Show mr the truth is james was a man of intense feelings and strong sympathies which were always ready to go out to all whom he believed to be wronged and oppressed he was an ardent abolitionist few men ever labored more for the cause of the irish people his regard for president davis was of the same sort it was sympathy for the one southern dis franchised and proscribed for a political act in which be had been engaged in common with many thousands of his countrymen mr in all he did was consistent with his own ardent nature and overpowering tenderness or the weak and the oppressed he never violated its unities no matter how strange his conduct in some instances may have appeared he was true to hia own heart all the way through new orleans picayune |