uncertain voyage of life is over. Surrounded by friends and family that had long been as dear to him 'as the ruddy drops that visited his sad heart,' it may be that weary of a world of turmoil, where we see but darkly and are oppressed with doubt, he was pleased to find in the bottom of the bitter cup of life that drop of anodyne, that 'sweet oblivious antidote,' that lulls every care to sleep.

"But even now-dust to dust, ashes to ashes. So all things mortal end. The flowers have been strewn; the voice of the priest is silent; the final requiem has been sung; the last vibrations of the funeral bell still linger faintly on sea and land; and the chieftain, whose strange career is so deeply impressed on the page of history, having received God's great amnesty, has entered upon that last repose which shall never more be disturbed by the voice of praise or blame."

Appropriate resolutions were unanimously adopted.

At Hot Springs there was a large and enthusiastic meeting led by the Confederate Veterans, at which Col. John M. Harrell made an eloquent and appropriate address. Mrs. Lillian B. Gray aroused great enthusiasm by reciting Judge George P. Smootes's recent poem on "Jefferson Davis at Buena Vista," and appropriate resolutions were adopted.

At Helena and at many other points in the State there were meetings, resolutions, and speeches, and the great State of Arkansas, whose soldiers were among the bravest of the brave in our great struggle for constitutional free dom, was no whit behind her Southern sisters in bringing loving tribute to our dead President.

FLORIDA'S TRIBUTE.

We have given the proclamation and the speech of Governor Fleming, who voiced the sentiments of his people.

In response to a telegram from the New York World, the Governor sent the following:

"To the World, New York:

"TALLAHASSEE, FLA., December 6, 1889.

"Throughout a long life Jefferson Davis illustrated a pure and lofty character with a powerful intellect and unsurpassed abilities. Whether as a distinguished soldier of the Mexican war, whose skill and valor saved the day to the American arms at Buena Vista, as a Senator of the United States, as Secretary of War, or the chosen leader of the Confederate cause, he was alike true to every trust reposed in him, and exhibited abilities of the highest order. He was ever true to the principles of American liberty, and impartial history will accord him a place among the most profound statesmen of the country.

"FRANCIS P. FLEMING, Governor of Florida."

At Jacksonville there was an enthusiastic meeting and suitable resolutions, and Dr. R. B. Burroughs, in transmitting the resolutions, addressed Mrs. Davis the following letter:

"To Mrs. Jefferson Davis:

"JACKSONVILLE, FLA., December 11, 1889.

"DEAR MADAM: "At a meeting of the citizens of this place, held last evening, December 10th, the enclosed resolutions were unanimously adopted, and in order to give emphasis to them, and as additional evidence of feeling, it was also decided that a letter from the officer presiding, expressive of their reverence for the memory of your husband and their sympathy for you, should accompany them.

"Honored by this trust, let me assure you that I fully feel the delicacy with which it should be performed, and that I fully know that in this dark hour of your grief but little can be brought to your stricken heart of comfort or relief.

"In the death and entrance upon a glorious immortality of the revered Jefferson Davis, there has passed from earth a character so grand in its proportions, so perfect in its symmetry, so faultless in its beauty, that the language applied to the immortal Washington is equally pertinent to him; that he 'exhibited in one glow of associated beauty the pride of every model and the perfection of every master.' In this combination of excellences of character, of one trait no man of modern or ancient times has given higher manifestation, and his name will always stand as the synonym of loyalty to duty and fidelity to trust.

"With naked sword and eagle eye undimmed by age he stood upon his lofty eminence guarding to the day of his death the sacred dust of the cause he so nobly defended, and like the sentinel at Herculaneum, with the dust and ashes of a proud and mighty empire falling around him, he remained at his post undismayed with a serenity and calmness that was truly sublime. As a soldier and in defense of the honor of his country, he poured out his blood on the soil of Mexico and held aloft in his loyal grasp the battlestained flag of the Union, and though possessed of a spirit so attuned as to 'feel oppression's slightest finger as a mountain weight,' he repelled from his bosom every feeling of hostility until convinced that the institutions he revered and the altars he held sacred were menaced.

