MISCELLANEOUS.

And now we have only a few pages into which to crowd a volume.

In addition to those we have noted, Mrs. Davis received resolutions and other tributes of respect from the students of the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., Poplar Bluff, Mo., Marshall, Mo., Moberly, Mo., Troy, Mo., Kansas City, Mo., Butler county, Mo., and other towns in the State, and also from Guthrie, I. T., Socorro, New Mexico, Los Angeles, Cal., and other points.

While there were some utterances in Northern papers utterly unworthy of any one living in this marvellous century, the general tone of the press at the North was, if not kindly, at least silent. We can cull only a few of their utterances.

The New York Examiner, one of the very foremost religious papers in the world, thus said editorially:

"The death of Jefferson Davis has called forth a general expression of respect and sorrow at the South. This was to be expected, and no reasonable man at the North will suspect the South of disloyalty to the re-established Union because they are also loyal to the man who was their leader in the 'Lost Cause.' There was a time when Jefferson Davis, as the visible embodiment of the secession movement, was more bitterly hated in the North than any Southerner, but time has softened that feeling. That Mr. Davis was an honest, almost fanatical, believer in the sovereignty of the States and in the right of peaceable secession has long been recognized. His personal integrity was never questioned, and those who have known him best have always testified to his personal virtues. Let us hope that in his grave may be buried the last of the animosities that inspired our civil war, and that the new South may join hands with a new North to make our common country not merely the greatest and the richest in the world-she is that already-but the most free, enlightened, and Christian of nations."

The New York Sun said:

"From him came no accent of self-exculpation or self-reproach. Failure had brought sorrow, but no compunction. Amid irreparable disaster Jeffer

SOD Davis was sustained by a serene consciousness that he had done a man's work according to his lights, and that while unable to command success he had striven to deserve it. Even among those who looked upon him with least sympathy it was felt that this man bore defeat and humiliation in the high Roman fashion, and that of him in his loyalty to a lost cause it might be said, as of another majestic soul at Utica, that

*‘Victrix causa deis placuit, sed victa Catoni.

By the victor's side the gods abide, but by the victim's, Cato.'"

The New York Times said:

"The funeral of Jefferson Davis and the observances that attended it throughout the South were very noteworthy for the spirit manifested in them. There is no fear now that any vindictive political action can be taken against the South, and there is thus no reason of prudence why any Southerner should refrain from speaking his whole mind. Yet, though certainly the proceedings denoted that the Southerners were not in the least ashamed of the course that they or their fathers took a quarter of a century ago, there has not been, that we have observed, a single word uttered of regret that their cause was lost or that the South was coerced into rejoining the Union it attempted to break. It would be difficult even for any person so fanatical as the late Governor Foraker or the late Mr. Halstead to find fault with the temper displayed by the people of what were once the Confederate States."

From Pomeroy's Advance Thought, New York:

"God pity the narrow-minded soul that squeaks out its dirty bitterness because the people of the South love the memory of Jefferson Davis. He was always an honest man; a friend of his people, regardless of the menaces and intolerance of those who were not friendly to the South. He never used his principles as a net in which to catch fish for market. He was not the inventor of the idea that man need not love a government that he could not love, or a people who believe that a political administration has the right to punish people for not loving narrow-minded persons who hate them. Jefferson Davis came into this world as others come. He loved the people of the State and localities whose people he knew, and whose menaced interests he sought to protect Through all the shocks and years of shocking wars and all the whirlpools of hate over which his life ran, he lived out God's appointed time, as Daniel lived in the den of lions that growled but were not permitted to lay claws upon him or to touch him with their teeth. Wise men are satisfied with the general result of the war, in its liberation of slaves and its restoration of the country. Jefferson Davis did as he thought to be right; therefore he deserves honor. He was true to his love for all that portion of the country, that did not propose to tramp with iron heel upon the other portion. He believed that statesmanship

should supercede the sword, and that reason is more honorable than rage, fanaticism and passion, heated by desire to plunder and confiscate. He has passed on to spirit life, and the South loves his memory as it should love it and as the people of every patriotic country should and ever will respect it. Were the people of the South to forget him, or fail to honor the man who endured so patiently for their sake, they in turn would deserve none of respect or place in the minds of men who have manhood.

The cause which he was chosen to lead failed through the errors of those who planted it, and the numerical power, but not superior bravery, of those who contended against it to final victory. The North has enough to be proud of-and enough to be ashamed of-without sullying its reputation for greatness by hurling cowardly venom upon an honest man in his memory, and upon those who admire honesty, bravery and devotion to best friends.

"Jefferson Davis will live longer in history and better, than will any who have ever spoken against him."

“LONDON, December 6.

"All the evening papers have leaders on Jefferson Davis. The Globe recalls Mr. Gladstone's eulogium, including the famous phrase so much criticised at the time-'Jefferson Davis has created a nation,' and adds that if he did not create a nation, it was because such a creation was clearly not possible in the conditions of affairs. If statesmanship, military genius and devotion on the part of a whole people were sufficient for the foundation of a State, a slaveholding republic would have been established. The enterprise failed, it concludes, because success in the conditions was not difficult, but impossible."

The Daily Telegraph says: "Jefferson Davis is gone, followed to the grave, we doubt not, by more affection and gratitude on the part of the South and a more respectful and just appreciation on the part of the North than were always his portion during life."

