. Historic towns of the Southern States. r of cannon thatwelcomed the news of VirQ^inias secession ; thegroups of leaders planning earnestly laws andconstitutions and deep schemes of publicpolicy ; the soldiers in gray marching by withhigh hopes and light step ; the sad day when theConfederate Government packed its archivesand took its departure for Richmond — thesememories and a thousand others that clusterabout them will always be kept alive by thetender sentiment that clings to the Lost Cause. 4IO Montgomery But Montgomery, true to the spirit of itshistory, does not look backward. Businesse
. Historic towns of the Southern States. r of cannon thatwelcomed the news of VirQ^inias secession ; thegroups of leaders planning earnestly laws andconstitutions and deep schemes of publicpolicy ; the soldiers in gray marching by withhigh hopes and light step ; the sad day when theConfederate Government packed its archivesand took its departure for Richmond — thesememories and a thousand others that clusterabout them will always be kept alive by thetender sentiment that clings to the Lost Cause. 4IO Montgomery But Montgomery, true to the spirit of itshistory, does not look backward. Businessenterprise has adapted itself to new surround-ings. It is to-day a city of the New the site of the old Indian town, Ecunchatty,stands a great modern factory. The changeis typical. Far over the wide stretches offield and river float the long streamers ofsmoke, the banners of the modern army of in-dustry, in striking but friendly contrast to thewhite dome on Capitol Hill, the centre ofMontgomerys past and present political
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