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nistration, he was its master-spirit, and that he was the recognized leader of the United States Senate at the time of the secession of the Southern States. For his character there let it be stated by his enemy but admirer, Massachusetts' own Henry Wilson. The clear-headed, practical, dominating Davis, said Mr. Wilson in a speech made during the war, while passing in review the great Southern Senators who had withdrawn with their States. When the seceding States formed their new ConfederacyMr. Wilson in a speech made during the war, while passing in review the great Southern Senators who had withdrawn with their States. When the seceding States formed their new Confederacy, in recognition of Mr. Davis's varied and predominant abilities, he was unanimously chosen as its chief magistrate. And from the hour of his arrival at Montgomery to assume that office, when he spoke the memorable words, We are determined to make all who oppose us smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel, all through the Confederacy's four years unequal struggle for independence down to his last appeal as its chief, in his defiant proclamation from Danville, after the fall of Richmond, Le