, 1889-12-12
DAVIS FUNERAL.
The Confederate Leader Laid
to Rest.
A Large Procession Follows the
Remains
Memorial Services Held in all
Southern Cities.

New ORLEANS, Dec. Il.-By univer-
sal request Jefferson Davis was given a
funeral in full accord with his rank as a
military officer, in addition 10 which
numerous civic and other organizations
combined to render the cortege to-day in
all respects the most imposing. not
only with reference to numbers, but in
the pomp and circumstances of its elabor-
ate ceremonial. There participated in
the ~obsequies of the father of the conted-
eracy, besides the veterans of the lost
cause, many gallant soldiers whose un-
iinching valor was displayed on numer-
GUS holly contested fields resulting in
glory and victory to the stars and
stripes
Eleven thirty was the hour at which
the funeral ceremony was to be com-
menced, but long previous to that time
the great square Immediately fronting the
city hall was filed with a mass of eager
humanity. Every available place from
which either an unobstructed or partial
view could be had of the portico of the
municipal building was crowded almost to
suffocation. During all this time the air
was laden with funeral dirges, the solemn
requiem of bells was heard on every
hand and loud and deafening were the
sounds of the minute guns that at inter-
walls Numbered their deep mouthed tribute
to the dead.
Notwithstanding the very warm and
exceptionally oppressive weather of the
past week the body was remarkably well
preserved. At 1910 the casket was con-
veyed from the memorial room to al i'm
provIsed catafalque in the center of the
front portico, whose massive pillars were
entwined with a profusion of Grape. Over
the casket was thrown the soft folds of a
silken flag of the lost cause as also the
the glittering sabre with which the dead
soldier had carved fame and honor for
himself and glory and victory for his
country on the fields OF Chapultapec and
Monterey.
Immediately surrounding the coffin
were the clergy and armed sentries, they
being the only persons admitted = a place
on the poJtico during the services. The
relations of the deceased were assigned to
seats in the mayors parlor, from the win
dows of which they were able to witness
the ceremonies.
The obsequies were conducted by Bishop
Gallaher, assisted by five officiating clergy
Lutu VI NhTlOuS uCuDulludllOU5. mere
were altogether twenty supplied minis
tiers, besides an attendance of numerous
clergy of different denominations from
various Southern states. A surpliced choir
of thirty six voices, accompanied by an
organ, sang the anthem Through the
Valley of the Shadow of Death" after
which Bishop Gallaher made an address.
He said in part:
The end of a long and lofty life has
come and a moving volume of human his
tory has been closed and clasped. The
strange and sudden dignity of death has
been added to the fine and r~esolute dig
nifty of the living. A man who in his
person and history symbolized the SOL
N convictions and tragic fortunes of
millions OF men cannot pass into the
gloom that gathers around the grave
without a sign or token from the sur.
charged bosoms of those whom he leaves
behind. L am not here to stir by a
breath the embers OF a settled strife nor
to speak n word unworthy of him and
of the hour. That is written in the
worlds memory and in the books of God.
But l am here to say for our help and
inspiration that this man as a christian
and churchman was a lover of all high
and religious things. As a citizen he was
fashioned in the old taithfal type, as a
soldier he was marked and fitted for more
than fame, the Lord God having set on
him the seal OF liberty of men.
Gracious and gentle even to the low
liest-nay. especially to them as tender as
he was brave-he deserved to win all the
love that followed him. Fearless and un-
selfish he could not well escape the life
long conflict to which he was committed.
Greatly and strangely misconceived, he
bore the injustice with a calmness beft-
ting his place. He suffered many and
grievous wrongs and suffered most for the
sake OF others, and those others will re-
member his u%nfiinching fidelity with
deepening gratitude while the Potomac
seeks the Chesapeake. or the Mississippi
sweeps by the brier field on It's way to. the
Mexican sea-"
Following Bishop Gallagher the Rev.
DR.. Markham read the lesson. while the
Rev. Martin repeated the psalm, the Rev.
Blackwell, the v%ersicles and Rev. Thomp-
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