The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-07
DAUGHTERS OF
 THE REVOLUTION
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your stay among us will be all that heart can wish and when you return to your homes to replenish the fires of patriotism on your own altars. may you have noth- ing but the happiest recollections of your stay among us. Again, in the name Of the Peter Forney Chapter, we bid you welcome thrice welcome, to our city, to our homes, and to our hearts.
 The response by Miss Meta Thompson Of Mobile was an able address. but want of space forbids it's being published in its entirety. It was in part as follows: Miss Thompson's Address.
 s'Enthusiasm in every different age as- sumes a different form: it's very tend ency is to error and exaggeration; vet it is the basis of all strong souls, the true nobility of blood in which all greatness of thought or action takes It's rise."
 These memorable words of the sage of Chelsea are brought vividly to my recol- lection in gag ing upon this assembiase of earnest women, representatives, or the patriotism, peace and progress Of our be- loved State. and in listening to the words of cordial welcome uttered by the grace full and gifted member of the Peter For ney Chapter. It is the enthusiasm of a noble cause which has led our honored State Regent to call this convention, en- thusiasm fin the performance of duty generously undertaken which prompts this full attendance and the enthusiasm of a gentle and gracious spirit which pours forth the words of sincerity and sweetness in the proffer of home-like kindness to the strangers within the gates of this city of culture and charm.
 It is indeed impossible for me not to recognize enthusiasm as the keynote of uoiI fAy. rraA n rejoice that upon me has fallen the priv ilege of participating in such confer ence and of attempting to express on the part of the Mobile Chapter, and the other chapters whose delegates are here as sembled, their deep sense of the honor conferred. their high appreciation of the hospitality shown, their loyalty to the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolutions; their continued love for the revered and cherished Regent of the State of Alabama and their heartfelt hope | that the bonds of peace and harmony ir the prosecution of our labors may con- | tinue, unbroken and unstrained. It is g l matter of happiness and congratulatior | that this city has been chosen as tho | scene of this convention, for Montgomery l has ever been the home of enthusiasm | Its atmosphere Is congenial to higl | thoughts, to lofty aspirations, to unself ish resolutions, to heroic endeavors
 Within the memory of many, if not most
 of us, it witnessed the opening of 1 drama worthy of the pen of a Sophoce | or a Shakespeare, and it may be doubted if the tongues of either men or angeli
 could describe in fitting expressions tn,
 characters which here played their part,
 before an audience bounded alone by thu
 confines of civilization and the limits O | time.
 | Montgomery ushered in that tremend l ous tragedy before which even the sx
 alted spirits of the Homeric age migh | have bowed in awe and around whicl
 the great intellects of the nineteenth cen tury gathered in admiration and emula
 ton, and here in Montgomery enthusiasm | mustered the mighty forces of life. Herr
 met daring, courage and Valor, high hearted hope and determined will. Herr
 at the call of enthusiasm was born neV | nation and over the Cradle of the Con federacy was sung the warriors chant O victory and praise; and here were part l ings, such as press the life from ou young hearts, and choking signs whicl ne'er might be repeated; and here wer,
 borne with fortitude. pride and patho incomparable the tidings of disaster anC
 defeat: and here in their recovered 1 strength, the people of Alabama vindi cated their claim to national recognition | their right to Statehood Then Montgom | cry is the home of enthusiasm and pa l triotism Is its native air. It's very nam,
 is suggestive of the spirit of its found | CTS and of that which they held mos dear. Breathing the air of a semi-trop l ical cline, surrounded by the verdure o
 a semi-tropical foliage. inhaling the frag
 rance of semi-tropical flora, here on tho | Southern hills. they were vouchsafed | vision of snow-clad heights, where tht | thronging stars of the Canadian sky kep l their unbroken watch over the endles.
 repose of the soldier of the American
 Revolution. Richard Montgomery. Wher | his eyelids closed in the slumber whose
 blessedness is granted alone to the de
 fender of his country. Alabama and he
 capital were not even a hope of tn, | future. To the soldier asleep on tn,
 snow-clad heights they are as if they
 were not: the clamor of commerce, the
 song of pleasure, the declamations of sue cess reach him not, and yet we can fee
 that this city which stands a memorial O his fame. Is in realty the fruition of hi dream the perpetuation of his enthusiasm On the banks of the St. Lawrence he of fered up the pure white flower of blamesless life" that freedom might liv on the banks of the Alabamal Well it is that here where his individual life Is pro longed in civic existence that the Daught CTS of the American Revolution shoult assemble and in assembling pay tribut to his brief career and everlasting re
 nown. Well 1t is, that a Daughter O
 the city crowned by his name, shoult
 extend to the women of her State pledge,