Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-24
in STEPHENS HONOR
dwelling a Statue Of Georgia's
Great "Commoner."
BUSY DAYS At THE NAVAL ACADEMY.
Warm Words at the Bering Sea
Tribunal.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT SALEM
GEORGIA'S "GREAT COMMONER."
dwelling q Monument to the Memory q
Alexander II. stephens.

dwelling q Monument to the Memory of
Alexander II. stephens.
CRAwFoRDvILL, GA, May 24.-Admirersfr from
all over Georgia have congregated to do honor
to the memory of Alexander H. Stephens, the
''gIeat commoner," at the unwilling this after
noon of the beautiful monument erected to his
memory by the people Of Georgia.
The address of the occasion was delivered by
ex-senator Thos. N. Norwood OF Savannah.
The monument is handsome structure of
granite and marble. There are three bases.
each sloping off smaller than the other us they
ascend toward the slope on which the statue
stands. On these bases are sculptured wreaths
of immorte!les and suitable inscriptions.
On the topmost of the bases stand tie statue of
Stephens. 1t represents him while the com
the invalid of later years in his
rolling chair. He is standing beside a
table. one hand resting on two books
that lie on the surface. while the other rests
across the BODY in his favorite position of ges-
ticulation. The whole pose is supposed to rep
resent Mr. Stephens while delivering his famous
speech. Georgia and Ohio Again.
The Inscriptions on the monument have been
selected BY those who knew Stephens best and
are very appropriate.
On one side is a passage from his Augusta
speech: Il am afraid OF nothing on earth or
to do wrong. The path OF duty l shall en-
deavor to travel. fearing no evil and dreading
no consequences" Another is: Here sleep
the remains OF one who dared to tell the people
they were wrong when ne believed SO, and who
never Intentionally deceived a friend or be-
trayed al enemy"
On another side is the following. written by
Richard Malcolm Johnson: Throughout life a
sufferer in body, mind ard spirit, he a
signal example of wisdom. courage. fortitude.
patience. forbearance and unwearing charity In
decrepitude of age called 10 be governor of the
state. he died while The performance OF the work
of his Office. and it seemed hit that having sur
vived parents, brethren and sisters and most
of the dear companions OF his youth. he should
lay his dying head upon the bosom of his
people
On that side of the monument toward Liberty
Hall is written: 1.-The Great Commoner."
The defender of civil and religious liberty.
He coveted and took from the republic nothing
save glory
On the side fronting the gate and beneath
the bowed face Of stephens are the
following lines inscribed: Born February
IL. 1872; member of the Georgia house OF rep
resentatives 1886 10 1870 member OF Georgia
state senate 1912; member OF United States
House of Representatives. 1912 to 1859; retired
from Congress. 1889 vice president of the con-
federate states. 1861 to 1865; United States
Senstor-elect from Georgia, 1866; member
United States House OF Representatives. 1878
to 1882; governor of Georgia. 1892: died in
Atlanta Sunday morning. March 4. 1892: author
of the Constitutional View of the War Between
the States and OF the Compendium of the His
tory OF the United States from Their Earliest
Settlement till 1872