The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-04
JEFFERSON DAVIS, CUNftDERACY'S
 LEADER EULOGlZED

(Continued from Page seven.) | fer the right to voc has ever been | sovereign attribute vested alone in | sovereign state. It has always bee granted or withheld at will by the I'm | perial Parliament of the British Elm pire, and in all of the older States tn | right to vote was. at the beginning U our national life, given to the few an, withheld from the many, a principl rigidly applied, even by Jefferson him self to the most important of our earlie territorial organizations.
 If 1t were not for the Fifteentl Amendment the power of the legisla ture of Alabama to regulate the sui rage would be final and absolute. Bu let us not deceive ourselves; the ex istence of the Fifteenth Amendmen Is terrible reality behind which sit a judicial tribunal in which the voic, of the South is practically silent.
 Alabama's Constitution Makers.
 How to settle once and for all tn, dreadful and far-reaching problem which broodls over every household nenacing not only the living, but chil drep yet unborn, without bringing upo our necks the judicial axe of fedora law, is the question of questions whicl now waits for an answer from ou. wisest and our best. Our greates constitutional lawyers are in counc and they are troubled, and we'll the, may be. And yet can have no flea for the result of their work if they vii only look to the highest source fo. light.
 The wisest statesmen are often thos who. knowing little of books, read tht solution of great practical questions 1T the hearts of the people themselves. | l were deputiZed to assemble a coun. ell of constitutional lawyers capable 0 settling once and for all the suffrage question in Alabama. do you know where I would seek them? I will tel you. would go into the ranks of yol old Confederate veterans and choose those of you who have proven upon { hundred battlefields that there is n sacrifice for Alabama you are not pre- pared to make. I would say to thu is admitted on all hands, and that is that a scheme for the disfranchise ment of the mass of negro voters. O. undoubtedly validity, can be devised provided there is among us a spiri of patriotic self-sacrifice and self-ab negation, willing to accept such scheme coupled with the probabilft. that few of our own people may b. disfranchised too. I would say to sucl & council, that, much as I prize tn right to vote, I myself, am willing tt surrender 1t to the State, once and for ever. if such a sacrifice upon my par Is necessary for the common good Have I the right to be vain enough tt believe that each one of you will no be willing to do the same thing under the same circumstances? When WI contemplate the terrible consequence of failure. can we afford to temporize to hesitate, tc imperil a great result upon which our very civilization hangs because we dare not appeal to few of our own people to make tempo rary sacrifice. My faith in the people is so firm. so absolute that I coult not. at a critical time like the present hesitate for a moment to go directl! to them. To those who doubt, With tn record of your past before them. cal only say in the words of the Master "Oh. we of little faith!' "Oh. ye O little faith!"
 The Musical Program.
 At the conclusion of MT. Taylor; address, a musical program was ren' dered. A quartette composed ol Messrs F. L. Lockwood. w. L. Var Pelt, P. J. Minderhout and Marsha King, accompanied by Professor Reinz Thomas on the plano, was Grea' source of enjoyment. Their singing was quite a feature on the program The uuartette first sang Annie Laurie arranged by Dudley Buck and for ar encore Kerry Dance by Malloy.
 Miss Elizabeth Winter was next or the program. She needed no forma introduction to the audience whicf gave her an ovation at her first appear ance. Miss Winter sings with a charm and ease which in itself wins admira tion, Her magnificent voice last nlghI appeared at its best and when she naI finished the song, most natterlns encore was accorded her. In response she sang "The Swallows" which was exquisitely rendered.
 MT. C. A. Lanier then read variou: rules of the Chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy. These rules per tain to the distribution of the Crosses of Honor. MT. Lanier added by way of exclamation that the manufacture was so rushed with orders that it wa: impossible to fill, immediately, the order sent from Montgomery, hence there were only a few crosses to bt distributed.
 Crosses of Honor Conferred.
 MT. Lanier then introduced Mrs Jessie Lamar, Secretary of the. Cradle of the Confectionery Chapter. who reat out the names of the following Veterans who were presented witf crosses either in person or by proxy CboIIat Rernev Birmingham; BuShrOC W. Bell, Montgomery; J. E. Dubois New York City; Joseph H. Francis BPS Broadway, N. Y: Hilary A. Her bert, Washington; J. E: Jones, Meri' dian. Miss; w. s. Neal. Brewton Hudson T. Ware, Birmingham; Cap. tain J. M. Falkner of Montgomery.
 MT. B. Nj. Washburn read notice oi the death of MT. Peyton Enzor mem Der of Camp Lomax. after wlR h "taps' were sounded and the celebfa- tion of Jefferson Davis's birthday had ended.
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