The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-11-18
LEE MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.
TO the Surviving O4cers and Soldiers
OF the Confederate Army.


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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. 1t only now remains to dis
charge the duty, SO sacred to surviving
affection, 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, rever-
ence for his virtues, regard for his me-
mory, dictate to his comrades in arms,
as their first care, properly to enshrine
his remains. 80
After Gen. Lee accepted the Presi.
dency of Washington College, his ear
liest work was the erection of Chapel
on the College grounds. Beneath that
chaste' and massive structure, i'm the
room designed for library, and adj
joining the Office filled with memen-
toes of his last unselfish earnest labors
now repose. And there, i'm 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 o 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 a moment on such
question-because it holds his memo
ry alOof from the possible cOntamina-
tiOns of party politics ac-
cords with the customs observed by the
great fathers and servants of the State,
all of whom preferred transformations
resting-places-and because his tomb
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 brethren and fol-
lowers in the momentOus struggle
which has made his name and their
own immortal, to unite in constructing
here a Mousoleum, 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 ut once to form Me-
mortal Association; and at an adjourn
ed meeting ON the 18th of October,
when the funeral obsequies were con-
cluded, they adopted a plan of organic
ZatiOn. An Executive Committee, a
President and ice-Presidents for the /
Southern States, have been appointed,
and the Association will sOOlI be regl-
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 i'm view, it 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 sl,all he enrolled in suitable
books to he preserved in the Memorial
Chapel. 1t is not proposed to limit
subscriptions to the small sum already
named, nor to conine them to soldiers;
nor do our wishes and purposes stop
with the MOusoleum. Contributions
will be gladly received from friends ev-
cry There and of al classes, who will,
underproper regulations, be inscribed
as Honorary members; and when a
sufficient fund shall have been secured,
it is contemplated to erect special
MONUMENT in connection with the
Tomb.
Fellow Soldiers, we invoke you 10y
the common memories of the past, to
be prompt and earnest in the noble un-
dertaking to which you are now invit-
ed! In the quiet churchyard of Lex
ington, Lieutenant-G General 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,
alike the memoly of his /
and their own great deeds, the endur, |
ing witness at once of their devotion
and of his heroic qualities as q man, his
virtues as a patriot, and his graces as a
Christian-the remembrance of which |
will indeed Out-live the marble and the |
bronze which human art may fashion
in his honor.
w. n. PENDLETON,
Late Chief Art'y Army n. Ma,
Chairman of EX. Com.
The following officers have heen Sc
dent and Vice-Presidents of the AssO-
ciation:
Gen. J. c. Breckinridge, late G.. 5.
Secretary of War; President
Gen. Joseph L. Johnston, Nice-Pres-
dent at large.
Gen. j. A. Early, Col. w. A. Taylor,
from Virginia.
Gen. c.. T. Beauregard, Vice Presi-
lent from Louisiana.
Gen. ID III. Hill, Vicc-President from
North Carolina.
Gen. Wade Hampton, Nice-PresidchL
rom South Carolina.
Gen. Jno. b. Gordon, Nice-President
rom Georgia.
Gen. w. J. Hardec, Nicc-Prcsident
rom Alabama.
Gen. S ID. Lee, Nice-Presidcit from
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Gen. X. s. Ewell, Nicc-Iresi,Ienti
rom Tennessee.
Gen. }. b. Hood, President from
Texas.
Gen. Trimble, Vice President from
Maryland.
Gen. j. S. Marmaduke, Vice-Presi-
lent from Missouri.
Gen. VIM. Preston, Nicc-President
rom Kentucky.
Gen. Tapham, Vice-President from
Arkansas.
The place selected for the deposit of
unds is the Bank of Lexington, Va,
:. NJ. Figgat, Cashier. /,
The Poisoned Tongue.