Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-05-17
A MONUMENT ASSOCIATION
ORG GANIZATION EFFECTED
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON
Meeting of a Number of Asheville
Gentle men to Take The First
ateps-Execuiive Committee to
He eAppoinicd-TheR Resolutions


ateps-Execuiive Committee to
He Appoinicdi-TheR Resolutions
As announced by call in Tuesdays
CITIZEN a meeting was held in the court
house yesterday afternoon at 8 O'Clock
for the purpose of organizing Vance
Monument association, Capt. Nj. Il
Carter was chosen chairman, and !. =.
Kerr secretary.
Mai. w. II. Malone offered the follow
ing resolutions which were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That in the death of Zcbu-
lon B. Vance the American republic has
lost noble and bold champion OF human
rights, most patriotic and gallant de-
fender of the people, whose sturdy
honesty and unimpeacllable integrity
stamp him as model for all men hold
ing high positions of trust and honor,
and of whom it may be truthfully said,
He was firm as rock, brilliant as a
star. artless as child, pure as woman
THAT the people OF Buncombe county
feel proud Of the fact that here, amCrg
our beautiful mountains, this noble man
first saw the morning sun, and though
his death is such an irreparable loss, it is
some consolation to know that his re-
mains now rest within his native
county, for which he entertained such
love and venerution
| THAT while we cherish this local pride
we recognize the fact that his name and
reputation belong, as a common hcr'-
tagc, to the people of the State OF North
| Carolina, whom he had served faithfully
and nobly in peace, and whose rights
and honor he maintained gloriously in
war;
That tic State OF North Carolina and
the whole country should feel justly
proud of the history and official life OF
the late Senator Vance, whose long and
varied record is absolutely untarnished
and spotlcss; i'll whom no deception or
cquivocation were ever tound an official
who never betrayed trust. whose dc
votion to principle was so intense and
pure that no fascnations OF political
power, no Establishments of official re-
cognition could swcrvc him from the
duty which he believed he owed to his
people, thus exemplilying in his life,
that noblcst work of God, an honest
man."
Capt. J. Z. Sawyer offered the follow
ing, which were adopted:
"Rcsolved, That an association oI
citizens be formed tor the purpose of car
rying out the wishes of the people in re
gard to the erection of monument to
the memory OF the late Senator ItbuloL
B. Vance;
"Tha. the name of said association
shall be The Vance Monument associa
ton"
Capt. Matt Atkinson suggested that
as Ashcvillc was Senator Nance's home
and Buncombc county the place OF hi
birth, it would be eminently proper tha
a memorial shaft be erected in the cour
house square in Ashevile by the peopl
of the city and county.
Geo. 5. Powell then offered the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted.
"ResoHcd, That the chairman OF THU
meeting, M. L. Carter, togethcr will
him, shall compose an executive com
mittee of the SAID association, whic'
said committee shall have power to I'll
vacancies, and to add to their numbc
by election, as they may see proper, ant
to elect secretary and a treasurer, th
powers and duties of which said con,
mittcc shall be to carry out the object
of the said association"
Tnc chairman announced tnat h
would name the executive committe
called for by MIR. Powcll's resolution i
Il few days.
The following was Offered by !. |
Kerr, and. on motion, was referred t
the executive committee with the recon
mcndation that it be favorablv consiC
cred:
Whereas, 1t is desirable that an
monument erected to the memory OF Sci
ator Vance should represent the con
bncd contributions OF as many citizer
of North Carolina and other States I
possible, as a token Of the universal {
teen in which he was held by the mass
OF the people;
"Now, therefore, In order to tnah
every citizen to contribute small su
to that end, and thus become memb
of this association. it is
"Resolvcd, That the executive col
mittee of this association are h'rci
directed to have prepared a mem
rial card containing photogral
of the late Senator on the 'ro
of the cover, certificate OF mel
bcrship on the back OF the cover, and
the inside, the poem by W. b. Gwyn
the memory OF Vance, which was p,
lished in THE AsHEvILLE DAILY CTrz
on May 3, 1891, the said card to be st
by the said committee to the people
North Carolina and other states for I
- purpose of raising fund for the crccti
monument;
ri "Thc said certificate to have the print
or Autographed signatures Of the co
mittee or its designated members or o
GERS, with blank for the name of
purchaser, and to be wordcd so as
declare the purchaser OF the card me
bcr OF this association" .
On motion the meeting then adjouri