The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-12
REQUIESCAT IN PACE.
Funeral Of Jefferson Davis, Fa-
ther of the Confderacy.
THE MOURNING IN THE SOUTH.
Business is Suspended and Memorial Services
are Held-The Eloquent and Touching
Tribute of Bishop Gallaher.

in full accord with his rank as a military
officer, in addition to which numerous civic
and other organizations combined to render
the cortege to-day in all respects most i'm
posing, not only with reference to numbers
but in the pomp and circumstance of its
elaborate character. There participated
in the obsequies of the father of the con-
federacy, besides veterans of the lost
cause who have once again been called upon
to close up their decimated ranks, many
gallant soldiers whose untlinching valor
was displayed on numerous hotly 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 commenced,
but long previous to that time the great
square Immediately fronting the city hall
was broken into by the great unwieldly mass
of humanity. According to the programme
the square was to be reserved exclusively
for the military. The enforcement of this
injunction, however, by the large but by
no means adequate police force on duty,
experienced innu ncrable obstacles and it
was with the greatest difficulty that the
surging multitude was kept beyond the
prescribed environments. Every available
place from which either an unobstructed
or partial view could be had of the portico
of the municipal building was crowded
10 SuuOCdUlOu. DuFluR all GulS
time the air was laden with funeral
dirges, the solemn requiem of the bells was
heard on every hand, and loud and deep
were the sounds of the minute guns that at
intervals Numbered forth their deep
mouthed tribute to the dead. The body,
Notwithstanding the warm and exception
ally oppressive weather of the past week,
was remarkably well preserved. At 12:l0
the casket was conveyed from the memoir
ial room to the improvised catafalque in
the center of the front portico whose mas
sive pillars were intertwlned with a pro-
fusion of Grape. Over the casket was
thrown the soft folds of a silken flag of the
lost cause and the glittering sabre with
which the dead soldier had carved fame
and honor for himself and glory for his
country on the fields of Chapultepec and
Monterey. Immediately surrounding the
coffin were the clergy and armed sentries,
they being the only persons admitted to a
place on the porticO during the service.
The relatives of the deceased were as
signed to seats in the mayors parlor from
the windows of which they were enabled
to witness the ceremony.
The obsequies were conducted by Bishop
Gallaher, assisted by five officiating clergy
men of various denominations. There
were altogether twenty surpGced minis
tiers, besides the attendance of numerous
clergy of different denominations from
various southern states. A surpiced choir
of thirty-SiX voices, accompanied by the
organ, sang the anthem, Through the val
ley 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 the moving volume of human
history has been closed and clasped. The
strange and sudden dignity Of death has
been added to the fine and reso-
lutte dignity of the living man who
in his person and history symbolized
the solemn convictions and tragic fortunes
of millions of men, cannot pass into the
gloom that gathers around without sign
or token from the surcharged bosoms of
those whom he leaves behind. l am not
here to stir by breath the embers of the
settled strife, to speak one word unworthy
of him and of the hour That is written in
the worlds memory and the books of God,
but l am here to say for our help and inspi-
\ ration that this man as Christian and
FAchurchman was the lover of all high and
righteous things, as a citizen he was
fashioned in the old faithful 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 a man, gracious
and gentle even to the lowliest, nay
especially to them, tender as he was
brave, he desired to win the love of all that
followed him; fearless and unselfish, he
could not well escape the lifelong conflict
10 WHICH ne was Greatly ana
strangely misconceived, he bore injustice
with calmness betting his place. He
suffered many and grievous wrongs, suf-
fered most for the sake of others, and those
others will remember his unfinching fidel
itY with deepening gratitude while the Po-
tomac seeks the Chesapeake or the Missis-
sippi sweeps by Brierfield on its way to the
Mexican sea-
Following Bishop Gallaher, Rev. DR.
Markham read the lesson, while Rev. Mar
tin repeated a psalm, the Rev. Blackwell
the versicles and Rev. Thompson the creed,
and thus ended the services at the city hail.
which, although simple and brief, were
wonderfully impressive.
At the conclusion of the religious services
the casket was borne by detachment of
soldiers to the handsomely decorated Gals
son on which it was conveyed with a
canopy supported by bronze cannOns and
muskets, draped with United States
flags. The casket rested on a slight
elevation and the caisson was drawn by
six black horses, each led by a soldier in
uniform. With marvellous precision the
battalion wheeled into line, preceded by
detachment of city police, followed by the
clergy, pall-bearers and so on until the
mammoth procession was formed. The
PROCESSION after leaving the city hall pro
ceeded up st. Charles street to Calliope,
from Calliope into Camp, thence to Char
tres to st. Louis, TO Royal and is now on
Canal in direct route to the cemetery.
The honorary pail bearers were Cover
nors Nichols, of Louisiana; Lowry, of Mis-
sissippi; Buclner, of Kentucky; Gordon,
of Georgia; Richardson, of South Carolina,
FOwle, of Forth Carolina; Fleming, of
Florida; Eagles, of Arkansas.
all-bearers: General George w. Jones,
Iowa; Hon. Charles Z. Fenner, Louisiana,
Sawyer Hayward, Mississippi; Hon.
Thomas II. Watts Alabama, a member of
President Davis cabinet. The procession
was an hour and ten minutes passing a
given point AS the grand funeral cortege
travers ed the streets, from the turrets of
every church the bells tolled, while dirges
blended with the booming of minute guns.
Parts Of the city not directly located on the
line of march were literally depopulated.
When the progress of the procession
finally brought the military TO the mOnu-
ment the police and soldiers were drawn mp
all around in a circle. The caisson stopped
at the foot of the mount and a detail Of
honor of Battery G bore the casket up the
ascent to the foot of the jackson monument,
beneath which il was to be placed The
Veteran association, chOristers, clergy
men. pail bearers, etc, had already taken
positions and the family and intimate
friends of the bereaVed followed. Bishop
Thomson opened the ceremonies by read
6Rg the first portion of the Episcopal ser
Vices. Then Private Sappington, of com
fantry. sounded "taps" on the bugle
and Bishop Gallahe- read the sec
ond portion of the ritual consigning
the body to the grave. An anthem was
sang by the choristers; Bishop Thompson
recited the Lords prayer, then the hymn
Crock of Ages" was rendered and the re-
ligiops rites were over. Bishop Gallaher