Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-11-02
coNFEDERArE MONUMENT.
The Views of an Ex-oonfederate as to
Its Location.
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To the Tobacco Lcaf-Chronicle;
] notice in your paper of the 9th
what appers to be an editorial touch
ing the location Of the Confederate
monument, and the statement is
made that the ladies wish 10 know
If the intention is to remove the
courthouse and put the monument
where the court house now stands.
Now, as the ladies are taking much
interest in this monument, it is but
fair to them to give them all the in
formation known TO anyone in re-
gard to the location of the monu-
ment.
Those ladies must have been very
seriously impressed by an article
published several months ago, stat
ing that the courthouse would 50
overshadow the monument that it
would appear very Insignificant
located in the courthouse yard. All
that is necessary to say to those
ladies, and also to the writer of that
article, is, look at the statue of jack
son under the shadow of the capitol
at Nashville, building four or five
times as large as our courthouse, and
the statue many feet lower than is
proposed to have our monument,
Why, the capitol simply affords a
grand background, as it were, to the
statue, and being so much larger no
one ever thinks of comparing the
size of the building to that OF the
monument.
Now if the members of the com
mittee who are eager to have our
monument placed in Greenwood
cemetery think that it is necessary to
have one erected at or near the graves
of the dead soldiers, let them take
two or three thousand dollars and
erect one in Greenwood and let us
take the balance and erect one here,
where it will be seen and ad
mired by all who visit our little city,
for very few visitors ever go out to
the cemetery, and many of cur own
citizens go out but seldom, but
placed in the court house yard, or in
Howell school yard, it would be seen
by every one coming TO the city, and
moreover would be an object lesson
to the young, who are only too apt to
forget the cause for which 80 many
Of our gallant men offered up thti
lives and sacrificed their all in de-
Tending principles which they be.
lieve dGod given and right.
If those gentlemen wish the mon
ument placed in Greenwood simply
because they mink it the most suit
able place, just let them ask the
members of the committee in Nash
Vile who placed their beautiful mon.
ument in their cemetery, and see il
they have not made a grevious mis-
take.
| was asking a member of Cheath.
am BiVauac, who is also an officer Of
the State Association, about this very
thing and he admitted that they had
made sad mistake. He said that
they should have placed it in a con.
spicuous spot in Nashville, but that
it was now too late to rectify the er-
rOr.
A bronze monument costing four
or five thousand dollars erected in
either Of the places | have mention
ed, and these locations would cost
nothing, would be perfectly safe
from fire and would appear to bet.
ter advantage than would a ten
thousand dollar monument erected
in Greenwood among so MANY hand
some ones. grag -za "a
Aud besides, they are erecting
these monuments all over the coun-
try in other places than cemeteries.
Paris, our neighboring city just be
low us, has, l learn, placed just such
a monument in her court. hOuse yard,
and GAINESVILLE would have some
thing to boast of If she would follow
this sensible example and erect this
everlasting tribute to the Lost Cause
where it could be seen of every eye,
and not hide it from every one but a
few mourners who go to Greenwood
with hearts saddened with grief, or
intent on duties of most solemn
and sacred nature. / can assure the
gentlemen that Forbes BivOuac
would vote four to one in favor OF
either the courthouse or public
school yard. Yours, etc,
-CONFED.