Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1891-06-13
A GREAT DAY
fOr the Southern People at Jack.
son, Miss.
UNWILLING OF p MONUMENT
Erected to the Memory of the Oonfeder.
ate Dead.
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES

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guished Speakers and Guests Present.
$4,000 Visitors In Attendance.
JACKSON, Miss, June 4.-Five Years
OF dislnterested labor and efforts on tbe
part OF the women of Mississippi culmi.
mated yesterday in the final unveilin,
Oh the monument to the confederate
oead OF Mississippi. 1t was big day
Tor the eX-confederates, their wives and
sons and daughters Not only were
tney here from every hill and dale in
Misslssippi, but every southern state
mad Its representation. Nor was the
south alone participating in the iubila.
tion OF the day, for several eastern and
western states were represented, Iowa
especially having a large contingent.
Inc total number Of outside visitors
was variously estimated at from 5000
to 20,0OO
Early in the morning a reception was
rendered to the confederate veterans at
capitol building. They were there in
lorce and many comrades clasped hands
who had not met since the close of
the war There were greetings warm
and cordial, and many affecting
scenes wereenacted. Among the prom
lncnt veterans present We're. Gov. Cor.
don, of Georgia, commander OF the
United Confederate Veterans; Gen. f.
Kirby Smith, of Manassas fame; Gen.
Cabell, former Virginian, but now of
Texas; Brig. Gen. J. NJ. Billups and
Gov. Stone, of Mississippi; Gen. J. A.
Smith and scores of others.
At half past ten o'clock the big bell
OF the court house rang ont the signal
for the head of the procession to move.
and ten companies of the Mississippi
national guard wheeled around the cor
ner and up the broad avenue. Behind
the last company and drawn by ten
white horses came float carrying fif-
teen young ladies, representing the
southern confederacy and the different
states which composed it. Each bore
aloft a beautiful banner with the names
of the different states handsomely en-
broidered upon the center Every one
was the daughter of confederate vet.
eran.
Next to the float came the officers of
the ladies' monument association, the
organization under which the monu-
ment has been erected They were
heartily cheered at every point. Then
came distinguished visitors from abroad,
confederate veterans in carriages and
organized posts of confederate veterans
The procession was two miles in length.
The stars and stripes were carried at
tho l.eai Of $780,, II; ';~:~-- ....a in..,uiea
tloated from the top of the capitol. Side
by side with them were carried many
torn and tattered confederate battle
flags.
When the grand stand was reached
the exercises were opened with fervent
invocation, pronounced by Father f. A.
Picheret a distinguished Catholic priest
of Vicksburg, and confederate veteran
who had served through the war as
chaplain.
The monument was formally unveiled
by Mrs. Margaret Davis Haynes, daugh-
ter of jefferson Davis, amid prolonged
applause, while the combined bands
rendered the Star Spangled Banner and
Dixie The monument was formally
presented by Miss Sallie b. Morgan,
the presentation speech being made by
Hon. c. Il. Hooker. Senator L. c. Walt
hall, upon being introduced, was re-
ceived with loud and prolonged ap-
plause His Grafton upon 'the confed- (
eracy" was a complete history of the
war from inception to close.
Gov. Lowcry followed with a briei
Grafton on the life and character of JET
ferson Davis, in the course of which he
said that when partisanship had given |
place to sober reason and Judgment his |
torians would accord the late president
bf the confederate states front rank
Among the great statesmen of his day /
: One of the conspcuousfcatures of the
: arade was the absence of all attempts .
uniforms by the veterans. They
= I'VE never adopted uniform and all
h \ them as well as their officers, ap-
. bred in citizens attire.
). luch disappointment was felt at the
tence of Mrs Davis and Miss Winnie,
i, y are in New York.