Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1870-10-29
GEN. RoBT. e. LEE.
THE DEMONSTRATION ON SATURDAY.

should pass by the highly wrought
eulogies of men eminent in states
manship, literature, the arts and
sciences, aud point to the spontan-
eous outburst Of popular grief which
follows the death Of man intelec-
tualIy great, great under all trials
and in every position, and adds to
these attributes Of greatness, moral
grandeur, at once the base and the
apex of the noblest charaster that
humanity can achieve.
Such a man was Gen. Robt. r. Lee,
and such the test, on Saturday last,
when thousands eongregated here in
sadness and sorrow, to attest their
high estimate of the god-like man
whose transcendant abilities and
matchless purity have taken SO deep
u hold upon their affections,
Our limited space forbld's the full
details of the PROFESSIONAL mile in
length, and admirably ordered by the
e1perienee and skill of Gen. VIM. A.
Quarles, Chief Marshal, and success
fully conducted by his efficient as
sistants. Conspicuous in the process
sion were the Masons, Odd Fellows
and Knights Templars, with their
rich regalia and imposing presence,
and the Fire Company, whose En-
CINE and Hose Carriage, drawn by
black horses, were beautifully and
most appropriately decorated. But
the most impressive features were the
splendid hearse, gracefully festooned
with the emblems Of mourning, and
its guard of honor composed of rem
nants of the army of Nirginia-brave
and gallant soldiers who had fought
many q battle and gained many a
victory under the lead of the immor-
tai hero whose death they mourn in
spirit and i'm truth, and whose char
acter they will cease to revere only
when they too shall have passed the
boundaries of time into an eternity of
rest, under the guidance of his noble
example. The other most impressive
feature was the presence of the Con-
federate Orphans-living examples
of wars tlesolation and living appeals
to the sympathies OF all who suffered
with, but survived, the brave sires of
whose protection they are bereaved.
But we must not omit, in this brief
notice, the happy effect of the Odd
Fellows Band, from Nashville, and
the two city bands, which, appropri-
ately placed in the procession, gave a
finish to the whole arrangement and
q softened tone to the feeling engend-
cred by the solemn occasion. The
business men did honor to themselves
by closing their houses, while the
ladies, with characteristic apprecia-
ton of all that is pure and noble in
human nature as well as of what is
due to the memory of departed worth,
draped their residences and gateways
in black, thus adding, materially, to
the effect of the proceedings of the
day, and calling forth the heart felt
thanks of the entire procession for
the appropriate manifestation ofsym-
patty with the object Of the sorrow
full occasion.
When assembled in front of the
Female Academy, and at the close of
dirge played by the GAINESVILLE and
Nashville Bands, the Rev. Mr.. Ring
gold read, in an impressive tone, the
burial service of the Episcopal Church
of which Gen. Lee was Il member.
This was followed by the singing
the "Old Hundred"-the grandest of
hymns, and then
Col. j, T.. Bailey, chairman Of the
committee of arrangements, an
nounced that the committee on resO-
lutions would now report.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
ii. NJ. DoaS, from the committee
on resolutions, read the following,
which were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the AL
mighty Ruler of heaven and earth in
His wise disposition of human affairs
to remove from the scene of his Ia
bors In the camp and in the field, and
more lately in the halls of learning,
in the moral and mental training OF
our Southern youth, our beloved chief
tain In war, and our esteemed fellow
citizen in peace, GEN. ROBERT Ed
WARD LEE, and,
WHEREAS, we, citizens of Mont
gomery County, remembering CRATE
fully his distinguished services as the
tried, trusted revered leader of our ar
mics, admiring his lofty qualities as
n soldier and n man, his moral hero
ism and christian fortltude, displayed
in dark and gloomy days, have as
sembled to show our appreciation of
the loss we have sustained, and our
respect for his sacred memory there
fore
Resolved, That in the life and la
hors Of GEN. ROBERT T.. LEE we re-
ttElllEt hllt w AiipNN Slil
sent by a kind Providence to teach
man the worth and nobility Of his
own nature; to show the world how
bright may be the path, how beauti-
ful the life, and how shining and con-
spicuous the pattern Oftrue manhood.
In his death we feel that not only his
town, his native State, the South and
and the nation, but the world, has
los, the highest type of human virtue
aud excellence more highly adorned
by christian love and charity.
Resoircd, That in his loss we mourn
the departure OF another OF those
giants that link us with the hallowed
past one under whose kind and pa
iriarchial care the youth of our land
would have gladly learned lessons of
wisdom aud honor aud christian vir-
tue. We shall ever cherish his mem
DRY rs II part of our dear household