The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-22
No. 6
Prof. arsenough Whites Msroir of
 Hishop Cobb.

Prof. arsenough whits,s 1Espoir of
 Bishop Cobb.
 By JOHN WITHERsPOON DuBoSE.
 A brilliant little book this. i74 pages oL essr Prnt f1% ths p9shitasslk New York. It Is an exemplar or tne Dss. @ @ em th9r's use. ara$h best style or n D'ess Q, ,esst . sign that the hard shell of literary dofniancy in it's field has been broken We of today need that -exceliency or knowledge that gives wisdom to those who possess it. in these things. We need a comprehensive knowledge or the fathers of our State; pictures Of their Webster, in answer to a direct interroga- incident in his life Being one of the to give some account of his habits of study of the law. The reply was that in the early years of his practice at the Ss Ssr wnsn me haa time ahs s sfIns s he studied the Roman law in its foun- tains, and grounding himself well therein. he was never at a loss for principle in the case in hand. The application, we make. each for himself.
 Professor White, We repeat. has been not only in high measure diligent in search for the real character of Bishop Cobbs and evidence of the work the dio- conate accomplished, but he has given us a narrative of unsurpassed English literature in its line With full mead n d of of be deplored that the necessities or q puruient political bias in. the book mar ket or some other intcierant and false represent. eioquently and industriousy, the social and political life and pros poets of the people of Alabama. the field are. Jonce Hooper. in his tolls recounting the experiences of Simon Suggs," and Meek in the license of his congregations. There 1Y was weS the ggssop ved notS e ing here but hurly-burly. according to Professor White. yet the statistics of flute him. It is of no conseauence to the life of the first Bishop. even if true, that he found Yancey here, "a gory (sic) and ramping lioar: because the Bishop him- self was leRder, resourceful and strong enough to be- of the mind. the heart and the manners of this people. The accom- plished authoa was evidently caught nap After enumerating a formidable list of offensive acts of the State and of the South @ among them the plain limitation df slavery" "bioodshed in Kansas" "flibustering in the Caribbean" ''reopening the African slave trade" etc, ne Mp M hsss sne oGa Ss fress so anti-siavery clements (at the North) coalesced in a new party to wit the Revolutionary Party Unfortunately, the Committee Reports of Congress. the speeches of private and public men at home, North and South, the biographies the works of Mrs. Stowe, the sermons of Beecher. and the whole conglomerate of literary remains of the question and of the day, give Professor White no author lty for his account of the origin of the Party of Revolution and final success. This literature in the candid historian s erucible proves the reverse of this au-
 But to all appearances, the author comes to his point in the following ac- count of an imaginary, conflict between Alabama dorninsting politics and the first Bishops field. Quoth he: -,.
 "A political reason that must be omit ted was the sindividualism, the fostered by the States-rights principle and was indisputably hostile (sic) to the organic character of the church,
 peal to the pagan maxim. de mortuis. Be- hind its active life Is left the fact that the sovereign State of the United States ereignty as the status of fixed colonial independence residing with the British provinces, Canada and Australia. Colo not obstructed the work of the Church of England. Moreover, the most Virile dem onstration of the "States-rights princi- sion in Alabama and the South, but in the primary act of nulliicaticn and re- volt against the Federal authority in the North. It was the veriest ultima thule of the "States-rights principle, the cleo ton of President, Abraham Lincoln, Tn 1860, to govern all the States by the States of one section only. While eact and all of those electing States had been for i've to ten years next preceding the election, in armed revolt and boasted null liflcation, through their own respective governments, of the Federal Constitu' ton, the Interpretation thereof by the Supreme Court in many cases for many years, and the authority of the Federal constabulary. from President down the the scale to deputy marshals.
 It is exceeding mal-apropos to a charming and highly valuable biography of Bishop Cobbs, that the history of civil government in this Diocese should be, by The unity of the civil and religious ele. ments upon the truth of any paramount public question is essential to the health ssaor WSt S1S nope oow oI Jne anS r his excursion> into the area of civil gov ernment in Alabama. He halts not, how ever incogruous his positions, in thts nouncement against the "States-rights principle" as anti1church; that the 'prin' ciple' and the church dwelt together ir the life of President Davis; that the most wefghty characters In the cabinet of the Confederacy, Secretaries Meminger and Seddon, were eminent tn church omceSi that Mir. Barnwell President of the Con. federate Senate, was an Episcopalian; that of the six ranking Generals in the field, all but Beauregard, Catholic, were Epfscopalians that among Iieutenant- Generals, Polk. Hardee. Richard Taylor Hampton. Wheeler. possibly others, were Episcopsllans; that J. F. B. Stuart, Fitz Lee, W. H. F. Lee, Munford. etc.. were Episcopalians.
 Finally. of the Episcopal Bishops of the Southwest. Elliott, Polk and Gregg were pronouncedly. supporters of the politics oi Alabama when Bishop Cobbs laboret here. Professor White. his co-laborer ir his life time. Professor Trent and, as tc that matter. with practical unanlmity, all recent writers of American history remind one of the loose structures of the famous statute.-o of Virginia, which com. manded the hildzngBAa new court house from thg4hSsersdi NiNt1ie old. provided all ways, that the old court house should stand until the new one was completed How to make New South" out of ar