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Alabama’s Red Cross Flag.From The Birmingham Age-Herald.Over the historic Capitol at Montgomery waves not the National flag but the Alabama flag, and not one Alabaman in a thousand would recognize it if he saw it elsewhere than on the Capitol. The flag in question has no history woven into it,* for it was not adopted until 1895. It presents a St. Andrew’s cross in crimson on a white field. Such a cross is shaped like a letter X. and the books suggest that the Apostle Andrew died on a cross of that design. Few if any other States indulge in flags of their own. A flag is the symbol of sovereignty, and State sovereignty is limited by the Federal Constitution. When we were a part of Georgia we granted to the Federal Govern ment the executive power of punishing treason, and if any one becomes a traitor to the Alabama flag we might have to call in the Federal Government in order to punish him.
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Wed, Mar 28, 1906
Page 8
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