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The summer and early fall of 1858, Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis spent in New England, Maine and Massachusetts. He went mainly for his health, believing the cooler climate would help relieve a persistent eye infection. He also made several speeches, impromptu and otherwise, and was honored with a Doctor of Law degree by Bowdoin College. Most of his speeches stressed the inviolability of the Union, and the villainy of those, North and South who would imperil it. His words would be received with skeptical surprise in the northern press, and condemned as near-treason by the secessionist southern press.
Of a somewhat different nature, were his extemporaneous remarks at the Maine State Fair, on October 5th.
[Maine Farmer, Oct. 7, 1858]
A summary account of Davis' adventures in Yankeeland, can be found HERE.
Of a somewhat different nature, were his extemporaneous remarks at the Maine State Fair, on October 5th.
[Maine Farmer, Oct. 7, 1858]
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