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DIXIE’S LOVE OF LEE.
Richmond's Demonstration a
Magnificent Success.
COUNTLESS TBODSUiDS IN LISE
AND ON THE CURB STONE.
The People Everywhere Wild With
Enthusiasm— The Famous Surviving
Leaders of the Confederate Forces
Greeted With Storms of Cheers—
The Vets and the Militia Passing
Each Other in Review—The Monu
ment and the Oration.
Richmond, Va., May 29.— The scene here
to-dav in connection with the ceremonies
incident to the unveiling of the Lee eques
trian statue was unprecedented in the an
nals of this historic city. From early
morning till night the tap of the drum and
the tramp of soldiers forcibly reminded the
older citizens of the stirring days of 1861.
Never were there so many people gathered
within the gates of the city. Never were
the decorations so elaborate. Never were
there so many old veterans and military
organizations on the streets in time of peace,
and never was thore such genuine and gen
eral enthusium over any event.
It would be a severe task to describe in
detail the happy blending of colors or de
scribe the taste displayed by ail in the har
monious grouping of flags, or repeat the
fruitful aud beautiful theme 6 expressed in
the mottoes that greeted the eye in the
streets through which the magnificent
pageant passed. One of the most striking
banners displayed bore this inscription:
Lee, the chieftain, peacefully sleeps; we
honor his memory iu living bronze.”
Many fine pictures of VVashington, as well
as of Lee, were observed on every hand.
THE STABS AND STKIPES.
While thousands of flags were wafted to
the breeze, the national flag was displayed
in the proportion of 50 to 1 of the stars and
bars. It was truly confederate day, how
ever, as the presence of many confederate
veteran camps, aud the airs played by the
bands pertaining to the lost cause, fully
attested; and this was emphasized by the
many manifestations of delight that
they brought forth from the crowds
all ’ along the lines. The house of the
confederacy and the governor’s mansion,
though not on the line of inarch, were at
tractively decorated, and Gen. Lee’s resi
dence, on the most fashionable thorough
fare of the city, was beautifully adorned
and specially honored by passing commands,
the colors of the various organizations being
dipped, while in many instances beads were
uncovered.
LEADERS GIVEN OVATIONS.
Gens. Early, Longstreet and Fitz Lee
received a perfect ovation, while many
other confederate leaders were greeted with
enthusiasm. Gov. Gordon, Senator Wade
Hampton and Gov. Fowle were not recog
nizod so readily as their names, but when
they passed an old confederate organiza
tion, to whom their faces were familiar,
they were lustily cheored.
The Fifth Maryland regiment and veter
ans and the New York delegation of south
ern veterans attracted more attention
during the entire march than the other
organizations in tho parade. If there was
any difference in their reception it was in
favor of New York, for the remark was
repeatedly heard on Franklin Btreet, where
the crowd was greatest, “There goes New
York,” and the welkin was made to ring
with loud huzzas.
The scone along the whole route from be
ginning to end was a memorable one.
Although the most extensive preparations
had been made to receive a large number of
visitors, no one expected to see the hosts
that visited the city, yet they were all well
cared for and no complaints were heard.
It is asserted on all sides that the parade,
decorations and everything connected with
the jubilee excelled anything ever witnessed
in the south.
FORMING THE PARADE.
The parade formed on the north side of
Broad street, from Adams down to Twelfth.
The line marched generally company front
with double ranks.
No saluting was done by the troops ex
cept when they passed a chief of staff.
When they arrived at the pedestal they
were formed behind veterans, facing the
south. Especially invited guests, the chief
marshal and his aids. Stonewall band, R.
E. Lee camp and Richmond Light In
fantry Blues formed on the north side of
Broad street with the left resting on Adams
street.
Other organizations formed on the north
side of the street and covered the space
down to Thirteenth street.
SOME OF THE PROMINENT FIGURES.
Prominent in the procession were: Oonls.
•James Longstreet, Dabney H. Maury, Mar
cus J. Wright, M. C. Butler, R. L. Walker,
A. L. Long, Joseph E. Johnston, William
D. Talliferro, R. L. Page, J. A. Early, M.
"• Corse, M. L. Bonham, G. W. C. Lee,
Lawrence 8. Baker, J. D. Imboden, George
B- Harrison, Dalian Ruggles, John Echols,
Deorge H. Stewart, H. H. Walker, Joseph
''heeler, J. B. Kershaw, P. M. B. Young,
P. Roberts, A. R. Lawton, Charles
■ Field, George J. Hundley, Benjamin
Kobertson, Govs. Daniel G. Fowlo of North
Carolina, F. P. Fleming of Florida, A. B.
rleming of W r est Virginia and John T.
Richardson of South Carolina, United
States Senators Barbour, Daniel, Kenna
? n d Pasco; Cols. William Lamb and Will
iam E. Cameron, Capt. J. Taylor Wood;
following members of Gen. R. E. Leo’s
staff: Cols, Walter H. Taylor, Charles
Marshall, T. M. R. Talcott, Gen. A. L.
~? n g and Maj. Charles S. Venable, and the
allowing members of Gen. Lee’s family:
Misses Mildred and Mary Lee, Capt. Robert
L Lee, Jr., Gen. W. H. F. Lee, wife and
S? ns * Bolling and R. E. Lee, nephews, and
r ‘. Fitz Lee, with his wife and daughter,
' apt. Daniel Lee, with his wife and chil
dren, and Capt. Robert Lee.
START OF THE PROCESSION.
I' hen the procession started the men de
scribed a semicircle on Adams and Broad
streets and proceeded down Broad
street on the south side. As soon as the
‘aat veteran organization passed Adams
treet the military took up tbeir line of
march, and when the head of the column of
i teraus reached Ninth atid Main streets
1 nt y, llalted t and, occupying the south side
, the street, reviewed the military. The
latter marched up Main street to Eighth,
and up that street to Franklin, so as to pass
wan Lee’s residence, and out Franklin to
onafer street. At Shufer street the mili
lacy halted and occupied the south side of
w street. The veterans, who had taken up
Ib* MoiititiQ ffetogl
the line of march after the military had
been reviewed, passed in review before the
military and resumed their place at the
head of the column until the monument
was reached.
