Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-13
EX-CONFEDERATES
Proposition to Build a Grant
Monument at Baltimore.
To Be Paid for Exclusively BY
Southern Subscriptions.


Toward Erecting Suitable Memorial
In New York, They Desire to Do 1t In
Testimony of the Appreciation of
Grants Generosity Toward the South.
| WASHINGTON, June 13.-There is a
growing discussion among the Mary
land ex-Confederates over the propo-
sition to have their comrades unite and
build monument to Grant. One of
these, writing to The Baltimore Sun,
says:
81 agree in part with Col. H. Kyd
Douglas, in a recent issue of The Sun.
For reasons named by him would have
ex-Confederates all over the United
States unite in erecting a magnificent
monument to the memory of Gen.
| Grant. | would, moreover, have those
who were beaten thus commemorate
their own lofty appreciation of the mag
nanimity extended them in the hour of
the great Federal chieftain's triumph
But would have nothing to do with
that still born affair in New York-that
dead memorial of the dead. | would
| build new monument-one such as
only the poetic originality of the south
can design, and only warm hearted, un-
pensioned southern lberality can rear
II would build it, not in New York,
but in southern city, on the border
line Of travel between the great sections
one already the shrine of interstate pill
grimages, and known the world over as
the City of Monuments would build
it in Baltimore.
"Ex-C -Confederates everywhere, let us
testify in this solid, durable form, that
wherever the gospel of magnanimity to
the fallen is preached shall this deed of
Gen. Grants be spoken in memorial of
him. and for all time to come let us thus
refute the lie that the south. otherwise
admittedly noble and brave, is disloyal
to the restored Union"
Col. Douglas Views.
Col. Douglas has previously written
this ON the subject:
Nov that the south has finished and
unveiled the statue of Lee in" Richmond,
why not turn over to it the Grant mon
ument in New York and let them COM
plete that? The north does not seem
disposed to do it. Let that monument
committee send word along the line
that ex-Confederates may finish this
memorial, and then mark you how
few dollars here and few more there
will be shelled out from the light
pockets of many thousands who fol-
lowed Lee until there shall be enough.
There will not be millions of ducats
from ostentatious millionaires, many
barons and politicians, with an eye to
windward, but it will be clean and un-
selfish money.
"The monument built by it will not
be hugely colossal, but it will be more
enduring than brass Why will the
boys in gray do this? All for the sake
of 'Marse Robert They have not for
gotten Grants soldierly courtesy to Lee
at Appomattox- brightest of the
bright spots in his record. They have
not forgotten that when some post
bellum ioyalists would have indicted
Lee for treason Grant stretched his
sword across the Falstaffian path and
said, with an ominous grimness, that
his parole to Lee must be respected
and it was"
The SUMS Comment,
Upon the first communication The
Sun, under the caption "A Southern
Monument to Grant" remarks:
"We publish elsewhere a communica-
the erection in Baltimore of a statute to
Gen. Grant, to be built exclusively by
the subscriptions of southern soldiers.
He thinks it eminently appropriate that
the yanquished should thus commemo-
rate their lofty appreciation of the mag
nanimity extended them in the hour of
the great Federal chieftain's triumph
Such a memorial, he says, would be the
best refutation of the slander that the
south is disloyal to the Union.
Baltimore, our correspondent thinks,
is peculiarly suited for the home of such
a monument, as it is southern in senti-
ment. On the boarder line of travel
between the great sections, and known
the world over as the city of monu-
ments' The suggestion will attract
wide attention, and is worthy of consid-
Grafton During the celebration attend
ing the unveiling of the Lee statue in
Richmond. when resolution was in
troduced in the house of representatives
providing for the appropriation of $780,
600 for the completion of the Grant
monument in New York, The Sun sug-
cested that the south would be glad to
contribute to the fund if an opportunity
were given it, and our correspondents
communication is only one of hundreds
of evidences of the generous and patri-
otic spirit that prevails in that section.
"The south cherishes especially kindly
feelings toward Gen. Grant because he
showed himself as generous and chival-
rous in victory as he was able and per-
severing in war, and there are probably
thousands of ex-Confederates who would
be glad to contribute to such a fund as
suggested by our correspondent, if the
proposition should assume practical
shape. Baltimore would undoubtedly
be proud to add to her many noble mon-
uments fitting memorial, erected by
southern funds, to the soldier whose
voice was among the first raised for
peace and for the restoration of the
spirit as well as the form of true polit-
ical union"
A GOOD FIND.