The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-22

ment and culture throughout the coun- hospitality and brotherly love above money grubbing': the life that lived friendship, charity and benevolence from native instinct. Born in a coun- phere of confidence and individual in tegrity, and guided by the precept and example of true manhood and woman hood, there was developed the gentlest, the greatest ,and the noblest people that has ever added lustre to Ameri- can history. What higher encomium can a young man of today ask. what more commendable introduction could he have, than by saying of him that he is a true type of the old Southern gentleman; type that Is symbolic of all that is true. all that is refined all that Is courageous, and all that is hon. orable.
 And when we would pay our 1oftiest tribute to one of our young women of CT, purer, and stronger terms than by saying that she is the prototype of the antebelum Southern womanhood; a wo- manhood whom. when we remember. know that love and reason were blended into perfect truth; that passion and purity met like white and red within the bosom of the rose: that her kiss was the panacea for all aches, and her tears the restorative for ali wounds.
 She fed for aye her lamp and flames She kept her constancy in plight and
 youth,
 outliving beauty's outward. with That did renew swifter than blood de-
 cayed."
 Turn your telescope directly upon the homes, of this people, where their cfn there you. will find that hospitalitys Ire burned brightest. And let me ask, what more conducive environments could true hospitality have found for US domicile. than homes, builded and equipped by such manhood. ruled over and beautified by such womanhood? And where can we find a people who can dispense this hospitality with such rehned elegance and freedom as they? Mobile. though she wears the stamp of antiquity and the imprint of many na- tionalities, claims the proud distinction or having as her adopted sons and daughters some of the best people that the foreign nations could supply; and as her own American born cftizenship scores of the ltvng representatives of those good old days, and thousands of the lineal descendants of such a noble ancestry. It is true that the desoIa- ton which followed the war, and the constant struggle of our people to re- establish themselves in things material and political, have of necessity stifled in some measure. the spirit of hospi3 tality which came to us as our local and personal inheritance But today. We are basking in the smile of Gods prosperity; we are again coming into our own; and if the welcome and treat ment you receive at our hands will be token or bear semblance to that ex- tended and accorded a worthy guest Tn those good old days, we shall in some degree measure up to our sincere hopes, and reap the fruits of our earn est ambition. Therefore, as citizens of Mobile. We extend to you as citizens of Alabama, a Southern welcome.
 But my commission does not end here. l am commissioned to speak for a. particular body of Mobiles citizen ship.
 When our beloved Southland was thus glorified by it's citizenship and beautified by it's hospitality. a dark cloud crossed it's horizon This citi- zenship entertained the immortal be- lief in States Rights, and because it had the courage of its conviction, the Federal government declared it to be in d state of rebellion. The conse- qucnces you too well know. Peace and love gave way to war and hatred brother turned against brother and sire bathed his hands in the blood of son Dark and desolate were the scenes that were being enacted upon the land Of