The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-14
JEFFERSON DAVIS III.
The Bright Little Fellow at the New
York Hotel.
From the Nelc Tork WorLd

from he NeU YORK World.
Jefferson Davis is in the city. Not the
statesman, the chieftain of the lost cause.
but this JEFF" Davis is as pretty a boy as
one would wish to set eyes upon, and they
say that be is the very image of his grand
father at his age.
Jefferson Davis he is, and the grandson of
him whom thirty years ago one section of
the country loved with passionate affection,
and whom the other section hated with
such hatred that in all the country cross
roads it was mooted question in theology
whether or not jefferson Davis could 60 to
heaven.
All this seems very strange to people in the
year 1891, but that was when the north was
exasperatedlY wondering why it couldn't
wipe the confederates OFF the face of the
earth and our fellow citizens down south
were angrily conscious that "Yaukn
was quite as good a soldier as soldiers could
be made. 1t was in those days that the
front door of Clement S. Vallandigham's
house in Dayton. o., was jabbed full of bay
onet holes. It remains so now, aud people
who then thought that Vallandigham must
smell of sulphur and have double rows of
teeth, now walk past the place of a Sunday
morning, see the carefully preserved gashes
and wonder,
All that has passed now After ell. it
folks grown up since the war can hardly
understand why such 5uss should be made
about it ell. The old hatred is really dead
and In its stead has grown up a national
pride In the brave way in which our south
ern brethren fought. Our northern bands
sven play that lifting air, THE Bonnie
Blue Flag" and the o'erweening confidence
In that song has been forgiven because the
Oahner Is more bespangled with stars
now than it ever was before. But one
can understand how the old veterans who
wore the gray and fought till the
eonfederacy keeled over from ex-
haustlon should choke in their cheering as
the daughter Of their dead and gone chief
tam unvalled the soldiers monument at
Jackson, Miss. last month, and can we'll
believe that they almost smotbsred with
embraces the little fellow who helped his
mother pull the cord.
mat was little Jefferson Davis, the grand
son OF the president Of the confederacy.
mere were four sons born to Jefferson
Jaws. The first, Samuel, died in Washing
ION when but baby. That was when the
S.oIln OF the rebellion was rumbling in the
u'stahoe and the sky was overcast. She
TnO Is now Mrs. Hayes was the second child
0eh erson Davis ii. was the third son. Then
i ZANE William Davis, after him Joseph, and,
.asV OF all. Narina-"Winnie," fondly chris
Tneo Inc Daughter of the Confederscy."
Joseph use died in Richmond during the war.
william died at Memphis in 1872, and
f fear the same city, during the awful yellow
ever epidemic of 1878, Jefferson Davis II.
NV dVe up his life while at the post of duty.
IIuus persisted the male descendants of
resident Davis, all without male issue.
name '"0 40inliy
argaret Davis was married in 1875 or
49, 80 ~ NIr. hay es OF that city, and bore a
T. he was christened jefferson Addison
Ia layeS. Mr.. Hayes suggested that the
d 9auy name might be changed. but Presi-
ITTut paws said no. The boy was Mr..
Ives only son. 1t would not be right that
-, &c uelr should not transmit his name. But
heart 'u Al 'ne Olo hnshS
90 the boy grew and prospered. Two
Lhion1hs out of the year he spent AWAY from
us nome at Colorado SPRINGS and with his
o. 1t tlIaher at Beauvoir, Miss. And every
SSay That he lived he grew dearer and
e uearer to the aged man When they were
vaTt 90 " such important news as the ad-
first ,,, .le hrst tooth, the first step and the
well i,kIlhg attempts at speech you may
as Tas. 0'AoVe were hurried off to Beauvoir
Rv@s post could carry them.
and Mu oy another boy was born to Mr..
his Wit hayes. MIR. Davis then said to
he vol rI mat If the offer were made again
the narDo el s MS consent to the change of
W TIT lame Of the first born.
knogDs months flew by, and every mother
1rov"s low rapidly the mind Of a child
9leass,ta after lt begins TO talk. In the
' evenings the grandfather and