The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-11

BRSSErT OK THE DEATn OF President
DAvIs-The New York Uerdld having re-
ceived confirmation of the news of Presi-
dent DAVIS death, holds forth AS follows
paying tribute to the great qualifications of
the illustrous deceased for his difficult position
which it will hasten to contradic; as soon Us it
learns that he is alive -
TIKI DEATH OF JEFFhRsoS DAVIS AND ITS PROBABLE
consciousness.
Our latest telegraphic advices from Louis
Vile, Washington, and Fortress Monroe, as
sure us positively of the death of Jefferson
Davis, Provisional President, or Dictator
rather, of our rebellious Confederate States.
Considering that his health has been n a very
shattered condition for several years, and
considering his extraordinary labors ankle
ties and eXhausting excitements of the last
live months, We were not only prepared to
believe the report of his death, but We think
IL somewhat remarkable that he was not car
ried OFT three or four months ago. ASSUMING z
that he has at length gone the way of all the
earth, the first question suggested is: What
Will be the effect of his loss to the bad cause
OF this Southern rebellion1
We think that the loss of Davis at this time
viii be more serious TO the rebel cause than
would have been the defeat of Beuregard at
Bull Run. Davis was the man of ali the as
prng leaders of the South for the post Of
Provisional Dictator of the rebel States
u IL, II
duet at the battle of Buena Vista rendered
him exceedingly popular throughout the
South rs 4 military chieftain. His subse-
quent prominent career rs Il Southern parti-
san leader III the United States Senate, and
in the Cabinet of poor Pierce, as Secretary of
War, and again as the anonted champion of
the Dllsslssippl disunionists in the Senate at
Washington, had given him character in
the cotton states for StatesmaDshlp and ad-
ministrative talents fully up to the standard
OF his military reputation.
Thus combining the practical training and
knowledge and popularity OF the regular sol
dler with a very large experience as ire
eating politician, legislator and executive civil
officer, State and Federal Davis was the very
man required as the Provisional head of this
desperate experimental Southern Confeder-
acy. Self-conceited. self wiiled, arrogant and
despotic, we have in these pecuiiarities of
Davis the very qualities which, of all others,
were most needful TO enable him TO give force
and authority to his position as President of
the Confederate States He was invested
with this office because Of these very quail
ties, and because the crude, loose and irrespou-
sible embryo Government of which he was the
chief, and the e1igencies of the armed rebel
hon with which il WAS associated, demanded
Dictator. He was named the President, but
the few men who thus appointed him expected
him and aided him to assume the powers of
an absolute despOt
Thus we can account for the wonderful
military energy, activity and resources
brought into the Held by the rebel States
They have been called into requisition by
Davis, the absolute despot of the new con-
federation. We anticipate the question -
Was he not subject to the laws Of the Con-
federate Congress, by answering that tina,
Congress, consisting of only one house.
| of from twenty To thirty self appointed
disunion managers, was nothing more
Southern Dictator. They legislatsd ac-
| cording TO has will, aud all his sabordinatss,
| military and civil, were taught, bsfors ap-
pointed, the necessity Of absolute obedience
| 70 thsiy chief. Our readers will thus com.
| prehen6 - some extent the loss 70 the rsnsl
| cause Of thta man Davis, with hts great pop
| u1Arity, his khilltes and industraous habits
hia nn6oundsd authority and his dicsatortal
| character.
With the dsosass OF Davis, Alexander n
! 6tsphsns-a superior dsbater and politician
| although . jaundicsd, dried up and very feeble
! little man, Of about ninety pounds In weight
! succeeds 70 the once Of Provisional preatdep