Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis,

of Mississippi,

Delivered During the Summer of 1858:

On Fourth of July, 1858, at Sea.
At Serenade, at Portland, Maine.
At Portland Convention, Maine.
At Belfast Encampment, Maine.
At Belfast Banquet, Maine.
At Portland Meeting, Maine.
At Fair at Augusta, Maine.
At Faneuil Hall, Boston.
At New York Meeting.
Before Mississippi Legislature.
&c. &c.

BALTIMORE . . . PRINTED BY JOHN MURPHY & CO.
MARBLE BUILDING, 182 BALTIMORE STREET.
1859.

Contents

[Extracts From Speeches in U.S. Senate]
[On Fourth of July, 1858, At Sea]
[Speech at the Portland Serenade]
[Speech at the Portland Convention]
[Speech at Belfast Encampment]
[Banquet After Encampment at Belfast]
[Speech at the Portland Meeting]
[Speech at State Fair at Augusta, ME]
[Speech at the Grand Ratification Meeting, Faneuil Hall]
[Speech in the City of New York]
[Speech Before the Mississippi Legislature]

To the People of Mississippi.

I have been induced by the persistent misrepresentation of popular Addresses made by me at the North and the South during the year 1858, to collect them, and with extracts from speeches made by me in the Senate in 1850, to present the whole in this connected form; to the end that the case may be fairly before those by whose judgment I am willing to stand or fall.