Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-21
LAMP HERALD.
MONDAY, MARCH IS, 1867.
significant Association.

The fOilowlnS paragraph, winch We
ain from a recent number OF a Memphis
,aper, is somewhat important at the
nresent time when our legislators are
discussing the propriety of impeaching
and removing from Office our chief mag
lstrate, for alleged rebel proclivities
San association of ladies has been form.
I'd Ia Memphis, for the purpose OF raising
gunds 10 erect at Memphis, o. some destg'
mated SPOT a magnificent church editice TO
tho memory OF the fallenContederate dead,
whose columns and tablets shall be in
scribed with the names of all such which
NAV be furnished by auxiliary societies
throughout the Southern States. The
names of the following ladies are on the
list of honorary members Mrs. Jttfer.
son Davis, Mrs. Robert 4. Lee, Mrs. Frent
p. BIqiy, Mrs. N. b. Forrest, Mrs l.. NJ.
Keitt Mrs. d,'dreto JohasoH, Miss Augusta
Evans, Mrs. J. A. Longstreet, and
others
That the people of the South should
feel degree of respect for the men who
sacrificed their lives in behalf OF 1.-THE
lost cause" Is matter OF no wonder;
It Is but natural, and they would be
even worse than ingrates did they not
drop Il tear over the graves OF their de-
narted sons and brothers, and feel in
clined TO leave some memento OF respect
yor their fallen braves, to show to pos
terity that they were not deficient at
least in sentiments which are common
,o haman nature. We would not and
do not dlshonor them for this affection
for their dead it is right and proper to
do so. But the policy OF erecting mon
umeuts to perpetaute the memory Of a
wicked and bloody rebellion against a
government of Tie people is altogether
another thing, and to allow such a
structure to be reared in honor of reb
els as such, TO commemorate their deeds
OF treason, would be nothing more nor
less than a high-handed insult to the
posterity OF the thousands of loyal men
whose blood served TO enrich the soil Of
every Southern State during our late
struggle against the slave power, and if
such mementoes for traitors as is con-
templated at Memphis are suffered to be
erected, then it Is clear that the lives
sacrificed that the Republic might live
have been sacrificed in vain. Such 4
demonstration would serve to Undue the
hearts Of the rising generation OF the
South with the feeling that treason in
stead OF being an odious crime, deserv-
ing punishment, is laudible act, and
the memory Of its perpetrators should
he perpetuated.
One Of the most significant things in
the above extract is the singular coup
ling Of names, the wife Of the President
of the United States and the wife of a
MsIor General in the Union army ap.
soaring in the same list and engaged in
the came work ofhouor to rebel dead as
the wives OF the traitors Davis, Lee and
Forrest. 1t Is possible, perhaps prob
able, that the names of Mrs. Blair aud
Mrs. johnson were used without theil
consent, but even in that case we can.
not repress the belief that those who
were instrumental in placing the ladies'
names upon the list, believed that theil
husbands, Notwithstanding their noble
position during the rebellion, We're il
tull sympathy with the movement.
The least the implicated ladies can dc
IS to spurn such associations, aud re
quest their names to be erased from any
records which will link them Herewith
as, in the language of an ably conducted
exchange, "the loyal sense Of the coun
Try demands that Mrs Andrew johnson
and Mrs. Frank P. Blair find some occu
patton more BETTING their position thar
1aking part in such q scheme