The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-01-31
ADDRESSES MADE AT U. D. C. MEMORIAL.
DR.. Charles ManIys Address on the Life and Charac-
ter Of Jefferson Davis
NlGHTLINEss FHISPERSoNAND CHARACTER
Mr.. Bowman's Remarks on the Presentation OF the
Crosses of Honor

~eN'SN - SHS 0SSANS
of victory won where embattled
nations strove for mastery.
The flag and the nation which the
South loved, and for which her people
made unparalleled sacrifices live now
only in song and story, and in the
hearts of her faithful children; and a
restored Union in bonds Of fellowship
Gas was shown in the recent war with
SPAIN stronger than ever before,
over which waves one national flag,
claims their allegiance Let us do
what we honestly can to throw
the mantle Of charity over every
bitter memory of that fearful war.
But it may te we'll to recall few
facts in uhe life Of Jefferson Davis
which are seen TO be vndication Of
mis- character and his fame.
Jefferson Davis, a son of Samuel
Davis, who was one Of Washington s
officers, was born in Kentucky, June
3id, 1908, but became a citizen of
Mississippi at an early age, and S,
lived IN that great commonwealth as
to win aud retain the love and esteem
Of her people He died withom a
country December 6, 1889. He stood
as exponent Of a cause TO which was
attached the most patriotic citizen
ship and the most courageous and
chivalric soldiery mankind has ever
recorded, or that tradition recalls
Whatever else may be said Of him,
be did his full duty at all times as he
conceived and understood it: and
whether he was obeylng orders ~slau
undergraduate at West Point or
enduring the hardships OF the frontier
in the Black Hawk war or training
bis mind for civil pursuits on his
Mississippi plantation, or campaign.
ing as young presidential elector, or
filling a seat in the congress Of the
United States, or leading the charge
at Montery, and riding against the
storm of Mexican bullets at Buena
Vista, or measuring arms in the
United States senate with the great
statesmen Of that day, or canvassing
for governor of Mississippi, Jr in
charge OF the war portfolio under
Franklin Pierce, or ba tling against
the senate for his people and leading
in the great debates before the crisis
OF 1860, or presiding over the destinieS
Of new born republic, furiously
assailed FROM its very birth, he WIS
always earnest, honest, resolute deter.
mined, acting under the highest
sense Of personal responsibility to his
countrymen and his God He be-
lieved, as he believed in his Gud,
that the cause Of the South was
right For that b'lief the adverse
arbitrament of arms, ignoble i'm
prisonment, expatriaton, poverty,
misunderstanding and censure by
even some OF his own people, never
caused him to change or alter in lhe
least, even to the hour OF dea
When his lips we're closed on the
drama of life, when his feeble hands
pressed long farewell to his faithful
wife, when his thin, pile lip, hushed
their oracle forever, and the great
spirit of Jefferson Davis burst its
earthly thralldom, then, and not till
then, did he remain silent when bis
beloved principles we're assaled Did
l say silent? The lips alone are
silent. He still speaks from the
tomb, having left behind him an
enduring and unanswerabe argument
in their behalf 10 the "Rlse and Fall
Of the Confederacyn which represents
him in thousands of homes, while
his remains repose on the bank Of the
James, the scene Of some Of the
most important events Of his life
Intense as have been the passions Of
the past, they will subslde. Terrible
as are the memories Of the strife.
truth and Justice will soften their
harsh lines.
The character Of Jefferson Davl.
viii grow In the general estimate,
scholars will ponder II and will bring
to light facts which hive been neg.
lected or ignored, and statesmen who