The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-19
md read aleua to me ,hi. sen

rhe public servant who fails to la-s nis conscience dictates for fear . s considerations which commend themselves to him will not meet the | approval of the people, mistrusts those
 who trust him. and in setting up higher standards of right and morality for himself than he aocords to the people, the representative often unwtllingiy betrays their best interests" 1 "'He said he had always followed that rule. IL is not surprising. there | fore. that he frequently led rather than followed the popular opinion of the hour. and sometimes resolutely set hts face against 1t.
 He Lived . christian. | ''Mr. President. in addition to all of Senator Morgan's magnificent endow-
 ments of brain and heart and under standing, he was . Christian His acute phfiosophy never raised him to that point where he could find any Qualifications for renouncing the old time religion of his fathers. which he at all times recognized as the last solaee for those who had outlived their earthly hope. and the last restraint of those who had raised themselves above l every human fear. He went to his last reward an earnest believer in the I faith of the Methodist Church. in which he had been a oommunicsnt from the years of his early life. He is safely entwinsd within the affectionate grati- tude and loyal remembrance of the people of Alahama. His fame as a statesman and publicist will always re- main as common heritage of all the l States and he will go down in history one of the truly great men of our Re- public.
 Tn delivering the speech of accept ance of the nomination of my party as | A | body, used the following language which was then and now is true ex- pression of my appreciation of Senator Morgan's greatness and of his service to his people,
 "I trust that this legislature, before its adjournment, will make an ap- propriation for a handsome statue to Senator Morgan. to be erected in Statu- ary Hall in the Capitol at Washington, under whose dome for so many years, and with such hriltancy he served his people,"
 Johmston on Pettus.
 Senator Johnston in paying tribute to Senator Pettus said:
 Mn President.
 Tn all fhe history of the Republic I believe no State has ever been called upon. by the quick succession of death to mourn at the same time the loss of i've Senators whose ability, integrity. and patriotism was known and hon ored In every State of the Union. ana who So largely commanded the respect and confidence of the Senate. My col 1t Is my privilege to make some reeorc ot the fife. services, and character oI my predecessor.
 Edmund Winston Pettus was horn In Limestone County. Ala, July 1s, isai; He was the youngest son in a family of nine children. His father. John Pettus. planter. and a soldier in Creek war. and his mother Laughter of Captain Anthony Winston, of vir- ginfa. q Revolutionary soldier. An older brother, John J. Pettus, was gov ernor of Mississippi during the war between the States General Pettus was educated In the common schools and at Clinton College. Tennessee. He wac admitted to the bar in is42. and com meneed the practice of law at Gaines vile. Ala Tn iS4t he was elected so- licitor of the seventh circuit In June. is<A. he was married to Mary, daught- er of Judge Samuel Chapman, who was his faithful and devoted wife for nor, than sixty years. He served as 2 lieu tenant In the Mexican war. Tn 1s49 he went with a party of his neighbors, on horseback. to California.
 After his return to Alabama Gin 1skb) ha was elected judge of the seventh circuit, but resigned the of- hee In 1858 to return to the practice, and settled In Dallas County, Ala. where he lived, and continued in the practice, until elected to the Senate. except during the period covered by
 "He entered the Confederate army ,n 1881 as major of the goth Ala bama Regiment, and soon afterwardA was made lisutenant-colonel. Tn octo- ha vzFaa dier-general for gallant and merit. orious service. He was in many bat ties and was wounded four times. Al ter the war he resumed the practice n, the law and never eought or held an political office until 1898, when ha was elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing March (. 1897. and was reelected in 1903 and again In 1907 for the term ending March 8, 1915.
 "siv children were born to him. Mrs. Lucy Roberts. Mrs. Mary N Lacey, and son. Francis L. Pettus. and three who died young His son was at different times speaker of the house and presi- dent of the senate in Alabama.
 Courage as R Soldier.
 There Is one instance, Mir. President. in the career of General Peftus that should never be forgotten, because it Illustrates the courage of American cOluieI6s anu alone make his name immortal Major General Steven son. of the Confederate army. in an of- fcial report Of an action that occurred at vicksburg on the 22d of May, 1863, says:
 "'An angle of one of our redoubts had been preached by their artillery before the assault and rendered un- teuable; and toward this point. at the time of the repulse of the main body a party of about sixty of the enemy under the command of lieutenant col onel made 8 rush and succeeded fin ef fecting a lodgment in the ditch at the | foot of the redoubt and planting two | flags on the parapet: the work was so | constructed that this ditch was com l nanded by no part of our line. and the | means by which they could he dislodE- 1 ed was 10 take the angle by desperate | charge and either kill or compel the | surrender of the whole party by tn. use of hand grenades. call for this | purpose was made and. promptly re- sponded to by Lieutenant Colonel Pet tus and about forty men of Walls Tex as Legion. more gallant feat than | this charge has not illustrated our arms during the war The prepara- tiops were quickly made. but the enemy seemed at once to divine our and opened upon the angle a terrible fire of shot, shell. and mus ketry. undaunted. this little band, it's chivalrous commander at its head, rushed upon the works. and in less time than 1t requires to describe 1t the