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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