The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-07
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A Northern N-w-uap-r's Tribute to u
Nub Z Woman.

1G lS SGuueulUG news lnaL comes
from Buffalo. Mrs. Jttfelsun Davis.
the widow Of him wi 0 was the first,
the last and the only Pre-! !dent Of the
Confederate States Of America, lies
at the point of death in d Northern
city. A spirit that has given not d
little strength and not little er,cs
to American Womanhood is passing
from the life transient, through death.
to the life everlasting.
The event is one which, for reasons
of weight, the world will not willing
let pass unpoticed. 1t is well that it
is so. The life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis
can not fail to awaken memories that
are sacred and to revive hopes that
are inspiriting. To her it was given
to be one of the honorably conspicu.
Gus figures in period that Americans
everywhere now contemplate with a
sense Of reverent pride. In the titanic
struggle of more than two-score years
ago, American womanhood, as well as
American manhood, was put to the
supreme test. Throughout this wide
country Of ours, the women as wei as
the men, we're then required to de
fend the right as God gave them to
know the right" and it is but tie
simple truth to state that, in an hour
that tried their souls, American NO
men of the Southern States. as well
as American women Of the Northern
States, failed not.
Of these devoted and self-sacri6
spirits, Mrs. Jefferson Davis was one.
She went through the struggle with
patience and courage, and returned IT,
her home in the ashes Of defeat to ad
just herself, in gentleness and in dig
nifty, to a world Of which she had DC:
even dreamed. Like her noble coun-
trywomen Of the South, she did not
complain; she did not cover before
misunderstanding. She acted as the
strong always act. She worked and
prayed, and waited. She put in the
front of her consciousness the deter,
mination to cherish the traditions Of
her race and her breeding. II, in mo-
ments of success, her example had
been stimulating to her people, in the
hour Of disaster, it was little less than
ennobling. In her modest home at
'Beauyoir," and elsewhere, she lived
a life that won the respect, the admi-
ration and the love of all high-minded
men and of all high-minded women.
Suffering was hers, and sorrow was
hers also. In the changes and chances
of life, the gales Of necessity blew pitt
lessly against her; yet through it all
Shone the inextinguishable light of
character glori6ed by grief.
1t is right that the world know this.
1t is right that Americans Of the
Northern States completely recognize
it. And they do recognize it. The
age of chivalry is not gone; the age Of
economists and calculators has not
succeeded, and the glory of America,
at least, is not forever extinguished.
Still may be beheld that generous
loyalty to SEX" if not to rank, that
'dlgnifed obedience" if not that
proud submission" that ''subordina-
tion of the heart which keeps alii.
and not in servitude, THE spirit ''f al
exalted freedom" THE uEbnughl
grace OF life, the nurse CT NAN y sen.
timent and heroic enterprise" !, n Il
gone-no, nor can 90 80 long as ll!,
as noble as is Mrs. J>fe rspu D.vi,
Shall have power to bl-ss and ~ say.
the children OF earth.-Puiladelpllia
Leader.