The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10

xz1 Il40fS0Ws et41 ruAfy II, Wtu nAkh tno 1Ulyersafy oIs The secession of Alabama I1u the Unitssd States of America.
 no tense IWe ,longed political struggle 0VGr the issu,es, which grew out of the @n19tlon of St ate's rights, a struggle pro- <l0<<ed from ths, adoption of the Federal &<Mot1tuf1cn. to the outbreak of fratricicai 4l<Eces had been overshadowed by the pie xx<ue1ue pomp iand ardor. which marked fHa settlement o those issues in the ap- p&nI 70 arme
 The forensic d ility. the wisdom and the N>n<asmanship Ot the leaders. who year 4z<ar yeax. in tf e forum, in the halls of No4gxess on the musings. sought peace xl&3 solution of { he great question at is- H,1es have been ss rbordinated by the cour- HIta tho daring, nd the fame of the men, xI1Ha on a hundrl d battleields sought to 11<n nblieh principh ss, doomed to defeat in < 1k~ f0renafc sxxu ggle. The victories and 16[e4ts of the fs rum have all but been x9Eeotten in the victories and defeats of 1&e ne1d.
 10 the popular ,nind the soldier ever ap- p<n1nd moro st,sn ngiy. than the prosaic u1[ftical leader. The rolling of the drum, m clear note of the trumpet. the shock If battle. has evs IT dimned the glory of the Noodles vicfx nies of adroit diplomacy " ef legislative fe ruggie.
 Achievement ts of Statesmen. < 4k cannot be deE tied that the dauntless
 
 0tkxysburg. Frank lin and other menora- ne flelds. have to some extent drawn the <nkerest and attem ion of posterity from The momentous DO iitical conflicts which DfEeeded and presas ed the great war. The Iaxt that Alabamiaa IS played in the futile 1lEurfs to settle this great struggle, Is not 10 be lightly estiI aated. The achieve snents of Alabama, statesmen should be considered in the lhyht of the transcend. Ant importance of the political question W Hieh divided the North and the South, amt whose settlen ent cost millions of <rwn sure and rivers of blood. Out of this uueskt ion grew an U uprecedented political conait.ton, 0 great SC ction of cur common 1oontr,-. standing for one centralized gov. exnmerlt, ignoring th.s spiriE and the iee- ter of tho constitution in appeals to high. CT law; tue other equi lily great. artlently n1n1ost fiercely dsfend ng the sovereignty of the Stafxs respectfr ' the constitution an compact between; the States. This poiikical struggle was Ike a Greek trag- e<y. hastening on with increasing inter- est from climax to clii max to the final Catastrophe acoOmpanietl by the weird, awful chorus of sullen c aznon shots and slixieking minnie balls.
 A Parting of tn D Ways.
 m all the history of the American Con- ®s there is no instance to compare in paffos. in dramatic inter, sst, to the de- parture of the Southern mernbers from Inc hall and from the ass Octates, whom flley had known so many years, and whom they were perhaps yever to know again. The figure of sou5l1ern Con- ernssman or Senator deiive Einrg his vale- dietory in answer to the ca Il of his State ia one of the most striking in American cfv1 history. He had come fio the parting Of the ways. There was no Iui1dle course. His State called and from the Union there WAS a cafl. What suffermgs. what pangs thIs severance of old ties, at the call of dufy, cost may not be told. Eiut the un- SSveFwing loyalty to their Stai:es and to tho principles that they and tlleir people Ht08d for is reflected in the mem orable ut- ferances of the 6outherners in heir fare well addresses to their former a ssociatea. Hewhaps the spirit. the motives, the prfn- cfuaem of the Southern statesmen, who 1eA the American Congress w1en their Btmses withdrew from the Union. are best shawn in the farewell address of Clement CIaiM,rne Clay, Senator from Alabama.
 Send tor Clay with his ilIustr1ous col- loAMue. Benjamin Fitzpatrick. withdrew from tIae Senate of the United States. when he was notified that his State had withdrawn from the Union. Senator Gays farewell address was de- Kivfred on January 23 1861. When he had coapiuded Senator Fitzpatrick in a few earnest. h eartfelt words endorsed every utesrance of his colleague.
 ASp1 sSSuCAC1VSS W1L0OTaW.
 In the House on the following day was presented a communication signed by sAr of the seveRI members from Alabaraa, George S. EH 1uston, Sydenham Moore, Da- vid Clopton. James l.. Pugh, J. L. M. Curry and James A. StaIlvtorth. The name of Willf amson R. R. Cobb. who rep- resented the Huntsville District was not signed to the paper. but he retired from Con&ress with the others. This eommupi- cation bore date of January 21. 1881, and was addressed to William Pennington. Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 This communit ation was as folkfws:
 s'The Speaker, by unanimous consent. laid before the House the following conn munication:
 .twashington City. January 21. 1881.
 TSir-Having received information that the State of Alabama, through a conven- ton representing her sovereignty, has adopted and ratified an ordinance. by which she 'withdraws from the Union of the United States of America ard re- Bagmes the powers heretofore delega ted tn inc Federal government it is proper that we should communicate the same to VOL and through you to the House of Reure- Hentatiyes, over which you preside. and announce our withdrawal from the fur kI8er deliberations of that body
 ssTlae causes, which in the Judgment or our State, rendered such action necegsarv we need not relate. It is sufficient to say. -