AT THE MONUMENT.
Upon arriving at the monument the vet
erans faced the grand 6tand with the mili
tary behind them and the cavalry bringing
up the rear. The artillery were posted
north of the pedestal. .Gov. McKinney
called the assemblage to order about 4
o’clock iu a few appropriate remarks, but
the whole procession had by no means
reached its destination. The governor in
troduced Dr. Minnegerode, who offered
prayer, after which Gen. Jubal A. Early
was called upon to preside. He made a
brief speech and presented Col. Archer
Anderson as the orator of the day, who de
livered an address, which is printed else
where.
THE STATUE UNVEILED.
At the conclusion of CoL Anderson’s ad
dress Gen. Joseph E. Johnson pulled the
cord which held the covering of the statue
and the veil dropped, exposing the beauti
ful bronze work of art to view, when a
mighty shout went up from the multitude,
and a salvo of 100 guns was fired by the
First battalion of artilery. The assembly
then slowly dispersed and the troops
marched to tbeir various headquarters and
were dismissed.
When the statue was unveiled the crowd
in the vicinity was estimated at 140,000.
Those who participated in the procession
numbered 20,000. There were 70,000 stran
gers in the city during the day.
A DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS.
A display of fireworks took place to-night,
the most striking features being representa
tions of tho equestrian statue of Lee and
pictures of Jefferson Davis and Stonewall
Jackson.
The New Orleans artillery received great
praise for their manly bearing during to
day’s parade.
Gov. McKinney held a public reception to
night which was attended by many of the
distinguished men who came here to take
part in to day’s ceremonies.
A pleasing feature of the visit of the
New York camp of confederate veterans
was the presentation by Miss Fannie Dick
inson, daughter of Col. Dickinson of this
city, of a handsome silk banner, which was
received on behalf of the veterans by Capt.
Hugh Gordon.
ANDERSON’S ORATION.
A Full Synopsis of the Principal Ad
dress of the Day.
Richmond, Va., May 29. —Following is
a synopsis of the address of Col. Anderson,
the orator of the day, at the unveiling cere
monies:
Fellow Citizens—A people carves its own
image In the monuments of its great men. Not
Virginians only, not only those who dwell in the
fair land stretching from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande, but ail who bear the American
name may proudly consent that posterity shall
judge them by the structure which we are here
to dedicate, and crown with a heroic figure.
For, as the Latin poet said that, wherever the
Roman name aud sway extended, there should
be the sepulcher of Pompey, so to day in every
part of America, the character and fame of
Robert Edward Lee are treasured as a “poses
sion for all time."
And if this be true of that great name, what
shall be said of the circumstances which sur
round us on this day of solemn commemora
tion? That, at the end of the first quarter of a
century after the close of a stupendous civil
war, in which more than a million men strug
gled for the mastery during four years of fierce
and bloody conflict, we should see the southern
states in complete possession of their local self
government, the federal constitution unchanged,
save as respects the great issues submitted to
the arbitrament of war, and the defeated party—
whilst in full and patriotic sympathy with all
the present grandeur and imperial promise of a
reunited country, still not held to renounce any
glorious memory, but free to heap honors upon
their trusted leaders, living or dead—all this
character in which the American people
may well be content to be handed down to his
tory. All this and more will be the testimony
of the solid fabric we here complete.
NOBLE WOIIK OF WOMAN.
It will recall the generous initiative and the
unflagging zeal of those noble women of the
south to whom, in a large measure, we owe this
auspicious day. It will bear its lasting witness
as tne voluntary offering of the people, not the
government, of the southern states; and, stand
ing as a perpetual memorial of our great leader,
it will stand not less as an enduring record of
what his fellow-citizens deemed most worthy to
be honored.
What kind of greatness, then—it may be
fitting in this spot to ask—what kind of great
ness should men most honor in their fellow
men?
Strong and natural as is the inclination
of those given up to the intel
lectual life to exalt the triumphs
of the imagination and the reason, Buch is not
the impulse of the great heart of the multitude.
And the multitude is right. Iu a large and true
sense conduct is more than intellect, more than
art or eloquence—to have done great things is
nobler than to have thought or expressed them.
Thus, in every land, the most conspicuous
monuments commemorate the great actors, not
the great thinkers of the world s history; and
among these men of action, the great soldier
lias always secured the first place in the affec
tions of his countrymen. What means this
universal outburst of the love and admiration
of our race for men wdio have been foremost in
war? Is the common sense of mankind blinded
by the blaze of military glory? or, does some
deep instinct teach us that the character of the
ideal c immander is the grandest manifestation
in which man can show himself to man ? The
power and the fascination of this ideal are at
tested by the indulgent admiration we bestow
on men, who. on the other, falling grievously
below it. weighed down by something base and
earthly.
Thus, standing before that marvelous monu
ment in Berlin from which Frederick, “In his
habit us he lived,” looks down in homely greet
ing to his Prussian people, and seems still to
warn them that the art which won empire can
alone maintain it, we forget the selfish ambi
tion, the petty foibles, the chilling life—we re
member only the valor, the consummate skill,
the superhuman constancy of the hero-king, or,
if turning from a career so crowned with final
triumph, we recall how, for the lack of a like
commander, France, in our own day, has been
trampled under foot, wa may conceive the
devotion with which Frenchmen still
crowd about the tomb of Napoleon—a name
that, in spite of all its lurid associations, in
spite of all the humiliations of the second em
pire, has still had power to lift the French na
tion during these latter years from abasement
and despair. Surely there must be something
superhuman in the genius of a great com
mander if it can make us forgetful of the woes
and crimes so often attending it. How freely,
then, may we lavish our admiration and grati
tude when no allowance has to be made for
human weakness, when we find military great
ness allied with the noblest public and private
virtue. Here, at last, in this ideal union. Is that
rare greatness which men may most honor in
their fellow-men.
VIRGINIA’S GLORY.
