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State shall see the fruition of their hopes and labors, and amid the thunders of cannon and the acclamations of thousands, yonder superb memorial to our dead shall flash upon the vision of the mul- titude, may that proud figure, which surmounts it in manly dignity, stand forever the majestic symbol of duty performed of heroic courage, of sublime fortitude. May it tell forever the story, that when the sun set upon the cross-barred flag at Appomattox, it could not set upon the character that makes North Carolina what she is. May it speak to every youth who passes under its shadow the words of glorious Whiting:

" Come, my boy, have no fear in the path of duty; I, the Spirit of the Dead, will go with you! "

From the Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser, Dec. 8, 1897.

TO THE CONFEDERACY'S SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

Monument Unveiled on Capitol Hill, Montgomery, Ala- bama, with Impressive Ceremony, December 7, 1898.

Instructive and Eloquent Speeches by Prominent Men. Southland

Moans for its Heroes. Reverence and Patriotism Guiding

Spirits of the Occasion.

Splendid Oration by Ex-Governor Thomas (i. Jones, with Inspiring

Addresses by Colonel W. J. Sanford, Colonel J. W. A.

Sanford, Captain Ben. H. Screws, and Hon.

Hilary A. Herbert.

HISTORIC TRIBUTE OF ALABAMA WOMEN.

Five thousand earnest persons yesterday witnessed the unveiling ol th<- Confederate monument on Capitol Hill. Close to the historic structure in which the " Lost Cause " was born, a marble shaft now rears aloft its figured crest in impressive tribute to those who died under the " Stars and Bars." Cradle and tombstone stand side by side. And around them, their leafless branches murmuring a re- quiem mass in the autumn breezes, tremble a hundred trees trans-