The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1898-04-27

George memorial exercises proved to be
his last attendance upon session of the
Senate, though two days later, on Sat
urday. April ., he went to the capitol to
attend a meeting of the Democratic steer
ing committee. The day was stormy.
Snow and rain fell and winds prevailed.
and Senator Walthall experienced Il chill
while at the capitol, and returned to his
apartments with an attack that quickly
developed into severe typhoid pneumonia,
and this caused his death.
For quite week he had been most of
the time unconscious, though there were
freqcunt brief periods when he was plain
" apprcciative of his condition. and knew
and understood all that took place about
him. Today he recognized Mrs. Wal
thai. but could not speak.
Senator Walthall's remains will be
taken to Mississippi and buried at Holly
Springs. where other members of his
family inferred.
No Senator was ever loved and respect
ed more deeply and universally in the
chamber than was Senator Walthall. and
the death Of no Senator ever caused more
universal and sincere regret among his
associates than has the demise of the
Ms>iSsipplan. Senator Proctor of Yer
mont, Speaking to Senators Frye Of
Maine and Cullom of Illinois, said today
Of Senator Walthall:
There is the grandest man who ever
represented the South in the Senate"
and his fellow Senators concurrcd. and
Senator Berry, Democrat and Southcrncr.
declared, with tears in his eyes:
senator Walthall was the kindest.
truest, bravcSt and genlest man | have
ever know. and he came nearer coming
up to my ideal than any man | ever met"
Edward Cary Walthall of Grenada,
Miss. was born at Richmond, Va, April
a. 1881, and received an academic educa-
tion At Holly Springs, Miss, and there
he studied law. He was admitted to the
bar in 1872. and began the practice of
his profession in the same year at COT
feeylc Miss. He was elected to the
position of district attorney for the Tenth
judicial district in 1856 and reelected
in 1879. He resigned that office in the
spring of 1861 and entered the Confed-
crate service as lieutenant in the Fiji
ieenh Mississippi Regiment. and was
soon aftcrward promoted to the position
of lieutenant colonel of that regiment.
In the spring of 1862 he was elected
colonel of the Twenty Mississippi,
end then promoted to a brigadier general
ship in December. 1862. BY valor and
efficiency he then went to the position of
major general in June, 1864 After the
surrender of the Confederate troops he
resumed the practice of law at Coffee
vile, and there remained until January,
1911, at which period in his career he
moved to Grenada and continued his
practice there until March. 1885. He was
a delegate at large to the following ma
tonal Democratic conventions: 1868,
1876, 1880 1884. and 1896. In 1868 he
was one of the vice presidents of the con-
YentIon, and in 1876. 1880, 1884 and
ln" he was chairman of the of the Mis-
slpPl delegation of that body. He was
appointed to the United States Senate as
Democrat to fill the vacancy caused
py the resignation of l.. .. c. Lamar.
VINO was made Secretary of the Interior.
ana on March II, 1885, he took his seat.
ne was elected by the Legislature of
Mississippi, in January, 1886, for the
uheXWred term, and reelected in Janu-
AIRY, lS'G. He was compelled to resign
IN lNe on account of i'll health, and at
mat time was chairman of the Senate
committee on Military Affairs. He re-
entered the Senate in March. 1895, by
virtue of his election in 1892, and his
term of service would not have expired
until March 3, 1901.
General Walthall was one of the most
uashlng and heroic soldiers of the Con-
iederacy, performing succession of I'M
usual achievements of conspicuous mill
lary service. His steadiness in defeat
ana unquailing spirit and ready resources
IN appalling disaster were signally shown
Oh several occasions and saved armies
from wreck. He was mainstay in
trouble, and came out of the war with
rare fame.
In the Senate he made some powerful
eApositions of the race questions. AS a
lawyer, public man and United States
senator, he had shown the same valuable
quantities that marked him as a soldier,
anu mad been loyal, fearless and capable.