No man gave up more than Mr.Davis in joining the revolt against the Union.

In his farewell words to the Senate, there was a tone of moderation and dignity not unmixed with regretful and tender emotions.

There was also apparent a spirit of confidence and defiance.

He evidently had full faith that he was going forth to victory and to power.
Mr.Toombs of Georgia did not take formal leave, but on the 7th of January delivered a speech which, though addressed to the Senate of the United States, was apparently intended to influence public sentiment in Georgia, where there was an uncomfortable halting in the progress of secession.

The speech had special interest, not alone from Mr.Toombs's well-known ability, but because it was the only presentation of the conditions on which the scheme of Disunion might be arrested, and the Cotton States held fast in their loyalty to the government,--conditions which, in the language of Mr.Toombs, would "restore fraternity and peace and unity to all of us." It was not believed that Mr.Toombs had the faintest expectation that his proposition would receive favorable consideration in the free States.