The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-08
DIXIE'S SLEEPING CHIEF.
THE NEW YORK SOUTHERN soCIR.
TVS TRIBUTE.


John s. Wise Makes a Speech That
stirs Up Patriotic Rnthusiasm-CoL
Dawson Glasses Those Who Are
Ashamed to Admit Their Participa-
tion in the War.
New YORK. Jan. I'm response to the
call OF forty-three members. the Southern
Society held special meeting tonight to
pass resolutions adopted by the committee
of nine in memory Of Jefferson Davis.
While the committee was preparing the
resolutions calls were made for John S.
Wise of Virginia, and he was loudly ap-
plauded when he stood up to speak. He
said among o ther things:
None of my hearers should be ashamed Of
suca a career or the cause he espoused so
ardently. We have right 10 weep at the bier
conceded by his foes to have been
great. The cause is dead, but it went
70 ITS grave fighting, and with its face
toward its conqueror. II has often been
asserted that jefferson Davis cause was an in.
dlvidual one. Ii should be resented when it is
said of him that his cause was different from
ours He should bear no stigma that is not on
us. Every blow at him is blow at the southern
people. lie was brave man, and his equal
was not In the whole struggle. The universal
verdict of our foes is that we conducted an
honorable campaign, and our struggle was con.
scientlous
Col. A. II. II. Dawson, who was attorney
general under the confederacy, spoke with
feeling on the career of the dead leader.
He said that many were ashamed to ac-
knowledge that they participated in the
war Such persons he characterized az
"slinks."
Other speakers were ex-Secretary of the
Treasury William l. Trenholm of Charles
ton, Col. Hugh L. Gardner, and Col II. L.
Cole.
THE RESOLUTION
The following resolution was then
adopted, and an engraved copy was ordered
sent to Mrs. Davis:
In cordial sympathy with all by whom
he is held in reverence and affection. the
New York Southern Society at It's
first meeting since the day that threw
ali the south into mourning, brings its
tribute TO the memory OF the late jefferson
Davis, man who was never afraid to stand
alone, never yielded principle or policy never
swerved from his conviction Of right, and
who will be esteemed heroic as long
as faith and courage are cherished among man
kind. AS the chosen head of the southern
people, his leadership will command the ad-
miration of the future historian AS a soldier,
illustrating even Mngly qualities; as O states
man. devoting all his powers to the develop
ment OF bis country, property, and greatness;
and as an orator, welding magic influence
anke on the hustings and in the
Senate, he exhibited to the world a
conspicuous example of the southern gentle
man. nodded by Institutions peculiar TO the
south. He will live forever in the affection of
bis people as type of their ancestry, and his
life will be an enduring monument TO truth, to
honor and to exalted manhood,
For he bore in forum and in field
A crest that bowed not, knee that never
kneeled
To mortal man; and stainless was his shield.
We hereby extend our warmest sympathies
to her whose LOVING ministrations and intellect
ual companionship through SO many years
enabled the great man we honor to more com
pletely achieve that career which has made
his name immortal. To the other members of
the afflicted IA uily circle the Southern society
send the tenderest expression of their affection
and sympathy.