Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-15
No. w.,

Lol where people embalm
In their memory, holy. undyipg,
The soldier and statesman and man
Who peacefully, sweetly. is lying
In state In the land of mis- love,
while the calm autumn skies overspan
And the spirits OF heroes are watching abovel
III,
Hence, hatred and malice Of mortals;
Hence, hearts that are hot to the core;
Who hath found the estate of immortals
Viii reck OF your passions no more.
Serene in the house of his glory,
Serene in conquerless lore,
In epic unwritten and story
Shall stand with the kingly of yore.
".
The life with slumber is rounded,
The day star has finished its course
From fame unto fame has resounded
The name that was challenged of force;
The man without country or station,
Save land in his countrymen's love,
In the fourscore of manic hood's probation
Has entered Valhalla above.
Brave In thy lot as the bravest,
Proud in the councils of State.
Who gave what thou gsvest
May laugh at the madoess OF hate:
Thy sword on the field of decision.
Thy blood in the Valley of vision
TO win for the brow of the West
Six stars in her circle OF fame;
Rut enough-it is writ-let 1t rest
TIL al oncoming time shall proclaim
VI
'Tis meet that we meet for him sadly, {.
And speak with passionate dole:
That We treasure his memory gladly
And tell of his greatness of soul
HIS faults were the faults of the brave,
His virtues the crown of the just,
And these to the cause of his people he gave
And himself as the price of their trust
So, tits meet that we weep for him sadly,
And speak with passionate dole:
That we treasure his memory gladly,
And tell of his greatness of soul.
VII.
In love and in prayers we bore him
For all that he suffered and was;
Our hearts none entered before him,
Nor hence from our hearts shall he pass;
'Tis meet that we weep and deplore him
And carry him thus to the grave;
That we tell how we all but adore him,
Remembering he honOred his trust;
That we give him estate with the brave,
That we give him estate with the brave In the
And leave him alone till the future restore him
His name and his place with the justl
Remem bered Hexe.
On Wednesday afternoon the, Law
Library room, in the Law building, on
Temple and New Hi gh Street, this city,
was filed with prominent people, all
from the South and sympathizers with
the cause for which Jefferson Davis
battled as their leader. Among those
present we're: General John M. Bald
win, Colonel George HI. Smith, Lieuten-
ant Colonel j. Marion Brooks, Captain
J. A. Anderson, Captain J. G. Maccabe,
Colonel H. T. D. Wilson, Surgeon @. L.
Blair, Chaplain Fl. M. Du Bose, Major
W. II. Toler, Judge W. P. Gardiner,
Paymaster A. D. Childress. Judge. .Advo-
cate Beardon, DIR. J. E. Fulton, Judge
A. j. King. General R. H. Chapman,
Colonel S. White, r. q. Carlton, Quar-
termaster Willoughby Rodman and
Judge r. Dunnigsn. Judge Anderson
was called to the chair, and Mr.. Mac
cabe was chosen Secretary. Mr.. Ander-
son spoke warmly of the dead chieftain.
Colonel Geo. h. Smith and Mr.. Mac
cabe both had sets Of resolutions to
offer. These were referred to a commit
tee consisting of General Baldwin, Col
onel Smith and Captain Maccabe. After
due deliberation, the following set of
resolutions were evolved and adopted by
the meeting:
WHEREAS, At meeting of the surviv-
ing soldiers of the Confederate army, re-
siding in Los Angeles, and of other sur
vivors OF the late war between the
States, held at the said city this 18th day
OF December, 1889, upon the occasion of
the death of the Honorable Jefferson
Davis, it is unanimously resolved as fol-
lows:
First-We unite with our comrades
and fellow. citizens throughout the South
ern States and elsewhere in the profound
grief excited by the death OF the illustri-
GUS soldier, statesman and patriot, who,
after career distinguished in it's earlier
part for high and honorable achieve
ment, and in it's close by brave and dig
nified fortitude under adversely, has
passed away from the love of his friends
and the malignity of his enemies; and
we tender to his afflicted family the most
sincere sympathy for their great loss.
In view of the peculiar position occu-
pied by Mr.. Davis, we deem it due to
ourselves as we'll as to him and to his
family, to express fully and frankly the
sentiments with which we, in common
with the great mass of the people of the
South, always regarded him. The cruel
and malignant persecution, that
has followed him since the
close of the war, has never alienated
from him our admiration, or our affe c.
tions, but on the contrary we have al
ways recognized the fact that he was
selected for attack merely as the repre-.
sentative of his cause, and his people
and his vicarious sufferings for the deed of
the southern people have doubly endeared
him to us. When the war closed he was
to us simply the loved and trusted leader
of cause to which the best part Of our
lives had been given; and ne was but
one of millions who felt the bitter pang
of defeat. But when he was selected by
a numerous and powerful class of our
countrymen as the ecapegoat of our sup
posed iniquities. new claims to our con-
sideration were added to thoee we already
acknowledged; and the calm indifference
and dignifed contempt with which he
met tie assaults made upon him, and,
through him, upon the. people of the
Southern States, proved him q worthy
representative of his people in adversely,
as he had been in the day of their sue.
cess. He has gone to his grave acco m
panied by the love and esteem of the
people he go worthily led, and who
know him best; and we confidently
leave his fame to the verdict of history,
feeling profoundly assured that in the
eye of history be will stand among the
first of the heroes who 80 grandly rep
our cause in the great strug-
Pile, which should now be remembered
merely as a part of history, and chiefly
for the fortitude and bravery of the
man wbo frunht IN a;tho~ ,:ao