Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-02
A VOICE FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
The Tomb of Jefferson Davis.
Ifor The DIspstch.l

Tho Delphian yales, the Pslestines,
The Meocns OF the mind"
HENDERSON, N. G., December 90, 1889.
10 The Editor of the Dispatch:
The people Of North Carolina have heard
that mammoth memorial meeting was
held in the city OF Richmond on the 22d OF
December for the purpose of expressing
the universal desire of the citizens OF VIZ
ginia that the remains of Jefferson DAVIS
Ee Inferred in the city of Richmond and
that mighty monument be erected to
perpetuate his memory and to tell OF his
virtues.
Iask in the name Of North Carolina, who
loves her great sister Virginia, TO whom
she il attached by thousand memories; l
ask in the name of the noble women or
our Grand old Commonwealth: ask IN the
name OF the forty thousand North Carolina
Confederate dead, and especially the four
teen thousand who were killed outright
upon Virginia's battle-scarred bosom; ask
| in the name Of the survivors of the hum
bred and twenty-five thousand Of her sons
who followed Jefferson Davis four years
| through all but death; / ask in the name
Of all my people, TO be permitted to say
| through your most excellent paper, that
North Carolina Joins with Virginia in be-
seeching that the mortal remains of Jeffer-
| son Davis be inferred in the city OF Rich
| mond, the capital of the southern Con-
| federacy.
North Carolina has not asked this for
herself, because she knows IT is so emf
| nently proper that the Confederate chief
| tain should find his Last resting placein the
| city of Richmond.
NORTH cAEoLINAs. RIGHT TO SPEAK.
While it is true that North Carolina was
not the birthplace of Mr.. Davis, nor his
adopted home, nor yet contained the CAPT
1 tol &c sI,. c.. EnnfonQrnrV 4
| true that her wishes are entitled 10 some
| consideration touching this great question.
Ii is said that 1.-THE white plume Of
| Murat, the 'prieux chevalier,' was banner
| to the host he led, and while il continued
| huttering over the field of the slain, hope
was never relinquished. Many time has
| Napoleon seen it glancing like beam OF
| light 10 the charge and watched its pro-
| press like the star of his destiny, as II
struggled for awhile in the hottest of the
| fight and then smiled III JOY as he beheld
| IL burst through the thick ranks OF the
enemy, scattering them from his path like
| chat before the wind"
! And so the troopt of North Carolina were
| an inspiration to the brigades and divisions
| of which they formed part. How often
| did the immortal Virginians, Robert Il.
| Lee and Stonewall Jackson, Stuart and
| Hill. call on the troops of the old North
| State 10 make the bloody charge, and 80
| long as they could see through the battle
smoke the hne of their bayonets like n
| fonm-crested billow of the sea, rushing to
the charge, they never lost hope.
THE LAST CHANGE.
| And at Appomettox when the last charge
was made IL was made by North Caro-.
! linans. and when after driving the enemy
for miles they were hurled back by, Ords
massive columns, as they passed the i'm
mortal Lee he looked upward and ex-
| claimed; God bless North Carolina"
Palsied be the tongue that would deny us
| the full meaning of that benedictlon.
North Carolina, then, has a right h. speak.
RICHMOND THE PLACE FOR HIS EEpuLcHIE.
Richmond was the heart of the Southern
| Confederacy, and Jefferson Davis was the
presiding spirit that filed all its veins
! and arteries with blood, controlled its
every throb. and for four years saved 1t
| from paralysis.
Richmond was the queen flower in the
| garden of the Confcderacy, unfolding its
| beauty in unequalled and unchallenged
\ spiendor, and jefferson Davis. during a
4 memorable season, tended, watched over,
| leyed. and protected that flower from the
I biting frost, the chilling winds. and the in
! Vulnerable assaults of the fierce and frigid
| North.
| Richmond was the flagship of the Con-
4
| dashed the highest, and the light
ming flashed. and the thunder pealed
! a mighty accompaniment 10 the roar OF the
] storm-tossed sea, from her deck Jefferson
/ Davis, calmly and wisely, and through
many storms. successfully directed the
movements Of the mighty feet.
| The names OF Richmond and Davis were
! inseparably anited by principle, victory.
/ and defeat and thus united were twlned
I al. 4, Nf l.rox- N f,nh
/ women of the South by the hand OF 81
! gantic war.
Stand on the Acropolis and the glories Of
Athens will pass in review stand IN the
/ Coliseum or within the shadow of ST. Peters
/ and the deeds OF Rome will rise up before
| you: stand at the foot of the pyramids or
around the ruins OF Karnah and the won
| ders of Egyptian history will so trooplng
past: visit Moscow and you hear again the
| tramp of the French Legions. and yonder
| in the Petrosky Palace you see Napoleon
| once again awaiting the City Father, who
never came, TO surrender the beautiful
| capital: once more you see the pillows or
| flame as they wrap the city in their fiery
! embrace and leap IN transport towards the
! heavens, and anon YOU follow IN imagina-
ton the retreat of that grand army across
| the Russian SHOWS.
So II is with the capital of the Confede
racy. Richmond cannot be visited III all
| the ages TO come without suggesting at
once the names and deeds of Jefferson
| Davis and his immortal followers.
| We wish the world To know-we wish all
| the coming generations to know-of the
honesty, manhood. sand chivalry OF the
| South. They can learn it in no better way
than by sitting by the tomb OF Jefferson
Davis in Richmond. and there rejecting
upon all that it teaches in its yoiceieSs
| grandeur.
Even as the magnificent Brandenburger
| Gate, with it's Car of Victory, stands at the
entrance to the city of Berlin, even as the
| Temple of Theseus was situated at the en-
| trance to Athens, so should the tomb OK
/! Jefferson Davis be situated in Richmond,
the citadel of the Confederacy and the
| gateway of the South, so that all the ma
| lions may see.
Twas for Richmond and Davis that the
prayers of our people assembled to Heaven.
morning and night, for years, like incense
! from an altar. Twas in Richmond that
Mr.. Davis passed the most eyentful period
of his most illustriouslife. There she who
now mourns him--she who is loved by the
southern people only second to her hus-
band-rejoiced with him IN hours OF glad
ness, and mourned with him when dark
ness came, and there she taught him the
intense beauty and holiness OF that word
wife.
"Her bosom II fount OF love that swells.
Wldens, and deepens, With It's own outpouring,
Ard as q desert stream. forever wells
Around her husbands heart;
When cares devouftnx, ana tiis sweep rouno
him like an angry river.
She 70 hts star. his Rock Of hope forever"
There cherub that God sent him smiled
upou his pathway for time and then pass
Cd Ia radiant beauty upon the wings OF i'm
mortality to the Courts OF Heaven.
There 3 little flower sprnng up IN his
hn1ne fhaf has blossomed into beauty and
6r1Vn II strength, and through all these
800 has shed the perfume Of its virgin
Ifl5 6n6n ~ heoSf, and now bends IN grace
6z mr.. buf Wounded and bruised, above
III !ppie, i" The Daughter OF the
~ Tst.njc struggle. be