The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-13
KATE HUTCHINSON MoRRlssETTE.

And what within is richly shrined?
A seulptured woman's form;
Lovely, in perfect rest reelined,
As one beyond the storm;
Yet not in death but slumber lies
The solemn sweetness of her eyes.
She slumbered but it came. 1t came!
Her lands redeeming hour,
With the glad shout and signal flame
Set - rem tower to tower.
Fast through the realm q spirit moved
Twas hers, the lofty and the loved!'
following does not attempt to givt
the picture whole nor the outline COM
plete of social life in Montgomery during
the war between the Confederate States
and the United States. The sketch in
cludes only broken portions of the con
tour, a glimpse of the features, few
tl4roes of a period which marks the pass
ing of one phase in the first capital of the
Confederacy, Of civilization as high as
any which the world has ever known
If this but reaches the imagination OF
the present generation, If it but stirs the
memory of the survivors of the early
sixties, it will accomplish all that is
hoped by the writer who is happy to be
identified in any way with any work un'
dertaken by Confederate veterans, or
sons of Confederate veterans.
The courtesy of several survivors OF the
"old school" have assisted the writer
with data for these few links of chain
which binds us of today to those days
of glory and trials which can be forgot
only when He shall wipe all tears from
their eyes"
That the names of many, connected by
ties of blood and affection to the writer,
are barely mentioned may disarm criti-
cism concerning other important omls-
sions. The time limit for the preparation
of this article made it impossible to see
all who might have given valuable in
formation 1t is hoped that the made
quacies here disclosed may incite others
to add their lines to this broken chain
until the whole glorious record is COM
plete.
N. p. Willis, when in the vigor Of his
prime, cultured, extremely sensitive TO
Impressions of the good and beautitul'
familiar with the best society of Euro
pean capitalism whose courts he had
been intimate with royalty-thought ana
spoke much of the loss which would pc
fall the national capital If the families OF
the southern congressman shoulu DC
withdrawn from its society. Whlle those
around him hotly discussed political is
sues, his phiosophic mind dwelt on that
which to him meant most-the social lie
of a country, the coil in which national
virtues or Vices flourish. In The Home
journal for January, 1850, he wrote:
1--WE are sustaining a great social loss
in the estrangement Of the south. In all
4he larger and more refined circles of
American society-at Saratoga and New
port, in our gaitles of the cities and all
routes of fashionable travel ana resort
the southerners are the class most sousnt
and admired as the incest people. 1t Is
hard to find q cultivated society man
probably anywhere in the north who does
not number many of his most valuable
friends and pleasant acquaintance IN
this class The American travellers who
shine most at foreign courts and III lor-
egn society are from the south. And SO
we must fairly own that individually
northern men are regretting exceedingly
the social estrangement of the south.
1t is left to tile historian to explain why
these generous and graceful Qualities
are traceable in the annals of colonial
times. Is it not the privilege of the men
and women of today to lay hold on the
heritage of gentleness which is bound up
in our heritage of valor? Is 1t not the
hope of the future that