The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-06

located in Montgomsry aud formed q law partnersfip with the Hon. J. ". Al. Sanford. Tn f85s he represented Montgomery County fn the Legislature, and Tn 1880 served as presidential cleo tor on the Bell and Everett ticket. He was an ardent Whig from early man hood, and in 1855 attached himself to the American or Know Nothing par- ty. whose recommendations looking to the diseduragement of undesirable in1- migration, though greeted with rfdi- ctIle ct the time. have since been adopt ed by the majority Of the American naopIe. AS witness the Chinese exelu- sion laws, and the restrictions of vari- ous kinds against the importation of ''pauper labor" from Europe.
 though opposed to secession, Ike many another brave man of the same way of thinking, he cast his fortunes with his State and section when that policy had once been adopted. Ardent, Adventurous and brave to rashness, his was not the spirit to sit quiet in the stirring days of the civil war, and &C., cordfna1y we find him. in 1881, among the first to enroll in the service of the Confederacy, by raising a company Of cavalry In the following year he be- came Colonel of the tst Regiment of Alabama Cavalry; in 1883 he was made a Brigadier and Major General m 1864 At the battle of Shiloh, in April. 1862, he acted as chief of cavalry. It was his command that opened the bat tie. and he served with great gallautry | on both days of that memorable en- l gasement.
 1t would be a long story to give the 1 fuIl record of the danger he had 1 known" in the cause of the Confed- l eracy, for he never gave thought to personal safety where duty was con oerned. At Bonneville. where ne re- | pulsed the enemy fn July Of the same l year that Shiloh was fought, his sword vas struck from his side and his uni
 form riddled with bullets. At Poiiaro, Ala. fin 1884, while opposing body or raiders from Pensacola, his horse was sbot undsr him. Tn the winter of the same year he was shot through the bodv while resisting Canby's advance on fine M. & 0. Railroad. He was lelt on the field mortally wounded' IL w Wwas supposed, and in this condition. was
 captured by the enemy. lie recovereu,
 hawsvsr and of his release, continued
 ta serve the Confedracy in many a satisnt action. which lack of time for | bids to enurnerate here, ..,. l.. | G-est aa had been his services m l .,as hnSvever. they were even more rntan,s in the dark days of reconstruc- tIon that followed, when the Soutn was
 forcad into that silent war or endu.
 ssrrS ana grim determination against
 an snefny more cruel than any It hao
 T1et on the bloody field CT battle. A!
 this period there WAS and could pc pu'
 ons political party at the South where
 rasnectable white man could rec
 S,,,sAlf at home and it was but nat
 urai that the former Whig and hnoN
 Nothing'' should now enroll himsell
 nnder the Democratic banner.
 r,or fine last Borty years the Demo
 o.atic marty has stood for the grea
 nr,ncinie of white supremacy in th
 south. and fought upon the tremenoou
 tssra of the survival of Anglo-Saxoi
 cIviiIzation against the flood Of igno
 rance and barbarism that threatened U
 n1,arubelm 1t. In this struggle we mn cisnton as active as he had been o
 thn ffels of battle, and he died as tru s haro in the cause of Southern lipert as if he had fallen upon the nOid shiloh, where he bore so gallant part
 Ths circumstances attending hi death. as I have bsen able to gatht 3 them from friends and contemporArit that are still left among us seem. ] hxlsf. to he these: When the peopl ~ Aiabanaa recovered possession ( their State government after the ovei throw of the carpet-bag usurpers the . nroceeded. very properly. to scale dow fse enormous debt of $30.000.000 pile
 ua by those unprincipled Hooters. 1 Ea,nethinR like a reasonable basis . Among the fraudulent expenditure : thus repudiated were some bonds . the Alabama and Chattanooga Kai . road. afterwards knows as the A. O.