The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-11-18
LEE MONUMENF ASSOCIATION.


8f the Confederate Array.
Tho last sad rites are over, and all
that was mortal of our beloved and
hOnOred chieftain, Gen. Robert Ed
mund Lee, has been committed to the
grave. It only now remains to dis
charge the duty, so sacred to surviving
affecticn, Of building and decorating his
tomb. Admiration for his great quail
ties and fame, may prompt others to
raise the lofty column and imposing
statue; but love for his person, .reveT-
ence for his virtues, regard for his me-
mOFy, dictate to his comrades in arms,
as their first care, properly to enshrine
his remains.
After Gen. Lee accepted the Presi-
dency of Washington College, his ear
lest work was the erection of q Chapel
on the College grounds. Beneath that
chaste and massive structure, in the
room designed for a library, and al
joining the Office filled with memen-
toes OF his last unselfish earnest labors
now repOse. And there, in the temple
reared by himself, at the home Of his
adoption, will be his fitting, and we
believe, his enduring resting place
We hold this conviction because his
remains now rest on the spot chosen
by those alone had right to decide
because this spot would most likely
have been approved by the illustriOus
dead himself, had his self-forgetting
mind ever dWelt for q moment on such
questfOn-because it holds his memo
ry alOOf from the possible cOntamina-
tiOns of party pOlitics-because 1t ac-
cords with the customs observed by the
great fathers and servants Of the State,
all of whom preferred unOstentatiOus
hao1IFGo hiC tom l.
here viii be really more useful in con-
nectiOn with the last work of his eX-
emplary life in perpetuating the good
influence of the college of Washington
and Lee throughout the South. We
therefore invite his bI Iethren and fol-
lowers in the mOmentOus struggle
which has made his name and their
own immortal, to unite in constructing
here 4 AOusOleum, worthy the fore
most man of all his time. On the day
succeeding the death of Gen. Lee, the
Confederate soldiers who escorted the
body from his residence to the Chapel,
met and resolved at once to form a Me-
mortal Association; and at an adjourn
ed meeting on the 18th of October,
when the funeral Obsequies were con-
cluded, they adopted plan Of Organi-
zation. An Executive Committee, a
President and Vice Presidents for the
Southern States, have been appointed,
aud the Association will soon be regu-
larly incorporated. In order that the
poorest in our ranks may be enabled to
Join upon an equal footing with all 9TH
ers in the piOus work in view, il has
been determined that any Confederate
soldier may become member of the
Association upon the payment of one
dollar, and that the names Of all the
members shall be enrolled III suitable
books to be preserved i'll the Memorial
Chapel. It is not proposed TO limit
subscriptions to the small sum already
named, nor to cOniinG them to soldiers
nor do our wishes and purposes stop
with the MousOleum. Contributions
will be gladly received from friends eV-
cry where and of al classes, who will
underproper regulations, be inscribed
as Honorary members; and when =
sufficient fund shall have been secured,
it is contemplated to erect n special
MONUMENT in connection with the
Tomb.
FelIow-Soldiers we invoke you by
the common memories of the past, to
be prompt and earnest in the noble un-
dertaking to which you are now inYit-
ed! In the quiet churchyard of Lex
ingtOn, Lieutenant General 81 Stone
Wall' Jackson lies inferred; and now
his great commander lies inferred; and
now his great commander sleeps near
at hand. What more fitting mOnu-
ment for the great Army itself, of which
Lee was the head, the pride and glory,
than one raised here by its survivors,
perpetuating alike the memory of his
and their own great deeds, the endur-
ing witness at once of their devotion
and Of his heroic qualities as a man, his
Writ q q nd h - cts :,
Christian-the remembrance of which
will indeed out-live the marble and the
bronze which human art may fashion
in his honor.
w. \. PENDLEroN,
Late Chief Art'y Army n. Ma,
Chairman of Elk. Com.
The following officers have heen se-
lected and requested to act as Presi-
dent and Vice Presidents of the AssO-
citation:
Gen. J. G.. Breckinridge, late c. y
Secretary of War President.
Gen. Joseph L. Johnston, Nice-Pres-
ident at large.
Gen. ]. A. Early, Col. W. \. Taylor
Nice-Presidents from Virginia.
Gen. q. Z. Beauregard, Vice Presi-
| dent from Louisiana.
Gen. d. II. Hill, Nicc-President from
! NULL SaIOIlids
Gen. Wade Hampton, Vice President
| from South Carolina.
Gen. Jno. Is. Gordon, Nice-PTesidcnt
| from Georgia.
Gen. w. J. Hardee, Vice-Presiden
| from Alabama.
Gen. s d. Lee, Nice-President from
Mississippi.
Gen. r. S.saEwell, Vice Presidcn
from Tennessee,
Gen. J. b. Hood, President froia
| Texas.
Gen. TrimbIc, Vice President from
| Maryland.
Gen. J. :. Marmaduke, Vicc-Presi
dent from Missouri.
Gen. VIM. Preston, Yice-Presiden
| from kentucky.
Gen. Tapham, Nice-President from
! Arkansas.
The place selected for the deposit @
funds is the Bank of Lexington, Va.
| G. NJ, Figgat, Cashier.
Strike the Knot.
\ writer in the London Chatterbol