| Summary: | In the letter, which is marked "Personal," Davis thanks Warren for sending an article "chastising the Editor of the so called Christian Advocate," who wrote about the current political situation unfavorably to Davis's tastes. He adds, "You have done well in Montgomery to drive out a black incendiary but the question occurs was he acting from his own promptings or incited by others equally guilty but no so exposed." The letter references the brief time in Southern politics when African American men could hold office and participate in government, before the installment of Jim Crow laws. (Warren S. Reese was a cotton merchant, planter, and former soldier, who served as Mayor of Montgomery for two terms from 1885 to 1887.)
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