St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-27
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Eulogy of the Departed South
erner by Senator Daniel.

RICHMOND, Va. Jan. 26.-MoZart
Academy of Music. the largest public
hall in the city, was crowded last night
with ladies and distinguished citizens
Of the state to hear Senator John W.
Daniel deliver an Grafton upon the life
and character of jefferson Davis upon
invitation of the legislature. Gov. Nc
Kinney and Gen. Jubal A. Early were
the prominent citizens present. Mr..
CardWell, speaker of the house of dele
gates, introduced Senator Daniel, who
said: Noble are the words of Cicero
when he tells us that it is the first and
fundamental law Of history that it
should neither dare to say anything that
is false or fear to say anything that is
true nor give any just suspic-
ions of favor or ~disaffection. No
less high a standard must be invoked in
considering the life, character and serv-
ices of Jefferson Davis, a great man of
a great epoch; whose name is blended
with the renown of American arms and
with the civil glor1es of the cabinet and
congress hall-a son of the South, who
became the head of a Confederacy more
populous and more extensive than that
for which Jefferson wrote the Deelara-
ton of independence, and commander
in-chief of armies greater than those of
which Washington was the general. He
SWayed SenateS and led the soldiers of
the Union, and he stood accused of trea-
son in a court of justice. He saw vic
tory sweep iilustrious battlefields and
became a captive: He ruled millions
and was put in chains. He created a
nation, he followed its bier, and he died
a DISTINGUISHED citizen. But though
great in many things. he was greatest
tO fhaf fortuna which Hffipn hin,
first to the loftiest height and
casting him hence to the depth
of disappointment, found him every
where the erect and constant friend of
truth. He conquered himself and for
gave his enemies, but he bent to none
but God. Severe scrutinieS of his life
and characterize public man was ever
subjected to sterner ordeals of character
or closer scrutiny of conduct. He wae
in the public gaze for nearly half a CEN
fury; and in the fate which at last over
whelmed the Southern Confederacy and
its president, official records and private
papers fell into the hands Of his enc
mics. Wary eyes now searched to see
if he had overstepped the bounds which
the laws of war have set to action: and
could such evidence be found wrathful
hearts would have cried for vengeance,
but though every hiding place was
opened and reward was ready for any
who would betray the secrets of the
captive chief, whose armies we're scat
tered and whose hands were chained
though the sea gave up its dead in the
CONFUSION of his cOuntry-there could
be found no guilty fact, and accusing
tongues were Silenced.
"Whatever record leaped to light,
His name could aot be shamed."
1could not, indeed, nor would I, diyest
myself of those identities and PARTIAL
ties which make me one with the peo-
pie of whom he was the chief in their
supreme conflict. But surely, if records
were stainless and enemies were dumb.
and if the principals pronounce now
favorable judgment upon the agent,
Notwithstanding that he failed, there
can be no suspicion of undue favor on
the part of those who do him honor,
and the contrary inclination could only
spring from d~isaffection. The people
of the South knew Jefferson Davis. He
mingled his daily life with theirs, under
the eager kin of those who had bound
up with him all that life can cherish"