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WAR SI Sam Davis?the Brave IProcI W. C. Dodson, in I would not speak one word of dis paragement of our battlefield heroes, or the commander and his brave men who followed him into the very jaws of death. The charge of l'ickett's j division at Gettysburg, Gordon's des- j perate assault upon the enemy's works j in the last days of the civil war, the j death grapple at Franklin in which ; five of our bravest generals gave up their lives, and many more notable ; achievements, illustrating the heights to which human courage can attain. , and must always reflect undying honor, not only upon Confederates, but stand as monuments to the heroism of Amer- j ican soldiery. But grand and glorious as were all these, and brave as were these men, there was a man I think who display ed a higher type of courage than even they. He was not an officer of even the humblest rank, and knew nothing of the inspiration that comes with the excitement and huzzas of sanguinary strife. He led no forlorn hope, and d;d not go down in the forefront of battle with the shout of victory upon his dying lips. How, then, did this brave man die? | The answer is, he died the most igno ble of deaths?that of the gallows, with a rope around his neck. But he fought the fight of ' faith and truth," and as long as human valor is ap plauded, as long as the grandeur of moral heroism is appreciated, in every j ae?', in every clime, this man must J r uk as the bravest of the brave, and his martyr's death reflect honor upon the manhood of the world. THE STORY OF SAM DAVIS. I cannot tell this story better than in the language of Hon. Tulley Brown, in an address deliervcd at Nashville, Tcnn., early in 1901, and published in the Nashville American, part of of whioh is as follows: "Ladies and Gentlemen: The pleas ing duty has been accorded to me to night to introduce to you the distin guished lady who will entertain you with song and dialeotof the old South, but I have been requested by the oommittee, before introducing her, to have some few words to say with refer once to the object of this meeting, and to the young man whose short life and whose glorious death in a cause long gone by is the reason for ereoting to him a monument upon the aoropolis of the State. "You doubtless have seen that .he Legislature of Tennessee by a resolu tion, has appropriated a spot upon the oapitol grounds for a monument to this young man. And the questions might be asked: Why did the legis lature pass such a resolution? Who was Sam D^vis? Did he lead listen ing senates? Was he ever a governor of the State? Did he lead our legions to buttle? What did he do, that the legislature of this State should have given to him a place by the side of James K. Polk and Andrew Jackson, * two presidents of the United States; one whw slept for many years in sight of the capitol, but whose tomb was allowed to be placed upon the eapitol site; and Andrew Jackson, a man na tional in his fame, a man glorious, a man known to all the earth; and out of all the Tennessee people since the capitol was built, only these two have been allowed resting places there?one in his grave and the other astride of j his bronze horse? Then who was Sam. Davis? That is what tho com mittee has asked me to toll. ''It is a simple story of a short life and a death 80 glorious that it has no rival. (Applause). His father and mother eame to the State of Tennessee from Virginia, that State that has fur nished so much of good and so much of greatness to the world. I take it, as they came from Virginia and from his simple Eoglish name, that he came of proud Eoglish blood. He lived the life of other Tennessee boys, and was at a military school hero by Nashville in 18(11, when the cloudburst of war startled the American people Ten nesscean-likc, the young man, scarcely nineteen, volunteered in the first regi ment he could reach, which was the First Tennessee Regiment, C. S. A. "I have asked a soldier comrade of that regiment, who was afterwards connected with his family, about him, for I felt certain that you would de sire to hear of a man so famous, of a man capable of so heroic a deed, that any particular would be interesting. Sam Davis was nearly six feet high, and was as straight and slender as a mountain pine. He had a shock of hair black as tho raven's wing, and his faee was bronzed, his eyes black and shining like diamonds. He was gci tic and kindly as a girl. He loved hb mother, and was gentle in his de . Meant* to his soldier comrades; while / everyu -w who knew him was fond of him. He entered tho army and served some time with the First Tennessee, and theu was selected to compose a DRIES. ist Man the Civil War need. Atlanta Journal. company of scouts on the dangeroua duty of invading the enemy's line. That service went on until in Novem ber, 1S03, when he was captured by the Federal soldiery near the town of i'ulaBki, Tenn. There were found upon his person maps of fortifications of Nashvi?e and other places, statis tics of the Federal army, their num bers in infantry, their artillery, caval ry, and all it takes to make up au army. "General Dodge, who was the com mander of the Federal corps then at 1'ulaski. sent for him. He made known to the young man the grave and serious condition which he was in: that he would h-ive to call a court martial to try him fora spy. General Dodge said to him: 