The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-11-03
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4 Tho last sad rites ara over, and ali thnI
was mortal of our beloved and honored
lichieftain, General Robert Edward Lee.
has been committed to the grave. It is
now only left us to discharge the duty,
80 sacred to surviving affection, of build
ing and decorating his tomb. Admira-
ton for his great qualities and fnme may
prompt others to raise the lofty column
and imposing statue; but love for his
person, reverence for his virtues, aud re-
gnrd for his memory, dictate to his com
rades.in-arms, as their first care to pro-
perly enshrine his remains
After General Lee assumed the Pres-
dency of Washington College, his earliest
work was the erection of n chapel on the
College grounds. Beneath that chastc
and massive structure, i'll the room de-
signed for library, and adjoining the
Office filled with mementoes of his last
unselfish, earnest labors, his ashes now
repose. And there, in the temple reared
by himself, ut the home of his adoption,
will be his fitting, and we believe, his en-
during resting-place. We hold this con-
viction because his remains now rest in
the spot chosen by those who alone had
a right to decide, because this spot would
most likely have been approved by the
illustrious dead himself had his self-for-
getting mind ever dwelt for moment
on such question:; because it holds his
memory aloof from the possible con-
taminations of party politics; because it
accords with the custom observed by the
great fathers and servants of the State,
oil OF whom preferred unostentntious
resting places; and because his tomb
here will be really more useful in conncc-
tion with tho last work of his exemplary
life in perpetuatingthe good influence of
the College OF Washington aud Lee
throughout the South. We therefore
invite his brethren aud followers in the
momentous struggle, which has made his
name and their own immortal, to unite
i'll constructing bcrc mausolcum worthy
the foremost man of all his time. On
the day succeeding tho death of General
Lee, tho Confederate soldiers who es-
corted the body from his residence to the
chapel met and resolved at once to form
q Memorial Associations; and at ;ln nd
Journed meeting on the 10Th Of October,
when tho funeral obsequics were cou-
cludcd, they adopted plan Of organiza-
ton. An Executive Committee, with
President and Vice Presidents, for the
Southern States, have been appointed,
and the Association will soon he regrl-
larly Incorporated. III order that the
poorest in our ranks may he enabled to
join upon m equal footing with nil others
i'll the pious work in view, it has been
determined that any Confederate soldier
may become member Of the AsSocia-
ton upon tho payment of one dollar,
and that the names Of all the members
shall be enrolled in suitable books to be
preserved in the Memorial Chapel It is
not proposed to limit subscriptions to
the small sum already named, nor to con-
| fine them to soldiers; nor do our wishes
and purposes stop with the mausoleum.
Contributions will be gladly received
from friends everywhere and of all
classes, who will, under proper regula-
tions, 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.
Fellow-citiZcns, we invoke you by the
common memories Of the past TO be
prompt and earnest in the noble under
taking to which you arc now invited. In
tuo IulCt CuulCu-S SdIu Ol btAluRGOQ
Lieutenant General "Stonewall" jack
son lies inferred; and now his great
commander sleeps near at hand. What
holier spot can there Ee to us than the
common home of these grand represen-
tative men? What more fitting monu-
ment for the great army itself OF which
Leo was the head, the pride and glory,
than ono raised here by its survivors,
perpetuating alike the memory of his
and their own great deeds, the enduring
witness at once Of their devotion and OF
his heroic qualities rs man, his virtues
as patriot, and his graces rs o Chris
tian; the remembrance of which will in
decd outlivo the marble and the bronze
which human art may fashion in his
honor. w. H. PENDLETON,
Late Chief Artillery A. N. Va,
Chairman of Executive Com.
The following officers have been So
lcctcd and requested to act as President
and Vico-Presidents Of this Associations
Gen. j. G. BHEcKISRIDGE, late c. S.
Secretary OF War, President
Gen. JOSEPH e. JOHNSTON, Vice Presi-