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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 84: Mr. Davis's characteristics. (search)
s. Forty-three years of intimate companionship, from the beginning of his political career until the end, left me with the profoundest respect for his unswerving mental and moral integrity, his stanch adherence to principle, his self-immolating devotion to duty, his calm, invincible courage, his wide sympathy with mankind, and his unfeigned reverence for his Creator. In the greatest effort of his life, Mr. Davis failed from the predominance of some of these noble qualities. Mrs. Mary A. Greer, of Mississippi, explained the causes of his failure in the following noble lines: He failed because he was so great; his duty Lay in Presidency, not Dictatorship. And he was one that would not enter Paradise By treachery, fraud, and usurpation. He held his lightest promise as a sacred thing, How much more his oath of office sworn. The law had circumscribed and set his bounds, The law he'd sworn to keep he would not break. He had within him strength to cope with all The fearful