Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-07
JEFF. DAVIS, THIRD,
THE eRlcHrllTTLe FELLOW At THE
NEW YORK HOTEL.
How His Name Was Characterization
OF the ex-prcstdent--rhe Chtid's Pretty
Fashion Of Life and speech.
iNax York World.l

Jefferson DAVIS is in the city, Not the
Statesman, the chicftain Of the Lost Cause
but this "Jeif DAVIS 10 as pretty boy az
one would wish 20 set eyes upon. and they
cav that he Is the very image Of his grand
father at his age.
Jefferson Davis be Is and the grandson
Of him whom thirty years ago one section
Of the country loved with passionate AT,
lection and whom the other section hateu
with such hatred that in all the county
crossroads II was q mooted question: ~
theology whether or not Jefferson DAVIS
could 90 10 Heaven.
All this seems very strange 10 peopio ~
Che year 1891. but that was when the Nortn
was exasperatedly wondering WY .he
earth. and our fellow-citizens down Sous .a
were angrily conscious that iank ~as
mite a. GOOD a SOLDIER as soldiers cOuiu pc
made II was ia those days that the 'front.'
door OF Clement :. vallaudighan mousse.
in DAYTON. o.. was jabbed iull OF DAY on
holes. IL remains so now. ana pcopic VIZ
then thought that sallanhighah %
pmell Of sulphur and have d0uoio ~ W
teeth. now saik past tho place Oh Nuil,
tiay morning, see the chfei"iiS ~
Yashes, and wonder MI.
All that has passed now. After all ~ was
on'v a family spat and the young folks
crown up since the war can hafdiy u'iuV,
stand why such fuss should De maui iI
about il oil. The old hatred Is really uea1
and IN it's stead has grown up hailoiia'
,ride in the brave way in which our south
am brefhren fought. Our northern bands
even play that little air The Bonnie blue
Flag and the o'erweenlng conn
dence in That song has been forgiven pc
cause the banner is more bespangion WIN
s.ara now than il ever was before. But one
ra, understand how the old veterans VINO
wore the gray and fought TIL the oonieuei,
racy keeled over from exhaustion shoulu
choke in their cheering as the daugh'eI "a
their dead and gone chieftain unVeHe9 Ihe
Srld;ers, monument at Jackson, Miss,
lac, month. and can well believe that tneY
almost smothered with embraces the ~
fIe fellow who helped his mother pun tue
cord. 1850 Dov;s Tho
grandson of the President OF the Cohleue-
Tacy.
THE FAMILY.
There were four sons born TO JenersQh
Davis The first Samuel died IN WASH
incton when but a baby. That was wheh
fbc storm of the rebellion was ruinblingl III
Tho distance and the sky was overcast. she
who IL now Mrs. Hayes was the SECOND
child Jefferson Davis III. was the thlrd
SON. Then came William DAVIS. after MN
Joscnb and last of all Varina {" Winnie -.
fondly cbristened THE Daughter OF the
Confidence" Joseph died in Kchnond
during the war. - ,o-o o,a
near the same city, during the awful vel
iow-fever epidemic of 1873, Jefferson Davis
III. gave up his life while at the post on
.lutv Tins persisted the male descendants
81 President Davis. all without male issue.
There was 10 one TO transmit the fanllly
name. ,o-, 800
Margaret DAVIS was married IN 1913 or
1876 to Mr.. Hayes, of that city. and bore
son. He was christened Jefferson addlsVh
HAYES. Mr.. HAYES suggested that the
Iahv,s name might he changed. but Presi-
dent Davis said no. The boy was Ar.
Uaves's only son. IL would not be night
that his heir should not transmit his name;
Rut the propositiOn fingered III the old
mans heart. III
So the boy grew and prospered. Two
months ont of the year he spent away from
his home ut Colorado Springs and with ms
grandfather at Beauvoir. Miss. And every
day that he lived he grew dearer and dearer
10 the aged man. When they were sepa-
rated such important news as the advent
of the first tooth, the first step and the
first Curgling attempts at speech, you may
we'll believe were hurried off to Beauyolr
'as fast IA post could carry them.
CHANGE OF THE NAME.
By-and-by another boy was born to Mr..
and Mrs. HAYES Mr. Davis then said TO
his wife that # the offer were made again
he would give his consent 20 the change OF
the name of the first born.
The months flew by, and every mother
knows how rapidly the mind OF child
grows after il begins to talk. In the plea
aant evenings the grandfather ana little
how sat out on the WIDE voranda, boon
cointnnions. and the old man told stories.
blessed be the grandfathers who can tell
stories.
But here was grandfather worth
having. When Captain Davis was a young
man he fought i'll the Blackhawk war. Oh,
but that was long ago, on the pralrles OF
Illinois. There was lanky youth also III
that war-one Abraham Lincoln-of whom
the world was to hear one day, and with
whom Jefferson Davis was to become bet
ter acquainted:
And the little boy sat and listened to
the tales of the wonderful painted Indians
who wore feathers III their black, coarse
scalp-locks, and who fought so fiercely.
Those were heroic DAYS.
And then the aged warrior told of the
deeds Of high enterprise done IN the war
with Mexico, the only war OF conquest
Mayed Nv lillS tOuuiiN HUMANITY wal
in places whose names sound like echoes
from the chronicles of the Cid-Campea-
dor. Monterey, and Vera Cruz. and Buena
Vista. Think how the little boys eyes
must have bulged out and his mouth gaped
at these thrilling stories.
And then the War of the Rebellion and
the perilous times that then betel. Truly
that was grandfather worth having. ;,
But the chieftain OF the Lost Cause died
md tntpa1 TINT C0mDanV OF heroes OF
whom 1t Is said:
Their bones are dust,
Their good swords rust,
Tbair souls are with the saints we trust
After his death. and when Mrs. Davis
was in New Orleans at the great funeral
the Governors of most of the southern
States and many of the old Generals and
veterans Of the civil war. called on her and
aske! that she consent to the change of the
name of little Jefferson Addison HAYES
The father and mother were willing, anc
application was made TO the Legislature OF
Mississippi. In the spring of 1890 Governor
Lowry affixed his signature To formal ac
which changed the name OF the little man
now at the New York Hotel, to Jefferson
Hayes Davis.
Therefore II was that in June last a
Vicksbury he was embraced and kissed 10y
tho grizzled veterans and gwen badges, NJ
emo, oil every organization VI thc tA-tou
federate soldiers. This pretty blossom
has grown out Of the grave of the Los
Cause.
And be sure that his mother instruct
him that he bears an honored name-al
most a sainted name--to those south o
Mason a Dixon's line. There is Lee Oh,
there is Stonewall Jackson, and there i
jefferson Davis. BE sure that of these thu
mother thinks when she hears TO collect
"Grant US grace so to follow Thy blesse,
saints in all virtuous and cody living tina
we NAV come TO those eternal joys whicl
Thou hast prepared for those who unfeign
eddy love Thee"
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS GRANDFATHER.
She fancies she sees in the child
thoughts the STRINGS of mind create
than the common. This is not uncommon