Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. JEFF DAVIS CUTS LOOSE And Defends The Rights
 Of Secession. A PROTEST FROM THE NORTH. Veterans Speak Their Minds
 At Albany. A NEW CHINESE MINISTER Makes His Bow to The
 President.
A PROTEST FROM THE NORTH.
A NEW CHINESE MINISTER
Makes His Bow to The
 President.

THE CoNFEDERATE MONUMENT. A Great Crowd Witnesses the Laying of the Corner StOne-JeH Davis Makes Another Speech That Will Create a stir i'm the North.
 MONTGOMERY, Ala, April 29-The cere- monies to-day attendant upon the laying of the corner stone of the Confederate monu- ment were elaborate and imposing and at tracted large and enthusiastic crowd. Gov ernor Watts made brief address and then introduced Jefferson Davis, who spoke for half an hour. After Masonic ceremonies reception was held by Mir. Davis in the Gov ernor's room in the Capitol. Thousands of Confederate veterans attended and shook hands with the ex-Confederate president. MT. Davis spoke as follows, after having been introduced by ex-Governor Natts, who was for eighteen months attorney general in the Confederate cabinet.
 It is deeply gratifying to to be presented to you by one on whom leaned for advice when ad- made that the judgment he drawing came from the bottom of his heart. When you filled and I have always desired to lay my hand upon him again LApplagse Thus it was when some people in the room gave sardonIe smile ct, to see two old weather beaten men embrace But old Associated here with so many memories was wa si-i dangerous for me to attempt to speak to you as my heart would prompt. against anyone, but am overfowing with love and admiration for our beloved people. Applause. promptsd by the fuiiness of my heart, for be iieve am case-hardened in that condition of
 [applausel for the purpose of guarding others rather than myself, I have prepared some notes thing that would be constructive or hurtful Ia xoice-"Go on; say what you please; you are in
 Ny friends partners in joy and in sorrow, in tri- als and in suffering have come to join you in the tion of a monument atthe cradle Of the Confeder- country, who gave their lives, freewill offering war of the revolution the State sovereignty, free dom, independence which was left us an inherit compact of union was formed not to destroy, but the better to preserve and perpetuate. Who so denies this cannot have attentvely read the arti ces of confederation or the constitution of the United States, the latter formed and designed the better to effect the purpose of the first It is my purpose to dwell upon the events of the war. They were laid before you yesterday by that great ment from me. They were laid before you by one who like heneas M asn q9oTnm R opoon v 1Ta tG Se soldier who when our times seemed darkest at best man to lead the charge repel the besieging army, to make a sortie and attack in flank and re- in his presence here, he failed, but this failure due to the failure Of his guides to carry him where he proposed to go. Again that and gallant soldier was the one upon whom Lee called at Ap- pomattox when he wanted to know whether it was
 possible break the line that obstructed his retreat towards the mountains of Virginia He answered that it was impossible; that after four years of hard It being impossible to break the line that obstrct ed his march to the mountains Lee like Wahsing ever msed the expression said if he could reach the mountains of Virginia he could continue the line which obstrueted his retreat could not be peuder T Be T it remembered that Lee was not the man who contemplated surrender as long as he and tns When Re to the last of surrender he said to Grant: II have come to nst bn aenerl 0G Grant, undepstand will surrender nothing that reflects upon the honor of my army :" that would have that effect and that Lee might draw up the papers himself
 It is not my purpose to discuss the political ques tions on which my views have elsewhere aud in other times been freely expressed, neither to re- and conduct of those to whom it is proposed to do honor on this occasion. That we, may
 it may be proper to state in the foreground that have no desire to feed the fires of sectional hate bty attached to the belief in the rghtaousness of lives to defend it dong applause and cheeringl. Revenge is not the sentiment of d chivalrous peo easy to the injured than to those Who infiict an in jury has never had more powerful illustration toward one another. Policy in the absence of mag nanimity should have indicated that in a been been a full restoration of the equality; privileges aud benefits they had pre-existed faithfully kept your resumed obligations as citizens and in your inpoverishment have borne equal bur countrymen for this additional proof of your fde