It is the singular felicity of this common
wealth of Virginia to have produced two such
stainless captains. The fame of the one, conse
crated by a century of universal reverence, and
the growth of a colossal empire, the result of
his heroic labors, has been commemorated in
this city by a monument, in whose majestic
presence no man ever received the suggestion of
m thought that did not exalt humanity. The
fame of the other, not yet a generation old, and
won in a cause which was lost, is already estab
lished by that impartial judgment of foreign
nations which anticipates the verdict of the
next age upon an equal pinnacle, and millions
of our countrymen, present hero with us in
their thoughts and echoing hack from city and
plain and mountain top the deep and reverent
voice of this vast multitude, will this day con
firm our solemn declaration that tne monument
to George Washington has found its only fitting
complement and companion in a mouumeht to
Robert Lee. . . , ,
I venture to say that if we take account of
human nature in all its complexity, the charac
ter of the ideal commander is the grandest
manifestation in which man can show himself
to man. Consider some of the necessary ele-
meats of this great character, and let us begin
with its humbler virtues, its more lowly labors.
If we take the commander merely on his ad
ministrative side, what treasures of energy,
forecast and watchfulness do we not see him
expending in the prosaic work of providing the
means of subsistence for his army.
He is always confronted on n vast scale with
man's elemental and primitive want—his daily
bread. The matter is so vital that he can never
commit it entirely to the staff. The control of
the whole subject must he ever in his own
grasp.
Then, he must not only have an intimate
knowledge of the geography aud resources of
the theater of war as maps aud books give
them, but an instinct for topography and an
unerring faculty for finding the way by night or
day through forest and field, usually to be
met with only in men who pass their whole lives
in the open air. To this, add a complete ac
quaintance with all parts of army work and
organization, a very genius for detail, an ar
tiilerist's eye for distance, and an engineer’s
judgment and Inventiveness, with a wide and
critical comprehension of all the great cam paigna
of history. But he must know human nature.
He must be wise in his judgment and selection
of his own agents, ana especially must he be
skilled to read bis adversary 's mind and char
acter. Upon this varied aud profound knowl
edge will depend the success of those large
plans embracing the whole theater of war which
soldiers call strategy.
Now, combine all these elements, conceive of
them as expanded into genius, and you may
form some idea of the merely intellectual equip
ment of a great commander. But he might
have all this and be fit only to be a chief of
staff. The busl ness of war is with men. The
business of a general Is to lead men In that
most wonderful of human organizations, an
army, on that dread arena, the field of battle.
QUALITIES OF HEART AND SOUL.
And now come into play the qualities of
heart and soul. Consecrated to this, his high
office, a general ought to be morally the best,
the most just, the most generous, the most
patriotic man among his countrymen. He must
not only be their greate-t leader—he must know
how to make every man in his army believe
him to be their greatest leader. Arid mere be
lief is not enough. There must be in him a power
to call forth an enthusiastic and passionate de
votion. Of all careers, a military life makes the
heaviest demand on the self-effacement and
self-sacrifice of those* who are to follow anil
obey. Love and enthusiasm for a leader are
the only forces powerful enough to raise men
to this heroic pitch. Without them an army is
a mob, or, at most, a spiritless machine. With
them it becomes capable of the sublimest exhi
bitions of valor and devotion. But. essential as
is this magnetic power iu the leader to draw all
hearts, to qui t zealousneas, to compel obedi
ence, and to fuse the thoughts and passions of
thousands of individual men into a single moss
of martial ardor, all these gifts may lie present
and the true commander absent . Politicians have
had these gifts, soldiers have had t lese gifts,
and utterly tailed in the command of armies.
To all these rich endowments there must be
added an imperturbable moral courage equal to
any burden or buffet of fortune, and physical
intrepidity in its highest and grandest forms—
not only the valor which carries a division com
mander under orders with overmastering rush
to some desperate assault, like Cleburne's at
Franklin, or makes him stand immovable as a
stone wall, as Bee saw Jackson at Manassas,
but an aggressive and unresting ardor to fall on
tho enemy, like that which burned in Nelson
when he wrote: “I will fight them the moment
I can reach their fleet, be they at anchor or
under sail. I will not lose one moment in fight
ing the French fleet. I mean to follow them if
they go to the Black Sea. Not a moment shall
be lost in pursuing the enemy ♦ * I will
not lose a moment in bringing them to action.”
With this fierce passion for fight, the general
must unite the self-control which will r fuse
battle, or calmly await attack, and, not least,
the fortitude which can endure defeat. For
weeks an t monthts he must be ready at any
moment of the day or night to draw on these
vast resources without ever showing weakness
under the protracted strain.
And over and above all there must preside
some godlike power, which, in the crisis of
strategy or the storm of battle, not only pre
serves to the commander all these high facul
ties, but actually intensifies and expands them.
In those irrevocable moments, when the de
cisidn of an instant may determine the destiny
of states, mere talent must spring Into genius,
and mind and outward eye send (laches of in
tuition through the smoke of battle and the
dark curtain on which the enemy’s movements
are to bo read only iu fitful shadows. In that
hour of doom, a nation’s fate, a people’s ran
som, may be staked on one man’s greatness of
soul.
It is the recognition in Lee of the principal
elements of this high ideal—courage, will,
energy, insight, authority—the organized mind
with its eagle glance and the temperament for
command broad, based upon fortitude, hopeful
ness, joy in battle, ali exalted by heroic pur
pose and kindled with a glow of an
unconquerable soul; it is besides
and above all, the unique com
bination in him of moral strength with moral
beauty, of all that is great in heroio action with
all that is good in common life, that will make
of this pile of stone a sacred shrine, dear
throughout the coining ages, not to soldiers
only, but to all "helpers and friends of man
kind.”
A BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.
The orator then went into an elaborate Bi
ographical review of the life and character of
Gen. Lee. He sprang from a race of men who
had just shown in a world-famous struggle all
of the virtues and few of the faults of a class
selected to rule, because fittest to rule. 11 in
father had won a brilliant fame as a cavoity
leader, and the signal honor of the warm friena
ship of Washington.
