

DAZA, HILARION. 



the ordinance of secession. At the first eleo- 

 ti-ri of Representatives in the Confederate 

 Congress, ho was returned from the Mobile 

 District and served throughout the term. Ho 

 declined a reelection, and afterward remained 

 in private life, successfully engaged in legal 

 practice. Ho was a man of a very estimable 

 character and an eminent jurist. 



DAZA, HILABION, a Bolivian soldier and 

 statesman, of humble parentage, partly Indian, 

 born at Sucre in 1840. The name of his father, 

 who was a Spaniard, was Grosol6 ; but, owing 

 to domestic dissensions, that gave place to the 

 maternal family name, Daza. While still but 

 eighteen years of age, he began his military 

 experience as a volunteer in the army of the 

 "Liberals," then engaged in a revolutionary 

 movement ; and that party having been victo- 

 rious, ho remained in the service and gained rap- 

 id advancement. Subsequent successful revo- 

 lutions lifted him into notoriety, and won for 

 him the patronage and confidence of Melgarejo, 

 whom for a time he faithfully served and sup- 

 ported. Two large Bolivian rivers, the Pilco- 

 mayo and Bermejo, crossing the wooded plains 

 of the Gran Chaco, and emptying into the Para- 

 guay, would if navigable afford a ready outlet 

 to the Atlantic Ocean, and favor the develop- 

 ment of Bolivian industry and commerce, hith- 

 erto paralyzed by the lack of easy means of 

 communication with the Pacific seaboard. To 

 explore the courses of those rivers, numerous 

 fruitless expeditions have been organized ; and 

 in one of these, during the brief lull from po- 

 litical strife which marked the dictatorship of 

 Melgarejo, the year 1867 found young Daza 

 second in command, with the rank of lieuten- 

 ant-colonel. He next became conspicuous in 

 January, 1871, in league with Colonel Juan 

 Granier against his former friend and patron, 

 whose tyranny had brought upon him the odi- 

 nm of all parties. On the deposition of Mel- 

 garejo, Daza, at the head of his famous regi- 

 ment of cuirassiers, held in check the turbu- 

 lent factions at La Paz, for which service he 

 was rewarded by President Morales with fur- 

 ther promotion and the portfolio of War. As 

 minister and general, he again succeeded in 

 maintaining order after the death of Morales, 

 assassinated (1872) by his own nephew, and 

 insured the peaceful accession of the constitu- 

 tional successor. In the same year he supported 

 the candidature of Ballivian, and on the death 

 of the latter became himself a candidate for the 

 Presidency, against Salinas (civil candidate), 

 Oblitas, and Vasquez (representative of the Cor- 

 ral party). The elections once over, a dispute 

 ensued as to the majority, and Daza, it is con- 

 tended, apprehensive of undue favor from the 

 Government toward his rival, seized the power 

 as his right, and was inaugurated on May 4, 

 1876. Notwithstanding this unconstitutional 

 act, his government was as popular and trou- 

 bled with as few revolutions as that of any of 

 his predecessors. On the outbreak of the war 

 with Chili, he assumed the title of Captain- 

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DELANE, JOHN T. 



General. (For the remainder of his public acts, 

 see BOLIVIA and PERU.) 



DE KOVEN, Rev. JAMES, D. D., born at 

 Middletown, Connecticut, about 18:32, died at 

 Racine, Wisconsin, March 20, 1879. He grad- 

 uated at Columbia College in 1850. Ho then 

 entered the General Theological Seminary of 

 New York, passed through the course of studies, 

 and was ordained. Then he went to Minne- 

 sota at the age of twenty-three years, and was 

 in charge of a parish three or four years. In 

 1869 Racine College (founded in 1852) and St 

 John's Hall of Neshotah were united, and he 

 was called to take the place of warden of the 

 institution, which is now styled the University 

 of Racine. It is situated in the midst of nine- 

 ty acres of ground overlooking the lake, and 

 has accommodations for 110 students. Its dis- 

 cipline and methods of study are modeled upon 

 those of Rugby, England. In 1873 he lacked 

 only a few votes of being elected Bishop of 

 Massachusetts. The issue of the election was 

 between the High and Low Church parties of 

 New England, and he was the candidate of the 

 former. It had put him forward as one of the 

 most powerful orators of the Episcopalian pul- 

 pit. But a more general attention was at- 

 tracted to him by an able address which he 

 made in the Convention of 1874. The issue 

 between the High and Low Church parties of 

 the denomination in this country had assumed 

 a bitter antagonism, which threatened a seri- 

 ous dissension if not a final division. The High 

 Church movement had been growing in impor- 

 tance for several years previously, and was re- 

 garded with some alarm by a majority of the 

 Episcopal clergy. The address of Dr. De Ko- 

 ven on the question at issue created a profound 

 impression. His party, however, was in a 

 minority. In September, 1875, he was elected 

 Bishop of Illinois. He declined to accept, but 

 continued his efforts to sustain the struggling 

 university at Racine. In 1878 he was called 

 to be assistant rector of Trinity Church, New 

 York, but declined the call. A short time be- 

 fore his death the vestry of St. Mark's Church. 

 Philadelphia, elected him as rector, but he did 

 not live either to accept or decline it. In his 

 social relations, Dr. De Koven was distin- 

 guished for genial humor, kindly courtesy of 

 manners, and brilliant conversational powers. 

 As an orator he possessed the rare quality of 

 compactness of composition, combined with a 

 fascinating mellowness of voice, graces of ac- 

 tion, and emotional power. A volume of his 

 sermons has been published since his death. 



DELANE, JOHN THADDKUS, a British jour- 

 nalist, born in October, 1817, died November 

 24, 1879. He was educated privately and at 

 Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated 

 B. A. in 1840, and took his M. A. degree in 

 1846. His first connection with the "Times," 

 of which his father was financial manager, 

 dates from the year 1839, when he became one 

 of the assistant editors to Mr. Thomas Barnes, 

 on whose death in 1841 he succeeded to the 



