The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-24
FOR a MONUMENT TO THE CONFEDE-
RACY

RACY.
To the Press and People Of the South
land:
The remains Of the communicating
chief OF the armies OF the late Southern
Confederacy having been intrusted to
the keeping of Virginia, a solemn duty
devolves upon the people OF the South.
land.
Virginia was the real battle field of
the war, and it is because her carital
city was the capital OF 1.-The Confederate
States'-and as such the home of the
President OF those StateS-that the bod "
OF Jefferson Davis is to find it's resting
place in Virginia soil.
VI course 1T is the purpose Of those he
represented, and in whose stead and for
whose sake he suffered as q martyr (after
the fall OF the Confederacy), to mark his
resting place by some fitting memorial
Just after the tribute paid to Stonewall
jackson as the representative of the late
Confederacy, it is emirently proper to
determine upt some plan TO perpe tu-
ate the esteem and honor felt for tho
private soldiers. His comrades in arms
whose valor, unfinching courage and
self-sacriticc enabled Jackson and other
heroes to develop their genius and make
effective their plans-plans which have
made our heroic struggle for an indepen-
dent nationality wondered at and ad-
mlred throughout the world.
Has not the time como to erect some
proper monument in honor Of all the
soldiers of the Confederate army?
Believing it has fully come we submit
for the consideration of the surviving
soldiers OF the Confederacy, and all
the others interested, tho following sur-
gestions:
Let us, on some selected site at Rich
mond, the capitol of the late "Confed-
crate States of America" deposit the
sacred dust OF the dead President of a
dead Confederacy, and erect on it a n i'm
posing monument. to have for it's crown
aud cap stone q bronze statue OF .Tctfer-
son Davis.
Let this monument be dedicated to
the communicating chief and all the sol
dierS of the Confederate States United
thus-the head and all members--would
not such memorial be a fit and final
tribute to the Lost Cause?
AS suggestive of the story it would
tell to generations yet unborn, one face
might be inscribed: "A memorial to
Jefferson Davis, commander in chief of
the Confederate armies. and President
OF the Confederate States" Upon an
other face, ''ln memory of the Confcd-
crate soldiers, known and unknown, who
yielded up their lives in defense OF the
Lost Cause. A tribute from the living
to the dead"
Upon the third face, "In honor Of all
Confederate soldiers, living and dead.r
Upon It's fourth face, Sacred to the
memory of the dead Coufederacy."
We believe it would be proper, and
that it is feasible to erect such a monu-
ment; that throughout the civilized
world no monument will be held in
more revcrcntial honor than such a
memorial.
The grandest civil war the world has
ever known is ended; hereafter it can
never be save memory OF the past.
Is 1T not becoming, is it not proper, is
1T not the duty of this generation, who
are familiar with all the facts, to hand
down to PROSPERITY enduring record that
after the lapse Of these many years we
still hold in reverential honor the
memory OF all those who so heroically
endured hardship as good soldiers in
defense OF what they believe right?
Will not all newspapers favoring some
such memorial press its claims upon our
people? Yours Respectfully,
r. Il. MooRMAN.