Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-02-22
TO RECEIVE RELICS.
Formal Opening Of The Confederate
museum to Occur This Afternoon
,,,,rp or THE EXERCISES
Rev. Or. nogs VIII ""''
and Go,ernor o'Ferr"n VIII
..,.raI bradley Il. john
am the rator of tho Day

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49,. history Of the Lost CAUSE ~ =
- 80 ,bo formal opening OF the |on.
-. Museum. established IN inc ''i-
49, h.,ts Mansion. for the purpose
...e-,.i,, relies and records bearing
mon the valor and courage Oh sOa' 49,
rsople engaged IA the recent s'e"' '0"
alct between the States.
.rso hulls.nc will be thrown open 10
49,. ,, o'clock this afternoon
wy So1 the formal exercises. winch
-, y. simple. set full Of interest anu
W. -, WIN occur They VIII open
a',,e or,rer by Rev. Dr. Moses
n Uoge. after which Governor
n.rorrau will present the speaker OF the
l.-s..on General Bradley T. Johnson.
.. de- also hoped that a sufficient number
~ froops will turn out in order TO
have a review by the Executive. The
museum will also be open tonight from
,u 10 O'Clock. and the public will be
welcomed.
The Dispatch on yesterday published
m, names Of the regents and vice-re-
cents and Of the ladies constituting the
committees representing the seve;ai
States. who Will receive in the various
rooms ~ the museum. In addition TO
those spokeu Of, Mrs. Il. D. Hotchk.ss.
the only honorary vice-presdent allowed
bv the constitution of the Confederate
Memorial Literary Society. In recoeh-
ton OF her services as chairman OF ne
building Committee, viii receive with me
officers in the Reception-Room OF me
Solid South. In the Missouri-Room. the
vice-regent. Mrs. George i. stacy, ana
the alternate. Ms. Mamie ID. Werth'
sister Of Rev Z. G.. Robert. OF 81 LOUIS
Will receive. assisted boy Mrs. FRANCES
Townes. daughter Of Mr.. William Is.
Giles. and niece Of Mt Thomas Peyton
Giles. former residents Of 81. Louis. Mrs.
Henry Law Watkins. who was Miss Mag
gle Reading. Of ST. Louis. ana sister-in-
law OF Colonel William Marshall. OF
that city: Mrs Charles Seiden, Mrs. w.
A. Rhoads. Miss ls0line Moses, and Miss
B.uford.
PRESIDENT DAVIss BUREAU.
Colonel John Bell Bigger yesterday pre-
scented the Memorial Society with a
bureau which was owned and used by
President Davis during his occupancy OF
the white House Of the Confederacy."
Colonel Bigger had previously sent 10
the museum bust OF Mr. Davis and a
Confederate flag both Of which occu-
pied "a place over the casket which con-
aimed the remains Of the President when
they lay tn state in the rotunda Of the
Capitol prior to their refinement in
Hollywood in donating the bureau,
Colonel Bigger wrote the following letter.
Richmond, Va, February n, 1896
Mr. james Il. Werth, Chairman Relic
committee. Confederate Memorial
Literary Society:
Aiy Dear Madam,-At a public sale q
furniture which took place In the dwelling
Iu this city where Hon. jefferson Davis
President OF the Confederate states. re
of his household goods. and II has been
ln my possession ever since. My family
and myself value II for the sacred recOl-
lecti0ns which cluster around II. Oft
times, perhaps, has our late President
Davis opened the drawers Of this bureau
with hands that once clutched a sci
diers sword flashing in thickest contest
IN defence Of nations cause on the
bloody fields OF Mexico, ana in which
hand he held his commission as President
81 the Southern COnfederacy. endorsed
By the swelling pulsatiOns of generous
heart, as Just rec gnitiOn OF his states
manship and patriotic yalOr, and under
the broad seal Of which commission ne
nobly lived and under which. though
despoiled OF rightful place by usurpng
power, he died monarch In peoples
love-
Ills hands, now free from the iron
nauacles which his cowardly prosecutors
put upon them in his captivity as an in
dignity 10 southern manhood, are now
upi0ei. and his voice Is now singing
amid the heavenly chOristers.
: give this bureau 10 your society for
use and preservation in the same building
from which 1 brought IL, a. a relic con-
utctad with our great struggle. the recol-
lection OF which is dear to the hearts OF
every lover Of constitutional government
ana southern rights.
With high regard,