The death of "Light Horse Harry” Lee when
Robert Lee was only 11 years old made the boy
the protector of his mother, a school of virtue
not unfitted to develop a character that nature
had formed for honor.
It was partly, no doubt, the example of his
father’s briUiant service, but mainly the sol
dier’s blood which flowed in his veins, that im
pelled him to seek a place in the military
academy at West Point. He was presented to
President Jackson, and we may well believe the
story that the old soldier was quickly won by
the gallant youth, and willingly secured him to
the army. His marriage to the great-grand
daughter of Washington’s wife formed another
tie which connected -him by daily associations
of family and place with Washington’s fame
and character, and it may well be believed that
Lee made Washington his model of public
duty. Lee’s personal appearance and moral
characteristics in his early manhood and his
services in Mexico, especially at the battle of
Contreras, were sketched lightly. “History,”
said the orator, “will record, as Scott himself
nobly admitted, that Lee was Scott’s right arm
in Mexico.”
After leading up to the period when it became
necessary for Gen. Lee to make his choice of
which side he should fight on in the coming
conflict. Col. Anderson said:
No more painful struggle ever tore the heart
of a patriot. He had served the whole country
in a gallant army, which commanded all his
affection. He, better than most men, knew the
great resources of the north and west. He knew
northern men In their homes; he knew the
bravery of the northern soldiers who filled our
regular regiment* in Mexico. He was above tho
prejudices and taints of the day which belittled
northern virtue and courage. He knew that,
with slig t external differences, there was a
substantial identity of the American race in all
the states, north and south. He was equally
above the weak and passionate view of slavery
as good in itself, into which the fanatical and
unconstitutional agitation of the Abolit ion party
had driven many strong minds in the south.
He regarded slavery as an evil, which the
south had inherited and must be left to miti
gate; and, if possible, extirpate by wise and
gradual measures. He, if any man of that
time, was capable of weighing with calmness
the duty of the hour. With him, the only ques
tion then, as at every moment of his sjiotless
life, was to find out which way duty pointed.
Against the urgent solicitations of Gen. Scott,
in defiance of the temptinga of ambition—for
the evidence is complete that the command of
the United States army was offered to him—in
manifest sacrifice of ail his pecuniary Interests,
he determined that duty bade him side with his
beloved Virginia. He laid down his commission
and solemnly declared his purpose never to
draw his sword, save in behalf of his native
state.
Tne orator then carried his audience with
him through the battles of the late war In
which Gen. Lee’s army participated. In the
attack on Cheat mountain he laid his plans
with skill and vigor, but the attack ended in
failure and mortification. The verdict of the
general public on him at this time, the winter
of 1803, might have been summed up in the his
torian's judgment of Galba, who “by common
consent would have been deemed fit to com
mand had he never commanded.”
After Gen. Johnston's retirement from severe
wounds, Lee assumed command of the Army of
Northern Virginia. The loss of Richmond at
SAVANNAH, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1890.
any time would probably have been fatal to the
confederacy, ana this fact will explaiu and jus
tify in Lee’s conduct many apparent violations
of sound principles of war. Tne various move
ments and the resultant battles by which he
sought to effect this object—the protection of
Richmond -were sketched with a hold hand.
His campaign against McClellan and McDowell
raised him in the minds of friend and foe to the
full stature of a great and daring leader. The
advance to the Kapldan, the invasion of
Maryland and the hattle of Sharpsburg were
outlined. Here Lee, said the orator, gave that
supreme proof of a greatness of soul, as much
above depression under reverses as elation in
success.
In such moments the army feel the lofty
genius of their leader. They acknowledge his
royal right to command, they recognize their
proud privilege to follow and obey. To such
leaders only Is it given to form heroic soldiers.
Such were the ragged, half-starved men in gray
who stood with Lee at Sharpsburg.
It is the vision of some such moment, per
haps, that our sculptor, Mercie, has caught
with the eye of genius and fixed in imperish
able bronze. The general has ridden up, it
seems to me. In some pause of battle to the
swelling crest of the front line, and, while the
eyes of his soldiers are fastened on him in keen
expectancy but unwavering trust, the great
leader—silent and alone with his dread respon
sibility—is scanning, with calm and pene
trating glance, ttie shifting phases and chances
of the stricken field.
Such is the commanding figure which will
presently be unveiled to your view, aud dull,
indeed, must be the Imagination that does not
henceforth people this plain with invisible hosts
and compass Lee about, now and forever, with
the love and devotion of embattled ranks of
heroic men in gray.
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1863.
The campaign of 1861. with t.he battles of
Chancellorsville—which, iu the orator’s opinion,
will rank with Blenheim, Austerlitz aud Jena as
a model hattle—and Fredericksburg, resulting
in forcing the union army behind the Rappa
hannock, was next reviewed. Gettysburg and
Grant s campaign ill 1861, in which he steadily
beat back Lee, who crossed his path and con
fronted him at every turn, bring tho orator up
to the evacuation of Richmond, when nothing
remained to the Army of Northern Virginia
“but its stainless honor; its unbroken courage.”
"in those last solemn scenes,” continued Col.
Anderson, "when strong men. losing all self
control, broke down and sobbed like children,
Lee stood forth as great as in the days of victory
and triumph. No disaster crushed his spirit; no
extremity of danger ruffled his bearing. Ho
looked the stubborn facts calmly in the face,
and when no military resource remained, when
he recognized the impossibility of making
another march or fighting another hattle, ho
bowed Ids head In submission to that power
which makes and unmakes nations.
“Tho surrender of the fragments of the army
of Northern Virginia closed the imperishable
record of his military life. What a catastrophe 1
What a moving and pathetic contrast!
"On the one side, complete and dazzling tri
umph after a long succession of humiliating dis
asters; on the other, absolute ruin and deb it—
a crown of thorns for that peerless army which
hitherto had known only- the victor’s laurels.
