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Willinn D. McCain November 1£, 1950
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OOVERHOR A. G. BROWN’S IffiMORX OF HIS FIRST NIGHT IN THE MANSION
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The cemories of men often appear to play tricks on them, and such vos tho casa with Governor A, G, Brown, who was inaugurated on January 10, 1S44,* In a speech in Jackson on January 4» 1875| fcs stated in reference to hi3 first night in the Governor’s Hans ion* "Very little had been va3ted on furniture for the mansion, I shall never forget my first night in that house. My wife slept on a shuck nattress, vithout sheets, and rested her head on a carpet sack. It was a bitter cold night in January, and she used woolen gaments as a substitute for blankets, I remained in tho Mansion four years and in all that tins there was never appropriated one dollar to furnish it, I did not ask it, and would never havo allowed it if it had been offered until the State was out of debt,* That was what GovarDor Brown ra’nenibsred, Nov let us see what the facts were. The Legislature of 1S42 had appropriated £4->000.00 for furniture, aryl that was a goodly sun in that day. On January 5, 1344., Governor ?• H, Tucker held a farewell affair in the Mans Son, which was described in the Kississlnnlan as being "graced by tho largest and isost brilliant assembly* ever seen there. The reporter stated that "Every room was crowded, and the scene was one of rare animation, fashion and beauty, the niniber present was computed at sor:.e five or six hundred;, with .little Iocs than a hundred Judies-—
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sons as beautiful as beings of aerial r.:>ulds end not'of'earth.
Every one seensd full of	no	connterfe:'	sr.iles	lighted
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