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VOL. 2.
FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1889
NO. 20.
DAVIS DEAD
THE COBFEDERACY’S GREAT
CHIEFTAIN IS NO MORE.
The Hearts of the People, Whose
Cause He Espoused, Crushed by
the Sad News—A Long and
Eventful Life.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
At 12:45 o’clock Friday morning a
great heart ceased to bent—a stainless
1 life was closed, and Jeff Davis, first and
|last President of the Southern Confed
eracy, was dead. With him has passed
away the last of the great leaders
of the loet cause. Cobb.
Stephens, Toombs, Hill and Yancey.
Jefferson Davis will be mourned in mil-
dioos oUheart*. Govcrarfienir WifF hot
render to him the pomp and circumstance
of a great death, but his people will give
to him a tribute of love and tears sur
passing all that government could do,
and honoring his memory as earthly pa
rade could not do 1 From Maryland to
Texas, wherever iu other states or in
other lands, his people may have wan
dered—wherever dauntless courage is or
stainless honor made friends—wherever
they who have suffered are loved and
superb fortitude may touch the heart
or dim the eye—there Jefferson
Davis will bo honored and mourned.
THE DEATH SCENE.
Mr. Jefferoon Davis died suddenly at
12:45 Friday morning. lie had beau
steadily improving for the past four days
and his physicians announced that they
were entirely satisfied with his condition.
His appetite had improved somewhat,
and he was free from fever and
those who had access to the sick
room rejoiced over the tavorable change.
He rested quietly throughout the day,and
in the afternoou the bulletin was to \hc
effect that his condition continued lavor-
able. Shortly before midnight be had a
coughing fit, which seemed to exhaust
his little remaining strength,and at 12:45
he passed quietly away—so quietly,
in fact, that the watchers scarcely knew
when death came.
davis's life.
Jefferson Davis was born in Christian
county, Ky., on the 3d day of June, 1808.
Georgia may claim a kinship with the
man, as well as a share of his glory.
Ilis father, Samuel Davis, was a Georgia
planter. In the revolutionary war he
was an officer in a cavalry regiment, and
served with distinction. Later he moved
to Kentucky, and some years afterward
i to Mississippi. The Georgia branch of
the Davises is now extinct, but it lives
in tradition as a high-spirited honorable
family. Passing bis boyhood on the
frontier, where the whites wero fre
quently engaged in conflict with savage
foes, young Jefferson’s earliest thoughts
were ceutered upon guns, sabres, and
all the panoply of war. ily the time ho
was sixteen he had made the most of his
academic and university advan
tages and entered the mili-
[ tary academy at West Point.
For fellow students, he had such com
rades as Robert E. Lee, E. Johnson, Le
onidas Polk, John B. Magiuder, and
others well known to fame. In this cir
cle his lofty character, bright mind, and
thorough manliness, commanded the
highest regard of all. When he gradu
ated at West Point, and plunged into
the thick of tho Indian warfare on the
northwestern frontier, tho old army offi
cers instantly recoguized him us a born
soldier. He was appointed a staff offi
cer, and made such a briliiaut record
that, in a short tine, he was promoted to
\ the rank of first lieutenant and adjutant
of a new cavalry regiment.
Whon Colonel Davis returned from
the Mexican war, at the head of the gal
lant Mississippi Rifles, the whole nation
bailed him ns “tho hero of Buena Visia.”
At Monterey Colonel Davis and has men
fought with heroic valor. Braving a fu
rious storm of copper-grape, the Missis-
sippians made a desperate charge on tho
enemy’s fortifications. The Mexicans
fled und took shelter in a strong build
ing, from which they poured a heavy fire
of musketry. This heavy fire from tho
housetops was deadly and terrorizing.
Davis and his men penetrated street after
street, dislodging the foe from building
after'building, until within a square of
the grand plaza. The capitulation of
Monterey followed, and the entire
country rang with the praises of Colonel
Davis and his Mississippi Rifles.
The Buena Vista exploit classed the
name of Davis among the most renowned
military men of modern times. Here
against terrible odds he saved the army
and virtually won the battle. The Amer- j
icans were about to lose the day, when
General Taylor, with Colonel Davis and
others rode up. Several retreating regi
ments were rallied. Davis, with his own
regiment and a handfull of Indiana vol
unteers, advanced at double quick,firing
all the time. The Mexicans were put to
flight, but in a few moments a brigade
of lancers, two thousand strong, came
on at a gallop with sounding bugles and
fluttering penons. Colonel Davis threw
his men into the form of a V both flanks
resting on ravines, tbe Mexicans advanc
ing on the intervening ridge, thus expo
sing the enemy to a cross-fire. When
witbin range the rifles blazed away. The
whole head of the Mexican column fell.
Never was a more deadly fire witnessed
on any battle field. The Mexicans were
completely shattered. After this battle
the V movement was the talk of the day.
