The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-27

payment for the slaves, elaborating scheme in detail and urging 1t with CO., pious and cogent argument Lne peoPle of the South" said he, addressing War Congress at that moment in the throes or a bloody war with the South, are not more responsible for the original intro duction of this property than are the people of the North, and. when lt is re- mennbered how unhesitatingly we all use cotton and sugar and share the profits or dealing in them, 1t may not De quite safe to say that the South has been more responsible than the North for It's con
 Verdict of Events.
 The years are gliding swiftly by. Only A little while, and there shall be no man living who saw service on either side or that great struggle of systems ana laeas. It's passions long ago vanished rom manly bosoms. That has come to pass within a single generation in America which in Europe required ages to accom- pIish. There is no disputing the verdict of events. Let us relate them truly ana fine North do justice to our heroes, we must do justice to its heroes. l here render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars even as l would render unto God the things that are Gods' AS n.y. ing men, standing erect in the presence of heaven and the world. we have grown gray without being ashamed; and we need not fear that history Will fail to Vlnol- cate our integrity. When those s re,s;1s are gGns comes to strike the final balance sheet. II will be shown that the makers or the Constitution left the relation or the States to the Federal Government and or the Federal Government to the states open to d double construction.
 If will be told how the mistaken notion that slave labor was requisite to the prof itable cultivation of sugar, rice ana cot. ton raised a paramount property interest in the Southern sect1nA of tbe Union, whilst in the Northern section, respoad- ing to the trend of modern thought and arose a great moral sentiment against slavery The conflict thus established, gradually but surely sactionalizing party lines was as Inevitable as it was ire ter and logical conclusion at Appomat- tox. It found us huddle of petty SOW ereigntics. held togetsisr by rope of sand It made and 1t left us a Nadon. EstO perpetual
 Mr. Russell. In replying to tho toast to Jefferson Davis. said
 Russell on Davis.
 Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were both sons of Kentucky. The cour- age the sincerity, the honesty of pur pose that seem the heritage of all true Kentuckians, were theirs in fullest meas ure. In their ancestry. their education. their surroundings. they typify opposing forces and irreconcilable political ideas.
 To the one. the Declaration of Inde peudence meant that ''ai men are ere ated equal" and therefore free That was the dominant and compelling motive in the public life of Abraham Lincoln. To the other-~to Jefferson Davis-the same declaration meant that certain col- onies, owing separately allegiance to Great Britain, had declared that they are and of right ought to be free and independent States with the right to do all acts and things which independent States may Of right do." and therefore, that the States forming the Federal Con stitution were free. sovereign and inde- pendent States and so in unison the State constitutions of Massachusetts and New York and Viraginia declared them to be- as those constitutions stood when the civil war began.
 The dominant political idea of Jeffer- son Davis was not the individual man and his personal rights, but the indiyid- ual State as the bulwark of conservative government and existing institutions. Wisely indeed. did Lincoln say. iN sub stance, that difference of education and environment makes In large measure dit- ference of political view
 The citizenship of Lincoln in Illinois, free State in the center of the then still advancing West. a State peopled largely from the East and North: ire very neces- slties of hts early life carried him nat ur3tly. Inevitably. unalterably and hoD- es;ly into the belief that this natior eeuld not long endure hal4 GEzg@ half free"