Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-24
From the Jackson Nississippsan, 10th.
Warren p. Anderson.

"afEcn An0ef800s
s. In The laat number of this Journal Their.
was brief notics, of the decease of this dis
tinguished gentleman. The priminent place
he occupied in this community and the e.
TEEN and affection, in which he was held hy
large circle of admiring friends make APP
propriate a more extendend memoir.
Mr.. Anderson was q NATIVE OF Tennessee.
and at the time of his decease had reached
his forty third year. His parents belonged
to the worthiest and most respectable class
OF Tennessee yeomanry. B ing in moderate
circumstances, they impressed him at an ear
~ age with the necessity of s,lfreliance and
manly 'ndep- nd'nce.
Although not the iuheriior of wealth. Mr..
Anderson received from his father that which
wealth cannot bestOw, early aud careful
training IN the precePts OF religion and
truth. and the incubation Of the hi CHEST sen
timenis at honor aud upright conduct.
At an early age, when most boys in Que
country are at school, Mr.. Anderson was
placed clerk in store. aud in couse-
auence may he truly said to have been a self
made aud self-taught man. Possessed oi an
energetic aud daring character. he joined thu
army oil Tennessee volunteers in 1886, and
served with distinguished courage Cam
paigu in Florida before be was eighteen years
of e.
Removing to Mississippi in lSiI, he was
for several years engaged in mercantile bus
mess In jackson. A warm and enthusiastic
Whig-as parties were then organized-he
blk an active part in the canvass of 1874,
in behalf of M. Clay for the Presidency. Up
to this time be had never made a public
sp ech, aud neither he nor his friends were
aware Of his more than common puwers of
oratOry.
Unexpectedly called Bpen. during this
CANVASS to address public audience, he rose
at first with embarr smeni, but in few
minutes, warming with bis theme, he spoke
with such degree of unstudied but natural
eloquence as at once enrolled him among the
best public speakers in the State.
From this time till his decease be held a
prominent political position with his party,
and nothing but a feeble physical constitU ton
and ill health, which left him too much pros :
trated to endure the exrtions necessary to
the highest success, prevented his ObtaiHin z
any political position be might have ought.
Repeatedly representing Kinds county in
the Legislature, he Was always an active and
influential member of that body, carrying
readily every measure he desired, when
no strict party vote was involved against
him.
Frequently solicited to run for the Office of
Governor he was always compelled to de-
cline in consequence OF inability to undergo
the necessary istig que and labor incident to
a canvass for that Office in Mississippi.
In 1856 his friends demanded that ne should
at least permit thrm to nominate him for
Congress, but finding that another distin-
guished gentleman was also named in con-
nectiou with that office, he withdrew rather
than produce discOrd IN his party. Since
then his ill health has prevented him from ac-
lively participating in political affairs.
A warm and devoted Union man, he gave
an earnest and sincere support to Mir. Bell at
Il
success of Mr.. Lincoln, believing that =
longer continuance of the Union was incom
patible with the honor of the South aud the
safety of her institutions, he took an eaIly
and active part in those measures which ul
mately ended in the secession of Mississippi ::
and whatever part may have been taken by
others, it will perhaps be readily conceded
by all, that Mr.. Anderson's prominence and
popularity among the Wings tended more
than any other cause to produce that har-
mony and unanimity of action which dis
tinguished the secession movement III Nissis-
sippi.
Mr.. Anderson closed his public career as a
member of the Convention, which declared
the secession of Mississippi from the Union,
and though not living to see the end of the
struggle which that movement began, he was
giaddened in his last illness with the light vi
glory reflected from tine blood-siained but
hallowed field Of Manassas.
A. a political speaker, Mr.. Anderson had
few superiorS in The State. As legislator,
be always maintained foremost rank. As a
politician, be had the confidence of bis own
party, aud the respect aud esteem OF his op
ponents; and man, he was honored for
his talents, respected for his virtues, aud
loved for his geual character, and cordial
disposition. The loss sustained by the pub
lie in his decease is great But in his family,
where his presence ever shed the light of love
and happiness, and in the circle OF his friends
where his ready wit and genial disposition
threw charm of euchantment /; his vacant
place has made a void which none can fill !;
and around it will cluster in the lapse OF
time, thousand memories of the past, hal
lowed to the name of WARREN Z. ANDERSON
dear alike to alias PATRI0r-HUsBAND-
FATHER FRIEND.