Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-30

Many thanks in behalf of all
classes for your daring in making an
effort to break in on the very neces
sary but now m0notonOus and rather
serious business affairs of bank
troubles, warehouse complications,
cloture, Force bills, etc.
THE MONUMENT
How it carries us back to The days,
50 i0ng ago, that epen you and l We're
young. No thought of money then,
no compensation then for the best
and brightest and bravest of these
sons Of the South. Only duty, dar
ingly and fearlessly accepted by the
youth, as il was seriously and clio
quently taught by the seers. No
thought of the suffering and sorrow
by these young patriots that was Of
necessity to be theirs, as they hurried
away to the front, with their old
flint-lock changed to percussion mus
kets, and no ammunition for these
The screechy old fife and the brassy
old kettle drum were to them indeed
soul-stirring music, as they filled the
air of town and country with "the
girl left behind me" "Dixie," and
other pathetic and patriotic airs.
And these girls that they were leav-
ing behind, let me tell you, friend
editor, for fear of your having forgot
ten it, were the most beautiful, brav-
est and best Of earth's creatures, and
most consoling of all, many of these
girls are still with us, not so young,
not so bright and fresh and fair as in
81 to '65, but just as brave, and to us
just as beautiful.
TO these brave Southern women
(the girls and young matrons of '6D
are we to be indebted il we get the
monument, and already has your ar
ticle on the monument found re
Spouse with them, proving that they
were only waiting a fitting time to
renew their efforts, which are ALSO
iuteLy sure Of success. Mark that!
And now hadn't we better get the
money for the monument first, and
then have short but furious squabble
over the location afterward ? Or do
you think the squabble would be an
auxiliary to raising the money?
Now | have always wanted a nice
little square of ground in the city to
be owned by the Monumental Asso
citation, and when the monument,
enclosed grass plot and all, is com
plete, to be presented to the city only
in case it can obligate Itself and its
successors Tor all time, to keep it
in complete and perfect repair.
From an aesthetic view l think
the court house lot would not be Sc
lecied, because the massive court
house would completely dwarf the
monument, however graceful am
beautiful 1t might be, aud :hen in
the future we might have IA County
court entirely different from those
we now have and the monumenl
might not be 20 well cared for.
And then as to Greenwood. Where
could you get so beautiful a spot as
the one the Cemetery company now
offers without money and without
price? The most beautiful spot in
the entire enclosure is offered to the
Monumental Association, such a spot
as would cost hundreds of dollars il
you had it to buy.
Greenwood Cemetery is no longer an
uncertainty; it is more fixture than
even the courthouse square. That
it will be a beautiful place for the
burial of the dead, becoming more
each year, seems now AN
almost absolute certainty. If this is
so, then is not the care of and the
perpetuity Of the monument more
certain there than it could be any
where else? 1 decidedly incline to
to this belief.
Do you say SO many would not see
The monument? Admit it. The
strangers who seek historic spots or
places of interest will visit your Gem
atery. Those who seek evidences OF
refinement and cultivation in COM
will sometimes 90 to your
public buildings, your churches, pub
ic library and art gallery, if such
you have, but all Of them will go to
zee your cemeteries and your m6nu.
nents.
The throngs of busy men that pass
md repass the court square, never
knowing that the silent figure of a
soldier of the past is
cooking down on them, would care
lOthing for it, and occasionally re
'iler or SCOOTER would be heard, ana
possibly a cOwardly hand raised to
Ieface it.
Entering the gates of a beautiful,
veil kept cemetery, the sentiments
re nearly akin to those of respect
nd reverence we feel when entering
he portals of a handsome church ed
flee, and to insure this respectful in