The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-12

From "The Beilman," g delightful weekly publication of Minneapolis. the following beautiful tribute to the cause of the South and to Mrs. Jefferson Da- wis is clipped. It is gratifying to find such & generous spirit in our Western neighbors and so true an appreciation and reverence for the principles Of the South. To Southerners this dark chapter in our history is vital and un- forgetable and the significance of our struggle grows each year in meaning, but to other sections it's romance may suggest the quaint flavor of something that has long lain in sweet smelling lavender. !" We quote farther from the article, regretting that space does ont allow us to give it in full. It says of the Lost Cause:"
 We associate 1t with thoughts of Rn i1l-staryed flag, followed to it's fin- ish by faithful and courageous soldiers clad in gray, battle bruised and pa- theticaly ragged, but their honour un- tarnished; brave men conquered but unafraid and unashamed; our brothers of the old, chivalrous South. The poor Lost Cause" lost these forty years and morei we of the prosperous and victorious North can afford to do rev. erenee to the beautiful ideal 1t typi- fled and take pride in the American HptElE WHlcn, even IF m1SJAkGus 3bill marched so valorously with Robert E. Lee and StonewalI Jackson and gave battle for the principles it stood for.
 Al hatred and strife; the soreness of Sombat and the bitterness of defeat are long since faded from the national heart. One flag alone floats over our country, but loyalty to the Stars and Stripes does not fdfbid pausing in our march of industrial achievement to salute the memory of that ether flag which went down before 1t, as one may rightly and honorably lay tribute of deserved praise to a gallant but unsuc- cessful enemy.
 The days of the Southern Confeder- acy seem so long gone that 1t startles ils when living tie breaks which con- nected our time with its brief glory This happened in the death of Varina Jefferson Davis, widow of the President of the Confederate States of America, who passed away. 80 yearE old, in New York city last week. Her death recalls chapters in American history which seem very remote to those of us who paerelysEesGd them and took no part tr their stirring events. A wonderful wo. man, and grand type of the highest and best in American wife and moth. erhood, went to her well earned rest when Mrs. Jefferson Davis died.
 What she endured and triumphed over In nef uIeLlme can DC put Iaintly imagined. She married Jefferson Da- vis just before he was sent to Con- gress from the State of Mississippi she saw him go to the Mexican wal and met him on his return when he was severely wounded. She accompa- nied him to Washington and remained there during his ten years In the United States Senate and his four years as Secretary of War. She was mistress oi the executive mansion, at Richmond dur. ing the bitter, dark days of the civil war.
 She was his companion during a year of hfs. imprisonment in Fortress Mon. roe; she went with him to Europe on his release from captivity; she returned to America when he did and, until his death, in 1ss9 she was his constant and faithful companion. Throughout ais notable career. she was beside him sharing his lot to it's highest and most brilliant pinnacle and thence through the evil days, the sorrow of disaster defeat and downfall. She not only en. dured tie tremendous vicissitudes oi his public life. but the even more acute and heart breaking sorrows of domes. tic afflictlon, for she was the mpthel