'If you will give me the name of your ioformant, if you will tell me where these maps and ligures came from. I will set you free.' General Dodge evidently supponed that they came from arouud his head* quarters, either from a staff officer pr somebody in the confidence of a staff officer; he was very pressing in his desire to get this information. He says himself: 'I was struck with ad miration at the integrity, the dignity, und the splendid courage of this young man, and I did my best to save his life.' "The courtmartial was called. Two charges were submitted. Charge first was that he was inside Federal lines carrying upou his person maps and communications detrimental to the government and to the armies of the I'nited States. The specifications of both charges were set out. "To the first charge and specifica tion ho pleade& not guilty. 'I am here in my Confederate uniform, without concealment.' 'I am not a spy.' (Applause.) To the second charge he pleaded guilty. And chftn that was done he was confined in a separate cell, and the fact was made known to him that he had to die. ."On November 2b\ 1863, on Thurs day night, this young fellow, in his lonely cell wrote a letter most pathetic to his mother and father. He said: 'I am going to die on the gallows to morrow. Do not grieve forme, it will do no good. Think of me; do not forget me. Tell the children to be good. I am not afraid to die.' "Next morning there was sent to the jail a wagon to take him to the place of exeoution, under the orders of the courtmartial. One of his com rades, who had been captured at the same time, but was confined with others as a prisoner in the court bouse of the little town, said they heard the drum roll, they saw the regimental march, and sitting in the wagon they saw their comrade and their friend. When ho saw them he arose to his fee:, and bowed. He was taken on over to the eastern portion of the city, on a bluff side, and there, sitting on a bench, he awaited the action of the military authorities. "General Dodge, thinking that in the presence of the scaffold, in the presence of immediate death, this young hero might have changed his mind, aud that he might give him the information that he so muoh desired, sent Captain Chiokasaw, his ohief scout, to him. He touched him on the shoulder with his hand, and said: 'It is not too late. Give me the in formation, and you will be escorted to the Confederate lines.' That scaffold, gentlemen and ladies, loomed up, and was a hideous specter in his front, but he turned and said: 'Captain, give my thanks to General Dodge for the interest he has taken in me; but if I l\ad a thousand lives, I would sur render them here and now before I would do a thing like that. (Ap plause.) "Look at the gracious and sweet demeanor?no bluffing, no bravado, no defiance, and no truculence?of that gallant young spirit ou the verge of his grave! He was a gentleman. He had the gentleness in t)ini to thank his enemies for the courtesies that they bad done him. He asked Cap tain Armstrong: 'How long have I to live?" Ho replied: 'Fifteen minutes/ Davis said: 'The boys will have to fight the balance of the battles with out me.' Captain Armstrong said: 'I hate to do this thing; I would rather die myself.' "Standing arouud that scnffold were the stern phalanxes of the government under orders, with their guns in their hands. This young man was alone. He was twenty-one years and a few months of age. He had no counSol; he had no friend; he had no backer; that terrible thing was before him, and the resolution that he had was of his own making. He arose to his feet and looked around. What did he see? He looked upon the sun for the last time. Lifo is very sweet. It is particularly sweet when we are about to lose it. The sun that had kissel his check to a lau for twenty one years was giving hiuj her last ki*s; the breeze that waved his raven hair was Mowing on it for the last time; the hills of l'ulaski were standing silent around him. Nearness to death must have quickened his faculties? and how he must have loved to live; how that heroic young spirit must have hated to die! Through his veins was running blood like quicksilver, singing to him tbe song of life. The earth was very beautiful; the sky was very blue. He could almoBt hear the dropping of the tears of his mother; he could hear her low moan and the groan of agony that came from his father. Perhaps there was another somewhere in Tennessee who was on Ler knees at that time?somebody must have loved that glorious young fellow. He cauld look over toward the South, and there he could see the hard-pressed flag of his country, and he could hear the shout of his com rades fighting for what they believed was just. 0 how he must have hated to leave them to fight that battle alone ?this gallant, glorious, and devoted young soldier! "Lauies and gentlemen, if I were to ask you to-night the question, 'What is the greatest passiou of life?' you would answer, 'The passion to live.' Men ca.