| Show mr sympathies 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 abo irish people his regard for president davis was of the same sort it was sympathy for the ono southern man who was dis franchised and proscribed for a political act in which he bad 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 for the weak and the oppressed he never violated its unities no matter how strange hia conduct in some instances may have appeared he was true to hia own heart all tha way through ner orleans picayune |