But the magnanimity of the oonnuerer, Dot less
than tlie fortitude of the vanquished, shone out
on the solemn scope and softeuod its tragic out -
lines of fate and doom. The moderation and
good sense of the northern people, breattiin ;
the large and generous air of our western world,
quickly responded to Grant's example, and
thougtt the north was afterward betrayed Into
fanatical and baleful excess on more than one
great subject, all the fiercer passions of a
bloody civil war were rapidly extinguished."
There was to be no Poland, no Ireland in
America. When the Hollywood pyramid was
raising over the confederate dead soon after
the close of the contest, someone suggested
for the inscription a classic verse, which may
he rendered:
“They died for their country—their coggtry
perished with them."
Thus would have spoken the voice of despair.
“Far different were tn* thoughts of Lee. tie
had drawn his sword In obedience only to the
dictates of duty and honor, and, looking back
in that moment of utter defeat, he might have
exclaimed with Demosthenes;
“ ‘I sav that if the event had beon manifest to
the whole world beforehand, not even then
ought Athens to have forsaken this course if
Athens had any regard for her glory, or for
her past, or for the ages to come.’
“But, facing the duty of the hour, Lee saw
now that the question submitted to the great
arbitrament of war had been finally answered.
UNITY OF THE PEOPLE.
“He recognized that the unity of the Ameri
can people had been irrevocably established.
He felt that it would be impiety ana crime to
dishonor by the petty strife of faction that pure
and unselfish struggle for constitutional rights
which, while a single hope remained, had been
loyally fought out by great armies, led by
heroio captains aud sustained by the patriotic
sacrifices of a noble and resolute people •
"He, therefore, promptly counseled his old
soldiers to look upon the groat country thus re
united by blood and iron as their own. aud to
live and labor for its honor aud welfare. His
own conduct was in accord with these teach
ings.
“Day by day his example illustrated what hi*
manly words declared, that ‘human virtue
should be equal to human calamity.’ ”
After a brief reference to the remainder of
Lee’s life, passed in the discharge of Ills duti s
as president of Washington college, the orator
ended lfis address as follows:
“As the people saw him fulfilling these modest
but noble functions; as they saw him with an
tique simplicity putting aside every temptation
to use his great tame for vulgar gain; as they
saw him, in self-respecting contentment with
the frugal earnings of his personal labor, re
fusing every offer of pecuniary assistance; as
they realized his unselfish devotion of all that
remained of strength aud life to the nurture of
the southern youth in knowledge and morals, a
new conviction of liis wisdom and virtue gath
ered force and volume and spread abroad Into
all lands.
"The failure of the righteous cause for which
he fought denied him that eminence of civil
station in which his great qualities iu their
happy mixture might well have afforded a
parallel to the strength and the moderation of
Washington. But what failure could obscure
that moral perfection which places him as
easily by the side of the best men that have
ever lived as his heroic actions make him the
peer of the greatest?
“There are men whose influence on mankind
neither worldly success nor worldly failure can
affect.
“ ‘The greatest gift the hero leaves his race is
to have been a hero.’ This moral perfection,
breathing the very spirit of his Christian faith,
is no illusive legend of a succeeding generation,
exaggerating the worth of the past.
“Our belief in it rests upon the unanimous
testimony of the men who lived and acted with
him, among whom nothing is more common
than the declaration that Lee was the purest
and best man of action whose career history
ha* recorded. In his whole life, laid bare to
the gaze of the wor.d, the least friendly criti
cism has never discovered one single deviation
from the narrow path of rectitude and honor.
What was strained eulogy when Montesquieu
said of another great soidier, Turenne, that
“his life was a hymn in praise of humanity,”
is. if applied to Lee, the language of sober
truth. No man can consider his life without a
feeling of renewed hope and trust in mankiud.
HIS MORAL EXCELLENCE.
“There is about his exhibitions of moral ex
cellence the same quality of power in re*?rve
that marks him as a soldier. He never fated to
come up to the full requirements of agpkltiui
tion, and his conduct communicated the iriy
pression that nothing could art*e to which nh
would be found unequal. His every action went
straight to the mark without affectation or dia
pl“it cost him no visible effort to be good or
great. He was not conscious that he was ex
ceptional in either way, and he died in tlie belief
that, as be had been sometimes unjustly blamed
so he had as often been too highly praised. Such
Is the holy simplicity of the noblest minds. Such
was the pure and lofty man In wnom we see the
perfect union of Christian virt ue|und old Roman
manhood.
“His goodness makes us love his greatness,
and the fascination which this matchless com
bination exerts is itself a symptom aud a source
in us of moral wealth. As long as our people
truly love and venerate him, there will remain
In them a principle of good.
“For all the stupendous wealth and power,
which in the last thirty years have lifted these
states to foremost rank among the nations of
the earth, are less a subject for pride than this
one heroic man, this human product of our
country and its institutions.
. “Lot this monument, teach to generations
yet unborn these les3oos of bia life, let it stand,
not as a record of civil strife, but as a perpetual
protest against whatever Is low and sordid in
our private aud public objects. Let it stand as
a memorial of personal honor that never
brooked a stain; of knightly valor without
thought of self; of far-reaching military genius
unsoiled by ambltiou; of heroic constancy, from
which no cloud of mtsf rtune could ever hide
the path of duty.
•■Let it stand for reproof and aensure, if our
people shall ever sink below the standards of
our fathers. Let It stand for liatriotie hope and
cheer, if a day of natioual gloom and disaster
shall ever dawn upon our country. Let It stand
as the embodiment of a brave and virtuous peo
ple’s ideal leader.
“let it stand as a great public act of thanks
giving and praise for that it pleased Almighty
God to bestow upon these southern states a man
so formed to reflect his attributes of power,
majesty aud goodness.”
A LOOK AT THB MONUMENT.
It is One of the Largest Equestrian
Statues in the World.
Richmond, Va., May 29.—The Lee mon
ument makes Richmond, Va., noted as hav
ing two of tho largest equestrian statues in
the world, the other being that of Washing
ton, Situated on the Allen plat, in the
west end, in the direct line of the most fash
ionable residential section, the monument
is placed at the intersection of two 140-feet
avenues on the summit of asconding grades.
