Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1874 — A "Trivial Letter.” [ARTICLE]

A "Trivial Letter.”

The New- York Tribune says: “In the case of Mr Cashing a trivial letter to Jefferson Davis decided his fate in the Senate and in the ‘Executive Afansion." This letter, fished up from the musty and almost forgotten rebel archives, which the independent organ of a party yet to be born calls “ trivial,” was addressed to the “President of the Confederate States,” spoke of the Union as already “ overthrown,” and recommended to the chief of the new government a man who might (the writer thought) do the State (Confederacy) some service. This not have been deemed trivial when it was written, in 1861, by anybody who loved the Union. It could tot have been written by any patriotic American citizen. Letters bearing on Slate affairs are never trivial. A similar letter by Jessie D. Bright cost him his seat in Congress, and cut off his political career forever.— Inter-Ocean.