The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-03

| ~N.N-~I to tHC nciBnOOTlnB VlIdBe, Te- turned and told me that he had heard that marauding party intended to at- tack the camp that night. This decid- ca me to wait long enough to see whether there was any truth in the rumor. which I supposed would be as- certained In q few hours. My horse remained saddled and my pistols in tne holsters and lay down | fully dressed to rest. Nothing occurred 10 rouse me until just before dawn. when my coachman, free colored man, who clung to our fortunes. came and | told me there was firing over the branch. just beyond our encampment. She tMrs. Davis). implored me to leave her at once. I hesitated, from unwillingness to do so. and lost few precious moments before yielding. My horse and arms were near the road on wnicn I expected to leave, and down which the cavalry approach ed; 1t was therefore impracticable for me to reach them. As 1t was quite dark in the tent ! picked upon what was supposed to pc my raglan" waterproof light overcoat without sleeves; 1t was sub sequently found to be my wife's, so very like my own as to be mistaken TOT 1t: as started my wife thought Iuiiy threw over my head and shoul- ders shawl. I had gone perhaps nfteen or twenty yards when a trooper galfoped up and ordered me to halt and surrender, to which gave a defiant an- swer, and dropping the shawl and rag Ian from my shoulders. advanced to meet him." Mrs. Hayes, then a child of 10, says her fathers reply was
 I am Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States--do your worst" and his commanding figure was raised to It's full height in the gray light of the morning. as the trooper levelled a C anf Mr nnx rfa sxrNs T expected if he fired he would miss me, and my intention was in that event. to put my hand under his foot tumble him off on the other side, spring into his saddle and attempt to escape. Suc- cess depended on instantaneous action, and recognizing that the opportunity had been lost, I turned back--and passed on to a fire within the tent. Mrs. Davis writes: within a short | distance of Macon we were halted and | the soldiers drawn up in line on either | side of the road. Our children crept close to their father, especially little Maggie. who put her arms about him | while from time to time he comforted | her with tender words from the psalms | of David "Mr. Davis and family were embarked at Augusta, Ga.. for Fort | ress Monroe; after he had been taken to the fort Mrs. Davis and party were ] taken back to Savannah. Mrs. Davis writes of occurrences on ship board. | "After a few hours, Colonel Pritchard l Gin command of the guard), left us l here. and asked me for my waterproof. which I thought would disprove the as- | sertion that 1t was essentially a wo- mans cloak, and gave 1t to him. Then l Captain Hudson valiantly came with a | file of men to insist upon having my shawl-though he offered to buy me | another to replace it." These relics have recently been discovered in the archives at Washington, D. D. An eye | witness thus describes Mir. Davis's de- meanor at Washington. Ga.: "He must speak to the ladies who had called. He was informed that his horse was at the door. but he had to kiss the little children that were present. At last &C., companied by Colonel Johnson, he walked in the most leisurely way down the front steps of Dr. Robinson's house. saying something appropriate to every one he met.
 The London Herald is quoted as fol- lows in regard to the attitude of Mir. Davis during the war.
 'Tf 6 great man struggling with ad- versity Is q spectacle for the gods, Mir. President Davis, delivering his inaugu- ral address almost on the morrow of the signal disaster at Fort Donelson, may perhaps claim something of our sympathy. Tn the speech there is no
 
 | for terms with triumphant enemy. It was such an address as Washington 1 himself might have penned-strong in the belief of the unanimous feeling of hIs countrymen firm in the faith of the success of what he Believed to be the right. These brave yet temperate words will resond through both hem ispheres and convince those who may yet be in doubt that the men of the Confederate States are not made of metal that gives at the first shock"
 Colonel Freemantle of the Coldstream Guards the personal body guard of Queen Victoria, speaks thus after an interview with Mir. Davis in 1883:
 During my travels many people have remarked to me that Jefferson Davis seems. in peculiar manner, adapted to his office. People speak of any misfortune happening to him as an irreparable evil too dreadful to con- template" 1-
 And English writer describes Mir. Da- wis as "one of the worlds foremost men, admired as a statesman, respect ington of another generation of the l same race"
 pr. J. William Jones sketches the appearance of the many leading Con- federate officers who took part in the seven days battles around Richmond. anu InSH says QO not hesitate 10 l say that the accomplished horseman- ship. the martial bearing. the general | appearance of our President, as he was | greeted by the enthusiastic cheers of the soldiers. impressed me as deeply as any of the grand men saw on those | fields of carnage"
 The glowingly eloquent orator, Sem ator Daniel, addressing the Legisla- | taure of his State, on the occasion of MT, Dayis's death said in mart "TIa | swayed Senates and led the soldiers of the Union, stood accused of treason in l a court of justice. He ruled millions and was put In chains. He created a | nation. he followed its bier, and he died l a disfranchised citizen.
 Though great in many things, he | was greatest in that fortitude which. | lifting him first to the loftiest height and casting him thence to the depth | of disappointment found him every where the erect and constant friend