The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1889-10-04
Ex-PREsIDENTDAvIs.
Hon. " hartOn j. Green Interview wed i
Regard to His Visit.

| Hon. " hartOn J Green Interviewed in
Regard to His Visit.
| correspondent of the Durham Globe
called upon Col Wharton j. Green, to in
terview him upon the subject of his re-
cent visit to eXPresident jefferson Davis
at his home in Beauvoir, Mississippi. He
writes to that paper:
In reply to my opening inquiries the
| colonel responded to the effect, that, mas
much as his visit to eX-President Davis
was purely of a private and personal ma
| ture, he did not consider himself author
lied to refer to the details of his visit for
publication. To do so, he thought, would
be IN obvious breach of hospitality.
"But," continued Col Green, II may,
however, be permitted 10 say to the Globe
that never have l passed three more de-
llghtful days than under that quiet, un-
pretentious roof, remote from the whirl
of busy CITY life and the hustle of con-
tending factions ?"
| intellectual refinement, his grand event
full life is being rounded off most grace,
fully and symmetricalIy. With more of
physical vigor and fewer of the bodily all
ments usually allotted to one of his ad-
vanced age, his analytical acumen, mem
ory, and mental powers generally, are as
forcibie and unimpaired to-day, after
turning his 81st year, as they were at
Buena Vista when saving an army. or la
ter, holding senates spell-bound, or later
still, shaking continent in the convic-
tlon of right, and extorting the admira-
tiOn of the world"
Col. Green passed after this eloquent al
fusion to the ex-President of the Confede-
racy, and, said he, elf any one doubts
what have just told you. let them read
an article that will shortly appear from
bis pen on The Constitutionality of a
Protective Tariff" Though Mr.. Davis
has long and unreluctantly been beyond
the pale of active politics, his interest in
all that appertains to the cause of person
al and national liberty, is still unabated.
This cause is and has been, and whilst
life's fitful spark remains will continue to
be, his hearts idol. Inferentially, he is
hopeful that ''He whose price is eternal
vigilance" will not leave US; but likewise
by Inference, his forecast of the impend-
ing future Is llmned with the gravest So
Hcltude of the Patriot. Let other patriots
come whence they may, investigate sur
roundings, and then pooh pooh solicitude.
Sinister motives, there can be none in him
for prognOstic of good or evil, his Opin-
ions, therefore. ought to be entitled to all
the more weight. There now, you can
finish the photograph, and posterity will
recognize it,
A desultory conversation ensued anent
the exPresident and some of the Incl
dents of his eventful life. Speaking of
Mr.. Davis manuer, Col. Green spoke of
his great gentleness of speech which is
goid Of selfish claim. He is mild in de-
meanor, charitable and courteous to all.
''He stands to-day said Col Green, "the
highest embodiment of disappointed pa
trlotic aspiration and of moral grandeur
IN retirement. Cato died to enforce a
lesson, but he has done more, outlived
malignity of the worst type, enforced the
lesson, ensampled his age, and perpetual
ted his name in the history of the times"
In answer to a question from the Globe
interviewer, Col. Green said that Mr.
Davis hopes to be in Fayetteville on the
occasion of the centennial of the ratifca-
ton Of the Federal Constitution by North
Caroina. ''He declared in the closing
moments of my visit that NO OTHER EVENT
could have induced him to think of with
drawing from his coveted retirement If
health permits his coming, he will,be wei
coined in the open arms of loving State.