The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-05-31
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Columbia Register

RICHMOND, VA, May N.-All that Is NOR.
tai OF jefferson Davis, for four years the Pres.
dent OF the southern Confederate States of
America, will find It's last resting place In
Holly wood Cemetery on next Wednesday.
Richmond, the capital Of the Confederacy,
has, after an earnest appeal, been granted the
privilege Of guarding henceforth and forever
the sacred ashes of the great leader OF the
Lost Cause"
The city Of New Orleans, which now gra-
ciously surreuders the body Of Mr.. Davis,
made equally az earnest an effort to retain
them in her care, but the decision OF Mrs.
Davis turned the scale In favor OF Richmond,
and now this city is preparing resting place
for his remains, which shall be worthy OF the
character and position OF the great Confeder-
ale.
Immediately following the death of Mr..
Davis there was also movement, accom- pa
MED with much enthusiasm. 10 secure q fund
10 erect O fitting monument 10 his memory.
General John r. Gordon, commander-in-
chief of the United Confederate Veterans, ap-
pointed committee from the division in
each State TO securecontributious, and for
the first time the monument movement took
permanent shape.
Mayor Ellyson says that the monument to
not no cost less than slO0.OO6.
The military of this city and State and
other States, together with the veteran
Camps, the various civic associations and the
neral procession such as was neye: before
seen In the South except in New Orleans.
when his ashe, were temporarily laid to rest
in that faithful city.
1t viii be an impressive and a sublime oc.
casion tribute which Is the spontaneous
outburst OF the love and admiration for a
man VINO represented great principle. and
wi no, II only the leader OF lost cause is still
in death the embodiment OF a principal
which, though defeated, will ever be MAIN
tained by the American people as long as
there Is desire for liberty.
The friendly contest between the people OF
the South as TO whom should have The high
privilege of paying this lasting honor to Mr..
Davis commenced Immediately after his
death.
Richmond offered to Mrs. Davis absolutely
any spot within the city limits tor this pur
pose, and any location In reach which she
might select as site for q monument 20 De
erected by the southern people.
New Orleans cordially and patrlotically of.
fered similar inducements, and, after long de-
Iteration her associations OF the past with
Richmond and the ties of kinshlp and friend
ship with the people here, decided Mrs. Davis
in favor of Richmond.
The spot selected in Hollywood by Mrs.
Davis for the repose OF her husband and lam
lily is one Of the most beautiful in this farl aus
city of the dead where. besides many dIstin-
guished men, lie nearly 10000 Confederate
Killed. The burial plot Occu pies level plane
upon an abrupt slope in full view Of the
James, which dashes over bed of immense
boulders and gives q wild and pic uresque
setting to the quiet OF this rather secluded
spot: Rising TO a greater height behind Is
this sub-plateau Mr.. Davis will be buried.
THE grave will be In u circular plot and will
be bricked up. His children will be buried
around him..
The State House, which is so intense In his
toric memories and surrounded SO closely
with associations of the time when 1t served
as the Capitol of the Confederacy, will be
draped In mourning, and the sacred remains
of her President will lie in state N the rotun-
da for nearly day.
At the death OF Mr.. Davis his remains were
deposited with impressive ceremonies In the
vault of the Army OF Northern Virginia, In
which The term "the city Of the dead" Is Pc
culiarly appropriate, since The departed oc.
cupy mausoleums Of marble and stone sepa-
rated by nicely graveled walks, many OF them