The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1890-06-28

oh voice, from which their omens all men
drew:
| Oh, fallen at length, that tower of strength.
Which stood four square to all winds that
''Such was he whom we deplore,
The long self-sacrifce of life is Der
The great sclf-conquerer will be seen no
more"
Now that his calm heroic life is ended and
the sentinel stars, wheeling their solemn
round above his temporary resting place, we
hear the passionate voices of the sister
| States-those that once stood around him as
a guard of honor, each asking that his sacred
| dust be committed to their keeping. Who is
it that comes first, with solemn step and
| SLOW, offering her scared bosom as place OF
repose for the Captain of the Confederacy!
1t is-it must be Virginia, the mother OF
States and of Presidents, and she glOries in
the name of many hard fought battle for
| the privilege of adding one more grave to
those that are sown so thicltly across the
green turf that at Richmond, the heart of
the Confederacy, upon the slopeing hillside
of green Hollywood. the grave Of Jefferson
should be made. Kentucky, the beautiful
blue Grass State 'the State in which he was
born the State Of Clay, Breckenridge, Wat
erson, Beck, Buckner and Carlisle, tenders
burial place upon the spot of his birth. Ala
bama pleading in the name of Montgomery,
the first capital of the young government,
asks that in her soil the ashes OF the COnfed-
crate President might be laid. Georgia, in
remembrance of the blood shed at Atlanta,
| Kenesaw Mountain and many nameless
fields, pleads for the privilege of mourning
as for % beloved son, over Jefferson Davis.
South Carolina, in remembrance of the first
gun fred at Fort Sumter, pleads that in the
land of the palmetto and the pine monu-
ment be reared over Davis that will pierce
the yielding skies. North Carolina points to
the graves of his ancestors and says, "let his
dust minglc with that Of his kindred" Ten
nessee in reply points to two graves in Elm
wood, the graves of his two beloved children,
the pride Of his declining years. and asks
that upon the Chickasaw Bluffs, within hear
ing of of the rush of the Father of Waters u
the bones of Jefferson Davis may be laid tC
rest Texas. the Lone Star State" the
mighty empire of the Southwest, points
with pride to Buena Vista and to Monterey
where the charge of Davis and his brave
/ Mississippians brought death and disaster tt
| the McXicans ranks. and begs that ON he1
flower scented prairies within sight of tht
) historic Alamo, or within the sound Of the
murmuring waters of the Gulf, the hero O
, Monterey shall sleep within her embrace
Louisiana. upon whose peaceful bosom h'
breathed his last sigh offers Il mauSoleun
5 grander than any ever erected to Greek
r Trojan hero.
Al Last of all comes Mississippi. tn
: heroic cotton State the land of the mag
= nolia and the pine. the home of the thre
/ great statesmen-Lamar, George and wal
Q thall. the home Of his youth and his man
t hood. the arena OF his political triumphs
5 and begs that under the swelling dome o
her State Capitol shall all that is mortal o
: Jefferson Davis be laid to rest. 1t was Mis-
e sissippi who furnished him Il great captain
, | for the Mexican war 1t was MISSISSIPPI "h
t first discovered his prominent abilities, ant
Y gave him foremost political positions l
a was Mississippi who made him Senator be
t fore the war and placed him before III
a raze of the world. That as Senator trof
? W
e himself upon the nation, and it was Missis
$ sippi that first offered him as fit Chieftal
e and President of the Confederate state;
d Thus having cherished him in childhood
t honOred him in young manhood, exalted hi
+ in time of prosperity. and stood by ms SID
d with ccasclcss devotion and love when adVel
Il sitv shadOwed him. that she is entitled t
d hold him in death. that future sons OF Ml'
: sissippi may be taught by the constant r'
t minder of the sight of his tomb and the le'
n sons of his epitaph, to be good ana true al
" noble. assured always of their mother state
IS fond remembrance gratitude and pride l
?, the time of his troubles Mississippi took hi
IS IN her fond embrace and soOthed to sleep
a mother soothes weariedchild. In his ol
y age when attacked by enemies and mallshe
t.. by false friends. he raised not one feeD
'e hand in his own defense, Mississippi makir
is his wrongs her own. rushed to his defen'
in with all the old ardor stirring in her bosor
s Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was his prou'
1t est title on his proudest days. One OF II
r last utterances on the subject Of death w
Il the wish that when his time for burial cam
II he should be laid to rest in the capital OF Il
g. own State For this therefore we plead Tn
ut while he will forever be entombed. III u
id hearts of the entire South. that to Mlssissl
re nj should be granted the boon OF recelNl'
IL his sacred dust, and that her children shot'
regard it as a most precious legacy VIII
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