-t away at sea, when starving, cat iheir comrades to live. London swarms with its hundreds of thousands who lead a life of immeasurable mise cry, but who do not want to die, though the Thames flows by and kind ly invites them to jump in and end their misery. Men live in dungeons, away under the ground, in slime, and yet when they hear the tread of the turnkey in the corridor their souls quake for fear he may be coming to sa>, 'You must die.' But this young man, who had everything to live for, whose very soul was full of life?this splendid young knight of the soul? said: 'If I had a thousand lives to give, I would give them all before I would do what you ask me to do?' "Ladies and gentlemen, tbe story of Sam Davis will never die, and will never cease to be told. Listening senates will hear the grand story; the camp fires will repeat it in the armies of the government; the school teach ers in thousands of schools will recite the beautiful and patbetio story to the young boys and girls, who will listen with tender and wondering eye. Some Livy, like the Roman Livy, will put it in imperishable history. Yea, some Homer will yet be born in these Southern States?when the south again turns her attention to the things that are really 'great?will strike with fingers of genius the harp to the great demand, and will produce another Iliad, and in that grand epic the brightest pages will be the story of this young man's heruic death. (Applause.) "Yea, he will never die, for he will be enshrined in earth's grandest pan theon, the human heart, and on its splendid wall his ohaplet of laurel and immortelles will be higher than all the rest. Take all the heroes who bled for the South in the oivil war; let them come from every field of battle; 0*11 np the spotlese and the priaooly Lee, he that was made in God's own image if ever man was (applause); call up Sydney Johnson from the bloody field of Shiloh, who, like one of Ossi an's beroes, with his finger pointed to victory, and with the fierce South cheering on her sons, call him up; call Stonewall Jackson, the lightning bolt of tho battlefield, that man who earnestly raised his hand to the God of battles on the day of battles; oall up Joseph E. Johnston, the darling of the Tennessee army (applause); call up the tall chieftain who sleeps by the banks of the Mississippi, Bedford Forrest (applause), listening to the song of a spirit kindred of his own; pass them in review; let the world look, as the world never looked be fore, at this splendid pageantry! Who is it that will attraot every eye? What is it that will bring the tears and the look of pity to every face? Who is that riding by? Who is it, in his gray, ragged jacket that is riding by, with his whole neck and bosom wreath ed with a chain of gold instead of a hangman's rope? It is Sam Davis, the most famous of them all, for he died for p.inciple and that his friend might live. (Applause) "\*et Sam Davis will never die. His magnificent act connected him forever, linked him forever, with that greatest One, who, upon the out stretched orosB on Calvary, discharged his great trust, and died for man. .(Applause).'' And when the speaker finished there j v.-erL ;ev7 dry eyes in the audience. Mr*.r Samuel Orr,Nwho was a resi dent of- Pulafdti when Sam Davis was executed,sajs: "Never did there rest over a people a darker, heavier gloom than spread over Pulaski that day. The doors and windows of every house was closed. All hearts, were sad and all eyes wore weeping. Well do I remember lying down on a bed and covering up my head with a pillow, to try to shut out the sound of the fife and drum by which they were marching to the gal lows. Many of the common Boldiers and officers boldly stigmatised it as murder. General Sweeny was ex tremely sympathetic. In the after noon after the execution iu the morn- I ing lie made a visit to Rev. Mr. Cald well, of the l'resbyterian Church, and expressed himself very freely about it. lie walked the floor with his fist clenched in the most exicitcd manner, and denounced it in the strongest language, saying that it was "an out rage, an everlasting stigma on the United States." He said: "Vou talk about marts'n and heroes, this is the greatest martyr, the grandest hero,. the bravest man that ever died." I shall as long as life lasts honor Gen eral Sweeny's memory for speaking those brave and noble words for Sam Davis. General Dodge, in sending his check to help build a monument to this humble Confederate soldier, tells of his earnest efforts to save the life of "little Sam Davis," from the conse quences of his raid and detection, and says he had never seen a nobler speci men of humanity than he found clothed in that "little gray jacket." "H. T. C," of Clevelaud, O., my warm personal friend, writes: "Your favor aud a copy of the Confederate Veteran at hand, and I thank you for calling my attention to the true he roism and brave self-sacrificing act of Sam Davis, in giving his life rather than betray a trust. I, a Federal sol dier, and at the time a foe of the noble Davis, thank you for giving me I an opportunity to become a contribu tor to the fund you mention, and I j enclose my check for $25.for the monument." I The writer of the above, a gallant Federal soldier, also contributed $100 to the Winnie Davis monument fund. I regret that his modesty places me under obligation to withhold his name. Who gave the fatal papers to Sam Davis will probably always remain a mystery, as he gave up his life rather than betray the trust. It has been generally supposed that he received them from his superior officer, Shaw, alias Coleman, who was oaptain of the scouts of which Davis was a member, and who was also a prisoner at the time, under an assumed name. This view, however, may be negatived by the young hero's steady reply to all importunities, "I