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December 20, 1889
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18
University Eeporter.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
[From a war time portrait.]
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
3 Jefferson Davis is no more. The first, the last—the only
1 resident of the Confederacy of our fathers, chosen by them to
seive in that most responsible position as leader of a now lost,
but to them, to us, and to all fair-minded people a just cause,
has now been taken from us. Can we but mourn his loss? Can
we but realize the greatness of the hero who has just gone out
of this life? The one whose purity, fidelity and charity were
ever as great as was the age in which he lived, and lament that
such a life is at an end? No Southern heart can fail to weep if
it can only realize that our chieftain is no more with us. It is
natural for us to sorrow for the loss of any friend. It is human.
How great is that sorrow when the loss is such a friend !
That he was gr at ; that he was true ; that he was noble, how
unfortunate that we only can appreciate who shared his punish
ment. Could prejudice have flown away in his stead the world
would surely recognize in him the highest type of a hero. Ac
quainted with his history, no unbiased mind can fail to esteem
and honor him as a statesman, the wisest; as a soldier, the bra
vest ; and as a leader both of the state and of the army, the peer
of any who ever championed a cause under such unfavorable
circumstances and against such heavy odds Compelled as he
