The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-21

upon principles of right, justice, equity and good faith. Our Mir. John Forsyth of Mobile was one of these commission CTS. Of the treatment of that commis- sion MT. Davis says: The crooked paths of diplomacy can scarcely find an exam pie, so wanting in courtesy, in candor, and in directness as was the course of the United States Government towards our commissioners" And instead of settling all disagreements upon principles of jus tice and equity, the Government of the United States organised a mighty military and naval force, and sent it to invade the Southern States by sea and land, and to inaugurate against them a ruthless and bloody war, to destroy their sovereignty, to subjugate their people to the dominion Of an unconstitutional power. Thus un- der the shibboleth of Save the Union," the flames of a war, the grandest, the sad dest in history, lighted up the whole heavans and carried sorrow and dismay into a million of American homes.
 And here in the South, men, women and children rose pro aris focisque, and for four long, bloody and desolating years, they defended those homes and hearths with heroism, a courage and fortitude unequalled in the annals of unhallowed war. From the day of the First Manassas to that last tragic day of Appomattox, the young men of the South entered upon a new way of life. Civil occupations, the college and the university, the loving care and comforts of home were all aban- doned to endure hunger and fatigue, to submit to disaster and defeat without hu- initiation, and by their purity of motive and Integrity of purpose, by their high devotion to dutyy by their courage on a hundred battle fields, to wreathe around the name of Confederate soldier a halo of glory, deathless renown that shall sur- vive all the monuments reared by the hands of men, and shall go sounding down through all the ages.
 . Jefferson Davis as the chosen leader of the people of the Confederacy had largely their full confidence. and as time went on. and his great ability, courage and patriotism grew ever greater as the war progressed, so did his people learn more and more to admire and honor him; and when his armies were overwhelmed, and tJ ay ::,Solize in him, the bondage of his peo... ...-on he had served so long and so well, he was held a chained cap tive in prison cell, then, from that hour he became the object of the tenderest love of the Southern people. His memory will ever be held in highest esteem, and undying will be the veneration for the beloved chief of their wrecked and ruined cause.
 The United Daughters of the Confed- eracy in rearing a monument to com memorate the services of the President of the Confederacy do not forget that in his lifetime our beloved President raised to the memory of the women of the Confed- acy monument more enduring than bronze or marble: To them, to their un- selfish devotion and patriotism did he con- secrate the pages of his great book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Gov ernment." From its pages. written with masters hand, we have learned that the revised constitution of 17s9 saved to the States and the people thereof all the rights that had been reserved by the ar ticle of confederation of TIT. That our fathers framed a constitutional compact. which, in its terms did not form a na- tional consolidated government deriving its power from the people of the United States in the aggregate. but a confeder- ated republic consisting of several SOW ereign. free and Independent States, re- serving to themselves every power not expressly delegated to the general govern ment which they established, reserving to themselves the right to withdraw from that union into which they had en. tered as independent communities, when ever the end for which 1t was created had been destroyed. That the allegiance of the people of these sovereign States is primarily due to the State of which they are citizens and not to the Federal Gov ernment which is the mere agent or trustee of their creation, that the great fundamental safeguards ingrafted upon the written constitution of the country, and without which the union could never have been formed have come down to us from our fathers as the inalienable right of the people of the South. And hence did Mir Davis in his great argument, along with the great Southern constitu- tional writers establish the righteous ness of the cause for which the Confeder- ate soldiers fought and justified them in repelling the advance of the Federal ar mics. and in defending their homes from unhallowed invasion!
 The story of Marathon and Salamis has outlived the republics of Greece. The name and fame of Rome survive the wreck of her imperial power. and as these historical achievements have sur vived the Governments which produced them, SO will the memory of the devotion, heroism and patriotism of the men and women of the South. illustrated in their renowned chieftain, Jefferson Davis, still remain long after this mighty imperial American republic, following the destiny of all humanity. shall have declined, fall en and passed away foreyer!
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