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Show SELECTED. An Emancipated Slave's Gratitude. Grati-tude. Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, recently appointed W. G. Henderson Hen-derson to a judgeship, and in sending his nomination to the senate, said he selected him from several gentlemen equally well qualified solely on account of the affecting letter which we print below. The Governor added that he could not refrain from saying, "on an occasion so touching to every man in the south, that there is an everlasting sense of 'the good old word when labor toiled for duty, not . for meat,' in this spectacle of an emancipated slave consenting con-senting to sacrifice all other "favorites for office in order to concentrate the influence of his position as a worthy member of the legislature to bestow honor on his late master." This is the letter : House of Representatives, 1 Jackson, Miss., March 26, '70. j To His Excellency, Gov. J. L. Alcorn : |