The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-20

wis of the Confederate States of Amer. ica. He was without envy, and was foremost in recognizing. appIauding and eulogizing the great character and achievements of the hero whose birth we celebrate. He said to him: Your humanity was the fit and crowning glory of your valor.' and with his al- most dying hand. he wove chaplet of evergreen beauty to lay upon hts honQred brow.
 Qualifications of the Leader.
 "In a leader the profession of arms calls for the prompt exercise of the highest mental endowments. The mill tary chief must be wise. sagacious and prodent; must be brave, vigilant and active. He must be equal, even amid the booming of artillery and the clash of steel, to grand and instantaneous combinations He must have a mind to conceive as abilities to execute; he must be prepared by self-discipline to accept with equanimity alike the re- verses of defeat and the advantages of victory And thus, there Is beauty in arms when, as in the case or the lead- CT whose record we reverently follow today. his genius emblazons right eous cause, as his fight was made un- der the eye of the Great Commander of Him who marshals the battalions or the clouds, ana thuuuSAS AOA Nh AA sAA~ artillery of the skies.
 "From the Northern press today, we hava the expression that hatred and bitterness have gone because knowl- edre and sympathy have made them irnnossible and incredible Men Who fought one another have become friends.
 "Now as Northern leaders are mag unanimously extending the desire Tor IEokt contend fhaf every possible step should be taken to remove insults which have been stand ino and usher in a real spirit of broth arbood. In historic Arlington today hangs the exaggerated picture of Southern life, from the pen of the nretudiced Colonel Robert Ingersoll, placed there by official military order of General Meigs in lST6-during the horrors of the reconstruction period. when there was deep and widespread hatred and animosity ana bitterness of feeling. when the star of liberty sank a if to rise no more on the Southern States: when the right or suffrage was Indiscriminately conferred on newly emancipated slaves; when even out of that horror of great darkness the heroic soul of Robert Edward Lee cried aloud in agony: Had foreseen these results of subjugation I would have nreferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in my right
 My friends, the General confedera- tion U. s. c. ". unanimously and en- tbusiastically adopted my resolutions in New Orleans, and pledged the con Saderation to the work of removing | tSe Inscription. The commander in chief of the Sons, by order of the con- | Saderation has placed the resolutions haSore the members of both Houses of oHr Congress, and we have faith in the 6nal outcome of this issue. The order is an insult to Southern manhood and mntiI 1t is removed. I shall stand, if I | stand alone, as one son of the Confed- eracv who will doubt the sincerity of env Northern conciliator, who with an an1roying Knowledge of this, will ex- tand inc olive branch of courtesy and conciliation to our great section
 "rhe war for Southern indpendence was a terrible contest, but there could | ha something more terrible. and that fine lost dignity and honor of a peo- nle. I have no apology to offer for | the Confederate soldie,. the undaunted 1 cavalier who marched through splen- 1contiinued On Page seventeen1