Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-30

distinctive banner. These banners
were furnished by the local cemmitte.
and they served for the identification o.
each state delegation. OF far more in
terest to the throng that filled tn,
streets and looked down upon the pro
cession from windows and house tops
were the tattered and smoke -begrimeC
war flags carried by the veterans
Waving handkerchiefs and ringing
cheers from thousand throats greeted
them as they passed.
At the head Of the procession rode ex
! Governor Lee, mounted on a spirited
iron-gray horse.
In the first carriage were Governor
Mckinney, Col. Archer Anderson. the
orator of the day; Gen. Jubal A. Early
and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
In some of the other carriages were
Capt. r. E. Lee, Gen. w. HI. f. Lee
wife and sons, Capt. Dan. Lee, wife and
children. Senators Butler and Barbour
Daniel, Kenna and Pasco, Governors
| Fowle of North Carolina, Fleming OF
Florida, Richardson of South Caro-
lima, Miss Mildred Lee, Miss Mary
Lee, Gen. Fleming, of West Virginia
Senator Reagan, of Texas, ex-postmas-
ter general of the Confederacy, and
Gen. H. Fl. Walker, of Morristown,
New Jersey.
"Dixie" Produces Tears.
As the leading carriage passed down
Broad street it was greeted with wild
demonstrations by the enormous crowd.
Fair hands flung roses from the win
dows, banners were torn from the fronts
of the buildings and tossed high into the
air, and as the band struck up the fa-
miliar air of Dixie" gray heads bowed
low and soft tears coursed down furrowed
cheeks.
The passage of the professional col
umn through the principal streets of the
city was continued ovation. It's pro-
gress was much impeded by the crowd
that filled the streets, and it was
nearly 2 o'clock when the monument
was reached.
At the Monument.
An enormous crowd was in waiting
there. A large stand erected in front of
the monument had been reserved for
the distinguished guests, the orators of
the day and ladies. 1t was well filled
when the procession arrived, and the
grand marshal dismounted and offered
his arm to Gen. Johnston to escort him
to the seat reserved for him.
When Governor Mckinney, Col. An
derson and the other distinguished
guests and officers of the occasion had
taken positions on the front of the
stand the procession passed in review
before them, the veteran infantry lead
ing and the veteran cavalry and volun-
teer infantry bringing up the rear.
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massed as rapidly as possible in front of
the grand stand, the mounted veterans
ON the left near the monument. The
artillery took position in line west of the
infantry and facing the statue. The
grand stand. The arrangement of the
mass of people occupied fully half an
hour.
When the organization was complete,
and something like quiet could be had,
Governor Mckinney, as president of the
Lee Monument association, arose and
called the assemblage to order. After u
brief invocation by Rev. Charles Min
nigerode, of the Episeopal church, Gov
ernor Mckinney introduced Gen. Early
as chairman of the meeting. He was
greeted with prolonged applause and
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ernor McKinneys hand Gen. Early an
nounced in few well-chosen words the
orator of the occasion, Col. Archer An
derson.
Colonel AndersOn's Grafton.
Col. Archer Anderson's grafton, an
elaborate panegyric, eloquently deliv-
cred, was a comprehensive analysis and
brilliant portrayal of the character and
career of the famous Confederate gen
eral. 1t delineated his social, moral
and intellectual traits, his military
achievements and his life work, which,
in the opinion of the orator, amply jus
titled lavish admiration of the great
man who, in the union of military great
ness with the noblest public and private
virtue, presented that rare greatness
which men may most honor in their
fellow-men. Virginia had produced
two such stainless captains. The fame
of the one, George Washington, had
been consecrated by a century of uni
versal reverence and the growth of
colossal empire. The fame of the other
Gen. Lee, not yet a generation old and
won in cause which was lost, was
already established upon a pinnacle
equal to that of Washington.
Virginias monument to George Wash
ington had found its only fitting compile
ment and companion in the monument
to Lee. Following the story of Gen.
Lees later life, when the greater ele-
ments of the Confederate chieftain's
character appeared. Col Anderson
spoke of his noble person, his grace, his
social character, his pure life, "of that
inborn dignity which, with look,
could check familiarity or convey re-
buke of that manly beauty and COM
manding presence fitted alike to win
child or maiden and to awaken in the
sternest soldier, an expectation and as
surrance of pre-eminence and distinc
ton"
Gen. Lee, the orator claimed, regard
ed slavery as an evil which the south
had inherited, and must be left to miti-
gate and if possible extirpate by wise
and gradual measures, and, when
obliged to make his choice and take sides
in the irrepressible conflict, no more
painful struggle ever bore the heart of
patriot. Inheriting alone with the
most ardent love of the Union para
mount loyalty to his native state when
the time came in defiance of the tempt
ings of ambition-for the command of
the United States army was offered him
he determined that duty babe him
side with his beloved Virginia, he laid
down his commission and solemnly de-
clared his purpose never to draw his
sword save in behalf of his native state.
Following the vicissitudes of Lees
generalship in the late war, from the
beginning to the end, where "the sur
render of the fragments of the army Of
northern Virginia closed the imperish-
BILE record Of his military life, the
orator exclaimed: "What a catastro-
ply What a moving and pathetic
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