"It is conceded that in the portfolio of Secretary of War he had no equal, as a warrior he was brave, as a statesman eloquent and wise, and when he held the reins of empire he was discreet and just. The death of President Davis seals the door of the sepulchre in which, I trust, we have forever laid at rest the spirit of intolerance of those who bravely defended the cause they deemed just and right. To-night we sit beneath the willows and sing for the last time the requiem of a nation dead

"No nation rose so white and fair,

None fell so free of crime,'

"This night the spirit of the illustrious chieftain cacamps on the other shore with Lee, Jackson, Polk, and other Christian herocs where their banner will never droop nor its stars grow pale.

"I can see the light e'en now of a dawning day when those who fell in that fratricidal strife, each a patriot, contending for what he deemed the right, shall have mingled into one common fraternal dust that a nobler fabric will arise than that which our fathers built-the fabric of a more glorious Union, a Union, though founded on strife, that shall stand forever, indissolubly cemented by the blood of her sons, and shall bear on its cornerstone in letters of living light-the spirit of justice, equality, and right, a light that shall clearly illumine, and to this, and all coming generations, illustrate the character and the conduct of Jefferson Davis and his followers. 66 Το you, dear madam, the nearest friend of this great and good man, the widowed mother of his children, sitting with bowed head and stricken with grief, we would come with words of tenderest sympathy, trusting that the God of the widow and the fatherless will comfort and sustain you. "With great respect, I am, dear madam, yours truly,

"R. B. BURROUGHS."

At Pensacola, and at other points all over the State, suitable action was taken, and Florida paid our Chief a tribute not unworthy of her gallant soldiers who followed his lead in the dark days of war.

MARYLAND'S TRIBUTE.

"My Maryland" did not "come" to the Southern Confederacy simply because her geographical position was such that she could be and was "pinned to the Union by Federal bayonets;" but the Confederacy had no more gallant soldiers than those who "ran the blockade" from this noble State; there were no more loyal hearts than many who "waited and watched" at home, and nowhere have Confederate memories been more warmly cherished. "Our Dead President" had a warm tribute paid him in Maryland.

On" Memorial Day" there was held at the armory of the Fifth Regiment in Baltimore a large and enthusiastic meeting, under the auspices of the Confederate Society of Maryland. The veterans from the "Home"-the old color bearer-the members of the Confederate Society with their battle-flag badges-the decorations-and the large number of distinguished men and noble women present-all combined to make a scene of deep interest. Captain McHenry Howard called the meeting to order, and announced the following officers: President, Mayor Davidson; Vice-Presidents, Hon. S. Teackle Wallis, Hon. George William Brown, General George H. Stewart, and General Bradley T. Johnson. Secretaries, Major W. Stuart Symington, and Captain John Donnell Smith. Committee on memorial, Major Thomas W. Hall.

Rev. Dr. R. H. McKim, of the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, (a gallant Confederate soldier), led in a fervent and appropriate prayer, and there were speeches of more than ordinary interest, feeling, and power by Mayor Davidson, who said that “another great oak of the forest has fallen." Colonel D. G. McIntosh, who commanded a Battalion of Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia, and who said in his speech, "We will bequeath his memory to our children as a precious legacy." Colonel Charles Marshall, the old military secretary of General Lee, who closed his address by asking "Who is there that is not proud to be the country man of such a man, who was faithful to the last?" General Bradley T. Johnston, of the old "Maryland Line," who said, "Mr. Davis and the men with him were trying to establish a government on the principles of the Constitution of 1789. I have never concluded that I have been glad that the war ended as it did." Rev. Dr. W. U. Murkland, who spoke of Mr. Davis and the Confederate Soldiers who followed him as A brave chivalry that puts to blush all the chivalry of the past." And Hon. S. Teackle Wallis, who said of him, “He bore his persecutions as a christian and a gentleman."

