Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-08
THE FORREST nroNUmENr.

The suggestion of the APPEAL to erect a
monument to the memory of General n. B.
Forrest has been favorablY received by the
soldiers who served under him, and by the
press of the south. OF the many comments
which the APPEALS editorial has elected,
we make room for only two, as follows:
An article from the Memphis APPEAL ad-
vocating the erection OF a monument to
General Forrest appears in another column.
We are glad to second this generous move
ment on the part OF the APPEAL, This is
duty we owe to the gallant chieftain whose
plume waved on SO many battlehelds, and
always led to victory. He was the child Of
war, and, in his enthusiastic devotion TO his
country, developed those wonderful traits in
his character that but fer the conflict would
never have been known. A native of Mar
shall county, Middle Tennessee claims him
as her OWE, and, being patriot, he Is equally
the child of the south. We hope the sug-
gestions of the APPEAL will be carried into
effect, and If General Chalmers visits Nash
vile IN the interest Of monument, we think
We will be safe IN promising him a warm re-
eeption and material asalstance.-RashCiHe
Banner.
The senior editor of the Memphis APPEAL
starts q subscription with one hundred dol
lars to erect a monument to the memory OF
General n. 3. Forrest. 1t Is suggested by
the APPEAL that the monument should rot
cost less than ten thousand dollars. The
APPEAL also states that it can name twenty
men who will each give one hundred dollars,
and appeals to those who served under the
greatest Of cavalry leaders, to organizes at
once for the purpose of carrying out the
scheme. We heartily wish the enterprise
success. While such career as Forrest
needs no monument to tell the story OF its
Immortality to PROSPERITY, yet 1t is valuable
to the living as cultivating and elevatlng tle
,,,0Hlo So H. -
the heroic dead, and Renee we hope the
worthy object SO generously iuaugurated by
Colonel Galloway Will be accom- lished.-
Jackson Tribune and SUM-
The people of Virginia have erected Eaohu-
ments to her noble sons, Lee and Jackson,
and it is eminently fit and proper that the
people of the south, and especially those of
Tennessee, should erect a monument to n.
B. Forrest, whose name az a military hero
will occupy niche in the pantheon of fame
as high as that in which will be placed the
statue of Stonewall Jackson. It is for the
comrades Of General N. B. Forrest to say
when a monument shall be erected to the
memory of their dead eh1eftain. We must
show the love we bear his memory and
his undyin9 fame. When the time comes
as surely it will come-the north will carve
On this monument It's reverence for the hero
who, though Confederate soldier, was yet
an American and reflected a fadaless uster
and undying honor On the Anglo Saxon
race. President Lincoln once expressed
what will ere long be the prevailing senti-
ment of every northern heart. Just after the
great battle of Gettysburg, he said: ''The
men who hold the hight5 will be remembered
forever, but the men who charged up the
nights will live in history, too; and shall al
ways be proud to remember that they were
my countrymen." When the hatreds en-
gendered by the war have been forgotten the
north will join the south in honoriDg the
patriotism and military genius of n. B.
Forrest