The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-17
JAcksoNvILLE's MONUMENT.
The Confederate shaft Unveiled in
Presence of Blue and Gray.

The Confederate shaft Unveiled in
Presence of Blue and Gray.
Jacksonville, Fla, June 1.-THE unveil-
ing of the $4,000 Confederate monument
to-day marked one Of the most patriotic
incidents in our national annals.
! Indeed, 1t was surrounded by so many
! peculiar circumstances that nothing in
this country have ever equalled it. 1t be-
comes a chapter in history strange In CO.
| incidence and remarkable in surround
! ings.
Eighteen years ago on the piazza of one
of the hotels Of this city sat soldier ex-
president. while the citizens of Jackson
vile passed and repassed, marking the
presence Of a statesman who had made
| the laurels of a victor unfading forever
| by proclaiming over a sea of bitterness,
| Let us have peace"
To-day his grandson, as member of the
stan OF Gen. Lee, stood within a few feet
OF the same spot, reviewing an army OF
soldiers in blue, veterans who had OPP
| posed each other on the battlefield, and
| thousands of Floridians marching to do
honor 10 a Confederate soldier in bronze,
who viewed with the cold, stony eyes of
the past a living chapter of our country's
| history.
A regimental band from the land of the
old Yankees stepped proudly to the strains
of march, and Old Glory waved in the
Southern breeze. The new Yankees from
North Carolina and Virginia, clad in blue
too, took up the echoes, with the spirit
stirring refrain of Dixie Behind
! trooped the old, Federal veterans, and then
came the old Confederates, under the Stars
and Bars, floating by the side of the Stars
and Stripes, peaceful all the men over
" be haO tod grim o11f fot
| with eyes, looking to the future and not
to the past
A Federal army in Jacksonville march
ed amid the plaudits of the people of an
extreme Southern state past the review
ing stand occupied by a Lee and Grant
under the eyes of a Harrison, whose faith
er was Federal general and a Republi-
can President and of a nephew of the
| Vice President from New Jersey 10 I'M
veil monument dedicated by ex-Confed-
| crates to the Confederate who is dead ex-
cept on the pages of history.
Victory will perch on our banners in
the war with Spain, but not even the vic
tory of Manila or a victory on land as
decisive, could promise more for our fu-
ture than the peaceful exercises that a
Southern sun smiled upon in Jacksonville
to-day.
Through the streets Of a Southern city
tramped an army in blue, led by Lee In
whose name ana 1ame Is concentrated
! Southern history from the beginning, and
| at the foot of a pedestal that lifts up the
| typical Southern soldier to the reverence
of the ages stood a Sartoris, who is a
| Grant to us now, and a Harrison at home
with the people from whom his ancestors
| sprang.
The South and the West and the North
| marched through the streets-the boys in
! blue from Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, New
| Jersey Virginia and North Carolina, broth
ers all save as they are rivals for the first
place in the charge and the last in retreat
when they face the enemies of their native
| land.
| On every hand the flag of our united
| country hoated in the semi-tropicaI sun.
| Veterans of both the blue and the grey re-
marked on every side that it was to their
hearts delight to witness at last such a
sight. It was a great lesson to the nation,
an event that must become historic,