The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-25

INOt OuT rtiCncSI 0iTIS,
 But the blessings of fruitful fields, rich forests and mines have not been and are not now our richest gifts. We are blessed in an ancestry having it's beginning in per- secutons abroad and in the trying times in the wilderness of the new world, which Hardened the sinews and strengthened tho purpose to build in new country a government able to resist aggression from without while eultivating the love of justice, law and order within. Fair and strong was the promise. And in the main we have kept the faith with our fathers. We have not dissipated our inheritance in a too radical departure from the plans they draw. Nay, I think I may say, we have bulded after them and on the foun- dation they laid, and are enjoying, year by year, whatever the pessmist may say. a more and more fair and admirable gov ernment Our visitor furnishes an evidence of the faithfulness with which we have lived up to the compact. We have in him today in the highest office, faith full expression of the determined and comprehensive purpose and consequence @ the American electorate.
 NWe hope that we have always been hospitable In the past, and we are certain ly now bent on seeing that our visitor is not to be welcomed in any state more heartily than in Alabama and it's his torical capital. His great offee demands
 
 less personal character. fitting his high station, makes it a pleasure to ex- tend it. erf
 He is strong. To his record for doing things has recently been added that civic triumph, the like of which has not been put down to any mans credit before. He tore from the throat of one antagonist the red hand of another. demanding peace in the name of humanity; now the two are burying their dead, healing their wounds, and coaxing plenty from the neglected earth. Other things of him may be for gotten. but his iniative in this must live in the memories and hearts of men.
 We welcome an official in influence and power. the strongest in contemporary affairs Behind him a great nation. while personally he has the cordial good will of many peoples. The first figure of a great republic, and the most conspicuous and effective one in the worlds present day history.
 My friends. the President of the United States
 President Impressed.
 The President then stepped to the front of the platform and threw his eyes down : the entire length of Dexter avenue. one of the prettest sights in the whole south. He paused a moment as if impressed with the memory of what had been done and. said at and near where he stood. Back of him was the brass star which marked the place where Jefferson Davis took the oath as President of the Confederacy. covered with beautiful wreath of red and white flowers. the colors of the Lost Cause. He had only to turn his head to see the windows of the room where the Confederacy was organized and the first set of officers named. To his left was the monument which stands for the mem- ory of the people of the brave men who died in the war of the sixties, and just inside the lobby was the bier upon which Jefferson Davies was borne when his body lay in state at the capital many years ago. To right and left were me- mentoes of the days that tried mems souls. and it is pretty safe to presume that the solemnity of the occasion ap- pealed to the man who knows so well the history of his country.
 Old Glory Above HIn.
 Throwing his eyes up to the graceful folds of Old Glory. which swung in the breezes from the top of flag pole from
 
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