The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-30
TIE DAVIS MEMORIAL

TIE DAVIS MEMORIAL.
Il has been now several weeks SINE
the death and burial of Jefferson DAVIS.
The memorial services i'll connection
with his death held throughout the
South were the grandest and most i'm
posing possibly ever held in any time
or reountry in honor and memory OF
private citizen.
About this time too it was generally
talked, and some steps were taken,
looking to the raising Of a fund to oulio
a monument to his memory. 1t seems
now all to have passed away ana we
haar nothing Of the monument nor OF
fine fund. We would like to kno" II
anything is being done, and what
Surely we are not going to do as 1he
people Of the North did in regard to the
Grant monument.
The Confederate Survivors Assocla-
ton of Newberry was to appoint a
committee, which committee was 10
look after raising our part and contrlou-
tion towards this monument funo.
What has been done?
The memorial service in Newberry
was we'll attended, and everything was
nicely and eloquently said and hand
somely done. 1t is we'll to be reminded
Of this service again, and thus revive
the interest in the fund for the erection
of the monument.
In this connection We want TO puo-
lish the beautiful and eloquent adores
Of Geo. B. Cromer, ESQ.,, in opening tne
memorial services held in NewDerry.
We have already given briefsynop-
ais of the other addresses, and this one
should be preserved, and we hope thus
to renew the interest in this OCCASION
and therefore in this connection give
the address of Mr.. Cromer in full.
While it is true that Mr.. Davis be-
loneed to a past that, in the estimation
of many, is dead, and was the head ano
embodiment of cause that IS some
times termed ''lost cause" yet 1t IS
past and a cause that should not De
forgotten by US. We should cherish IT,
and honor the noble men who gave
their lives to it, and teach our children
to do thesam
OPENING ADDRESS OF G Eo. B. CRoMEE'
MAYOR, AT DAVIS MEMORIAL
MEETING IN THE OPERA HOUSE,
SEwBERRy, S. c., DECEMBER
11TH, 1880.
Nv Fellow Citizens:-A long ana
eventful life has run its course. The
stoutest defender of The cause for which
this flag was unfurled, and most illus
trious champion of those who wore the
pray has folded his hands in peace.
Jefferson Davis has "crossed over the
river" and, in the midst Ct Lee and
Jackson, and countless others VINO
wore the gray, is quietly resting "in
the shade of the trees" And to-day
when the erequiem of death is sounding
and the dirge of tolling bells is heard
when even the pen of criticism is
sheathed for the moment, and the
tongue of detraction has lost its bitter
ness-it is meet and proper that We of
this beautiful Southland should assem-
bic to pay the tribute of loving and
sorrowing hearts to the memory OF our
dead chieftain.
- What a life has ended! When the
historian of the future shall come With
out bitterness in his heart, but with the
truth on his lips, to tell the story ofthat
life, aud the cause to which 1t was
given, the children of the Southern
Confederacy will render devout thanks
giving to Heaven, that such a life was
devoted to such a cause. What brllll-
ancv of intellect What powers of
arpumentation What skill and
sagacity in war! What breadth of
craftsmanship! But, o, my country
men, above all, what devotion to duty
and fidelity to principle! What loyalty
to his friends and to his cause! In war
as in peace, in public station as in the
quiet of domestic retirement, in prison
and in shackles, he has given us the
example ola heroic life as stainless as
the sword of Lee-as pure as the cause
to which that life was devoted. Yes,
it is meet that we should cherish his
memory. And it is meet and honorable
that we should teach our children and
our children's children, in the unnum-
bered coming years, to bring to the
grave of Jefferson Davis sprays Of
rosemary, and lay them there "for
remembrance"
Hon. Calvin S. Brice who has beep
recently elected United States Senator