The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26
Representatives Pay Tribute to
 Morgan and Petus
ALWAYS TRUE ID ALABAMA
Eloquent Addresses Are Delivered By Representatives Underwood and Burnett, Who Touch Upon
 Services of Colleagues.

Washington, April 25.-(Special 1.-The Alabama members of the House, assisted by Representative Clark of Missouri Rep resentative Burton of Ohio and Repre- sentative Boute1 of Illinois, spent this afternoon enlogizing the late Senators Morgan and Pettus.
 Representative Underwood said
 "Mr. Speaker:
 Alabama mourns today two great men, John Tyler Morgan and Edmund Winston Pettus Like two giant oaks in the for est of statesmen, the lives of these two men have run contemporaneous with the history of Alabama. Both were born within half decade of their states natal day. They grew to manhood amidst the trials hardships and adventures of from tier life, when a great portion of Alabama was still wilderness, and before the h. dian tribes were moved from the state.
 "Their early manhood was spent in the prosperous days of an anti-bellum civ ization, when cotton was king, and the land was new; when a mans honor was valued more than his gold; when work honesty and courage could obtain every opportunity in life
 i.From these golden days of peace and plmiy, almost within the space Of 8 flash lotlistnhg heir lives were encompassed n. tde turmoils. dangers and strifes of the civil war. Then each crew his sword | in defense of the state anu for gallantry i on the field of battle each returned home. when peace came again, wearing the sin gle star. the insignia of a brigader gem eral of the Confederate army.
 Gloomy Days.
 Then came into their lives the dark, gloomy days of reconstruction, of poverty of racial strife, of destroyed homes, of dishonored courts. The days when law lessness reigned supreme and protection to life and property was unrecked of under the misused law of the land.
 Tt WAS through these terrible times that these two men stood together as pillars of strength to their neighbors in their sui ferings and distress and as pillars of light to lead their state from the sloughs of dishonor and. corruption back to the high ground of honor, peace and protec- tion
 They lived to see their state, in their declining years, through their guidance restored to Caucasian rule, prosperity and happiness return to the farms and cities. The development of the great mineral re- sources of North Alabama advanced their state to the first rank of the manufac- turing, as well as the agricultural, states of the union. They lived together for So-odd years; they fought together on bat tie fields, of war and strife, on fields of law and rhetoric, in times of hardship and danger, in times of peace and plenty.
 They died together, honored and loved by all their fellow countrymen each bearing the high commission of d United States senator, as the badge of honor conferred by grateful peo- pie on it's two most worthy citizcns."
 Mr. Burnett's Speech.
 MT. Burnett spoke on Senators Pettus and Morgan as follows:
 MT. Speaker When God called Alu- bama venerable senators to their last reward the state and the nation lost two of their ablest statesmen and grand est men.
 Connected with the lives and in the death of these men there were some pe- culidr facts. They had for many years been eminent lawyers living in the same town, both became brigadier generals i'll the OOnIeueTdIe DOtll NtIS 1Hiicu States senators from the same state. were only about three years apart in age, both had lived practically all their lives in Alabama, and died within less than three months of each other.
 Tt is seldom, if ever, that any state within so brief time has been called to mourn two such distinguished sons.
 ''Senator Pettus was born in Alabama when the state was but two years old, and to his dying day his life was unself- ishly and loyally devoted to her interests ana her welfare.
 Senator Morgan came with his fam ily from Tennessee to Ala bama when but a small boy and for 75 years he lived as an honor to the state and benedlc- ton to her people.
 Sturdy Type.
 Senator Pettus was of the sturdy old Andrew Jackson type of man. He was a good big boy when Jackson died. and I have heard him speak of seeing the hero of New Orleans when a body of East Tennesseans offered him some in- dignity, and with truly Jacksonian eni- phasis, the old warrior hurled 1t back at them. Alabama has much of history to be proud of and nearly all of that history was made under the eyes of these two patriotic sons, who were last year called to their fathers.
 'They were both there when the war cry of the red man still reverberated through her primeval forests. They were there when the Creeks and the Chero- kees were torn from her borders and the echo of their war cry died away with their retreating footsteps.
 'They were young men helping to make her history when Alabama. with her sis ters first began to hear the ominou5 sounds that portended the terrible con fiict that later swept like bosom over the bosom of our southland.
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