 ty and pray God to give you to suffer and be SWhat means this rnonumentg'' there will be the enduring & M dia fSaa wo the deeds f descendants should be what your fathers in Aisbana Ale af asserted the fight proclaimed in the declaration of independence as belonging to every had been broken on one side and was therefore an nuled; that the government Of the United States and with others of like mind proceeded to form d new confederation, organizing its powers in the such form seemed to tltem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. This was not revolu- of all domestic affairs Both of person and propery remain unchanged To call it revolution is a gross if the States had not ao been sovereigns there re enion e1aa tappausey a9I That the South did not sho,epa'e sho%n by dee the absence of preparation for it as well as by the efforts made to secure a
 ed the defeaed responsbs for tS the but when passion shali have subsided and reason shall that the general government has constitutional power to coerce State and that State had the right to repel invasion. It was national and constitutional right. From the early part of the century there had been prophecies and threats of l dissolution of the Union. These began at the North the question of preserving the balance of p,,wer and culm;nated during the of 1912
 ed sd' for the protectisn of sailors rights. tbe
 of years the balance Of pe~er passed to tfe
 dspairn of the peaceful Of # thgb c9n from it: this without injury to their late
 associates assoc The right to withdraw was
 stsn ana of the storm by the people of Alabama Greyhaired sires and
 to e ne a ere it burst mpo homes It required no DeInosthenes to arouse them Henry to prepare them for the alternative of lib
 erty death It was the people not the leaders all classes Yet believe there were few who did
 regret the necessity which let them no aiterna | Mothers wives and daughters, choking back their
 sobs eheered them on the path or honor ana dm6y
 advanced many battles to look death m the race
 Though Alabama like Nooe by her be ea aa
 rious halo which surrounds thelr II memory: R n , For
 PSn t6an m borne on the ro Of
 the grenadiers 10 whom he belonged @ ana I when his
 Mort sur ie champs q honneur:n Long, veryllong
 would be the list which would contain the names of | Alabama's sons whose valor and fidelity would JHs- 1 tify the same response. To name few would be
 unjust to the many They are all tnererote where @ l pIe This monument will rest upon the land for
 which they died and point upward 10 tne father a h; 1 children and to them at last resting on the land
 where that justice s may bsre De rendered. "eh may | In conclusion permit me to say. though the l memory of glorious past Hiusc oo uear Go 1 us duty points to the present and the future | Alabama having resumed her place in the Union, be it yours to fulfill all the obligations devolving
 upon all good citizens seeking to restore the gen
 eral government to it's pristine purity and as best l YOU may to promote the welfare and happiness of | your common country. Long continued applause Citizens of Alabama and ladies Burning to the la l dies on the platform) for to whatever slde you l may belong it is your sex that has been true al ways in war and desolation-we hear or the vaior | and virtues and enduring name of the Spartan mothers but, tell me, where in all the history or
 nations was ever such spectacle as was witnessed in the valley of the Shenandoah. How the tide Of l war ebbed and flowed. Sometimes the Condsder- ates retreated and sometimes they pursued Ihose l peone who claimed to be our brethren burned 1 everything except the fences
 TEX x-Goyernor Watts-"And they would
 have burned them had they not been stone T
 Mir. Davis turned smilingly and repeated to
 the crowd:
 And why do you suppose they did not burn the
 fences? Because they were stone lLoua appi5auses | And vet there never was time when aOonieqsrSte
 body of troops marched down that valey InaS eae m
 ladies did not hang out little C9nfederats nags ! from their windows aad give bread 10 the hungry l soldiers Tremendous applause) lhaye pf9nlseesn1
 that would not speak extemporaneoosy anu anu @ w,,
 all from the bottom of my heart ana givs g you you | thanks now for your kindness. (Great ana pro 1 longed cheering9