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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1961)
o o o o o o O o MONDAY. JANUARY 23, 1961 B S WAR THIS . WAS Xttfi Mt CIVIL FAREWELL TO COLLEAGUES On the morning of Jan. 21, 1861, Jefferson Davis, senator from the just-seceded state of Missis sippi, rose in the crowded senate chamber for his last appearance, Dressed in his cus tomary black suit, white shirt and black tie, Davis spoke of his approval of slavery and secession, but without bitterness bade farewell to his colleagues. In a few days he would return to his Mississippi plantation and threafter lake up duties as President of the Confederacy. This original drawing, by staff artist Edwin Kaufman, shows Davis during his speech. (UPI Telephoto) Davis Resigns From Senate By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent In Washington, at 7 a.m. on Jan. 21, 1861, Mrs. Jefferson Davis sent a servant to the Senate to hold her seat. This was the day when her husband was bidding farewell to his colleagues and what had been until this very moment, his country. Even at that early hour the Davis household retainer found a fashionable crowd around the Senate doors -women in crinolines and flow ered bonnets and men in the clawhammer coats of the time. Davis, senator from the just seceded state of Mississippi, had been ill for a week and his doctor had told him to stay in hed. Neither he nor his young wife, Varina Howell Davis, had slept all night. But by 9 a.m. Davis push ed his way through the throneed chamber to his seat. Mrs. Davis had supplanted the servant. Every square foot of the Senate was packed. As manv members as could squeeze in lined the walls to see the show. The diplomatic gallery was filled. "Bright faces of the ladies were assembled together like a mosiac of flowers," Mrs. Davis recorded. Davis wore his customary suit of black broadcloth, a starched white shirt and black satin vest. His necktie was a black silk hankerchief knot ted like a stock. "Every eye was turned up on him," Mrs. Davis wrote with firce pride, "fearful of missing one word. "He glanced over the Sen ate with the reluctant look the dying cast on those upon whom they gaze for the last time. His voice was at first faltering, but soon it rang out melodiously clear like a silver trumpet, to the extremest verge of the assembly . . . Unshed tears were in it . . . His manner suggested that of one who parts from his fam ily, because even death were better than estrangement." Davis began: "I rise, Mr. President, for the purpose of announcing to the Senate that I have satis factory evidence that the State of Mississippi . . .has declared her separation from the United States. Under these circumstances, my functions here are terminated. , . "It is known . . . that I have for many years advo cated ... the right of a state to secede ... I approve of her (Mississippi's) act." Always a partisan of slav ery, Davis tossed in the issue for his last time. 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Name of Board of Directors on Request j CRATER FINANCE 13SflWcJgjrVAW . 1 said, "... they have no ref- erence to the slave. Without bitterness, anger or defiance, Davis closed "... In the presence of my God, I wish you well; and such, I am sure, is the feeling of the people whom I repre sent toward those whom you represent ... it only remains for me to bid you a final farewell." And then the tall, angular ly erect statesman walked out of the chamber into what most of his colleagues expect ed to be obscurity. Mrs. Davis saw tears in the eyes of many. The nation he had quit had been good to Jefferson Davis -it had educated him at West Point, proclaimed him a hero of the Mexican War and hon ored him by raising him to the secretaryship of war. The Confederacy would do even more. Instead of consign ing him to obscurity, it would make him its president and heap upon him the task of forging a nation and waging a war at the same time. Too much for mortal man, it turn ed out. That night was another sleepless one. Varina heard him pacing back and forth night long and whispering: "May God have us in His holy keeping, and grant before it is too late that peaceful coun- cils may prevail." He was not one of those impetuous Southerners who thought war, if it came, would be short and glorious. More likely long and bloody. Four O there Reiign Four other Southern sen ators left that day, too. But history remembers little of the farewells of David L. Yu- lee of Florida and Stephen R. Mallory of Florida, (al though Mallory would go on to be secretary of the navy under Davis and the only cab inet member to last the four full years of war) and Sens. Clement C. Clay and Benja min Fitzpatrick of Alabama. All expressed in valedictory speeches some degree of the bitterness which Davis had left unsaid in his renuncia tion. Davis' speech for the po litical record had been made 11 days before, 24 hours aft er he knew certainly that his state had seceded. "If you will but allow us to separate from you peace ably," he said then, "since we cannot live peaceably togeth er, to leave with the rights we had before we were unit ed, since we cannot enjoy them in the Union, then there are many relations which may still subsist between us, drawn from the association of our struggles from the Rev olutionary era to the present day, which may be beneficial to you as well as to us. If you will not have it thus; if the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reli ance on force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain subjects to you, then, gentle men of the North, a war is to be Inaugurated the like of which men have not seen. Power for Congress "Are we to drift into war? Are we to stand idly by and allow war to be precipitated on the country? . . . Allow a general or a President to make war? No. Our fathers gave to Congress the power to declare war, and even to Congress they gave no power to make war upon a state of the Union ... It was well said . . . that this Union could not be maintained by force, and that a Union of force was a despotism . . . Aaainst it, so long as I live, with heart and hand. I rebel. "The want of a policy, the obstinate adherence to unim portant things, have brought us to a condition where I close my eyes, because I cannot see anything that encourages me to hope . . . God will judge between you and us, at whose idoor lies the rcsponbility." I In a few days the Divis family went South to Briar : field.O:heir Mississippi planta tion iouthof Vicksburg, where Mrs. Davis hoped r husband could rccuneitJ. t 1 0 Ess -. - TRAINLOAD SALE of Sunkist Here's the sweet treat of the winter seosonl The sweetest, juiciest, finest-flavored Navel oranges you ever tasted are at Safeway right now. We've rushed big shipments of this golden fruit direct from sunny California orchards especially for this sale. Tree-ripened to natural color and luscious goodnessl $J99 $015 O Half Box Jm NAVEL 38-lb. 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