The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-19
Colonel DuBose Interview

SVlOuCl Dul1OSt lHltINltN
 Tn the energies of the state depart ment of archives and history, celebra- tion of two centennial events which place Alabama in an enviable relation
 to American history has been conceived
 and prepared.
 pr owen enlaraes sensibly the civic
 morale by making ready public enter
 tainment in loftiest spheres of example
 and idealism
 First in order, there was an inter-
 state assemblage of both sexes and all
 ages on the very battle-ground or Horseshoe Bend. This Fourth of July
 event celebrated the victory there on March 14, 1914, of Gen. Andrew Jack SCI over the Creek Indians The fas- cination of that field is really with the red men. They fought there to extern liration. Thus the soil of Alabama be- comes holy ground. Greater love hath no man, nor race of men, than this display of the virtue that the red did there. The strategy of Jackson. the valor of the riflemen under him, the lannihilation in fair combat of the In-
 dian allies of Great Britain, nor less memorable the treaty made by Jackson with the wretched remnant of the
 tribes. are decisive results in the in-
 terest of white settlement of this noble Commonwealth
 "The other centennial celebration,
 now being prepared, is that of the na- tai day of William Lowndes Yancey,
 who was born at Falls of Ogeeche, Hancock county. Georgia. on August l10. lSf4 though his parents at the time were citizens of Charleston. s. c.
 ''There are hereditary traits of charac- 1 ter found in the nation as in the family | Pride of country and pride of family make | up the test of manhood. These are es- 1 sentially interlocking events in American history Yorktown, Horseshoe Bend, Old | Fort Bowyer, on Mobile bay. New Or i leans and the birth of Yancey. All but | Yorktown are compressed in the space | between March, 1Sf4 and January 1915. | 10 months. All are south of the Mason | and Dixon line
 "Education is the only security for the ascent of mind, morals and manners. | These celebrations on Alabama soil, led l by Alabama, reach the dignity of edu-
 cation, and it is education as wide as the
 land that the flag covers.
 'The late Bishop R. H. Wilmer had a l war sermon, that entranced in a season
 of sore extremity of fortune. many con gregations of old men, maimed men from l the front and true women. The text was: | What I do thou knowest not now, but | thou shall know hereafter
 i "Following the text. Jackson did not | know what he had done. wlen night closed upon March A. 1874. A hundred | years later we find the principle in gov | ernrnent that covers the rights of man, | hastened forward into use by the event | of that day. From the cradle filled in a | home of culture and luxury, though amidst the wilds of Georgia, on August l 10 came forth a man of power phe- | nomenal over brave men, virtuous men, | to train their minds and hearts they his | neighbors and fellows. He lived and died within 30 miles of Jackson's battle | grouid.
 Certainly the people of Alabama al | large and the noble organizations of women to whom Dr. Owen so appro- l priately appeals. will see in the celebra- | ton of the birth of Yancey an inspira- l ton and a revelation. The state and the | federal governments have each already | generously indorsed the ideal found in the battlefield