The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-02

great lieutenant of Lee; the chivalric
commander of the Light Division, A. t.
Hill; and Richard Ewell, the splendid
soldier trained by Jackson; D. Fl. Hill.
the magnificent commander, and Hood,
the indomitable and impetuous Texan;
Longstreet, the Macdonald of the army;
Wade Hampton, the chivalric Knight OF
Carolina, and the intrepid soldier, r. F.
Hoke; Fitz Lee, the splendid Cavalier of
the Confederacy, and Forrest, the Murat
of the Southwest; Wheeler, the great
cavalryman, and Pettigrew, whose
name is as immortal as the
stars There we would read
of the deeds, and see the portrait,
of the noble Ashby, the gallant Pelham,
the splendid Pendleton, the heroic Pen
der and Daniels, and Branch, and Viii
ting, and Fisher, and Robert Ransom,
and Grimes and Cox, and Robert Vance,
and W. P. Roberts; of Ramseur, the
superb; of J. E. B. Stuart, the greatest
cavalryman, Gen. Hooker declared, ''yet
born on this continent" and OF many
others I cannot now mention.
A noble ex-Confederate soldier, now
living in the city of New York, Charles
Broadway Rouss, has already signifed
princely generosity by offering to give
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
TO help erect a Confederate Museum. We
salute him in the name of the Southern
people, and thank him in the name OF
our sacred cause.
In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is a col
umn to the memory of one hundred and
one unknown Confederate soldiers.
Upon bronze panel is this inscription ::
around this column is buried all of hero
ism that could die"
John @. Latham, Jr., now OF New
York city, erected this monument, but
his name nowhere appears upon 1t. He
thus reduced the golden rule to a gran
ite shaft, which will perpetuate his
splendid unselfishness and nobility Of
soul, as it will the courage of the dead
heroes beneath it.
Confederate Monument at Chicago.
And now all hail to the citizens of
Chicago, who, with patriotism as broad
as the Union, recently set the republic a
lesson in true nobility by unwilling a
splendid monument to our six thousand
Confederate dead in Camp Douglas, in
the Metropolis of the West.
That monument, it seems to me, is the
grandest yet erected on the earth. 9th
ers have been reared by friends and by
w-countrymen, never divided by the
crimson hand of war. But this monument
was erected not by their loving brothers in
gray, but chiefly by their once fierce foes
in blue. 1t stands not in the land of
Jefferson Davis, but in the adopted State
of Abraham Lincoln. About it beauti-
full women of the South sang no songs OF
love, but brave women of the North
with flowers wreathed the battery at its
base, contributed by the government,
and paid tribute in words that gave new
glory to the flag of the Union.
God bless the citizens of Chicago for
their broad mindedness, unselfshness
and generosity. The Great South in love
presses to her bosom her splendid sister,
whose imperial domain lies beneath the
setting sun; and whose sons and daugh-
tiers are as brave and beautiful, patriotic
and progressive as any of the children of
men.
That Confederate monument they re-
Gently unveiled in Chicago, it seems to
me, is the grandest yet erected on this
globe. And beautifully did General
Hampton say, and right gladly do we
endorse his words San honor then to
the brave and liberal men of Chicago,
who have shown by their action that they
regard the war as over, and that they
can welcome as friends, on this solemn
and suspicious occasion, their former
enemies. AS long as this lofty column
points to heaven, as long as one stone of
its foundation remains, future genera
lions of Americans should look upon it
with pride, not only as an honor to those
who conceived its construction, but
as a silent, though noble en-
blem of restored Union and
reunited people. In the name Of
nv comrades, dead and living, and in
nv own name, gave grateful thanks to
the brave men of Chicago, who have
done honor to our dead Confederate
soldiers"
Coward Cry of Rebels and Rebellion.
In the presence of the record of the
Confederate soldier, there are men, for
tunately but few in number, sufficiently
malicious and cowardly to refer to him
IS traitor and rebel. Those who utter
this base calumniation are densely ignor-
ant, or UNANIMOUSLY false. We despise
the cowardly aspersion. We protest
against it in the name of, the Southern
people. We repel it in the name
of Alamance and Mecklenburg,
Kings Mountain, and Guilford Court
House. We spurn it in the name of
eighty years of American history, during
which the councils of this Republic were
directed and controlled by Southern
statesmen. Who wrote the Declaration
of independence Whose sword beat
back the hosts of BritaIn2 What jurist
most adorned the Supreme Bench of this
Nation? Whose tongue fred the Ameri-
can heart with the love of freedom and
cried solve me liberty or give me deatht'