Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-05-16
EULOGY OF WINNIE DAVIS.
Col. Bennett II. YOung's Tribute
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at Charleston to the Dead
Daughter of the Con-
federacy.

the Confederate Veterans Associa-
tion to-day Col. Bennett H. Young,
of Louisville, delivered an eloquent
eulogy of Winnie Davis, the dead
daughter of the Confederacy.' In
part he said:
"The most distinguished divine Of
the Seventeenth century when
preaching the funeral of Louis XIV,
the greatest of all French rulers,
as he gazed upon the deceased
King, cold, pallid, powerless, ex-
pressionless-lifted his hands to
heaven, and, with tears streaming
down his cheeks, exclaimed, "There
is nothing great but God" And,
comrades, as we recall the beauti-
full, beloved and winsome face and
form of 1.-The daughter of the Con-
federacy" as she stood in our pres
ence less than year ago at At
lanta and with JOY and pride re-
ceived anew our knightly admira-
ton and fealty, and as we now rea-
llze that she is now more, but sleeps
in death, we, too, in pathetic and
profoundest sorrow, turn our eyes
heavenward and cry out, God
alone is great" The love, devotion
and homage of the surviving heroes
of the Southern armies could not
avaff to stay the hand of the irwin
chile conqueror death, and despite
the fervid protests of valiant thous-
ands, who oftentimes without hope
and always without fear fought for
the South, the memorable decree
has been executed, and, with bowed
heads and anguished hearts, we
Speak tenderest praise for her who
otSapied the first place in the affec-
tons of the living men who are part
of that superb host which made the
glory and fame of the Confederacy
Eternal.
The practical spirit of the pres
ent times would say that the age of
chivalry is gone, but, as represen-
tatives and descendants Of an ever
chivalrous people, we can conf
IDENTIFY challenge this coarse con-
clusion-the outgrowth of a period
marked by the exaltation of money
and -getting-and point to
the love of the Southern men for
this child-whom illustrious war
riors adopted and are proud to
claim as their own and confidently
aver that, whatever may be said OF
others, in the hearts of Confederate
soldiers there still burns with un-
flame and unconquer-
able force that spirit which makes
men gallant, heroic and true. There
are occasions when the hush and
solemnity of death become intensest
and speak with a pathos
and power that are simply immeas-
urable.
Born amid the conflicts of the
mightiest war the world has ever
witnessed, Graded within the sound
of the cannon's roar, and often
awakened from sleep by the rattle
of musketry which defended the
capital of the country for which her
father offered the costllest sacrifice
of all those who defended its life
and name; in her infancy made to
feel the deepest grief and in the mis-
fortunes and indgnity heaped upon
him who was President of the ma
ton the South so heroically strug-
gled to maintain; she had cXpe-
riences which only come into one
life during all the ages of the world.
His enemies sought to traduce
her fathers name, to destroy his
1fe and dishonor the purity and
Grandeur of his patriotism, but she
Mas constant amid all his persecu-
tions and misfortunes. He suffered
~ his people and she with and for
nfdo. and to the end she was true to
his name, true to him and true to
the people who loved him.
The love of her people for this,
their child, was separate and apart
from all other loves. Her wondrous
devotion to her father, her constant
and unselfish ministrations to him
in the declining years ofhis isolated