It is enclosed in a circle of 200 feet m diame
ter, with a street sixty-five feet
in width on each side, so that
the distance through the area from
building line to building line is 330 feet.
The pedestal of the monument consists of
two parts, which may be termed the base
and the pedestal proper. Tho base is formed
by a rectangle, with the surface inclined
upward to a parapet, around which six
foundations are located, upon w hich Lee’s
generals may hereafter be placed. In the
interior of the grouping another inclined
surface leads upward to the pedestal proper.
Hero the transition from the straight lines
of tho rectangle to the graceful curves of a
cylindrical form have been very skillfully
harmonized by the artist. The change Is
not noticed, aud upon the front and rear are
seen an oval space upon which bas-reliefs
are placed, surrounded by a tracory in
granite of laurel, the ivy and the oak.
Above is a lion’s head, as if ready tor battle,
with a pose of courage inbred by conscious
power.
lee’s immortal name.
On the sides are four columns appearing
to support the great load, between which a
bronze tablet apnears with the name of Loo
gilded beneath a laurel wreath. The pedestal
■and base are of white granite, the columns
dark blue. The bight of the pedestal is
torty feet and a few inches, aud that of
the statue slightly more than twenty feet,
making the total bight about sixty-one
feet above the ground. *
The sculptor, M. Mercie of Paris, who has
immortalized Lee in bronze, is a Frenchman
who in early life gave evidence of great
ability. He was scarce 20 years of age
when he was decorated at Rome. His
famous works adorn the streets of Paris,
the lofty summit of the Trocadero, and the
halls of the Luxemburg palace. He has
given to tho world the picture of Lee as he
appeared upon the battlefield of Gettysburg.
His face is calm aud majestic, but full of
power. The horse which he bestrides has
all four feet on the ground, yet
he appears as if in the act of
walking. A fore-foot is planted in
advauce, while the nind foot on the same
side seems about to follow. The head is
slightly bent to one side, while the tail
falls gracefully clear of the Hanks. Gen.
Lee’s dress is characteristically plain. Ho
is girt with a sash, which presumably hides
a belt, from which swings the sword of a
commander of cavalry. He is without
epaulettes, but upon the forearm of the
coat sleeve is an ornament of broad braid.
His hat is crashed in his right hand, while
be holds the reins in his left. The feet are
well tipped in the stirrups, the right foot
being slightly iu advauce of the left.
The engineer selected to execute the work
of the association, which has been accom
plished to their entire satisfaction, was Mr.
C. P. E. Burgwin, a comparatively young
man who was chosen, bcoause he bad com -
pleted at small cost some works of consider
able magnitude. He is also an author. At
14 years of age he constructed a model
bridge across the Rhine; at 17 he received
a first prize for an original poem written
in Latin, in the Happhic and adoric meter.
He is principal of the Mechanics institute aud
assistant chief engineer of the James River
Improvement Company. Mr. Burgwiu, it
will be remembered, went to Paris as com
missioner to view tho statue prior to ship
ment.
THE MONUMENT MOVEMENT.
Gen. Robert E. Lee died Oct. 12, 1870.
The 25th of October following Gen. Jubal
A. Early issued a call, addressed to the sur
viving officers and sailors of the Army of
Northern Virginia, to meet in Richmond
on the 3d of November to take action to
perpetuate his memory. The meeting was
field pursuant to call, was presided over by
thelatoHon. Jefferson Davis,who,with other
distinguished southerners, made addresses,
and the Lee Monument Association was
organized, with Gen. Early as president. A
Ladies’ Auxilary Association was ear
formed, and the two proceeded to collect
funds for the purpose of erecting a monu
ment. Money flowed in quite freely tor a
time, but finally interest in the cause
S9emed to flog, and it was not revived again
until Gen. Fitzhugh Lee was elected gov
ernor some, four years ago. The various
organizations collecting funds were then
consolidated uudor one name, and he be
came, as governor, tho president of the Leo
Monument Association, ex-officto. It is
largely due to the efforts of Gov. Lee that
the monument has been built so soon.
Charleston Honors the Day.
Charleston, S. C., May 29. —The prin
cipal streets and all the municipal public
buildings here displayed bunting in honor
of the Lee celebration in Richmond. The
flags displayed were national, state and
municipal, and a variety of bunting. No
confederate flags were shown. The St.
Michael’s church chimes were rung at in
tervals during the day.
LONGUE) POINT’S FATAL FIRE.
The List of Missing Foots Up Ninety.
The Jury’s Verdict.
Montreal, May 29.—The coroner’s in
quest in the J*ongue Point asylum case was
concluded yesterday. The jury could not
say how the fire broke out, and made sev
eral recommendations how such buildings
should be constructed. A statement was
also submitted by Sister St. Charles, show
ing that ninety-one inmates were missing,
instead of fifty, as formerly reported, viz.,
six men, five sisters, and eighty women pa
tients.
Newfoundland’s Sensation.
Boston, Mass., May 29.—A dispatch
from Halifax, N. S., says: “The Newfound
land constable who boarded the French fish
ing vessel Marie and was taken to sea, was
subsequently landed on a lonely island
known as Red Island. The French war
ship Andre followed in pursuit of the Mane,
ascertained where the coi stable had been
landed and rescued him and took him to his
home, Port-au-Basque.”
Bank Officers Indicted.
Philadelphia, May 29.—The grand jury
has found two true bills of indictment
against President Louise E. Pfeiffer of the
Bank of America aud Receiving Teller S.
A. Pancost charging them with embezzle
ment in receiving deposits knowing that
the bank was insolvent.
A PLOT TO KILL THB CZAR.
The Police of Paris Arrest a Number
of Nlblllats.
Paris, May 29.—The polioe of this city
received yesterday information that a num
ber of nihilists were organizing against the
czar in this country. The information was
followed up, and the result was that fifteen
persons, charged with being implicated in
the plot, have been arrested. A number of
Incriminating documents were seized at the
lodgings of the leader in tho plot, a nihilist
named Mendelssohn, w ho resides at Fontensy
Aux-Roses, near this city. A quantity of
explosives was also seized at his residence.
