The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-04
UNITED DAUGHTERS
 OF THE CONFEDERACY.

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 DuBose's Life of Yancey) After the Ordinance of Secession was passed in | Montgomery, Jan. II, 1861, the doors of the hall of convention were thrown open. Instantly, the throng of ladies and gentlemen from the corridors and porches. rushed in. A flag, gorgeous and Of great proportions was fixed by US stan in the centre of the hall of the Convention and stretched out it's full length by delegates hands. As soon as quiet was restored, MT. Yancey. in the name of the ladies of Montgom- cry presented the flag to the Conven- tion in one of his most animated ad- dresses. The fair donors. he said, had conceived the design and manufactur- ed with their own hands. the first flag of Alabama. Mir. Alpheus Baker of Barbour. spoke, accepting the flag in exceeding eloquence. MT. William R.
 smith of Tuscaloosa spoke, declaring the daughters of Alabama thus en- deavor to impart to our veins the burn ing currents of their own enthusiasm. In the morning paper Mir. Smith pub lished sonnet of exquisite pathoe. | To the flag of Alabama" We are all acquainted with the sad and seem- | ingly prophetic fate of this magnificent | flag. but will some of the Daughters" | copy out of their mothers or grand | mothers War Scrap Book" the poem | for the benefit of Chapter. which is
 to have Flag Day?"
 From the War Scrap Book mentioned before. we copy this interview with
 Jefferson Davis that was published in The Petersburg Va) Index:
 Interview With MT. Davis.
 Ptersburg Index:
 Please let me say through your paper that l have just returned from Wash | ington without any bishop, priest or deacon accompanying me; that I wrote letter to our martyr. Jeff. Davis, | some weeks since, to which I got no response until the return of Mrs. Davis. he not being allowed to write; that in compliance with the spirit of that re- sponse 1 hastened to Fortress Monroe, on the 17th inst, just as 1 have done many a time for our poor soldiers or poor negroes under sentence; that I | proceeded to Washington, after seeing
 the terrible condition of MT. Davis, and have come back this morning, foot sore and weary. not Without hopes for
 the final safety of him whom 1 con-
 scientiously believe to be about the ablest man in America. Prudence. l
 naturally hate as the Devil does holy
 water. makes me silent for the pres
 ent. about my Washington visit.
 will tell all about it hereafter MT
 Davis is greatly debilitated and de-
 clining very fast. During the break
 fast he gave us some rich, sparkling
 gems of political wisdom from Burke.
 with his own comments on their folly
 as rich as Burke's original thoughts. fNr11ry N1,a,
 spent in my life. It was at Lagrange
 in 1928. when Lafayette and Cardinal
 Mezzofanti were debating on high
 matters of literature and art, and
 was a mere silent absorbent of the
 golden treasure of liquid thought.
 l arrived at the Fortress about an
 hour before MT. Davis left his prison.
 This time l spent in reading some of
 the numerous papers that were brought
 in that morning. Presently Mrs. Davis
 joined me. and we had a very agree
 able discussion. in which she maintain
 ed that the American people, North
 and South. were as noble & people AS
 any on earth; and I maintained chiefly
 for arguments sake, that the aristoc-
 racy of all lands-the real aristicracy-
 were marke lily superior to the masses f of the people. l maintained that the , catacombs of Rome and Paris showed , a gradual approximation to a certain type of character which was not ever yet attained except in the aristocracy of worth. She insisted that the heads
 of Phidias and Praxiteles were no equaled in modern times with Chris
 tianity and all the appliances of cul- ture. She cited the remarks of man;
 distinguished foreigners. who called
 her attention to the fact that tn,
 American people could more easil!
 adapt themselves to. and more thor . oughly embody the true principles O ? politeness. than any other demoerati [ people in the world. Just then mad a wicked query that killed a good dea of this theory: Mrs. Davis, how d the many strangers that come here be | have toward Mir. Davs?" 'iAh," sh . said. almost all the Northern womel = that come here peer through the blind '. in the most delicate manners so tha . we are often obliged to retire to tn s inner casemate. to avoid 1leir rud s glances." Mrs. Davis. no ,rehned, in = stinctiVely polite people could by pos e sibility be guilty of such grossness. s v you have demolished your own theory. n We then talked for a while about edu f cation where and by whom best min
 istered and acquired. in which I fel
 proud that my own maturely forme
 opinions were adopted by this highl d gifted and imperial mlnded woman. d At this time we saw a slender. shad 1t owy. tottering form approach the doc :. Something in my heart told me it wa
 MT. Davis. Strange. mystic, huma l. heart, with it's divinations and prophe l. cies, Bible of the truth. Infallibl n God-word to every human soul tha d has ever been magnetized with love. s had known this man at time whe
 his word swayed an empire compose f of as noble men and as glorious Goo If gifted women as ever appeared in th = tide of time. I have obtained at hi .- hands the sparing of the lives of forty Q seven Confederate soldiers during tn h war I got off fourteen Federal pris Q oners condemned to death I got hi , written permt-no order-to allow m l. to visit all the Federal prisoners an e alleviate. in all lawful ways. the ,r sufferings. have prayed at this goo . mans bedside for a blessing of Go
 upon him commensurate to the merc
 he might extend to others. and that | might hope for himself. should tt
 changes of time ever make him a suI
 plicant for this beneficence.