The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-03
Letters to The Editor
A Proasnble Thought.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Halbert of the State Department oi | Archives and History, that the people assemble formally at the memorial star 1 fixed in the floor of the front porch oi ! the Capitol. on June g. inst. in silent | federacy, standing uncovered there Tor ! five minutes. would be. If accepted, a simple. eloquent. influential de- ,ais'rdh ways timely. " The Rf Professor % deserves recognition for the thought. He is Mississippian and is well marked with the evidences of war under the Presi- | dent Hence his sympathies.
 There are strange coincidences in the lives of the respective Presidents of the contesting American confederacies of 1SG1-65 Both were born in Ken lucky of Southern stock. Each be- came maytyr of the conflict he com handed. Whether Wilkes Booths act of assassination had any political con nection or not. there can be no doubt that Secretary of War Stanton, Senator B. r. Wade of Ohio. Gen, Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts and many other men in high place in the Govern ment and military service of the United States. at the time, accepted the tax ly deliverance from the policies he had declared as policies which would control the Government in its treat ment of the south in the pending crisis Mir w. c. Bibb of Montgomery had protracted personal interview with President Lincoln on April 12. Whe Lincoln fell under the assassin's hand April 14, Mir. Bibb involuntarily re- cured to the words of wisdom he had so lately heard from his lips. the gen. erous and statesmanlike sentiments of kindness he expressed for the South and for MT. Davis himself. Blob could hardly suppress the thought that Ia hal n flo with the bloody tragedy than appeared on the surface.
 Events were turned from the course upon which Mir. Lincoln had started the South, and the shame of civilization itself Possibly the President might have been successfully resisted had he lived to attempt his policies, but in any cipitated revolution. Mir Roosevelt grew to manhood in the midst of that revolution. His fame as President con sists in his awakening intellectually years of manhood In the abnormal con ditions which sprung out of the death of Lincoln.
 Several weeks before Appomattox President Lincoln had conference on 2 steamboat at City Point, Va. with Grant and sherman. He assured the Generals that the fall of the Govern ment at Richmond then rapidiy ap- nroaching rade hirl anxious that MT Davis should escape the country for the reason that on his exile the polit- ical situation must be simn1fed.
 Undoubtedly tho martvrdom of Pres ident Davis will stand forth among the tales of n'artvrdom in all time with peculiar glory. The unsurpassed heroism displayed by him in Fortress Monroe md otherwise as long as he lived, after the war, has contributed more than any other circumstance to conceal the true history of the Confed- eracy. So-we see how remarkable two lives have operated to affect history.
 Let us adopt the suggestion of Pro- lessor Halbert. Let us keep forever burning the love of the men who set m the Confederacy and supported it The human mind and the human heart have need of human example of self consecration to virtuous motives and exalted efforts, Men are prone to seek out heroes among them. If men were oblivious of heroes and the heroic, there would be no flag to inspire sent iment. no national anthem to enkindle patriotic emotion, no respect for coun- try and no hope of the future.
 Aurelius.