The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-10
UNWILLING OF THE
DAVIS MEMORIALS
An Imposing Procession, Led
by General Lee.
B. B. MUNFORD ORATOR
JUDGE REAGAN, OF PRESIDENl
DAVIS CABINET SPEAKS.
GENERAL LEES TOUCHING ADDRESS
Jefferson Hays Davis Draws the Veil From the
Monuments to Mr.. Davis and Miss Winnie.
Floral Offering by the North
Carolina Daughters.

Richmond, Va, Nov. 9.-This was an
other great Confederate day in Rich
mond, the occasion being the unveilmg
in Hollywood Cemetery, under the an
spices of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, now in convention here, Of
the memorials in Hollywood to President
Jefferson Davis and Miss Winnie Davis.
The Daughters held a brief business
session this morning, duTdng which yali-
ous reports were read, and Mrs. Davis
was made honorary president of the
State Chapters of the Daughters. This
afternoon the Daughters, i'm carriages,
We're escorted to hollywood by am inn
posing procession, consisting of Confed-
crate Camps and military, General E'itz-
hugh Lee riding at the head of the line.
A vast crowd had assembled ON the
hill overlooking the Davis plot in the
cemetery, and immediately upon the ar
rival of the parade the ceremonies We're
opened with prayer by the Rev. James
F. Smith, ID. d., who was ON ''Stone-
wall Jackson's staff, and who threw
himself between mas general and the line
o. fire while Jackson was being borne
from the field wounded.
In the Davis plot AN easy chair had
been provided for Mrs. Davis, so that
as the drapery fell she would face the
statue over ner daughters tomb.
Over the grave of President Davis
was q BEAUTIFUL floral Confederate flag,
the blue and red being worked in inn
morteles and the white in ehrysanthe-
NUNS. The staff rested ON q base around
which smilax was wound.
After the prayer, the Governor, Hon.
J. Hoge Tyler, gracefully introduced
Hon. b. b. Munford, the principal Oral
tor of the occasion, who paid beautiful
tribute to Miss Winnie Davis, Mrs. Da-
Wis. President Davis and the lost
Cause In conclusion, Mr.. Munford
said:
Nor can j forbear allusion to the
grateful fact that something i'll the char
acter of Winnie Davis. i'm the untimely
ending of her gentle life, has served
to hlIsh the note of sectional discord and
strengthen the influences that make for
peace. Old time hatreds We're forgotten
in the sorrow which made us all akin.
Union veterans stood as a guard of
honor around her bier, and generous con-
tributions of sympathy and help came
lTOHll DOthl SLueS III Iue Il OlUuluc w clICt
this monument"
The next speaker was john III. Rea-
gam, Postmaster General of the Confed
crate States and the only surviving mem-
Der of Mr. Davis Cabinet. He was i'm
trodtrced 10y Hon. ]. Taylor Ellyson.
Judge Reagan spoke very briefly, his re-
marks being confined to a eulogy of his
chief. He said i'm part:
Mr. Davis possessed a combination
of great qualities, rarely equalled and
never surpassed. And i'm addition to
these great qualities he possessed the
most unselfish character i have ever
known. and the most humane and mer-
ciful disposition, with a gentleness in do
nestle and social life which commanded
the admiration and respect of all who
knew him. And to all these he added
the character of a deyout Christian.
my estimate of his character has
BEEN formed from a personal acquaint-
ance OF a good many wars, and from
close personal and official relations with
him during the four years OF the war be-
tween the States.
''While the cause of which he was the
highest and truest representative failed
of success, he carried to his grave a
sincerity of respect, an enthusiastic de-
votion of the people he served and repre-
stalte4l, unsurpassed by any ever shown
to amy successful hero or conqueror.
And the future will show, when the
clouds of passion and prejudice shall
have passed away, that the cause and
principles he represented were just, and
based on the true principles of consti-
tutional government, local self gOvern-
ment and civil liberty.
God bless his memory"
General latzhugh Lee was then intro
duced by MIR. Ellyson, and delivered an
eloquent and touching address, in which
he made beautiful alltIsions to MIR. and
Mrs Davis and Miss Winnie
Following Generals Lee speech, DIR.
III. M .Clarkson recited an ode-'TIhe
Daughter of tne lConfedei'acy," and Mrs.
Davis Haynes then drew the veil from
the monuments to MIR. Davis and Miss
Winnie The former is a bronze statue
of the Confederate President. The lat
ter is marble figure of the Angel of
Grief, the hand extending a wreath she
is about to place ON the grave. 1t is over
hfesize and the pedestal is suitably in
scribed. Tt was erected by the Daugh-
ters. Both works are 10y Zolnay.
The following are the Inscriptions on
THE pedestal of the Davis statue:
IfrOnt-
Jefferson Davis
AT Rest
An American Soldier and Defender of
the Constitution.
Born in Christian County, Kentucky,
june Bird, 1903.
Died at New Orleans La, Decembe"
9th. 1889.
West Point Glass 1898.
Member House of Representatives First
Mississippi, 1S45-1S46.
Colonel First Mississippi Rifles, Mexican
War. 1846-1S47.
Brigadier General u. =. Army, May
18th. 1917.
United States Senator 1S47-1S51.
Secretary Of War 1S53-1S57.
United States Senator 1S57-1S61."
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