The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-30

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 Now, | want to ssy thst [ save o1so hurriediy on this line. an ele1 ie = humble way, when quite boy, ] he>pe0 to drive the carpef- -bagger 0ut of tne State Of Aiabama. and while am ae far as any hvine man from waptin9 to revive the feel.nss of the war. ! rt- spect tn. motive that control the white peopis of Alabama in that war. aud tn that conflict that occurred after tEet war. And look back yet with plsas- ure at the heroism and the ceuraHe that we displayed tn that emereeacy. courage that is without . parsllel in history, ] am satis1ed with the feeuits of the war. as my distingulshed frfand from Jefferson said the other day [ am absolutely against slavery now V was a mere boy when the war beGans did not know the rights and wronGe of slavery. I heard from the hug~ tings that 1t war right. [ heard it was right from Bible standpoint. from that standpoint, which, by the way. was not tae least of them. I be- lieve it was right.
 Mir. Beddow--I move that the gen- tleman's time bs extended for half sn hour.
 Mr BlackweII--It will not take any, thing like that amount of time. l was just on the verge of saying when [ look back at the heroism of those splendid men engaged in that conflict. while I an ,..: satIsnsd In every way with the iieve 1t was light, and I think the world was aga!pst #, and. az my friend says. think it was doomed. am sat- isfied with the motives that permeated those men and thu spirit that moved them and the deeds they did. When I look at their courage, can say. in the language of Burns:
 "still OCT these scenes my memory
 wakes.
 And fondIy broods with . missrs
 care:
 Time but the impression stronger
 makes
 As streams their channels wear
 Now, MT. President, am sorry that my time wes 10 limited, but recognise the fact that ought not to have an extension of 1t, as there are too many gentlemen here who want to spoak In regard to this matter.
 Now. some gentlemen have talked about the harm Of recognising espe- cially those men who had obeyed their country in her hour of direst need. 4 want to say we have It recognized tn the United States Government in the pension list. A few years ago paid to seven people, who were daughters of soldiers of the Revolutionary War. pensions during this decade, and paid to a number of the widows of the soi- diers of the war of 1912 pensions and to many of the widows Of the soldiers of the Mexican war and children of soldiers ot the last war, and to wid- ows of the soldiers of that war. ana how these gentlemen can say that ik is right that the soldier should vote. and they do not object to that, and think 1t right that he should vote with out restriction. and yet follow right along and object to his descendants voting upon the ground that t ia ur- constitutional. cannot understand. These soldiers have made Tor them selves a reputation throughout the world, as great as any set of men who have ever lived In the worlds history.
 As another has said of them. that "sems of the grandest and some of the hoticst memories. some of the loftiest and some of the preudest deeds that glow amid the nations archives. nash cut like burning suns on ths old hiss toTic rolls, cluster around the old Cons ftdsrate.
 Yes. wa weep for them. of them when they were slain as did the exiies oi Israel by the waters of Babylon.
 We know they dared do all that men could do. and he who dareth more. is uone." We recognise that fact. aud these are the men and their descend- ants that we want to put on that roll of honor. The old red helds of Ro- man and Grecian yalor. the dread pass of Thermopylea .the corpse filled bosom of the battle plains where spartan courage died, paled before the death- less splendors of heroism flashing from the bloody waters of the immortal Po- tomac to the waves of the Rio Grande.
 The old Confederate suffered defeat which brought desoiation. sorrow, mourning. woe aud psnury. but thank even from a generous and brave foe. they have won the need of immortal ity, of which a couqpering hero might well feel proud. Men who have hattied 50 bravely anc endured 60 grandiy can never perish amid the exiled darkness of oblivion. These men should be hon. ored for what they did. The immor- tality which wreathed forever. the deeds of these men shines around about us here. and call upon their boys to remember whose sons they are and whose honor they have in keeping. in every age of the world pure patriotism and lofty courage have been historic. synonyms. such pictures of herSism have been rescued from the Lethean waves of oblivion by the harp of cias- sical song and story, We need not turn to shaded paths of Grecisn and Roman valor to ind the shining thor. oughfares where princeiy warfiors crown the world with the imnaortality of their deeds. We need not search the 4toried archives of Spartan valor for names forever welded to immortality, We need not pour over the suniit rec ords of genius reared by Homer Virgil and Caesar to consecrate the majesty of heroisn. The bloody annals of the worlds warfare Eleams with no krand- CT names-no deeds of sublime heroism than those of the old Confederate soi- died. Their daring deeds will live ss long as patriotism has Q friend ,or vir- tue a champion, or heroiam an ad. mireE.
 There arc many things would like to say in connection with them. but l want to say In this connection that if we relieve Alabama of the Ignorant. # We relieve Alabama of the vicious vote. of the incompetent vote. then there is n6 'StSte In the Union that offars so much to the amigrant as Alabama. Think of the mineral resources. think of our Iron mountains. think of our land carpeted with emerald green fringed with forest. Think of our riv- CTS which are tied across 1t like bows oR aIIxsAn ana kn hav RhrAWn arnnnA