The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-06
JEFFERSON DAVIS DEAD
The Leader OF the Lost Cause Passes
Away at New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, DEG. 6.-Jcfferson Davis
slicti At l2:.sD o'clock this morning.

NEW ORLEANS, Dcc. s.-Jcfrerson Davis
slicd AZ II I'D o'clock this morning.
News OF the death Of Mr.. Davis reached
Anaconda AT o'clock this morning. The
announcement will bc u surprise tn the
country for. although Mr.. Davis had been
in delicate health, il was understood that
his condition had greatly improved,
after his arrival i'm New Orleans,
about two weeks aUe. In spite
Cf the fact that hc was 81 years old, there
was feeling abroad that he would rally
axain, he had often rallied from
previous sudden prostration. and that he
might yet survive many years tai witness,
~ il by dispensatiosI of providence. the
fuller proof as years rolled 10y of the fail
nrc of all his favored theories.
jefferson Davis was born i'm kentucky,
In 1sos. He entered Trausylv ania college,
Kentucky, when a youth. hut left the
SCHOOL in lS2i to enter West Point, where
be- was graduated in isss. He did several
yf,ars of army service. principally
"a Indian fighting, and, resign-
bscanc n cotton planter i'm Mississippi
The career of Mr.. Davis in national pol
cn mlr ssa9 az ca,v IN rsss' r T% ,r" ne a,a , n,r.
hss took AN active part. When the Mcxi-
cnn war broke out he assumed command
teers, and he saw service at Monterrey and
Bucna Vista. During four s,,c-
seeding years & hs WAS !" ,, the Federal s.mate ;
man ON military affairs. In 1859 he was
appointed secretary of war ny President
Pierce and the comment was everywhere
| csrLent that Davis was the real atininis-
traitor, his policy being aggressive aud his
influence in the dircct,on of cabinet
| affairs universally admitted to be COM
| unansiing.
The country will never forget the me
| morabis, circumstances Far too complex
for review at this n,o,nent, winch proinpt-
| ed MIR. Davis tn resign his seat i'm con-
ISL issi. The FsSs,"rs @ox.n,. tor Of March sha.
eventfii year which Witnessed the his
toric conventions held in states of
election OF Mr.. Davis as presi.icn, OF the
The history OF Mr.. Davis career as
| In outline. The American citizen keeps
ip mind merely the historic fact tina, the
~ of RichInonel. capital of the confeslsr. :i..
story u ne fiiant of Nj. Davis has per
haps never been faithfully told. With
Danvillc. hut after tile. surrender of Lee,
the migratory government pushed ON t.
Greensbor,, North Carolina. Thence ];
"% " harsehsct TO- Charia.". wh"rs @
Davis proposed to establish the capital 81
out subjects. When Johnston s,,rrcr
dercd tn sherman. Davis having lost most
of his following aeterinin.ti To make hi.
| way to FORESTS army in mississippi. 3u
a short distance from IrwiI,sviilc
|
Lieutenant Dickinson and Corporal
Munger, and the head Of a. coiiapset
revolution was conveyed to Fortress,
Monroe. There jefferson Davis was hcIt
two years. and readers Of the >TANDARI
will recall. with the announcement
aud th. petty Icchnicalities that shielded
him from ~ place OH tisc scaiioid.
| Traitor that he was. law did not seen
strong enough tn reach tiis. arch s'onspirss
tor. Action was started against him IN
the District Of Columbia. but il was dis.
covered that he could not bc ,rie there
Then proceedings were started in Nir
ginia. lie was not tried for treason. al
though the charge against him was fol
carrying on war against the United States
g.,i-hed iuri-t than salmon r
onass w,rs ,r, il" his ,iG faxIr' wa. r,s.e dis
ON bail which was placed at SlD.OUp an,
then came the rcmarkiblc episnde i,
Greeley and a no less distinguished states
mani; man and more , ,nr,ar Pran1,mset "So'pns. rpm-
ing bail for the defeated con-pir
ator. IL the SrANpARp's m.nior
is faithful in his l,; haS'y ~, : .r k.,cl !,
furnishing bail with the g.ntie'neI
named. Mr.. Smith was rcputcd to he i'm
, menscly rich. During the war aud fo
Utterly Opposed to slavery m and IT,. ..,.. .a,
had announced h.iu-s-f to ts..
. The world knows what manner of liz
Jefferson Davis has led since his escap
from mcrited death ON the scatiold
| years ago. In early life, he married III
! daughter of General Zach Taylor. IL wa
= a runaway affair, although the family RI
= lations of Mr.. Davis were always of Ill
happicst nature. His home was alway
!. | surrounded with the cleRancies of lif
A although none of the financial returns {
: his later years we're prosperous. and h
e.state will fall far short OF giving hiI
rank with the country's rich men.
u Within n few days dispatches hav
2 | repeated to th- country the latest uttc
: ances of Mr.. Davis on politics
, | topics. In these he reflects the SCI
, tisnent regarding the sovereign riRh
: of states, "a doctrine 50 harmless now ths
/ no man deems il worth the needing.
4 sentiment. however. which once cost IL
. American Union unspcakablc SORROW. uI
!, counted treasure. uuineasurcd blood All
= irrepar,.ilc loss in return for which deaf
r on the gallows-howcver slight III
expiation-,uight to- have ended in disyra'
the lfS OF the man who died last mig
amid peaceful surroundings, whose up
mas were an awful mistssk Ike, whose cnre'
l. was "a crime and whose ~ prcne noincn
d were attended 10y the gettle ministry
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