gave my word I will die rather than break it." It is not likely that his captain could have pro cured such papers (maps of fortifioa- I tions, statistics of the Federal army, I etc.,) except through the assistance of some officer or member of that army, end it may be that Sam Davis died to save the life of one who wore the uni form of an enemy. But he went to his death with the seoret locked in his breast, and a mystery it must re-1 main till the last final trump. The remaining men of Shaw's or I Coleman'a soouts, after his capture and that of Sam Davis and others, I were transferred to Captain Shannon, General Wheebr's ohief scout. Among the latter were several Alabamiano I from my regiment, some Tennesseeano I and Georgians, and I have already I i told of some of their deeds of daring, and of their service to their oountry. Of oourse I make no claim that Sam Davis belonged to Wheeler's Cavalry for, as I have said before, the name and the fame of such a man belongs to I no one command, no one army, and no one oountry, but glorifies the manhood of the world. Many poetio tributes have been written to the memory of this brave boy._ ? A teacher of a class in arithme tic, says an exchange, put this ques tion to one of the boys: "If your father gave your mother ten dollars today aud seven dollars tomorrow what would she have?" The problem was an easy one for the youth, and he promptly answered: "She'd have a fit." ? In trying to get his rights many a^man^es^atj^ "FRUIT OF THE LOOM." Men and women of taste and judgment go into ecstacies over the wonderful pat terns, textures and colors which are ? the fruit of the loom." But there is one fruit of the loom they rarely con aider, and that is _MfgX\ \v the frail and faded JmoH woman, old before fHF^s? Ml her time, because tj * ? * necessity compels >-?^^-^ f jp~ her to work under I wS?H?ii conditions, which ^^^^^^n^^^^* which weaken and /yfflfcn il^K*^ tonnent women, Wu? wLmmW' cases be^ cured by H ^flT^* establishes re8^* ening drains,heals AB ulc?ration, and fflSBM _) cures female weak- 0 ^y*^ . M had fem nie trouble for eight years," writes Mrs. 1?. J. Dennis, of 8a8 East College Street. JacksonviUe.mis. ? Word? cannot express what I suffered. / sought relief among the medical (tofestion and found none. Friends urged me to ry Dr. Piere*** Favorite Prescription. When I commenced taktng this medicine I weighed ninety-five pounds. Now I weigh one hundred and nfty-slx pounds?more than 1 ever weighed before. I was so bad 1 would lie from day to day and long for death to come and relieve my Buffering. I had internal inflammation, a dis agreeable drain, brearing-dowu pain, and such distress every month, but now f never have a Ealn?do all my own work aud am a strong and ealthy woman." ?Favorite Prescriptionn makes weak women strong, sick women well. Accept no substitute for the medicine which works wonders for weak women. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets should be used with M Favorite Prescription w when ever a laxative is required. One for U. S. G? Jr. Genera' Fred Grant a few months ago received a letter which he showed his army friends in Luzon as a joke at his own expense, and whioh, there fore, may properly be promulgated. The general's son, U. S. Grant, third, is a cadet at Wept Foil. , now first class man and cadet adjutant. But earlier in his course the father becamo anxious about him and im parted his anxiety by mail from the Philippines to a professor in the academy, a contemporary of his own, begging him to send exact and con fidential information as to the cadet's standing. The answer whioh relieved his anxiety was as follows: "Dear Fred: You needn't worry. The boy stands higher in everything than you ever did in anything."? New Yonk Times. Cares Eczema, Itching Minors, Pimples and CarLunnlca?Costs Nothing to Try. ?. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) is now recognized as a certain and sure cure for eczema, itching skin, humors, scabs, soo'es, watery blisters, pimples, aching bones or joints, boils, carbun cles, pricking pain in the skin, old, eating sores, ulcers, etc. Botanic Blood Balm taken internally, cures the worst and most deep-seated cases by enriching, purifying and vitalizing the blood, thereby giving a healthy blood supply to the skin. 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Religion as a rule flourishes bet ter in connection with adversity than with prosperity. ,_ A Young Lady's Life Saved. Dr. Chas. H. Utter, a prominent physician of Panama, Colombia, in a recent letter states : "Last Maroh 11 had as a patient a young lady sixteen years of age, who had a very bad at tack of dysentery. Everything I pre scribed for her proved ineffectual and she was growing worse every hour. Her parents were suro she would die. She had become so weak that she could not turn over in bed. What to do at this critical moment was a study for me, but I thought of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and as a last resort prescribed it. The most wonderful result was effected. Within eight hours she was feeling much better; inside of three days she was upon her feet, and at the end of j one week was entirely well." For sale by Orr-Gray & Co._ ! FURM?N UNIVERSITY, Wiil begin the next session on Wed neu nesday, September 17th, 1902. Location convenient and healthful. 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