White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-01-11
Hon. Henry Winter Davis.

Our regular spatcheS have heretofore
announced the sudden death. on Satur.
day, the 30th ult., of him whose name
stands at the head of this article, but 9
pressure upon our columns has heretofore
prevented us from noticing in fitting and
appropriate terms the passing away ol
one SO distinguished as . scholar, orator,
statesman and lawyer. Mr.. Davis was
perfectly we'll on Christmas day, and was
out making several calls, besides attend
ing church. 1t is supposed that he con.
tracteI the fatal disease on that occasion.
by catching cold. No special danger
was spprehended BY his family or pbysi.
clans until shortly before his death. He
was conscious aud suffered greatly at the
last. The virulence of the disease bsffied
the best medical skill, and be quietly
sunk, conscious of his approaching end.
He was surrounded by his family and
friends in his last hours.
Thus has passed away one of Mary.
lands most gifted sons, leaving q moral
and national reputation possessed By few
Of his age. He was scholarly to degree
Of perfection seldom surpassed. soaring
far above the common order of intellects
He was strict member of the Episcopal
Church, and an exemplary Christian
He ranked 6rst at the legal bar of thit
State. was far-seeing in ststesm ansbip
and always in advance of the age in ad.
vocatiug principles, many Of which have
now grown into facts. e7
While in Congress, in 1859, he avow.
ed his entire independence of pro-slavery
despotism BY voting for Mr.. Pennington,
the Republican candidate for Speaker
The act drew down on him q storm o.
reprosch and abuse. The Legislature o
his own State passed . resolution that b,
had misrepresented Maryland and forfeit.
ed the confidence of her people. In q
speech made in COMMITTEES of the Whole
10 the House immediately after, be told
the members of the Maryland Legislator,
to take their message back to their mas
tsrs, for only TO their masters, the people
would he ssplyl In still higher key,
be declared thss he should rejoies If hi.
duty to his country could always be made
to square with the interests of his imms.
diate constituents. bat there might be oc.
cssious when it would be necessary to
consider the welfare Of the nstion, and
disregard the wishes of those who elected
him. y2 EoL EEss -yaa :i50H
Representing Slave State and Boe.
der State, he was, nevertheless. couspicu.
ous in Congress for his Incorporating
Rsdieslism. his early advocacy Of Emsn-
cipation, of srming the negroes, and oi
every measure that looked to the sstab.
lishmest Of . permanently free Union
His great speech At Chicago. last Sum.
NERVE believe bis last speeeh-was for
negro snarsge. His Southern birth and
education. his political hopes. which wess
always high, and his professional interests.
to which be was much attached. weighed
Is nothing against his faith in the princi-
pies of the Declaration, of Humanity. oi
Freedom, and Of Equal Rights. This is
not an hour when the country can afford
to lose him. -
He Vas born in 1917, at Annapolis.
Maryland. graduated At Hampton Sidney
College, was bred . lawyer and . Wing.
entered Congress in 1855. Was re-elscsed.
Vas chosen again to the XXXVIIIth
Congress. 1868 to 1865, and ssrved dur
ing tboss years - Chairman of the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs. He wss -
sristocratic in his feelings and tastes 6 be
vas Democratic BY conviction and IN
public life; of elegant person. with re-
fined fsce and intellectual bead. of wide
and generous eoitars. ready. swift, and
brilliant speaker. aggressive. ittsd to
shine in debate aud in opposition. and OF
he most winning and graceful essfsessr-
10. Herald. Ls'