History of Alabama : adapted to the use of schools and for general reading . an candidate, the vote being 145,095 to 37,118. Gov. Seay was the youngest governorof Alabama since the Confederate war, be-ing forty vears of age, and a native ofGreene comity, born in 184G. He gradu-ated in the Southern University in 1867and two years later was admitted to thebar and practiced law successfully inGreensboro. He was the leader of thevoung democrats of that section of thestate in getting rid of the yoke of radi-calism and was elected to the State sen-ate in 1870. where he served for ten was pr
History of Alabama : adapted to the use of schools and for general reading . an candidate, the vote being 145,095 to 37,118. Gov. Seay was the youngest governorof Alabama since the Confederate war, be-ing forty vears of age, and a native ofGreene comity, born in 184G. He gradu-ated in the Southern University in 1867and two years later was admitted to thebar and practiced law successfully inGreensboro. He was the leader of thevoung democrats of that section of thestate in getting rid of the yoke of radi-calism and was elected to the State sen-ate in 1870. where he served for ten was president of that body whenelected governor. During his two termsas governor he proved himself worthy ofthe high office by the prudence and wis-dom with which he managed the affairsof state. Ex-President Davis made his last visit to Alabama in , for the purpose of laying the ccnnerstone of the monu-ment to the Confederate dead, near the capitol in Montgom-ery. An immense concourse of people greeted him and elo-quent addresses were delivered by General Gordon, 282 HISTORY OF ALABAMA Thomas G. Jones and others, during the different exercisesappropriate to the occasion. On the night of the 31st of August, 188G, the Cliarlestonearthquake occurred, and was distinctly felt throughout thisState. The legislature of 1886-87 made an appropriation for a separateinstitution for the blind at Talladega, and an appropriation of$12,500 for Technical education in the A. & M. College at Auburn;also an appropriation for soldiers widows in addition to the annualamount for disabled soldiers. The governor was authorized to pros-ecute the claims of the State against the United States for swampand overflowed lands. Under the act Col. J. H. Caldwell was ap-pointed attorney by the governor to prosecute said claims, and per-formed his duties with ability, energy and success. A number ofrailroads, coal companies, iron furnaces and new towns in the mineralsection of the State were incorporate
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