The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-10

States gathered in the city of Mont
 gomery and under the Adopted Pro
 visional Constitution on February 9th
 the Confederate Coongress proceeded to
 ballot for the executive officials of the
 new republic. Mir. Jefferson Davis. who
 was then at his home in Briarfield,
 Miss, received the entire vote, 109, for
 President, as did Alex Stephens for
 Vice-President, these men being chosen to represent the leadership of the
 councils of the South. Cool. firm, ex-
 ecutive men. well calculated to impress
 confidence upon all classes and condi-
 tions of men in the Southern States.
 Again to refer to the unionism and
 long patient suffering of Southern pa-
 triots and statesmen, exemplifed in the
 leaders thus chosen, as is well known
 MT. Stephens resisted to the last ex-
 tremitY the encroachments of Northern
 politicians upon the constitutional priv
 ileges of the South, and Mir. Davis has
 despairingly pleaded before the United
 States Senate within less than a month
 for a compromise that would arrest the
 pending secession of his State; had given his word that he was ready to vote for the Crittenden resolution and
 stand by the Union: and but two weeks before had delivered his calm, cour- teous and able speech from the Senate in obedience to the will of his State. As a schoolgirl l was in the Senate gallery on this occasion and was thrilled to
 the core of my young heart at the story of the wrong done to the South. told
 In the strong, eloquent and patriotic words of the great man, who was to
 become the leader of men in that great section and was in later days in prison and under political disabilities, to be
 the expiatory sacrifice. The election of
 MT. Davis was greeted with great ap- plause by the crowded assembly and
 received with plaudits of eager ap- pfoNal from Virginia to Texas This election pledged to the nations of the world that intelligent statesmen were guiding secession. II should have sat- lshed the North that the Southern States proposed no act of hostility against the united States but calmly and quietly prepared to exercise their inaliena bls rlght or self government. The inau- guranon of MT Davis took place on the 18th of February.
 On the way from his home in Missis- sippi MT. Davis was made the object ot the most patriotic demonstrations and in the twenty-five addresses that ne made en route, displayed his calm temper and inflexible detrmination to stand by the right. whatever the out | come. Early in the morning of Feb. IS capitol Hill in the fair City of Mont Somery was literally covered with com panies of soldiers from the several
 states. with citizens from all parts of the south and adorned by the presence or the flower of Southern womanhood. | The Inauguration ceremonies made an impressive pageant, but the interest of the people centered in the inaugural address whose important tone and statesmanlike tenor, satisfied the peo- pie that the right man was at the helm Of affairs. I do not propose to tell the story of the war, and of the part our President played in that war, the story is known to the world, how
 MT. Davis planned for his people and suffered for them. All that man
 could do was done by Jefferson Davis despite the calumnies and detraction of hls enemies. And what man could do
 was done by the patriots of the South
 in such way as to illustrate for all
 time Southern patriotism and Southern
 Valor and to write across the firma-
 ment of time in golden script the
 achievments and sacrifices the abid-
 ing love and reverence of his people for
 their President,