The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-29

Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz. one of our
 early literary women; the old Hunts
 ville water works; and Dr. J. Marion
 Sims, famed as one of the most noted | surgeons of the world, who begun his
 professional career in Montgomery. If any part of Mir. owens lecture | should be singled out as moral vivid
 and picturesque than others it would
 be the part devoted to the rise of sec Htional issues and to the War between l the States. The sketches interspersed 1 added to the value of the views. which | consisted of two Licensees of William
 l.. Yancey; facsimile of a broadside
 extra" of the Dallas Gazette in refer
 ence to the hanging of John Brown; | the Ordinance of Secession. Jan. II, 1881. adopted by the Alabama Seces- sion Convention; a likeness of Jeffer- ! son Davis of 1861; the inauguration of
 MT. Davis on the steps of the Alabama capitol on Feb. 1S 1S61; a scene in the Provisional Congress of the Confeder- acy during its session in the hall of
 the Alabama Senate: Governor Thomas H. Watts, one of our War governors. F. c. Bullock, Col. of the 18th Alabma Regiment; group of Confederate | flags; tAe fllge of the 26th and the
 doth Alabama Regiments; the Gal
 lant' Pelham: Emma Samson. the Ala
 bama girl heroine; old Confederate
 cannon: Gen. Joseph Wheeler. and the
 Confederate Monument on capitol hill
 in Montgomery, erected through the efforts of the noble women of Ala bama.
 The remainder of the lecture was
 devoted to events and persons of more recent times. Those presented includ-
 cd iikencsses of Gov. George S. Hus-
 ton. Senator John T. Morgan. Hon. Hil-
 ary A. Herbert, ex-secretary of the
 navy Judge Thomas c. Jones' and Gov Wm. C. Oates There were also given
 views of the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1875, a cotton scene on the wharf at Mobile, a series of plan- tation views, and the historical sem | mary of the Alabama Polytechnic In- | stitute under the instruction of Dr. | George Petrio. The concluding views | were the Alabama capitol building and the State flag in colors As the
 last view was exposed, showing the
 beautiful State flag. MT. Owen recited | the following beautiful line of apostro- | phe to the flag, written by the gifted l pr. W. c. Richardson, of Tuscaloo- | sa:
 We have flag with deathless colors l dight,
 We have a flag that never flew in | flight.
 T ar may II ny Dul nut III COHquSSt- not
 To fling a shadow OCT earth's humb- lest spot,
 | To carry shackles or a menace be To a brave people struggling to be free Far may 1t fly, the emprean through l A constellation in the sparkling blue, The cynosure of every patriot eye. Unmarred. unstailp,d, untarnished let
 it fly.
 l kra+ J;lya Dap,ar aa sr1a stafnad x,,ifh
 Not with tears of captives dabbled OCT,
 But sworn as now to break tn oppres- sors thrall, And carry equal privilege to all To spurn the sphere, to scale the lofty skies,
 To catch from wonder sun supernal dyes,
 To soar in triumph over land and sea.
 And lead men, on to peerless liberty" In conclusion Mir. Owen spoke of the
 work of the Department of Archives | and History which he is the Director. He called attention to what had been
 collected and appealed to all patriotic | and public spirited Alabamians to as- | sist him in his worthy work.