Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-12-12


N @&N5S ever, Mr.. Davis
JEFFERSON Darts. condition changed
suddenly for the worse, and mgr
fever manifested itself. Mr.. Davis %
became delirious, and Drs. blcA'
ham and Chaille were sum
moned in haste to his BEDSIDE
Shortly before six o'clock in the even
ing Mr.. Davis was attacked by severe
congestive chill, followed by high fever
The attack was very sudden, and up
almost to that very moment Mr.. DAVIS
was not worse than he had been at any
time during the last week or ten days.
In the height of his fever Mr.. DAVIS
passed into Inconsistencies, and though
Mrs. Davis, who watched over him
with the greatest solicitude, fancled
at times that he responded TO
her words by a faint pressure OF the
hand, not word passed his lips. JUS
tice and Mrs. Fenner, the Payne famllXI
Drs. Chaille and Bickham and
Der of the relatives and cOnnectlRW
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis were present#
chamber of death when the en&#
jefferson Davis was born in IN
what is now Todd County, on u
Mr.. Davis had strong love of miilcs
life in his youth, which he inherited from MS
father, who was an officer in a Georgia regi
ment during the revolution. Young Davis
appointment to the West Point Academy was
made by President Monroe In 1924, but his
seven years of service in the army after leay
ing West Point in 1928 seems to have weaneo
him from all further desire for a soldiers
life. Soon after his retirement from the
army in 1885 he after a romantic elopement,
married the daughter of Colonel Zachary
Taylor, subsequently President or tine
United States. He settled in Warner
County, and began the cultivation of cotton.
which he continued. theoretically at least,
until long after he had become actively in
tereSted in politics.
1t was in 1914 that Davis public career be.
gan. In that year he was elected to the pop
ular branch of Congress, taking his seat IL
1915, and at once rising to a high rank in de-
bate on the tariff, the oregon question and
other burning issues of the time. On the
outbreak of the war with Mexico in 1916,
he resigned from the House, accepted the
Colonelcy of the First Mississippi Vol
unteers, and sexved with distinction
throughout most of the Struggle In
IS47, at the clos. of the term of en-
Iistnent of this regiment, he was APP
pointed to a Pcat n the Senate to fill a va
cancy, and was elected in 1850 to a full term
in that body A year later he resigned to
become a ear didate for the governorship in
his State, in which contest he was defeated.
The retirement from public life which Da.
of short duration. President Pierce, in 1853,
appointed him Secretary of War, and he
held that post during the whole Admipistra-
tion During the four years of his service in
the Office he introduced aany reforms in the
army, among them being the light infantry
system of tactics, and rff1ed muskets and
pistols in place of the antquated arms
In up 80 that day. He was also, while
holding thu war portfolio, put in charge of
the organization and equipment of the sur
veying parties sent out to examine various
routes propos I'd for a railway to the Pacific
ocean.
On his retirement from the Cabinet in 1857
Davis re-entered the Senate, and in the dis
cussion of the slavery, secession and other
questions which came before that body in the
next four years he bore conspicuous part.
Although pronounced believer In State
rights, he also expressed strong devotion to
the Union. This was his reply. in 1859, to an
invitation to him to be present at a festival
to be held in Boston to celebrate the birth.
day of DsnieI Webster:
II send you my cordial greetings to the
friends of the Constitution, and ask to be en-.
rolled among those whose mission is, by fra.
ternity and good faith to every constitution
all obligation, to insure that, from the Aroos.
took to San Diego, from Key West to Puget
Sound, the grand arch of our political temple
shall stand mistaken"
Davis early became one of the leaders
In planning tine secession of the slave
States. When secession became a fact he
was chosen President of the Southern Con-
by the Provisional Congress of the
seceNd States. This was on February 8,
1861, and he was regularly chosen later ON
FOR the full term of six years.
Up to May, 1865, after the surrender of the
armies of the Confederacy, Davis contem-
plated further resistance, intending to COL
ect some of the fragments of Johnson's
forces and move to the west side of the Mis-.
sissippf and continue the war. 1t was on
May 10. while in camp near Irwinsville, Ca,
after abandoning Richmond, that he was
captured by body of Union cavalry com.
handed by General J. H. Wilson. He was
aiken to Fortress Monroe, where he re.
NAMED in captivity two years.
Davis was brought to trial in May 1867
before the United States Circuit Court at
and was admitted to bail, the
charge of conn licity in the assassination of
lincoln, which had been preferred against
lfn, having been abandoned for lack Of
evidence. The ball was 100000, and the
irst name ON the bond was that of Horace
Greeley. Pending trial on the charge of trea.
on, he went to New York, thence to Canada
md subsequently to Europe, passing part OF
S6S I'm England and France Returning to
he United States in that year, a nolle pros.
quf was entered in his case, and he was
discharged. In the latter part of the year
he general amnesty was declared, which in
Soon after Davis discharge by the Court
le was made president of life Insurance.
his. In 1879 Mrs. Dorsey bequeathed to
linn her estate at Beauvo:r, Miss, where he
las since quietly resided, occasionally at
ending the unvailing of monuments, Con-
ederate soldiers reunions and affairs Of that
lass Eight years ago he published, in two
+ the Confederate Government" He ha
lso contributed to the magazines and wri,
en- letters to the newspapers, retaining !
trong intellectual grasp on public affai
nd his vigorous, trenchant style of EXPIRE
ion to the end.
Shocking Accident.