The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-28
HONOR 10 fHE BEAD NERO.

HONOR TO The BEAD HERO.
Immense Conc0urse OfPeoPle, Grand
and solemn Procession, and Beauti.
fuI Speeches BY Hon. las. II. Them,
as and Col. L. ID. Myers.
Last Saturday was set apart for the PEG.
pile of Maury county to give some public
manifestation of he sorrow which the
death ofthe great and good Lee brought to
of the procession in our last issue, and il
is unnecessary to give the order in which
the procession moved. The morning
dawned beautifully, and the brown Oc-
tOber sun shone sadly through the sere
and yellow leaves, which are natures
grey hairs. Nearly all of the business
houses in the Northwest corner of the
Square were not opened at all, and the
doors were draped in a becoming man.
ner, even as if a friend or relative
had died. There is something really
ton which our folk felt for Gen. Rob-
ert e. Lee. A German proYerb says,
that ''great men are monsters,'' and so
few great mems lives have disproyed the
assertion, that the world has accepted it
as true. 1t remained for Gen. Lee to
prove that a man may be truly great in
the worlds esteem, and worthy of his
Makers reward, swell done good and
faithful servant" There was a bond of
sympathy between Gen. Lee and the
people, Independent of their admiration
for his greatness, which gave him an
emphatic, personal place in their hearts.
| IN wr-na nj <~-oak laoI4- sc klAs. N.
mics, but a good man, a grand man, that
respect to on last Saturday. But we will
let the eloquent orators speak of the vir-
Tues of Gen. Lee.
Every house of business, and nearly
all the residences, were drapedin mourn
ing. Several houses in the South West
corner of the Square had handsome pic
lures of Gen. Lee over the doors. It was
universally concluded, that, while all
portions of the Square had elegant and
profuse emblems of grief, the SOUTHEAST
corner Of the Square eXcelled all others
in profuseness and tasteful arrangement.
The "Red Store" was a monument of
grief. At one o'clock the immense pro-
cession moved from the Square towards
the Atheneum Grove. The following is
the manner in which the procession
moved;
]. Music, Oh the Public Square, West
Side Court House.
2. Clergy, on North side West Main
street, head of column resting on Public
Square.
8. Female Schools, on North side of
West Main street, in rear of Clergy.
4. Male Schools, on East side Garden
street, between West Main and Free
streets, head of column on West Main.
ndtnc or,1 $4,000 A1~4
Public Square.
&. Mayor and Alderman, on South
side of West Main street, head on Public
Square.
Z. Magistrates and other County OFF,
GERS, in real of Mayor and Aldermen.
8. MasOns, o South. side West Main
street, in rear of Magistrates.
8. Odd-Fellows, on East side Garden
street, between Mechanic and West Main
front on West Main.
10. Red Men, on Garden street, in rear
of O~dd-Fellows.
II. Pale Faces, on Garden street, in
Il. Orator of the day, in rear of the
Procession.
The procession moved from the
Public Square at l o'clock, p. NJ, as fol-
lows: Down South Main street to Me-
chanic, through Mechanic to Garden,
through Garden to West Main, through
West Main to the Athen@um Grove.
Arriving at the Grounds, the President
assumed the Chair.
The schools formed a beautiful and
important feature in the proceedings.
The Institute, the Athenaum, and Prot.
DOdson's School, were in the procession.
After the vast crowd were all seated.
Rev. j.. M. p. Otis delivered a beautiful
and impressive prayer, after which Hon.
James al. Thomas, the President of the
Meeting, gave a short sketch of the life
and character Of Gen. Lee. 1t was wOr-
thy ofthe great worrior, and the eloquent
speaker. Col. l.. d. Myers, the elected
orator of the day, now came forward
| and made a most beautiful and eloquent
speech.
We will not trust ourselves so far as
as to speak at length of this splendid
address. We only regret that the ex-
treme modesty of the speaker will not
permit its publication. 1t is full of rare
and beautiful thoughts, and. truthful,
that it deserves almost to live,aS a classic
model of memorial addresses,
The following resolutions were read
by eChairman of the Committee on
Resolutions, Col. l.. d. Myers, at the
Atheneum Grove, last Saturday, The
resolutions were unanimously passed:
Amid the active hustle of life we are
startled with the melancholy intelligence
| that Gen. ROBERT L. LEE is no more;
that he died at els residence in Lexing>
ton, Va, on the 18th inst. Ii rank and
worth the most exalted, talent civic and
military the most brilliant, character,
public and private, without stain or re-
proach, and the love, prayers, and tears
of millions of people could have pur-
chased immunity from death, Gen. LEE
would have been immortal.
But death is the inevitable lot and fate
of human nature, which no earthly pow
er can resist, no prayer or e~ntreaty ap-
| pease, nor voice of affection charm away.
1t spares neither age, SEX, rank, nor con
dition in life, and Its sepulchrai tread is
heard alike in the palaces OF Kings, the
mansionsofthe wiseand foolishthe novels
of beggary and crime, and all yield alike
to the ravages of the relentless monster.
Deep and heart-rending as is our grief at
at this great calamity, there is not hing
of the bitterness of shame in our sorrow.
There is not a memory or association
connected with the illustrious one whose
death we mourn, that is not sacred and
hallOwed in our hearts. AS we look on
his life and character, we find nothing
that brings to him reproach, or which in
charity we would cover with the veil of
oblivion. We here trace no dark spot
in the suns beaming disc, but ali is
brightness, purity and glory. And as
we drop the tear of affection ON his new
ly-made grave, in faith and hope welOok
away to that abode of bliss where the
saints do dwell.
With courage as daring as that of his
remote ancestor who accompanied Rich
ard of the Lion Heart in his crusade to
the Holy Land, he possessed military
skill and requirements that placed him
in the front rank with the greatest mill
tary captains of the age, and filled the
whole world with the renown of his
brilliant exploits in arms. With a mind
rarely gifted by nature, and thoroughly
improved by culture, a disposition as
mild in its repose as the gentle dove, but
terrible as the wounded lion when rOus-
| ed by the storm of battle; with integrity
uncorrHpted and in%corruptible, that no
bride or offer of place or power could
tseduce; with devotion to principle and a
sacrifice of every consideration OF self to
the discharge of duty, and with truth as
his polar star, with heroic patience and
fortitude under adversely, and above all
by his browning g.ace, with a heart
melted and purified by the, holy influ-
ence OF the Christian religion, his charac-