350Mrs. a. S. Parker, of Washington, D. C. . . 368Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay, Jr. (after release from Fortress Monroe) . . . .374 A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES Text Appearing After Image: Published bv E. Antlionv. 501 Broadway. X. Y.,from photojrapliic negative Irom Bradys National Portrait liallery, 1852-1859 PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS A BELLE OF THE FIFTIES CHAPTER IChildhood, Girlhood, Marriage MY infant days were spent in North Carolinaamong the kinsmen of my mother. I do notremember her, save that she was young andfair, being but twenty when she died. She w^as thetwenty-fifth child of the family united under her fathersroof, which remarkable circumstance may be explainedas follows: My grandfather. General William Arrington, who wonhis title in the Revolutionary War, having been left awidower with twelve children, wearying of his solitude,mounted his horse and rode over to visit the comelywidow Battle, whose children also numbered twelve.The two plantations lay near together in the old TarHeel State. My gallant ancestor was a successfulwooer, and Mrs. Battle, nee WilHams, soon became Mrs.Arrington. Thus it happened that the Httle Anne—mymother—the one daughter o Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

Date: 1904

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