The Weekly Register

Jeff Davis, Early History.

We take the following from the Nashville Union, for the benefit of those highbred Secessionists who are continually prating about Southern gentility and the low breeding of Union people:

"A trifling little rebel paper in Kentucky professes to doubt the truth of our statement respecting the origin of Jeff. Davis. What we stated is well known to hundreds of the best citizens of Christian and Todd counties, Ky. Jeff. Davis' father lived for a number of years in a log cabin situated in what is now the town of Fairview, twelve miles from Hopkinsville, Ky. The house is now weatherboarded and used as a tavern. Old Davis was a man of bad character, a horse trader and a swindler, and of every low habit. A fine horse was missing on one occasion in the neighborhood under such suspicious circumstances that he found it safest to leave the county immediately and fly to Mississippi. Jeff. Davis is his illegitimate son, born some miles distant from his father's house, and taken home by him when several years of age. These are notorious facts. Some of Davis' relations still live in that part of Kentucky. Our own opinion is that Jeff.'s birth does him more credit than any portion of his subsequent life."