Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-10-22
THE GRAND CAMP.


ed at yesterday mornings session OF
the Grand Camp of Confederate Veter-
ans in Richmond was over resolution
urging Confederate organizations to
raise money to erect the proposed JEFF
ferson Davis monument. These reso-
lutions were presented by the Rev. S.
Taylor Martin, of Pulaski City. His
resolutions urged that Confederate5
owed it to themselves and their descen-
dants to raise the monument to the
President of the Coniederacy. He paid
the highest possible tribute to the wo-
men of the South. Mr.. Martin impress
ed upon his hearers that not only
would this memorial to Mr.. Davis
honor him, but themselves, and en-
phasizs that the constitutional right
which the Southern States claimed en-
titled them to separate from the Union.
The veterans, he declared, are now
passing away more rapidly than they
did during the bloody conflicts OF war.
When they shall have ceased to live
there will be nothing to speak for the
valor of the southern arms and the
purity of that cause but these monu-
ments and contemporaneous history.
Mr.. Martins resolutions were unanl'
mously adopted.
MIR. ]. Taylor Ellyson, the president
of the Jefferson Davis Monument As
ISOLATION, followed Mr.. Martin in q
statement of the financial affairs OF that
organization. The total collections,
Mr.. Elyson said, amounted up to this
time something over $4,000. or this
amount New Orleans has contributed
more than the Slate of Virginia. Texas
has also exceeded it. in her donations,
and the State of Georgia comes within
5000 of SURPRISING the liberality OF the
State in which the remains of Mr.. Davis
rest.
Colonel Pettitt offered the following,
which was also adopted:
"Resolved, That we heartily indorse
the RECOMMENDATION of the grand CON-
mander in reference to the importance
of pushing to completion the monu'
ment to our late President, Jefferson
Davis"
Col. Thomas P. Pollard, chairman Of
the committee on Sons of Veterans and
Ladies' Auxiliary, next presented re-
port. He reported favorable growth oil
the Sons organizations, the Grand
Camp of which, he said. now numbered
twenty-three camps. The report made
special mention of the Lee Camp, NO
o, Sons OF Veterans, in their work q
keeping an inmate in the Soldiers
Home and in erecting cottage there.
1t also referred to the Sons work in be-
half of getting proper school history
The report also praised the work OF the
Ladies' Auxiliary in their work Of
charity to thousands Of widows and or
phaDs.
Col. Stewart, of Portsmouth, offered
the following, which was adopted:
Resolved, That this Grand Camp Of
Confederate Veterans earnestly and
urgently request the incoming Legisla.
ture of Virginia to appropriate SlO,OOt
per year additional to the present ap
preparation for the support of the Con,
federate Soldiers Home to enable the
management to take care of all deserv
ing Confederate soldiers who need sup
port, and we as body and individual
| " hereby pledge ourselves to exert oui
| Influence with the members of the Leg
| islature to accomplish the end de-
sired"
The Legislature now gives the home
$50, 900 a year. The condition, how
ever, is that after twenty years the
property reverls to the Commonwealth
Major N. V. Randolph gave detail
ed account of the conduct Of the Sol
diers' Home. In the course of mis- re
marks he also took occasion to state
that the late Msjor Ginter ta1 during
his life given $4,000 to the home, and
that lady, whose name he reserved,
had also given $4,000.
The old officers of the camp were all
reelected by reclamation for the years
1S97.9S. They are: John Cussons
grand commander, Glen Allen: James
N. Stubba, first lieutenant grand com
mander, Woods X Roads; John j. Will.
liams, second lieutenant grand com
mander, Winchester; Stith Boiling,
third lieutenant grand commander,
Petersburg; Thomas G. Morton, inspec'
TOT. general, StauntoD; WashingtonTay-
lor, quartermaster-general, Norfolk;
Rev. B. D. Tucker, chaplain general,
Norfolk; DR.. John S. Powell, surgeon
general, Occoquan; Thomas Elicit,
acknowledgement, Richmond; B. l..
Farinholt, aide-de-camp, Providence
Forge.
Mr.. Joseph Bryan made presenta-
ton TO tho camp of the movement to
erect memorial hall at the University
of Virginia to commemorate the 45O
alumni OF that institution who gave up
their lives in defense of the South.
The feature of the evening session
was the discussion of resolution OF
Colonel Petit, of Fluvanna, proposing
to asked the Legislature to pension all
of the Confederate soldiers who are
unable to earn livelihood. The propo.
sition was voted down.
A memorial window to Jefferson Da-
Wis is to be place in ST. Paul's Church,
where be and his family worshiped
during the war. The Davis pew in that
edi6ce is desig nated by the name of the
President inscribed upon it. The La.
dies Hollywood Memorial Association,
the lakewood Memorial Association,
the Confederate Memorial and Literary
Association and the Hebrew Memorial
Association have moved in the matter
of placing this memorial window In St.
Paurs. They have already raised over
81 900 for this purpose and last night
asked the grand camp to give the
scheme its official sanction and call