Excerpt from Reply of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, to the Speech of Senator Douglas: In the U. S. Senate, May 16 and 17, 1860 Concurring in the depicted evil of the destruction'of the Democratic organization, it must be admitted that such consequence is the inevitable result of a'radical difference of principle: The Senator laments the dis case, but instead of healing, aggravates it. While pleading the evils of a disruption of the. Party, it is quite apparent that in his mind there is another 'sti11 greater calamity; for through all his arraignment of others, all his self-laudation, all his complaints of per scontion, like an. Air through its variations, appears and reappears the action of the Charleston Conven tion. That seemed to be the beginning and the end of his solicitude. The oft-told tale of his removal from the chairmanship of the Committee on Territo ries had to be renewed and connected with that Con vention, and even assumed as the'basis on which his strength was founded in that Convention. I think the Senator did himself injustice. I think his long career and distinguished labors, his admitted. Capacity for good hereafter, constitute a better reason for the sup port which he received, than the fact that his asso ciates in the Senate had not chosen to put him in a particular position in the organization of this body. It is enough that that fact did not divert support from him; and I am aware of none of his associates here who have forced it upon public attention with a view to affect him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.