New Orleans, June 11th, 1847.
Gentlemen,—From the
hands of R. M. Gaines, Esq., I had the honor to receive your invitation to the
1st Mississippi Rifles, to partake of the hospitalities of the City of Natchez
and County of Adams.
On the part of the
Regiment, allow me through you, gentlemen, to offer the sincerest thanks to our
fellow citizens, whom you represent, for this manifestation of their regard and
kind appreciation. In the resolutions passed at your public meeting, we found,
not the measure of our merit, but the extent of Mississippians' fraternal
affection and received most gratefully this over-approbation of those whose
censure we could not have borne.
On Monday, the 14th
inst., we hope to have the pleasure of meeting you at Natchez.
To you, gentlemen of
the committee, for the very pleasing manner in which you have conveyed to us
the flattering intentions of our fellow citizens, I offer our most thankful
acknowledgments.
With the highest
personal regard, please accept the best wishes of your friend and fellow
citizen.
To Messrs. A. L.
Bingaman, J. S. B. Thacher, J. T. McMurran, C. L. Dubuisson, Wm. P. Mellen, R.
M. Gaines, and Wm. Stanton
SOURCE: Dunbar
Rowland, Editor, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters,
Papers and Speeches, Volume 1, p. 85
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