The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-29

 st-------------------- -------------- have spread from the south to the north as the negro has egressed north, and have darkened the entire country even to the black hue of him who commits it.
 In the midst of such crime, all men are invited to be calm and await the end of the delay of the law. Hush, hush, hush, goes around the landi This subject is too near and dear for allusion to be made to 1t.
 Can you quench a fire with windP Can you hold a storm with sunbeams? When you can, then hush and be quiet; till them, let all speak out in their best and bodest. eounseling with each other for remedy Let the wise and the al- legged eVerwise. the white and the black, seek for the remedy, because the time de- mands It. and all men must be busy and up and doing.
 The course of events has elevated into very great power in thls land sundry former slaves, who now wield immense fortune and influence over the entire negro population of the country. We rightly look to them as to inbred students of the habits of their race for untlring cooperation, and we rightly charge them with the duty of aiding and assisting in all possible ways In suppress ing crime. We pay them the tribute of
  tributes to them dollars from north, east, south and west for the bettermen of their race; we expect results and on their shoulders will be the consequence Of fall- ure They have the opportunity; they have the means; they have our aid and encouragement; let us have the fruit.
 State rights have not yet been plotted out, but this occasion is scarcely the one for anything but a mere reference to this question and the recent reopening of this subject 1t is certain that we are now so tied together with iron, steel and cops per bands and wires that the states are separated by the word and theory Of the law, but they are joined together by common interest and by common brother hood
 The treaty negotiated by the President and a majority of the Senate is about to be held to be the supreme law of the land, and it is said our state statutes must give way before such overwhelming force.
 Birmingham Has No War.
 This great city of Birmingham has few reminders of the war except such as were imported. We have no war on any thing except crime, lazy men and ignor- ance It was born twenty years after the war begun, and if it had been born fifty years before the war was declared, and all of It's vast stores of iron and steel and coal been at the service of the south, 1t might be that we of the south would now be celebrating the treaty reuniting the great sections of the country. It might be if the south had had the guns and coal and ammunition which Birmingham could have given her history would have written a very different conclusion to the war.
 However this may have been, 1t was not; and however what might have been, we of the south today look to the Stars and Stripes with the same love and with the same admiration that our forefathers loked to 1t before the years of 60, with the same honor that our fathers followed the Stars and Bars.
 We do thB with no reflection upon those who fought for the south, but hay ing made peace with honor we live with honor, and we love our country with honor, Having gone forth to the battle with honor, having fought q good fight our hearts said even before the great poet-prlest of the south said:
 "Furl that banner for tis weary
 Round it's staff, tls dropping dreary;
 Furl it, fold it, 1t is best"
 Each year is rapidly thinning out the ranks of those who fought for the cause lost or for cause won. The snows of many winters adorn the head of each veteran, although there are but few who do not walk erect before men with the strength and courage of their convictions. with form and look of the soldier for very remembrance of the vast stage upon which they so proudly marched for four long years.
 Those who were young when the war began have now reached the meridian of life. Those born since. have the tales of war handed to them but each and all should be taught to honor the veteran as common property. Each and all should be taught that in honorng them they honor self; that in honoring them they do a simple duty; that in honoring them they make better citizens of themselves As we read the wars history today 1t s really surprising to find how compara- lively small and poor this country was when it gave such name to itself This should teach us how very great were the men who then adorned the country; thi.. should teach us that the men who then went to battle went with the intention of not returning, if duty bade them stay. That they were men in all things, pre- pared tc pay any tribute, prepared 10 lay down all they had, even to life itself for their country.
 Then let all men be invited to salute the Confederate cross and the Grand Army button, the insignia of the royal bravery.
 Vote of Thanks Rendered..
 A vote of thanks was rendered the speaker for his address, and the services were closed with the decoration of the Confederate graves.