New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-07-20
ALABAMA.

! COMPLETE RESTORATION OF THE sTATE-Iug
NEW GovERNMENT-GEN. SMITHS INAUGU-
RAL-TIIE UNITED STATES sENAT0RsUlP.
/ From Our Special Correspondent
MONTGOMERY, Ala. June IS, 1868.
"The King is dead-lOng live the King,n is
the cry to-day in Alabama GOV. Patton gave place to-
day TO Gov. William H. Smith Of Randolph County, who
was sworn in as Provisional Governor by Gen. o. H.
! Shepherd, commanding the District Of Alabama. To-
moreover the next day he with the other State officers
elected under the Constitution, viii be sworn in
permanent officers.
The Legislature assembled according TO Gov. Smiths
proclamation, and organized at - o'clock The new
LeutenantGovenor, Apologize, presided over the Sen
ate and B. D. McGraw of Chambers County was elected
! Speaker Of the House.
| Then the Amendment to the Constitution known as
Article XIV was passed by both Houses-only three
vo ties being cast against It, and the State is virtually
stored TO her relations with the General Governments
The passage OF the Amendment greeted with ma
tonal salute and fine band OF music IS serenadlDg the
members Of the Legislature at their boardingpaees while
/ write.
in Atlanta by Andrew Johnson's ex,Rebel Governor
Lewis f. Parsons have proved as truthful as ms testi-
mony the Impeachment trial, when he couldn't re-
member what everybody IN Alabama knew, that he re-
ceved telegram from Andrew Johnson that estopped
He predicted that the new government could not be
inaugurated in Alabama without bloodshed hoping to
and then raise the cry in the North that the new
ment was installed by the bayonet But the State officers
fora there %s and
The new government is inaugurated. and in Ala.
bama live under Constitution which secures equal cv
and political rights to all citizens. The only powder
burned was in firing the salute Of the guns
followed by that Of the excellent band playing the
national airs on our principal street The Rebels look
suen but the 10y men breathe freely agalnthe yoke
lifted off mems necks and for the first time In all these
Several OF the representatives will leave for Washing
tonight and take their seats In Congress The new
his installation real Governor IL is ultra Radical in
principle, but conciatory moderate and clearly en
wide circulation lt sets out with acongratulauon over
the Of the state then sndss 10 tue
ment fouaded upon the cardinal principle OF the Declare
law and SLOWS Ia terse aud forcbe language that the
most stable government rests naturally upon the most
The message is statesmanlike paper and will be
widely read and approved by all honest men,.
actively The prominent candidates are d. c. Hum
phreys of Huntsville Cen George E Spencer Oh Deco
Montgomery, and Albert Griffith OF Mobile, from South
ern Alabama. .o
GER will be one of the aud the other either
Griffin or Warner These four candidates are all good
well and crcditably represented IN the Senate
COY. SMITHS INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
The inaugural address of Gov. Smith of Ala
bama was delivered the lI,h inst In IT he congratu
ates the people OF Alabama the restoration OF the
state TO the Union Gov. Smith deyotes considerable
space the consideration of the subject OF public educa-
ton, in which connection he says:
The first OF these interests Is that OF education. A
sound and thorough school system Is not only
the great want but the only hope of the commonwealth
We are behind OF sister states In this
spect Thrty-soven thousand aud six hundred OF the
adult white population OF Alabama In 1880 could not READ
and write aud the colored people are still more deficient
IN education. The operation OF cur Ol1 LABOR system,
now happily passed away, tended naturally
TO the production OF one class possessing
lands wealth. aud education, and Of an
other and larger class poor depressed and almost dsst
tute OF knowledge, aud desire for improvement WIN
enlarged Freedom and full opportunities for individual
development should come the most ample faciles ior
obtaining that information which makes man the peer
OF his fellows and enables him protect his Inter.
ess at the same that he better fitted 70 discharge
his duties citizen. We must see to IT, that every one
in the State shall have an opportunity OF acquiring ~
education For this purpose the expenditure need het %
lavish eXtravagant; but 1t should DO ampe anu I'm
grudgngy bestowed, the more as IL IS Oy -" ris
best to which the public funds eau DC dev4tcu 81
economy for the State to promote tue % sha so
all her children, for by other nyesrme sory OF the
surely and abundantly be repaid Inc 'ri,i nros
states OF the Union fully proves that the ma,ss re.
perty Of the Commonwealth advances ~ va. he neonIe
that education is dused among le a. greatef IAN.
1t Is with States with the pyands NV, nv, 'ade secnre
ger lies at the base II foundation s ~ 40 of the
by the education Of the masses No eritahIy crun-
nation the whole superstructurc must 'he''""' ''
bic.