We very much regret that our limited space forbids our publishing these eloquent speeches in full.

We can only find room for the following brief extracts. Colonel McIntosh closed his speech by saying:

"As President of the Confederacy Mr. Davis was called upon for the exercise of every quality which properly belongs to the statesman in the Cabinet or the military chieftain in the field. The requisitions upon him were undoubtedly large, probably more than mortal man could respond to. He alone knew the full extent of the difficulties which beset him. No one could feel as he did the responsibility of the vast interests at home and abroad committed principally to his keeping. Armies had to be raised and fed and clothed, and equipped with all the munitions of war. Diplomatic agents had to be appointed and instructed, and delicate negotiations attempted with the leading powers abroad. At home jealousies had to be appeased and conflicting interests reconciled, while ever and at all times was the constantly recurring problem-how, out of the poverty of the resources in reach, to meet the exigencies of each passing day.

"Personal opposition, of course, he encountered; personal enmities he could not do otherwise than arouse, but his intrepid spirit never faltered. Conscious of his own integrity, supremely self-reliant in the motives and public policy upon which his conduct was based, he kept on unflinchingly to the end. No disaster could appal him. When his troops met with reverses in the field he issued those wonderful addresses, charged with fiery eloquence, which, ringing like the tones of a trumpet, revived their drooping spirits and incited them afresh to deeds of valor. When the end came. he was still undaunted.

"It was the fortune of a few of his soldiers who were not paroled at Appomattox to overtake him in his passage through the State of North Carolina. His faith in the God of battles and in the success of the cause was steadfast and unshaken. He could not believe that the star of the Confederacy had fallen. His imperial will and the mighty purpose which had sustained him for more than four years refused to be thwarted, and with an intensity and eloquence born of genius he stood out for another base of operations.

"The sublimity of his faith, the magnetism of his presence, the pathos of the situation, the contagion of his own nature, affected us in a way we were powerless to resist, and our little company parted from him with the assurance that we should join him in the department of the trans-Mississippi. Two days' ride across the waste left by Sherman's army revealed to us, as we had not seen it before, the poverty of the situation, and a day or two more brought tidings of the capture which completed the overthrow of the Government.

"The next time we saw Mr. Davis was when, as a prisoner, he was brought from Fortress Monroe to be arraigned in the Circuit Court in Richmond on the charge of treason. Fortunately for the peace of the country, the reputation of the Government, and the reconciliation of the two sections, the charge was not pressed. Even at that early day the generous and graceful act of the venerable Horace Greely in offering himself as a hostage to the Government to procure the release of his former political enemy swept like so much grateful balm into the hearts of the Southern people, and formed the first step towards genuine reconstruction.

"It would be useless at this day to say much of the confinement of Mr. Davis and his treatment when in prison. We know that in those days the great heart of the people of the South yearned towards the sufferer as that of a mother yearns to its offspring. The rivets which bound his fetters pierced every bosom in the South and transfixed it with the most poignant anguish. To his people that becomes an atonement for any errors he may have committed. Henceforth there could be but one sentiment—he was a people's vicarious sufferer. All else was forgotten. Happily for us all the scars of his fetters have long since disappeared, and he ended his days in the midst of his friends and in the shadow of a blessed peace.

"He devoted his declining years to a defense of his public course and that of his people. "The History of the Rise and Fall of the Confederacy' is one of the lasting monuments he leaves behind him. But while he believed to the end in the political creed of his earlier life, and that the arguments upon which they were founded are unanswerable in the forum of reason, as do many others, he admitted that the war had made them impracticable, and he expressed the sincere hope that the Union would be perpetual.

"We pass no judgment upon the place which history will assign him. He already stands out as the most interesting, if not the most conspicuous, figure of his day.