Le nord de l'Alabama, historiques et biographiques.. .-Moi d'un whoconsidered j)cople que ses jours étaient presque passé, butthat dans son premier il s'hud u]) avant l'worldand avait l)een dynamité au service d'une cause d'onceunsjieakablydear-les tous. Jlr.Cleveland, en tant que premier président des États-Unis qui a evervisited Montgomery durant sa présidence ou de thatoffice, comme le premier président élu par theaid du Sud depuis Buchanan, comme le rej)resenta-ment d'une Union européenne, restauré et lui-même un ex-emplar de tant de des plus belles qualités de l'Ameri-la citoyenneté peut-elle, avait un/24

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Northern Alabama, historical and biographical.. . me from a j)cople whoconsidered that his days were well nigh spent, butthat in his prime he hud stood u]) before the worldand had l)een blasted in the service of a cause onceunsjieakablydear to them all. Jlr.Cleveland, as thefirst President of the United States who had evervisited Montgomery during his incumbency of thatoffice, as the first President elected through theaid of the South since Buchanan, as the rej)resenta-tive of a restored Union, and himself an ex-emplar of so many of the finest qualities of Ameri-can citizenship, had a reception befitting his greatstation, and one alike honorable to him and to thecommunity whose guest he was. The city thathad given Yancey to the cau.se of •SouthernRights, that had itself been the seat of the pro-visional government of the Confederate States, had now within its gates and was spending a gen-erous courtesy upon a President who, above allthings else, stood for an indissoluble and non-sec-tional union, a nniii who in his official capacity. NORTHERN ALABAMA. 593 directed all his cares, his hopes and sispinitions, to the future of oiir common country. PresidentClevelands visit may be said to mark an epooli inour local history. Not that his visit had any wide-reaching influence, but because of the proof thevisit olTered, with its holiday aocoinpaniments, that Montgomery was facing toward tiie morning, that she had taken her place in the ranks of thatgreater army, the army of industry, before whosearms slavery had gone down. THK FUTlUE. .Montgomery will celebrate its Centennial inI.IT, and doubtless will celebrate it with all thepomp and circumstance befitting the event. Whatis there of j)romise in our town of to-day that theCentennial of IJIT shall illustrate a progress inevery direction of sound municipal development: Our [)opulation still consists of a disproportion-jitely large number of the coloied race, but it is ofgood omen for the future that the negroes are build-ingth

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