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Show LETTER FROM JEFF DAVIS TO PIERCE HILLSBOaO, N. H.. March 15. A nephew of President Franklin Pierce has found an autograph letter written by Jefferson Davis to Pierce among documents inherited from his uncle. Davis wrote from the Senate chamber under date of January 30, I860, saying: "The prospect for our country is not ' less gloomy than whpn you left. I will stand by the flag and uphold the Constitution Con-stitution whil there is possibility of effecting anything to preserve" and perpetuate per-petuate the Government we inherited. Beyond that my duty and faith blnl me to Mississippi and her fortunes as sh,e may shape them." . |