Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-10-28

h1Istakes ina the Name and Fate OF Birth
3 Of General Lee-Gbjecfs and OrganIzn-
tion of the Lee Memorial Association
The Tomb OF Lee dc.
Special Cores ponderce of the Richmond Dis


The Tomb OF Lee, dc.
specsI Cores ponderce of the Richmond Dis
patch.
| LEXINGTON, VA, Oct. II, 1870.
The enterprise and hberality of the Dis
| patch eDabled your correspondent to send
by special couriers and kilograms such full
particulars concerning the death and fu-
neral obseqaies of General Lee that but
| little remaiHs to be added.
| Most of the papers have made mi stakes
IN the lame OF our fallen hero-writing it
Robert Edm md Lee. His name was
| Robert Edward Lee, after his g1andfath-
| er Edward Garter. And there seems also
| TO be some discrepancy as to the date of
his birth The 19ih of January, 1907, is
the real date, and is so engraved on the
simple marble slab which covers his last
resting place.
| The Lee Memorial Assocla ion." to
| which your correspondent briefly referred,
| has been fully organized. A charter will
| be at once obtained from the Legislature
and vigorous efforts made to carry ouG the
oble3ts of the association, which are 10
erect suitable monument to the memory
Of our great leader, and observe in some
fitting manner the anniversary Of his
death.
The soldiers meeting mere appointed
the following Executive Committee, who
were empowered with full authority to
eject officers of the association and perfect
the organization: Gen. W. N. Pendleton,
Col. VIM. Preston Johnston, Capt. J. J.
White, Col. J. W. Maasie. Col VIM. Nc
Laughlin, Capt. G. A. Davidson, Col. j.
K. Edmondson. Capt. A. Graham, Capt.
VIM. Allan. Lexington Col. f. ". M.
Holiday, Winchester Col. John S. Mos
by, Warrenton Gen. William Terry,
Wytheville Gen. Jno. Echols, Staunton !;
Col. Thomas Stanhope Flournoy, Halifax;
Major Robert Stiles, Richmond Gen.
Bradley I. Johnston, Richmond; Col. G.
S. Venable, University of Virginia.
The design is to have all the States in
the late Confederacy represented on the
tions and to speedily push forward the
good work.
The plans OF the committee ave not, Of
course, been yet perfected, and it is in
tended to consult fully the wishes of the
survivors of the grand old army which our
chieftain led; but it is suggested rs appro-
pirate that we should have an equestrian
statue on the college grounds, bust in the
Vestibale of the chapel which he built, and
recumbent statue on his tomb. It is
singularly fortunate that the adm rable
bust of Gen. Lee which Mr.. Valentine Sc
cured last summer will give the needed
model.
Your correspondent has had the priv
lege Of gazing on the tomb of General Lee
since it has been capped with its simple
slab of pure white marble, and he has been
struck with the exceeding good taste in
which everything under the management
of Col. McCullough) has been arranged
The books are all to be removed and the
room appropriately fitted up as tho home
of the mighty dead.
We were also permitted to go into his
Office and gaze upon the chair in which he
was accustomed to sit, the table at which
he wrote, and other mementoes of his busy,
noble life. Indeed, everything about the
afresh our wounds.
so constantly at the bedside of the great
chieftain and ministered so skillfully in his
case, pronounce the statement Of your cor
respondent concerning it strictly accurate
except in single particular, which they
desire corrected. They did not give any
medicines which contributed" to the
stupor, or rather deep sleep in which he
lay for the most part of his sickness but,
on the contrary, carefully avoided medi
cines of that character, and gave those of
an opposite tendency. The public, and
especially the medical fraternity, will be
glad to learn that the attending physi-
clans are preparing for the Richmond
Louisville Medical Journal a detailed &C
count of the causes, stages, and treatment
of General Lees sickness
1t may be mentioned, as Indicating the
universal grief of this community, that the
colored barber-shops and the colored
churches were all draped in mourning, and
that the bell of the colored Methodist
Church was tolled in unison with those of
the white churches.
| The Faculty have appointed a commit
tee who are now busily at work preparing
material for publishing at an early day a
memorial volume of General Lee. It is
designed that it shall contain, besides an
accurate biographical sketch-not an ex-
tended memoir, for that will no doubt be
written under the direction of the family
all of the resolutions, the principals news
paper notices. &c., concerning the death
| of General Lee. It will be volume of
deep interest. and will be very extensively
circulated. The Board of Trustees had a
meeting on Saturday, in which they pass
| ed suitable resolutions. and took steps to
confirm the action of the Faculty in refer
ence to incorporating the name of Lee in
fitting coniuncture with that of Washing
ton in the name of the college. and also
in reference to setting apart the 18th of
January as an anniversary in the college.
At all of the churches of our communi-
| ty on yesterday fitting allusion Was made
| to the death of General Lee, and the min
listers sought to improve the occasion to
the good of all, and especially of the
young men. LEXINGTON.
Deduct the negro vote from that cast by
the white Radicals of Ohio, at the late
election. and the Democrats carry the
State by ten thousand majority. In this
city, the same general fact is apparent.
White men deserted the Radicals by the
thousands. They would not be put on a
level, il not below negroes. But the solid
negro vote bridged over the chasm this
time, and allowed the party in power to
rob, plunder and pillage for another year.
A mighty change is, however. taking place
in the minds of the people. They now
see and understand the real purpose and
meaning of negro suffrage. They behold
herds of ignorant negroes driven to the
polls like cattle, to vote solid for the Radi-
cal party. Impartial suffrage is q farce.
It has no meaning. as interpreted by the
managers of the Radical organization.
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