NAMES OF THE OTHER PRISONERS.
The names of the other persons arrested
are: Orloff, alias Volgrin, Reichlin and
and his wife. Peptoff, alias Levoff, Kal-
Chinzen,alias Anatnien, five students named
Lavreynius, Cbaloviske, Nakatchiz, Neps
noff aud Yemstel and four young women
uamed Atchinasi, Librovitch, Fedotova
and Bromberg. The police also have infor
mation which they claim proves that the
prisoners purchased materials for the manu
facture of explosives from various chemists
in Paris.
In addition to the arrests above mentioned
a number of other Nihilists were taken into
custody this afternoon.
Among the explosives seised at the lodg
ings of Mendelssohn were a number of fin
ished bombs. Materials for the manufact
ure of explosives was seized at the lodgings
of a number of other persons arrested.
THE RUSSIANS BOARDED TOGETHER.
The Russians hoarded together in Rue
Brezin. They publish! and a nihilist review
and other literature, and possessed a school
and library; but latterly the band has
dwindled, through the defection of tho
chief, Tiokomeroff. The room of one of the
men arrested was adoruod with sixty pho
tographs of Russian socialist martyrs.
DISCOVERY OF THE PLOT,
The plot was discovered In a peculiar way.
On May 12 considerable damage was done
to trees in the field at Nancy, which it was
loomed was due to experiments with ex
plosives. A number of metallic tubes were
found in the field, and those were traced to
the seller of the tubes. From him was ob
tained the information which led to the ex
posure.
BRAZIL’S NEW REGIME.
An Expenditure on r oyalty that Seems
Incredible,
Rio Janeiro, May 29.—At a meeting of
the cabinet on May 25 it was determined to
accept the clause as to arbitration adopted
by the national American congress at
Washington, and also that a special mission
be sent to Chili to endeavor to secure the
adherence of that country to tho idea.
Moreover, the cabinet propose to endeavor
to secure general disarmament on the west
ern continent within five years.
A publication has recently appeared here
in which it is stated that Brazil expanded
upon tho reigning family from 1808 to Nov.
15 last *134,577,066,441.
REPRESSIVE MEASURES CONDEMNED.
The Rio do Janeiro News says; “Con
tinued arrests of private Individuals on
vague charges of sedition, arid tho insane
clamor of tho semi-official press for stronger
repressive measures, is doing more than the
government may think to unsettle confi
dence aud arouse discontent. The re
pression of ali criticism and oppo
sition is not the way to restore
liberty and establish free institutions. Free
discussion is absolutely necessary for the
education of the people. It may not holp
organization, but it will help to educate the
pe .pie. One of the bod result* of repressive
measures and imaginary seditions is already
apparent, immediately after the revolu
tion no ono dreamed of anything else but a
constituent ussembly for the discussion and
adoption of a constitution.
EVERYTHING CHANGED.
“Now the whole country is clamoring for
tho adoption of a constitution by plebiscite,
or its promulgation by decree for the openly
expressed reason that tho people want this
period of transition terminated by the
quickest process possible, and because they
tear the result of submitting the sugges
tion to discussion. This is certainly not
complimentary to the provisional govern
ment, for it is a manifest expression of a
lack of confidence. Either the public bos
lost faith in the impartiality and good in
tentions of the provisional government or
thoy are so tired of uncertainty and con
stant alarms that the quickest solution,
oven if tho most objectionable, is most pre
ferred.”
PANITZA’S PLEA.
He Denies That He Ever Conspired
Against Bulgaria.
Sofia, May 29. —Maj. Panitza, who, with
a number of others, is on trial here, on a
charge of conspiring against tho govern
ment of Bulgaria, spoke to-day in defense
of himself and his alleged co-conspirators.
He declared that he had devoted his life to
Bulgaria, and said he would welcome death
and ignominy had he conspired against tier.
He demanded the acquittal of himself,
Capt. Kolobokoff of the Russian army, and
others charged with being implicated "in the
conspiracy. He declared that the case of
the prosecution had cjmpletely broken
down, and that all the accused should be
immediately released,
DEFENSE OF THB TENANT& .
The Fund Now Amounts to £60,000
It Represents a Principle.
Dublin, May 29.—1n a letter to the Free
man's Journal Archbishop|Walsb says that
tho tenants, defense fund now amounts to
over £60,000. The fund, the archbishop de
clares, represents an assertion of the most
fundamental principle of Christian morality,
that is that the property of the poorest
tenant is as sacred as that of tho richest
landiand.
Emperor Frederick’s Monument.
Berlin, May 29.— Emperor William has
declined to allow the Berlin magistracy to
receive subscriptions for the erection of a
monument to bis father, the late Emperor
Frederick. He declares that he feels it to
be his duty to raise the proposed memorial
himself, and he wishes to defray all the ex
penses connected with it.
An Under Secretary Resigns.
Berlin, May 29.—Count Von Berchan,
under secretary of the inperial foreign
office, has resigned because of discoutent at
the appointment over bis head of Baron
Marshall Von Bieberatein as imperial minis
ter of foreign affairs to succeed Count Her
bert Bismarck.
Pope Leo and the Duke of Orleans.
Rome, May 29.—The Duke of Orleans re
cently wrote to the pope, who seut a reply
by a messenger. It is said that the duke
will visit the Vatican after he is liberated.
Editor Godkln’s Victory.
New York, May 29.—The grand jury to
day dismissed the complaints for criminal
libel preferred by Civil Justice Peter Mitch
ell against E. L. Godkm, editor of the
Evening Fast.
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! WEEKLY,I.39 A YEAR,
PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS.
THB HOUSE TAKES THEM UP UN
DER A BPECIAL ORDER.
Two Republican Measures Considered
to One Democratic—Mr. Edmunds of
Virginia Fours Forth a Tale of Woe.
Mr. Turpin Asks Unanimous Con
sent to Have a Bill Passed Before
Bela Ousted,But la Refused—Savan
nah in Luck.
