St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-06
JEFF DAVIS IS DEAD.
The Ex-PPesident Of the
Southern Confederaey
Gone TO His Fathers.
Physicians Thought He Had
Passed the Crisis in
His Illness.
It Was Contracted While on q
Visit to His Planta-
tion.
E4-4o % I. t.
Fever AccentuateS the Infipm-
tiles of Age, Causing His
Sudden Demise.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6.-Jefferson
Davis died at 12:45 this morning.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6.-Jeferson
Davis died at 12:45 this morning.
Jefferson Davis was born June 8. 1893, IN
that part of Kentucky now Todd county.
though his parents removed to Mississippi
while he was quite boy. He received aca-
demic instruction at Pennsylvania college,
Kentucky. and in 1924 was appointed q
cadet. at West Point by President
Monroe, graduating in 1928. He
at once went into active gerV-
ice and in the Black Hawk war of 1882
distin gushed himself for his bravery, He
was made lieutenant of dragons and
served with honor in the various Indian out
breaks in 1884 In 1885 be resigned and re-
turned to Mississippi, having married
daughter of Zachary Taylor. afterWard presi,
dent of the United States. He early entered
political career. aud after being elected
an elector on the Polk and Dallas ticket in
1874. was first sent to congress i'll 1S45.
During his term the Mexican war began He
enrolled himself as a volunteer. and was
elected colonel of q regiment that distin-
guished itself i'll the battle of Buena Vista
and other engagements. In lS47 Coz. Davis
was sent home badly wounded after refusing
a commission as brigadier general rendered
by President Polk. In the same year he was
appointed United States senator TO fill
IN UNEXPIRED TERM
end at the naxt Legislature session was uDaBi-
He was made chairman Of the military com
mittee Of the senate, and was distinguished
by his Jealous advocacy OF the doctrine OF
states rights. In 1851 he was the
Mississippi. and was defeated by The
Union party, though reducing the large
adverse majority. On his defeat he retired
from public life until he was made secretary
of war by President Pierce in 1853, which
post he held until the Buchanan adTuinistra-
ton in 1857. His administration of this
portfolio was marked by conspicuous ability
and he was universally popular with the
navy. In 1857 he was again elected United
States senator and was the reccsnized
leader OF tie Democrats in congress. He
was very generally spoken of as possible
candidate for president. and in the national
convention of 1856 he received number Of
votes for the nomination. Upon the reas-
sembling OF congress in that year, though
from his position he acted in concert
with those who favored q separation Of
the states he was himself
oFFessD TO Succession.
He WAS named in the special committee to
consider and report on the disturbed stsfeof
the Union. but was excused at his
own request He. remained IN een-
gress until Notified of his election
On Feb. 4. 1861. the Confederate congress
met at Montgomery. Ala, organized a pro-
visionai government for the seeded states,
and ON the 9th, by unanimous vote. elected
States Of America. He arrived at Mont:
gomer5 on the 10th, and was inaugurated on
the iIlh, A. Il. Stevens, of Georgia. having
been fnaugursted vice president about
week earlier He selected for his cabinet
Robert Tombs, of Georgia, as secretary OF
state: Leroy F. Walker of Alabama, as sec
retary Of war; Charles G. MenninigeF. of
South Carolina, as secretary of the treasury;
Stephen K. Mallory. of Floriday. as secretary
of the navy; Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisi-
ana as attorney general, and John H. Rea-
gan, of Texas, as postmaster general In
his inaugural address Mr.. Davis said:
I'VE have entered upon q career Of
independence. and it must be infiexibIy
pursued. AS a necessity, no q choice,
we have resorted to the remedy of separa.
tion, and henceforth our energies must he
directed to the conduct of our own affairs
and the perpetuity of the coufederacy which
we have formed. In the same spirit in his
first message to the congress on April 90, he
said: "All we ask is
TO BELET ALONE
that those who never held power over rs
shall not attempt our subsection by
arms This we will, we must resist to the
direst extremity. On May 2 THE confederate
government was transferred from Montgom-
cry to Richmond, and few days later Mr..
Davis followed it. An army OF 10000 men.
commanded by Beauregard and johnson,
had been gathered in Northern Virginia In
July the Union troops were routed in she
battle of Bun Run. Mr. Davis arrived at the
and there has been much controversy
as to whether he ordered his
troops not to follow Mcdowell. This
was followed by long period of inactivity.
All the speeches and messages of MIR. Davis
thus far indicate that he was sincerely desir-
Gus of peace. In his inaugural, he said; AZ
enter upon the duties of the Office TO which
have been chosen with the hope that the be-
ginning of our career as a confedeFacy
may not be obStrueted by hostile
opposition to our enjoyment of the
separate existence and independence which
we have asserted" In November 1861. q
presidential election was held throughout
the contedeTacy, and Mr Davis was chosen
president for the full term of six years. On
Feb. - Mr.. Davis was inaugurated president.
From this date the civil war was waged in
earnest until that April day in 1866. when
Gen. Robert e. Lee surrendered at Appomat-
tox. After the surrender Mr.. Davis and his
party went to Greensboro, n. G. From
Grpr nsborO he went TO Charlotte. where he
m lined about week and where he heard
of me assassination of President Lincoln.
He contemplated resistance to arrest. Be-
fore putting this design inlo execution he
went TO secure the
SAFETY OF HIS WIFE,
who had preceded him with small
was encamped near IrwinVille, Ga.
Nav lO. when body of Union cavalry, com
msnded by Col Pritchard, captured his
camp and arrested him. at the moment OF
MS arrest ne nau on Ills OlUlndfY uESSS. Will
re rular overcoat and shawl on his should
ers, and was going out of his tent having
been aroused by the firing of two parties Of
the Federal pursuerS, who in the dark had
attacked each other. lie was conveyed to
Fortress Monroe. where he arrived May Island
where he was confined for two years. In
May, 1867, he was brought before the United
states circuit court at Richmond on charge
of treason. and was admitted 10 bail, the
charge completely in the assassination OF
Lincoln being dropped, as there was no evil
dence to substanliate it. He made o brief
stay in Richmond, where he vas well re-
caived ~ the people, aud went thence
to New York and thence to Canada.
In the summer of 1863 he went to England
a mercantile house in Liverpool having Of
fered to take him as a partner without any
capital. He did not accept the offer. how.
ever, but continued his Journey ia
France, and soon returned to America,
At the term of the United States circuit
court held at Richmond in December, 1868,
a noIle prosequi was entered in his case,
and he was accordingly DISCHARGED. He was
included IN the general amnesty of Dee.
p, is 8. In June, ISL. he had
public reception at Atlanta, Ca
and made speech, in which
he said that he still adhered
to the principle Of state sovereignty, aud,
in the final triumph of truth, des-
paired not. though for time the power of IFS
enemies is too great to be resisted, Mr. Davis
lived quietly at his home at BeauGoir, Miss,
during the last eighteen years.