Mrs. F. G. DeFontaine has sent to the News and Courier the following extract from the letter of a friend, a New Hampshire woman, a descendant of John Quincy Adams, and a personal friend of Mr. Davis, to whom he sent his last photograph:

"The death of President Davis is an event that marks an epoch in heart and Southern history. I am satisfied he is glorified. I would not call him back. He had lived his life, won the admiration of the world, and died crowned with honors. Like Washington, he has enriched the annals of history, and his name and fame will live until the records of the world perish. This is immortality."

One of the most frankly sincere and admirably candid criticisms from a Northern standpoint is that of the Philadelphia Times, edited by that liberal-minded journalist, Colonel A. K. McClure: "That Mr. Davis was 'one of the most conscientious of our public men,' that he 'never yielded in convic

tion or bowed to expediency,' that his farewell speech to the United States Senate was 'memorable for its dignity and pathos,' that the Confederate hero' will go into history as one of the most sincere, conscientious and selfdenying of all the leaders of the Lost Cause,' and finally, that he was 'honest in faith, expression and effort alike at Montgomery, where he was crowned amidst the smiles and roses of the sunny South; in the prison cell when hope and friends seem to have perished, and in the hour when the long halt was called that summoned him to the dreamless couch of the dead." All these kindly words and more come from one of the leading newspapers in the Pennsylvania city.

The New York Herald speaks of Mr. Davis as not an original secessionist. He cherished hopes of the Union long after Yancey, Rhett, Toombs, and others had cast hesitancy to the winds. He was 'proud to the end, the last of the Confederates to furl the Confederate flag, awed by no reverses, discouraged by no disaster, obstinate, gloomy, impracticable, taking the sternest responsibilities, offering no compromise, seeking none; never veiling his cause by apologies, nor until the hour of his death showing the least regret.'"

Contrasting Jefferson Davis with the war President of the Union, the Herald says:

"In the essential element of statesmanship, Davis will be judged as the rival and parallel of Lincoln. When the two men came face to face, as leaders of two mighty forces, bitter was Northern sorrow that Providence had given the South so ripe and rare a leader and the North an uncouth advocate from the woods."

And finally the Herald concludes that " no one will hold a more conspicuous place than the stern, implacable, resolute leader, whose cold, thin lips have closed forever in that beloved South which he served with passion if not with wisdom."

CONCLUSION.

We know not how better to fill the space that remains to us than by quoting a speech by a Soldier-Preacher and a poem by the "Poet-Priest" of our Southland-the first made before Pickett Camp Confederate Veterans and a large crowd on "Memorial Day" at the Second Baptist Church, in Richmond, and the second written to be read at the great Southern Historical Society meeting in New Orleans, when Mr. Davis was present and made an address of rare eloquence and power.

ADDRESS OF REV. DR. 8. A. GOODWIN.

"A great man has fallen. The South is in tears. She sits like Niobe over her slaughtered children, weeping at the grave in which sleeps her patriot

statesman and hero. Her altars are wreathed with cypress, her flags are drooped, and her drums are muffled. The soul of President Davis is with God, but his name is enshrined in the hearts of the people for whom he suffered, and his deeds are forever wedded to immortality.

"Mr. Davis was a patriot. The 'storm-cradled nation,' whose course his genius guided through all its years of bitterness and blood, is a thing of the past; but the principles which called it into existence and placed him at its helm will live as long as liberty has a champion or patriotism a friend. Sweet to the memory of every Southern heart is the proud consciousness that it was no lust for pelf or power, no love for gold or gain, no strife for coronet or crown, that induced him to forswear the government under whose ægis he was born, whose institutions he loved, whose battles he fought, and upon whose escutcheon he had shed a new and richer lustre; but fidelity to principles bequeathed him by his fathers, and a deathless devotion to the State whose interests he had sworn to protect. The gigantic struggle which he guided, and for whose origin he was hunted and hounded, and for whose disastrous end the ignorant and the selfish, even among his own people, have held him alone blameworthy, had to come. He was simply one of the great factors in the mighty movement; but he did not set in motion the war. The reason for it were written on the first slave ship that crossed the Atlantic; they are found in the history of the colonies; in the climate, the soil, the productions, and the genius of the people, and in the very formation of the compact that constituted the union of the States. To deny that the States in adopting the Constitution reserved to themselves certain rights, is to betray the most palpable ignorance of the whole history of the government. Virginia ratified the compact with hesitating pen in one hand, whilst with the other she held the Bill of Rights, in which she refused to delegate to the general government the privilege of controlling her own institutions and of enacting her own laws. The right of the State to control her own institutions and to frame her own laws was one of the fundamental principles of the American Constitution. The object of the compact was for mutual protection, and not the interference of one State with the local laws or individual institutions of another. Of the rightness or the wrongness of State sovereignty it is now needless to speak. The arbitrament of the sword has settled that question, and thrown the institution of slavery forever behind us. Suffice it to say that Mr. Davis, in common with Jefferson, Calhoun, and many other statesmen, believed in the right of secession, and in his senatorial speeches, and in his 'Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government,' he has given reasons for his belief in arguments that are overpowering, and with logic that is irresistible. When, therefore, the sacred compact was denounced by the fanatical partisans of the North as 'a covenant with death and a league with hell,' and instead of being used for the protection of all of the States, was perverted into an instrument for the oppression of those of the South, Mr. Davis, in com