It is said that there is but one similar ex
ample in modern history. On this side of
the water GeneraUt Taylor.QuitmaD.Lane.
ana ctSer soldiers, weie enthusias
tic over Davis, and iu the old couutrv
the duke of Wellington, the victor of
Waterloo, expressed his admiration in
glowing words. Indorsed by such vet
erans as the “Iron Duke,” and old Zach
Taylor as a leader of brilliant military
genius, it goes without saying that the
people of this country, north and south, j
accepted the verdict. If the career of
Da'ircs had ended with the Mexican war,
he would still have Lad glory euough tor
one man. ,
nis fudlic life before the war.
Beforo the Mexican war Mr. Davis had
served part of a term :n congress, resign
ing to accept the command of the Mis
sissippi Volunteers. Upon his return
from the land of the Montezumas he was
appointed to fill a vacancy in the United
States senate. In the senate Mr. Davis
at once stepped into tbe front rank. lie
was a student as well as a man of affairs.
He was not only well versed in political
science, but thoroughly well equipped
for debate. Contrary to the opinion en
tertained by many of the present genera
tion, the senator from Mississippi was no
extremist. He was fully committed to the
doctrines of states rights. The election o!
President Pierce brought Senator Davis
into the cabinet as secretary of war.
Tho secretary gave much o!
his time to testing new improvement!
in arms and equipments. lie had tbe
territories explored. When tbe Crimea!
war came on he sent a number of officer!
to the scene of the trouble to study tin
discipline and methods of the European
hrniies. The lederal government never
had a moie able or efficient war secretary.
Returned by ids state to tbe senate with
the beginning of President Buchanan’s
administration, Mr. Davis plunged into
the exciting debates leading up to the
tremendous campaigns of 1800. This
brings us to a part of history almost as
lamniar to our readers as the eurreut
matters of the day, and it is unnecessary
to reproduce it here. All the world
knows that Mr. Davis was ready to fol
low his doctrine of state sovereignty to
its logical consequences'. He insisted
upon the light ot secession,but he fought
\viih all his energy against such a stale
of affairs as would, in bis judgment, ren
der the exercise of the right necessary.
When, however, the crisis came, after
the election of Lincoln, and Mississippi
had passed her ordinance of s. cession, Mr.
Davis embraced the occasion of resigning
his seat iu the federal senate to explain
and justify the course of his people.
the event of a conflict to an appointment
in the army. In such an emergency he
knew that the south would require the
services of veteran officials, and he had
every reason to believe that he would be
called upon to serve the new republic
with his sword. That this anticipation
was disappointed, we all know. The
presidency of the confederacy was thrust
upon him unsought. It was unexpected,
but in this, as in other things, Jefferson
Davis heeded the voice of his people and
accepted the burdens and responsibilities
thrust upon his shoulders.
A Canton, Ohio special, of Saturday,
says: The expulsion of District Dele
gate O’Malley, of Canton, from the At
lanta Knights of Labor convention, has
borne fruit. Canton local assembly of
D. A. 93, which O’Malley represents, has
withdrawn from the order, and returned
its charter to District Secretary Lewis,
to be forwarded to general headquarters.
Delegate O’Malley said that this was the
first assembly of seven organized in
Canton, and it is the last ono to go. It
leaves that city without a Knight of La
bor organization.
THE OWNERS BLAMED.
/ “■***•■
BEAUVOIR—DAVIS’S MISSISSIPPI HOME.
From the Senate Mr. Davis went to his
plantation in Mississippi. He hoped
that secession would bo peacefully ac
complished, but ho could not disguise
tho fact that the outlook was anything
but pacific. Following the bent of tastes
and inclinations, he looked forward in
THE CASE OF TUE TRIBUNE DEATH TRAP
DECIDED.
At Minneapolis, Minn., the coroner's
jury in the inquest on the bodies of the
victims of the Tribune building, fire ^ren
dered their verdict Thursday, which de
clares that the owners of the Tribune
building, if not legally responsible, are
morally culpable, for tho loss of life.
MRS. VARINA DAVIS.
The circumstances of Mr. Davis’ Cap
ture and impri'lvment for two years in
Fortress Monroe is n matter of history,
and is familiar to our readers. Upon
leaving prison, Mr. Davis returned to
his home in Mississippi, where lie lived
in obscurity and, it is greatly to be
feared, in poverty, his planiation yield
ing but little income. Steps were once
taken to raise a fund for him, but he
kindly, but firmly, averted the hands of
those engaged iu it as soon as he becamb
aware of what was being done. He
held that as long as the widows and
orphans of the confederate soldiers were
in want, he had neither the right nor
tho wish to take one dollar of the bouti-
dry that ought to find its way to them.
Mr. Davis preferred to live in retire
ment. In nothing that he said or did,
did he lower in the slightest degree the
dignity of his high position. Accepting
the reverses of life with uncomplaining
fortitude he held bis convictions un
changed und unmodified. In defeat as
in victory his great nature was equal
to all demands. In pence or in
war he stood the unchallenged
aud beloved chief among his people.
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