Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-12-07
THE SOUTH In TEARS.
Mourning ar he Departed Chef Of As Coa'stsacy.
Tributes % Love and Respect Sent from
Thousand Towns.

NEW ORLEANS, la, December 6.-The
Trme-Dmoraf edilorially says; Dfsped
10 mourning tlis mornins is another page
in the history of the world. Jefferson
Davis is dead. Trisd In many high Offices,
snd found faithful in all; tested in many
critical eoDiunctures, and proved true to
his coautry aud bis people; his life one long,
uninterrupted sacrifice Of interest to con-
science. The fame Of the iluslriou7 dead
shall. 10 years 20 come, grow brighter as the
embsrs of passion die away. The greatntss
of Jefferson Davis stands confessed, as nov
We write, in a Peep ca teams. Tenacious Of
principle. the slave Of conscience, resolute,
ye. 6lIed with the inspiration that comes
from un7ieldiug baiisl, the giant 6gure OF
the ex- President Of the Contsderacy stalked
across the nineteenth century as some
msiestic spiri, that strong, In the con
sciousness Of It's own right. doing, scorned
the plauiils of a world, and lived ouly
chat in himself duty might be deihed
Such was Jstsrsoa Davis, and such will
history declare him 90 be.
MNI sNINn IN Aa SUI AAAs
The P.c1ume ssys: This morning. soon
after midnight. there passed out OF this
life one Of Che most notable men OF the
nineteenth century. Jefferson Davis ls
dead. let the South mourn. Let the South
mourn for one who represented more than
any other the cause for which q million OF
her most chivalroas sous drew their swords
and ioiued battle with the most formida-
ble Of adversaries their OWE countrymen,
for rights and liberties that freemen must
ever hold most dear
OF the might captains and great states
men he gathered around him when he pre-
sided over the destiEies Of the South, but
few survive They passed away before
him as did the rulers and nearly all the
great soldiers of the cause that he con-
fronted 40 boldly and opposed so stoutly,
Lincoln. Grant and Mcclellan. He has
outlived bis great and noble adversafiss
He saw them pass away, mcurned by q
nation and worihily wearing its honOrs
Hscan now atJrd 20 20, asking no honoIs
secure in the love Of the people. to whom
be WAS faithful 90 the end.
TIKI 1SFLUENCE or HIS WORK.
The Dalg STATES says: Jefferson Davis
ia dead. The South wesps over the hero
10 whose person her cause, after going
down m sea of patriotic blood was
sought for a tiue 10 be humihated by
the victorious North. Jefferson Davis Is
dead. but the glorious cause Ct consttu-
tioual liberty. TO which his life was de-
voted. IN which he suffered all the perez
cuiion. Misrepresentation and humiliation
which are ever visited on the heroic
witnesses Of the truth, survives mm.
The South already has enshTined his mem
ory with that OF the great martyrs Of his
tory; and as the time grows old aud the
immortal principles for which Jefferson
Davis battled ere more and more hcmly
imbsdded 10 the American system ot coz
stitutioral government, there Will be no
sectional limitation, no North and no
south in the universal veneration due to
grand, buttemporsrily unsuccessful efforts
which conscience prompted, which pro
found conviction sancu6ed and which IN
defeasi0le truth will serve to immortalizs.