Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-11-19
Tho lee Monument.
Fnom ths Galsssi0n AsNs

EnIf0h NkNs,-lh your Ni7hNSh
IN OF 2Slh October, an article Win
tho above heading meets with the
hearty endorsement Of every iair
minded man Ia tho State Of Texas,
No ono, whatever side ho may been
engaged during the Ate civil war,
can doubt that Robert L, Ice ever
will be. as has been for years, an
honor TO Virginia, 10 the South and
10 America As Americans, We can
Justly indulge, will eommendable
pride, the thought that he was our
countryman. A. you suggest,
whatever may be done In erecting
statues of marble, bronze and gran
ito to tho hero aud the warrior, an
enduring monument should be rails.
cd to the man aud the patriot And
certainly none could be more in ac'
eordance with his taste than 10
mako tSe collcgo which he iastcred
In his last days To be forever his
mausolcdm. Mis- mortal remains
lilo buried in the college chapel
which he planned and erected, and
IL we truly desire to honortho mem
ory of the patriot we have almost
adorcd, surely II can best bo dono
by endowing tho institution which
has so surprisingly pro,percd under
his fostering hand. Iic' found
Washington College merely an or
binary college. IIc left IL a uni
yersity in reality, If not in name
II is divided into distinct schools,
each independently managed by q
Professor with n competent corps
of assistants. Some of these chairs
were endowed before General Lees
connection with tho college, and
since he accepted the Presidency,
the citizens OF Kentucky have en-
dowcd the Chair of History and Po-
lltical Economy, and Col. William
Preston Johnston is now filling that
position. Missouri has also endow-
ed a chair, and Tennessee is now,
by the generosity of her citizens,
adding another to make Washing
ton College, a representative South
crn University. By all means let
Texas cndoW II chgir also. Ger.
tainly Texans have rs great an ap.
probation of lees merits rs n sol
der, as n patriot, and as n scholar,
MS tho citizens of any other State.
| lie knew Texan character well and
admired it greatly. There has ever
been sympathy between the pco-
pie of Texas and tho Great Hero,
which was ms natural as it was pc.
culiar. 1t is earnestly to be hoped
that the suggestions of the News
may not be disregarded, pecially
as lie expressed hope during life
tIfat Texas Would do as much for
the collcgcns Kentucky had already
done, not, OF course, contemplating
that we would do so as n memorial
to the departed chieftain, that they
used so f6hdly,to love while he still
lived to bless us with his presence,
Then. While the ladies Of Texas arc
preparing TO present II chapel or
gan rs Il memorial let the men raise
a monument moro 'lasting than
brass" by endowing a professor
ship. Let us begin at once,
The writer oflhs is general agent
for Texas, who has the authority,
under tho seal of Washington Col
lego, to receive and receipt for all
contributions made to the college
by any friends in Texas. He in
vites anyone desiring to do some
thing toward endowing a Texas
protossiorship in Washington Col
lcgc to remit to him their contribu-
ticns, great or small; by draft or
postolIice ordeii or, if this cannot be
done, by money in Il registered or
unregistered letter. And he asks
YOU, dear News, to lend yonr col
umns through which to acknowl-
edge all receipts, though in all ca
scs written receipts willaIso be Civ
en-. Friends to the movement may
address, TT J.H. McLEARY,
General Agent Washington College, Columbus Texas