The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-24
TIE DAVIS MONUMENT.

In every part Of The South there are unmis-
| taxable indications that the popular interest
in the monument TO Mr.. DAVIS is rapidly IN
| creasing. The proposition TO erect this
| monument has the enthusiastic approval oi
the Southern people, and the longer ana more
carefully il is considered the moro earnest Is
! the support which it is receiving.
This support is now taking the most prac-
| teal form. The suggestion that oeherai
Gordon shall appoint an orator or lecturer
for each State, whose duty 1t snail De 10
hold meetings for the creation of State
fund is an excellent one. and it IS likely to he
supplemented by other plans for raising the
required amount OF money, which Will be
found upon actual experiment TO be equally
practical and effective. All that is needed IS
that the matter shall be brought directly be-
fore the people of the South.
At no time in tho interval which has elapsed
since the close of the war has the veneration
of the Southern people for the heroes OF the
Confederacy. or their loyalty to the general
principles upon which that Government was
based. been greater than now. The figure of
Mr.. Davis is growing larger every year. The
preiudices that may have existed IN some
Southern minds against him while he was
living have been melting away as the day OF
his death has receded in the past. He has
become in the popular heart the incarnation
of the Confederate cause. We honor that
cause in honorng him. TO erect monument
To him is 10 erect a monument 10 the Con-
federacY. n
Among the leaders Of the Confederacy, MIR.
Davis has been selected by the war sentiment
of the North as the object upon which to heap
opprobrium. under which it would overwhelm
in his memory the Confederate cause itself.
That memory is the target for the scorntul
hatred of all that class of Northerners who
look upon secession az having been crime.
In death. as in life. this illustrous man. this
noble gentleman of the South. IS 10 be heldup
TO the contempt and condemnation OF the
world because he was the principal exponent
Of the Southern Confederacy
It is because he was the head Of the Con-
federacy that the Southern people propose 10
erect to him monument that Will be IN pro-
portion not only 10 his fame but to the sub
lime cause which he represented. This
monument should be of no ordinary character.
In grandeur Of size and magnifcence OF
detail. it should be the most impressive
structure Of the kind in the United States.
pile that will stand forever il silent testimony
TO the honor in which the name Of Davis IS
held in the South and the deepness of
the love in which the Confederate cause
is sustained in the hearts Of It's people
A fund Of q million dollars at least should
be raised to carry out the object in view.
Whether the remains of Mr.. Davis shall be
laid TO permanent rest in this city or not, this
is the spot where the monument tohis memory
and the memory of the Confederacy can be
most appropriately erected. Richmond will
be eternally associated III history with the
fame of both. Here both marble and bronze
should perpetuate to the remotest ages the
patriotic devotion Of the Confederate Presi-
dent and the sublime sacrifices the immortal
fortitude and courage OF the Confederate
armies