Washington, May 29.— Tho House to-day
went into oommittee of the whole, with Mr.
Burrows in the choir, on the public building
bills.
The special order setting apart to-day for
tho consideration of measures of this char
acter provided that bills should be taken up
according to the direction of the committee
on public building* and grounds.
Mr. Mills Inquired what that direction
was.
Mr. Milliken of Maine replied that, re
garding bill* politically, two republican
bill* would be called up and then one demo
oratlo bill. This was about the proportion
of republican and democratic measures on
the calendar.
Mr. Mills thought this arrangement un
fair, and that the committee should alter
nate between the two sides. The first bill
called up was one introduced by Mr. Milli
keu for the erection of a public building at
Bar Harbor at a cost of $75,000.
A TALE OF WOE.
Mr. Edmunds of Virginia ponred forth
his tale of woe. Wheu he first came to oon
gress he had introduced a bill for a build
ing at Roanoke, and had pressed it before
the committee, aud reoeived gracious prom
ises; but, alas, they were only promises to
the ear. To-dav ha found himself in the
position of the biblioal animal which fell
between two liales of hay. His constitu
ents wanted to know why he was
not in the city of Richmond,
to do honor to the great Lee; and he would
have been there but for the fact that day
before yesterday Mr. Milliken had told him
that his Roanoke bill would unquestionably
be called np to-day. But where was it!
and yet ho was missing the glorious old con
federate time in Riohmnnu on the state
ment of tho chairman. [Laughter],
BILLS LAID ABIDE FAVORABLY.
The Bar harbor bill called out a good deal
of criticism, but it was finally laid aside,
favorably, as were also the following:
Mankato, Minn., $50,000; Meridian, Miss.,
$50,000; Milwaukee, VVis., increasing tha
limit to $1,400,000; Youngstown, 0.,
$75,000; Camden, Ark., $25,000 ; Siou*
Falli 8. D., $150,000; St. Albans, Vt..
S4O,(XX); Stockton, Cal., $75,0u0; Norfolk,
Va,, $150,000; Beatrice, Neb., $60,000)
Davenport, la., $100,000; Rock Island, 111.,
s7s,ooo;]Reidsville, N. C., $25,000; South
Bend, lud., $75,000; Fargo, N. D., $100,000;
Newburgh, N. Y.. $100,000; Madison, Ind.,
$40,000; Pueblo, CoL, $150,000; Sioux City,
la,, $300,000; Lima. 0., $60,000; Portland,
Ore., $400,000; Haverhill, Mass., $75,000;
Charleston, 8. C., Increasing the limit ti
$350,000; Bloomington, 111., $100,000; Lew
iston, Me., $75,000; Kansas City, $1,200,000;
Staunton, Mass., $75,000; Racine, Wis.,
$100,000; Savannah, Us., increasing the
limit to $400,000; Pawtucket, R. 1.,
$75,000; Akron, 0., $100,000; Rome, Oa.,
$50,000; Rockford, ill., $100,000; Fort
Dodge, la., $75,000; Sheboygan, Wis.,
SSO 000.
The committee then rose.
Mr. Turpin of Alabama obtained unani
mous consent to make a statement for on*
minute. Very much to his surprise, and to
the surprise of the people who sent him
here, the committee on elections had de
cided that they did not want Mr. Turpin
any longer and had namod Tuesday as tbs
day on which to put him on the rack. H
therefore asked unanimous consent for the
passage of a public building bill.
Mr. Williams of Ohio objected.
Tho House thon proceeded to consider bills
reported from the committee of the whole,
tho first being the Bar Harbor bill.
Mr. Turpin raised the point of no quorum,
and without acting the House, at 5:10
o’clock, adjourned until Monday.
NO MORE BILLS TO PASS.
[Special to the New*.]
Washington, May 39. Speaker Reed
and the other republican managers do uot
propose to let any more public buildings
bills go through the House this session, if
they can help it, and they showed to-day
that they could. After the oommittee of
the whole had ordered favorable reports on
bills calling for *5,01X1,000, Speaker Reed
took the chair and got the House Into such
a state that even Mr. Turpin, the member
from Alabama, who is about to be turned
out of the seat to which he was elected by
12,000 majority, could not get recognition
ou that idea for the bill for a building at
Selma, in his district. The speaker,
like the President, does not like to se
money going south for public buildings.
The bill increasing the Savannah building’s
cost limit to *400,U00, which Representative
Lester steered safely through the commit
tee of the whole, and the Rome *50,000 bill,
which Representative Clements had gotten
the committee of the whole to approve,
both go over with the rest.
McClammy's Loan BUL
Washington, May 29.— Representatlvs
McClammy’s bill to allow the government
to loan money on real estate at 1 per cent.,
by issuing notes for that purpose, appears in
print to-duy. Of its eighteen pages nearly
thirteen are taken up with a most extraor
dinary stump speech in the form of a pre
amble.
Agricultural Appropriations.
Washington, May 29.—The committee
ou agriculture to-day reported to the House
the ugrioultural appropriation bill. It car
ries a total appropriation of *1,108,400 foi
the agricultural department proper, and
the regular yearly appropriation of *645,00*
for the statu agricultural experiment sta
tions.
Blalno and Harrison.
Washington, May 29.— The rumor of t
rupture between Secretary Blaine and the
President is revived. It is dependent this
time on the fact that at the last minute
Secretary Blaine determined that he would
not go with Presideut Harrison to the tomb
of President Garfield.
Boston Btyle In the House.
Washington, May 29. Although
Speaker Reed has closed the House bar, he
still permits the sale of liquors to persons
sitting and eating at tables in the restau
rant, Boston fashion.
McDuffie vs. Turpin.
Washington, May 29.— 1n the House
this morning Mr. Rowell gave notice that
he would, on Tuesday next, ask the House
to consider the McDuffie-Turpin contested
election case.
Gainesville's Foundry Burned.
Gainesville, Fla., May 29.— Ths
Gainesville foundry and machine works
were burned last night. The loss is *4,000,
with no insurance. The buildings were set
on tire about 1 o’clock.
