The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

United States arsenal at Harper'B Ferry and the Governor of none of the four- teen States aforesaid is anywhere on rec ord in condemnation of the act, but the reverse.
 In Governor Moore's time the founda- tfons of society 1n Alabama had been hoisted upon the fact of revolution rom
 without, that had burrowed it's allen and insidious genius beneath our situa- lion of peace. of plenty, and of supreme contentment If the high emprise of state- craft is to command our energies, as true citizens, we must pause to learn some-
 what of statesmen gone before who made | in their day, common cause with the dis- positions and affections which inspire us. Conquest of the Southern people by the | United States is a surviving phenomenon | in the annals of the worlds revolutions. l The final equalization of the Confederate armies was not upon terms as between conauering and a conquered nation. Our l Alabama volunteers surrendered their guns as disappointed citizens. but withal as citizens of Alabama. Within the same year 1865 the State of Alabama being called on legitimately, was accepted as competent factor in consent to the su- preme Federal act, an Amendment to the | Federal Constitution, to wit, the Thir-
 
 thereafter profound peace and hope here | was invaded by the United States Army. Headquarters and sub-Headquarters pub l lished and many points of military ad- vantage garrisoned. There was no enemy | to tho United States in Alabama except
 the polls of the electorate. Whether the conquest of 1887 terminated, after eight years experiment. in the discovery by the conqueror that capitulated Confederate I ok fnVfnQfhlA | than an army with banners, is propo- sition of cause and effect and not open | to controversy here. It is certain that l Governor Moore was elected to his office | in 1S57 and reelected in 1859, with i'm. l mortal words of warning, and because of those words. on his lips to prepare for the
 inevitable coming of 1867. It is due honor to him to recite his record and. in un- fettered faith. submit 1t. both fin prophecy
 and in performance, to the philosophy of
 history.
 We have memorial organizations of great zeal who attest the fact of match
 less valor of Confederate soldiers. So be
 it.. from everlasting to everlasting.
 Whence went forth the men whose eyes
 shone bright under crownless hats. whose
 ragged jackets lay light over dauntless
 hearts,. whose unshodden feet hurried
 down the valley of deathl Let us take care that the men who elected Governor
 Moore and who responded to his call to arms are understood by all generations in their votes at home We need not go far to understand them at home. The Constitution of the COnfederacy had been written and adopted before a gun in the war had been fired. Read it on its mer- It's. and 1t stands the noblest organic law of a Republic ever written. Disunion would have been impossible under it's gov ernment. We trace the instinct of the Southern people infallibly in the history of the paroled soldiers. John Forsyth. struggling to keep up his Mobile Register, at work and doubtful today what would befall 1t tomorrow. refused an offer of $75 a week for two editorials a week to be telegraphed from Mobile to The New York Herald. He would consecrate himself to Alabama There is in the State Depart ment of Archives and History a little pie ture showing an armed guard of United States soldiers stationed at the door of The Tuscaloosa Monitor to control the uncntrollable pen of Ryland Randolph, Robert Mckee was pressed to accept hon. orable place and high salary out of the State. but in the little town of Selma he dedicated his talent and the vitrioI of his pen in poverty and uncertainty of pros pect to the service of the paroIed soI- diers. Some young paroled officers, with out money. revived the two dailIes of Montgomery. in the very centre of the storm of revolution and peril. Day by day they sent forth words of wisdom words of comfort and words of duench- less devotion to the downtrodden people. The splendid exhibition of newspaper en- terprise which carries these lines abroad today is proof positive that the people of Alabama have returned to their own. Being today themselves, they are vindi. cated in their fathers on that page of history which makes record of the pro- cedures and purposes of Governor Moore.
 John Witherspoon Du Bose.