Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-12-12
THE LEADER GONE.
jefferson Davis. President of the
Southern Confederacy, lis Dead.
He Passed Peacefully Away at the Home
of a Friend in New Orleans
Scenes at the Death Bed
His Eventful Life.
ENTERED INTO HEST.

ENTERED INTO REST.
New ORLEANS, Dec. Jefferson
Davis, ex-President of the Confederate
States, died at the residence Of his life
long friend, j. Z. Payne, at 1915 o'clock
this morning. From the beginning of
his fatal illness Mr.. Davis had insisted
that his case was nearly or quite hope
less. Shortly before o'clock in the
evening Mr.. Davis was attacked by Sc
we're congestive chill, followed by high
fever, and from that moment to the mo-
ment of his death the history of his case
was that of gradual sinking.
BY 1880 o'clock there were assem- bled
in the death-chamber Mrs. Davis, Drs.
Chaille and Bickham. Associate Justice
and Mrs. Fenner, Miss Mamie Smith,
grand-niece of the dying express
ident, and Mr. and Mrs. f. H. Farrar
More and more feeble became his res
plrations till they passed into silence
and then the watchers knew that the
silver cord had been loosed and the
golden bowl broken. The end was peace.
full and without pain.
New ORLEANS, Dec. THE expires.
sion of sorrow among the people over
the death of Jefferson Davis is as sin.
care as it is general. Friday when the
news of his death spread throughout
the city flags were suspended at half
mast from all the city and State build
ings, newspaper offices, banks and in
surance companies. 1t has been
suggested that Governor Nichols
issue proclamation setting apart
a day of mourning, and that the
people of the city dress their houses
with Grape out of respect for the distin-
guished dead. A movement to decorate
residences with mourning colors has al
ready been made and is meeting with
favor throughout all parts of the city.
The funeral will take place Wednes-
day noon, Bishop Galleher, OF tho Epis-
copal church, conducting the ceremony.
The body will be temporarily inferred
at Metaric Cemetery, in the tomb of the
Veteran Association of the Army of
Northern Virginia.
Mrs. Davis has been Frustrated by the
death of her husband. Her children,
Miss Winfield Davis, 1.-The daughter of
ting Confederacy," and Mrs. Hayes, of
Colorado City, were not in the city. The
former is in Paris and the latter was de-
tanned at Fort Worth, Tex, while on
her journey to her fathers bedside.
Dispatches from Fort Worth and Paris
report that the children were overcome
with grief upon receipt of the news of
their fathers death.
Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1908. in that
Nnff NhKuiaf ..n.
Todd County. In 1924 he was appointed by
President Monroe TO the United States Mil
itary Academy from which he graduated In
1929, and was assigned t3the First Infantry. He
served in the Black Hawk war Of 1871 81 June
30, 1895, he resigned eloped vith the daughter
OF Zachary Taylor, then Colonel IN the army,
and settled near Vicksburg, Miss. as a cotton
Planter. In 1916 he was sent To Congress- In
June, 1915, he resigned TO accept the Colonelcy
OF the First Mississippi Volunteers, and al
once moved TO reinforce General Taylor on the
Rio Grande. May "a 1917 his regiment was
ordered home, In August he went TO the United
States Senate, where he became q jealous
advocate OF State rights. In 1881 he re-
signed his seat to become candidate for Gov
ernor OF Mississippi, but was defeated at the
polls. year later he supported Franklin
Pierce for the Presidency, and as a reward for
his labors was made Secretary of War. AT the
close OF President Pierccs term he was again
leader. January TO- 1851, he made q speech
asserting the right of secession and urging that
the garrison be withdrawn from Fort Sumter
January 81 being officially informed that Mis-
sissippi had seeded January O. he withdrew
from the Senate and went TO his home, He was
al once appointed Commander in Chief of the
army of Mississippi, but February Is, 1851 he
resigned that office TO accept the Presidency Of
the Confederate States. Soon after this the
capital was removed from Montgomery to
Richmond and Mr.. Davis removed thth-
err November 10, 1861 he was formally
elected President for six years and was duly
inaugurated February %, 1852. Before that no
had held the office by virtue of appointment by
the Provisional Congress. December %, 1862,
he issued proclamation in retaliation for the
emancipation proclamation OF President Lin
coin. In this he declared that General b f.
Butler was felon and ordered that all com
missioned officers serving under him, as well us
all serving with slaves should be treated as
robbers and criminals deserving DEATH
When Atlanta was evacuated, September 1,
1894, Mr. Davis visited Georgia and tried to
raise the spirits of the people there, but with
out much success. In January, 1866, he sent
three commissioners TO treat with the United
States Government but their mission was UNI
successful In his last message to the Congress
March 3D. iS65-Mr. Davis asserted that the
Confederacy had ample means to meet all
emergencies, and April 2, less than a month
later, he was obliged TO evacuate Richmond
He was captured near Irwinsvlle Ga, May
TO- and taken to Fort Monroe. May 8 1866 he
was indicted for treason by grand jury in the
United States District Court for Virginia, sit
ting at Norfolk under Judge Underwood. Nav
10, 1887, he was admitted to bail in the sum of
100000. He was never brought to trial, nolle
prosequi being entered by the Government De.
cember, 1853. In 1879 Mrs. Dorsey, OF Beau.
voir Miss bequeathed him her estate, ana
there he has since resided, occasionally appear.
ing to make a speech in some Southern city
He was excepted from bill restoring political
rights to those who took part in the rebellion
and excepted from bill pensioning veterans OF
the Mexican war, it being charged that he was
responsible for the horrors of AnderSonville.1