Show JEEPEESON DAVIS baa been talking to the extent of five or six columns tot to-t e correspondent of a Philadelphia paper in which he necessarily speaks i r of a good many things Tha attempted i at-tempted assassination of the President Presi-dent he refers to aa a horrible crimea i crime-a calamity and blow to our institutions institu-tions which halters all prejudices and crushes partiaan thought Like others he attributes the crime to the greedy scramble for office and eay the South has much to hope from Garfields administration and sincerely sincere-ly joins in the nations Borrow Mr Davis attributes the spoils system t 0 John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay who removed the public printers prin-ters He denies that Jackson was the originator of the system He says no man can tell what will be the material l futura of the South Ifthat aeolion can establish es-tablish u system of tenantry or get immigration to occupy and tilt its lands thereis no question but that it has a greatfuture Whether the colored people will aver reach that e point is a question yet to be settled He says that war way not necessary 110 the abolition of slavery Years before be-fore the agitation I began at the north and the menacing acts to the in stitution there WAS a growing feeling all over the south for its abolition but the abolitionist of the north both by publicati and speecbes cemented the outh and crushed the feeling in fivor emancipation He concluded the interview by squarely and emphatically denying that he ever uttered the sentiment ascribed to him that slavery was the cornerstone corner-stone of the confederacy |