The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-30
ANDERsoNs GRAFTON.
A Full Synopsis of the Principal Ad-
dress of the Day.

dress of the Day.
RICHMOND, VA, May 20. Following is
synopsis of the address of Col. Anderson,
the orator of the day, at the unveiling cere-
monies:
FELLOW CITIZENs-A people carves it's own
image in the monuments of its great men. Not
Virginians only, not only those who dwell in the
fair land stretching from the Potomac to the
Rio Grande, but all who bear the American
name may proudly consent that posterity shall
judge them by the structure which we are here
To dedicate, and crown with a heroic figure.
For, as the Latin poet said that, wherever the
Roman name and sway extended, there should
be the sepulcher of Pompey, so to day in every
part OF America, the character and fame of
Robert Edward Lee are treasured as a poses
sion for all timen
And if this be true of that great name, what
shall be said of the circumstances which sur
round us on this day of solemn commemora-
ton? That. at the end Of the first quarter of
century after the close of a stupendous civil
war, in which more than a million men strug-
gied for the mastery during four years OF fierce
and bloody conflict, we should see the southern
states in complete possession of their local self
government, the federal constitution unchanged,
save as respects the great issues submitted to
the arbitrament of war, and the defeated party
whilst in full and patriotic sympathy with all
the present grandeur and imperial promise of
reunited country, still not held to renounce any
glorious memory, but free to heap honors upon
their trusted leaders, living dead-all this
may well be content to be handed down to his
tory. All this and more will be the testimony
of the solid fabric we here complete.
NOBLE WORK OF WOMAN
It will recall the generous initiative and the
unflagging zeal of those noble women of the
south to whom, In large measure, we owe this
suspicious day. 1t will bear its lasting witness
as the voluntary Offering of the people, not the
government, of the southern states; and, stand
ing as q perpetual memorial of our great leader
vi stand enduring of
what his fellow-citizens deemed most worthy to
be honored.
What kind of greatness, then-it may be
fitting in this spot to ask-what kind of great
ness should men most honor in their fellow
men?
Strong and natural as is the inclination
lectual life to exalt the triumphs fn
of the imagination and the reason, such is not
the impulse of the great heart of the multitude
And the multitude is right. In a large and true
sense conduct is more than intellect, more than
art or eloquence-to have done great things is
nobler than to have thought or expressed them
Thus in every land, the most conspicuous
monuments commemorate the great actors, not
the great thinkers of the worlds history; and
among these men of action, the great soldier
has always secured the first place in the affec-
tions of his countrymen. What means this
universal outburst of the love and admiration
of our race for men who have been foremost in
war? Is the common sense of mankind blinded
by the blaze of military gloryf or, does some
ideal commander is the grandest manifestation
in which man can show himself to man? The
power and the fascination Of this ideal are at
tested by the indulgent admiration we bestow
on men, who, on the other, falling grievously
below it, weighed down by something base and
earthly.
Thus, standing before that marvellous monu-
ment in Berlin from which Frederick, Tin bis
habit as he lived" looks down in homey greet
ing to his Prussian people, and seems still to
warn them that the art which won empire can
Al. of1fn in fhea fiCh oFlhf-
ton, the petty foibles the chilling life-we
member only the valor, the consummate Skill
the superhuman constancy of the hero king, or,
If turning from career 80 crowned with final
triumph we recall how, for the lack of like
commander France, in our own day, has been
trampled under foot we may conceive the
devotion with which Frenchmen still
crowd about the tomb of NapoIeon-a name
that, in spite of all its lurid associations, in
spite of all the humiliations of the second en-
pire, has still had power to lift the French ma
ton during these latter years from abasement
and despair. Surely there must be something
superhuman in the genius Of great COM
mander if 1t can make us forgetful of the woes
and crimes so often attending 1t. How freely,
then may we lavish our admiration and graft
tude when no allowance has to be made for
human weakness, when we find military great
ness allied with the noblest public and private
virtue Here, at last, in this ideal union, is that
rare greatness which men may most honor in
their fellow-men
vIRGINIA's GLORY.
1t is the singular felicity of this common
wealth of Virginia to have produced two such
stainless captains. The fame of the one, conse-
Grated by century of universal reverence, and
the growth of a colossal empire, the result of
his heroic labors, has been ommemorated in
this city by a monument, in whose majestic
presence no man ever received the suggestion of
a thought that did not exalt humanity. The
fame of the other, not yet a generation old, aud
won in cause which was lost, is already estab-
lished by that impartial Judgment of foreign
nations which anticipates the verdict of the
next age upon an equal pinnacle, and millions
of our countrymen, present here with us in
their thoughts and echoing back from city and
plain and mountain top the deep and reverent
Voice of this vast multitude. will this day con-
firm our solemn declaration that the monument
to George Washington has found its only fitting
complement and companion In monument TO
Robert Lee.
/ venture to say that il we take account of
human nature in all its ccmplexity. the charac-
ter of the ideal commander Is the grandest
manifestation in which man can show himself
Ia man Consider some Of the necessary ele-