The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-10

most miraculous of all things that man
has devised."-Carlyle
The daily newspaper and the business
factor we call underwriting or in
surance are the two potentialitles of the
art of writing, prevailing above all
others.
| All men go out TO their various daily
tasks with the centripetal force of the
newspaper determining their minds and
hearts toward community interests and
organization. Life is founded upon the
underwriting or Insurance permeating
all business.
The newspaper and the business of
insurance more than all other Influences
oveIoame the chaos CT the Ten years
of Alabama" of which 1t is proposed
to tell here We are going TO tell OF
a political, social. industrial vitality,
tho most interesting in the chronicles
of ages and peoples. We are going to
tell of phenomena that at our very
doors upset all logic of the incompati-
bility of public virtue and energy with
the co-eccupancy of the land by free
| negroes and their old white masters.
II is most interesting political study
and Birmingham itself stands out in
the forefront.
AS Blackstone is to its place, as But
ler's Analogy is to its place. or the
United States, Diopensary is to the pill
maker so the daily newspaper is to the
education OF the thought of the COM
munity whose first and last demonstra-
| ton of life is organization. The Age
Herald will tell of miracles of justice
and Judgment done, of darkness, where
all men CROPPED in confusion and tur-
moil, and how some men led and the
others followed from under the yoke
to the Alabama of today. 1t is noble
tale, noble exemplar, a transcendent
Inspiration to which every heart should
be open. The hosts of southern. sol
diers were great among the greatest,
They came home to be greater.
Lewis E. Parsons of the village of
Talladega was appointed provisional
governor of Alabama by President An
drew Johnson June, 1865. The office of
provisional governor of a state was an
invention of this President and had no
valid claims upon the theory of Amer
lean government Had President Lin
coin lived 1t would not have appeared
when ii did.
MIR. Lincoln's view of the situation
was that the organized state of Ala
bama had never lost its original char
acter as a state .onoe a state, always
a state" Mr.. Lincoln fell into the be-
lief that this state had been engaged
in an "insurreetion,r status contefn-
plated by the federal constitution as
possible, and which he, by constitution
al mode. had Suppressed"
President Lincoln was removed by
death while upon the very verge of his
y IN tT..t& 80
Alabama from a self inflicted exile
Watts, the legally chosen governor
must assemble the legislature that had
come into office with him In 1863 while
Alabama was an exultant member of
| the Confederacy. The Legislature would
without delay choose senators, where
| time had extinguishad their commits
sions and would order the election of q
| full complement of representatives in
| Congress. Indeed, the instruction"
as the President saw events, having
been suppressed the state remained in
tact, in nothing the loser except in
unnumbered precious lives sacrificed
and incalculable wealth fled.
Possibly Mr.. Lincoln, had he lived.
might have been able to put into effect
his supremacy wise and timely policy,
| looking to a restoration of the southern
states to the government under him.
| Mr.. Lincoln nevertheless was not well
come great man among the men close
to him until he had fallen victim to
the assassin. The great men left at
Washington at once before the warm
blood had frozen in his heart betook
themselves to the tragedy of his de-
parture to build upon ii a course of
conduct toward the south which Pres
ident Johnson was not strong enough,
strong man that he was. to reverse in
favor of Lincolns plan.
Lincolns plan. however, depended
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sip that many senator's are leaving
Washington because of the fact that
the rote ON the Lorimer case will prob
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