The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-12

N t@08tAAuGu lEOm tHKG TnEEGl  5 We have come in the spirit of Peck's Boy, to have fun and enjoy ourselves; not in the spirit of Peck's Bad Boy, but in the spirit of Samuel Minturn Peck s Little Boy. to swing in the grapevine swing.
 We were weary at morn. and weary
 at night;
 We were fretted and sore of heart, And care was sowing our locks with
 white,
 As we went through the fevered mart We were tired of the world with its
 pride and pomp.
 And fame seemed worthless thing. So we've dropped it all for a two-day's s
 romp,
 And swing in the grape vine swing Our annual reunions are always pleasant. We have the joyous opportu- nifty of forming new and renewing form CT friendships, and the delightful pleas- ure of indulglng in the sweet reminis- cences of by-gone days The business we have to attend to does not occupy our time long. although it involves moment ous issues, 1t takes us but little while to arrange the finances of the general government after which we are intertain- ed by several eloquent speeches on the primary principles of elementary bank ing. This being done. we all become devout worshipers at the shrine of Comos. and that Heather God has never failed to answer our prayers.
 Tribute to Montgomery.
 "on this occasion the pleasures of our annual reunion are greatly enhanced by the associations connected with the city in which we have assembled. Montgorn- cry is indeed historic city known far and wide for the beauty of its women the wisdom of its men. the hospitality of It's citizens and as the beautiful Capital City of the great State of Alabama. but 1t Is known throughout the civilized world as tho Cradle of the Southern Con- federacy The birth place of a confed- crate government which was baptized in blood, existed by bloody death struggle for four years and was buried In bloody grave.
 Although so short lived. the daring deeds of its heroes on fifty battle fields the ss scrifces and sufferings of its people to maintain what they knew were their just rights will be transmitted to pos terlty on the pages of history as long as virtue and truth are respected by men or heroic valor admired by mankind. for "Crowns of roses fade. crowns of thorns endure calvaries and crucifixes take deepest hold or humanlty-tne triumphs of might are transient, they pass away and are forgotten-the suffer- ing of right are graven deepest on the chronicles of nations
 Yes. give me land that is blessed
 by the dust,
 And bright with the deeds of the down
 trodden just.
 Yes, give me land that hath story and
 song.
 To tell of the strife of the right, with
 the wrong; t Yes. give me the land with grave In
 each spot.
 And names in the graves that shall not
 be forgot! Yes, give me the land of the wreck and
 the tomb. There's q grandeur in graves, there's
 glory in gloom!
 For out of the gloom. future brightness
 is born, As after the night, looms the sun rise
 of morn;
 And the graves of the dead with the
 grass overgrown.
 May yet form the footstool of hberty's
 throne. And each single wreck in the war path
 of Might.
 Shall yet be rock in the Temple of
 Right
 You have been pleased. Mir. Mayor. to refer to the great influence of our Asso- a;atta,, i1 fba deyalopmeDf 0f fha re-