St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-07
SENTIMENT OF THE SOUTH.
1t Is Reelected in the Opinions OF
the Press.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6.-The Times

offices and found faithful in all; tested i'll
many critical conjunetures and proved true
TO his country and his people; his life one
long, uninterrupted sacrifice of interest to
conscience. the fame of the Industrious dead
shall in the years TO come grow brighler as
the embers OF passion die away.
The greatness of jefferson Davis stands con-
fessed as we now write, in people S tears.
Tenacious of principle, the slave of con-
science, resolute. yet filled with the inspira-
ton that comes from unyielding belief, the
giant figure of the ex-president of the Con-
federacy. stalked across the nineteenth CEN
fury as some majestic spirit, that strong III
the consciousness OF its own right doing,
scorned the plaudits OF the world, ana hveu
only that in himself duty might be dellled;
Such was jefferson Davis and such VIII
history declare him to be.
The Picayune says:
This morning. soon after midnight there
passed out of this life one of the most notable
men of the nineteenth century. Jefferson
Davis is dead; let the South mourn. Let the
South mourn for one who represented, more
than any other. the cause for which million
of her most chivalrouS sons drew their
swords and Joined battle with the most form
idable of adversaries, their countrymen. tor
rights ami liberties that freemen must ever
hold most dear. OF the mighty captains ana
the great statesmen who gathered around
him when he presided over the desttnles OF
the South, but few survive. They passed
away before him, as did the rulers and nearly
ali the great soldiers of the cause that hecon-
fronted so boldly ana opposed SO stoutly,
Lincoln, Grant and Mcclellan. He has out
! lived his great and noble adversaries. lie
saw them pass away mOurned by nation
and worthily wearing its honors. He can
now afford TO go, asking no houors, secure IN
the love of the people to whom he was faith
full to the end.
The Daily States says:
Jefferson Davis is dead. The South weeps
! over the hero whose person her cause. after
/ going down IN sea OF pdtroue blood, was
| sought for a time to be Inundated by the
| victorious North. Jefferson Davis is dead;
/ but the glorious cause of constitutional lib
| erty, to which his life was devoted. and in
| which he suffered a l the persecution, mis-
| representation and humiliation. which are
| ever visited on the heroic witness of the
! truth, survives him. The South has already
| enshrned his memory with that of the mar
| tyrS of history, and as time grows old and
! the immortal principles for which jefferson
/ Davis batlled are more and more firmly I'M
| bedded in the American system of constitu-
tiona! government, there viii lie no sectional
/ limitation. no North and no South, in the
/ universal Yeneration due to grand but tenn
| pJrarily unsuccessful efforts which con-
! science prompted, which profound convic-
! ton sancIified, and in which indefeasible
! truth will serve to immortalize.
| NASHVILLE. Tenn, Dec. COT JEFF
! ferSOn Davis death the American thlS
morning says editOrially:
! AS we 60 to press the sad news comes that
! Jefferson Davis is dead. A man whose life
| and career was interviewer with the greatest
! and most stirring period of our national life
thus passes to the judgment of history. The
] stormy and evenful public career closed with
| the great and bloody drama in which he was
! so conspicuous an actor, and left him, yet in
| the vigor of manhood and the fullness OF his
! intellectual powers. stranded with the wreck
| OF the cause for which he perlled his life
| and hopes. For twenty five years he has
! lived in the land which he had served with
l-aw- = GNlA
| ate, deprived OF the dearest rights of the citi
| zen, the object of love and hatred equally in
| tense, hearing words of honor and loyal at
| lection mingled with curses and calumny.
| That he carried with him into retirement bit
| ter disappointments and blasted hopes no
| one can doubt; but that he bore them like
! the philosopher and hero we may know by
| the serene old age to which he has been
| spared to live. The curses of his enemies
will not be spared for the presence of death.
but the tears of many thousands Will fall hot
and fast upon his grave. Neither those who
curse nor those who weep will write the
chapter which will give him his true plaeein
history-a chapter perhaps, which will not
be written until long after the present gem
Grafton has passed away.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Dec. 6.-The Com
mercial will say tomorrow, on the
death of jefferson Davis:
His death will be lamented by all those
bound to him by ties of natural affection,
country or any part of it. His feelings and
principles and record made it impossible for
him TO be of any public service IN this day.
and he belonged to and served to some eX-
tent to project into the present. a past
which the country wants tol leave behind it. as
fully and safely as ii can. He was man of
talent, courage. integrity and honor. his
policy and management as president of the
Confederacy has been criticised by his own
side, but ii would be hard to point out any
one who could have done more with the re-
sources at his command Nothing that he
has done since the war has added to his rep
utatlOn. and il would have been as we'll for
his fame if he had died with the government
which he attempted to establish.
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 6.-The Sun
says:
Jefferson Davis went to his grave beloved
by those who shared the disasters of the Con-
federacy, and extorting the respect of even
his bittereSt foes. Like all men OF positive
character ana convictions. he had enemies
among his own people. and a host of de
tractors among the smaller and meaner ma
lures in the ranks of his political adversaries.
But he had the good fortune to live long
enough to disproye all the calumnies that
prejudice or malice conceived. Mr.. Davis
was politician of type unfortunately be-
coming rare-of intense devotion to what he
believed to be right. OF lofty elevation of
character and unassailable integrity. His
name will live in history with those of other
great popular leaders whose qualities of
heroism and fortitude survived the ruin of
their cause; and the life of such man, de-
voted as it was to the service of the people.
from no sordid motives but from pure and
lofty sense of duty, is one for which his Sec
ton has no need to apologize, and which his
whole country, ignoring the unhappy differ
enceS OF the past can well afford to honor.
BALTIMORE, Md, Dec. 6.-The Amer
lean says:
Jefferson Davis was an ardent advocate of
of
with an energy of purpose worthy of bet
ter cause. 1t is hard, it would seem, for him
in looking at the progress Of twenty-four
years. not to see that had his ideas of rights
prevailed, we could never have been what
we are now. But he lived i'll the past
and dreamed standing IN ashes of
dead hopes Of greatness that could
not be. because it had not truth and right for
its foundation. He was potent example of
q man of splendid intellect, strong will. great
courage who deliberately went wrong and
would not be put right. The American would
not let his whole career be colored by the
events of four years of his life, and pays
tribute to his valor in the Mexican war and
his greatness in the United States senate.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 6.-The Times.
tomorrow. commenting on the death of
Jefferson Davis, will say:
Lee and jackson, Benjamin, Toombs, and
Stephens on the Confederate side and their
mighty opponents ON the federal side-Lin-
coin and Grant and Chase and Sheridan
have all passed into that silent land where /
there is no IT and no political differences
At last JEFF Davis, who has fingered
long; a venerable figure of q past
age, has Joined them. The greatest of the
survivors of the confederacy is no more
Around the spot where his remains will be
committed to the earth; the whole South Will
gather In spirit on the occasion of his obse-
quies to pay mournful tribute to one of the
very nol'lest, truest and greatest of her sons
Thither ia future years. all who esteem lof;i-
ness of character, honor. adherence to con
victiOn, and who revere patriotism and ad-
mire genius of the highest order. will fire.
quently repair to renew their love of country
and respect for principle at the grave of him
whose name shall be immortal.
Gov. GordOn's Course Approved. 1
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 6.-Responses
from Southern gOYernors annrnye Gov