Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-17
PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION.
Notable Incidents at the Unveiline of
a Monument at Jacksonville.
lBy Telegraph,

| 10Y 1eleSrapu.)
| JACKSONVILLE FLA Juno 1s
The unwilling of the $50. 900 Confeder
ate monument today marked one n,
| the most patriotic incidents in on,
| national annals. Indeed it was sur.
rounded by SO many peculiar circum.
stances that nothing in this countr,
| has ever equallel it. 1t becomes :
chapter in history strange in coinci-
dence and remarkable in surround
| tngS. ..H ..# -T N
Eighteen years ago on the piazza of
one OF the hotels of the city sat {,
soldier ex-President. while the citizens
| of Jacksonville passed and re-passed.
marking the presence of a statesman
who had made the laurels of victor
| unfading forever by proclaiming over
& sea of bitterness:
Let us have peace" ....
Today his grandson as a member
of the staff of General Lee stood with
in a few feet of the same spot review
ing an army of soldiers in blue, yete-
rams who had opposed each other on
the battlehelds and thousands of Flor
ldlanS marching to do honor to a Con-
feslerate soldier in bronze who viewed
with the cold stony eyes of the past a
living chapter of our current history.
"A regimental band from the land of
the old Yankees stepped proudly to the
strains of a march and Old Glory way
ed in the southern breeze. The new
Yankees from North Carolina and Vir-
ginia. clad in blue. too took up the
echoes with the spirit stirring refrain
of Dixie. Behind trooped the old Fed
eral veterans and then came the old
Confederates, under the Stars and Bars
floating beside the Stars and Stripes.
peacefully: all the men over whom the
banners tloated grim but quiet. with
eyes looking to the future and not to
the past.
A federal army In Jacksonville
q mi ha nj nP
pie OF an extreme southern state past
the reviewing stand occupied by a Lee
and a Grant, under the eyes Of Harri-
son. whose father was federal gene
raj and Republican President. and OF
nephew Of the Vice President to
unvail a monument dedicated by ex-
Cnnfederates to the Confederate who is
dead except on the pages OF history
Victory will perch on our banners in
the war with SPAIN but not even the
as decisive. could promise more for
our future than the peaceful exercises
that a southern sun smiled upon in
Jacksonville today.
Through the streets Of a southeE t.,
city tramped an army in blue, leSoc 9
Lee. in whose name and fame Iesta1 :
centrated southern history q ~, SOL !
hhes snrforis WHO IS Grant C. to g us nod
and q Harrison. at home with the .ow.
pie from whom his ancestors sopeo-l
The South and the West and the-ang.
and the North marched throarh the ;,
boys in blue from l!l'-ois,
New Jersey, Iowa, Wisconsin, Virgins
and North Carollna-brothers all save
as they are rivals for the first place
in the charge and the last in the re-
treat when they face the enemy of
their native land.
On every hand the flag of reunited
country foated in the semi-trop1cal
sun. Veterans of both the blue and
the gray remarked on every side that
1t was to their hearts delight to wit
ness ut last such a sight. 1t was
great lesson to the nation. an event
that must become historic.