Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-18
DANIELS GREAT GRAFTON.
Occasion at CORTLAND
ed the Veil.

FRANKLIN, VA. September 17.-(spe-
-tai.)-A tremendous crowd assembled at
CORTLAND. tho county seat OF Southarnp-
ton. today. to witness the ceremonies at
,c,5ins tho unwilling OF the monument
IN The memory Of the Confederate SOL
tin-s Of Southampton. which has just
been c-cc;cG on tbs courthouse square
BY tho Confederate Monument Associa-
ton OF the county.
The crowd was vnriousiy estimated at
from three 10 five thousand, and Included
the members of Tom Smith Camp Con-
tolerate Veterans. from Suffolk, Va, and
I7rouhart Gillette Camp, from this coup-
*. as we'll rs other Confederate soldiers,
and several companies of the Seventy
FIRST Regiment Virginia Volunteers The
music was furnished by the seventeFirst
Regiment Band. 4
COLONEL EDWARDS PRESIDED:
The ceremonies were conducted ~ Col
ouel Luther r. Edwards. president Of the
monument association, who was a lieu
was Northumberland of the Forth vir-
GINA Regiment in the late Spanih-ArneT-
lean war His opening addI:ss was
chaste and beautiful. as might ave been
expected from such q man.
aon William Stands, State Snator. on
hehalf OF the monument assertion. pre-
santed the monument to the 9pnty gov
z1nment Of southampton comfy: Hon:
". J. Sebrcll, Commonwealth Attorney,
on behalf of the county. scepted the
Gift. and pledged the countyto sacredly
ard jealousy care for the aonument-
Mr. J. B. Prince, Jr., Nabr OF Court
land welcomed me crowd 10 the town,
and introduced Major JOHNNY Daniel as
the orator of the occasion. Each of these
gentlemen rs the son of Confederate
soldier, and their speeches'vere beautiful
and appropriate doing fnor TO them
selves and justice to l-.etccasion
THE WAR .As INNITABLE.
Major Daniel was in fe tri1n and IN
his happiest mood. In aspeech OF more
than an hour he charrta and delighted
tl7e crowd hat heard hi He said that
the war was the rest of conditions
that made war inevitsle; that like a
criminal case, it had be1 continued from
time to time before ita1ne, and that II
# had been possible tfecure other con-
tInuances 1t might he oeen postponed
until now, il which eNit ne SpulI5 hliii
Of today would havbeen flshtlng the
battles and bearing t. burdens that the
Confederate. soldiers Fe forty years ago.
but that as the war 10 10 come ne was
-l,5 Il came when was young and
could take part in Inc speaker Salo
hat the people Of 9th the North and
he South learned areat deal about each
,ther by the war: at the North learned
nat the men of tbSouth We're not only
much grit. endurce, and perseverance
rs had any othemen on earth Inc
.o,+be17,ers learn that the men of the
North would nopnly talk but would
ait .,,6 thai flipped they would re-
80, ag.in and Jain to the fight.
,r.o Da1ia, Id that the Confederate
soT5io,.- +t,or-h+e was right; and while
he accepted thfesuIt, ne had no apolo-
,-iae N make fiwllat he did.
TWO NE1TO BE DESPISED.
10 docIara3here were only two men
49,. ra,,-f,tar tespised-the northern
,,,an 1rbo daInded an apology from
[-o,+o5ars+a Idier, and the Confederate
SoI5;ar zrbo Ade the apology. He paid
birb +ribr+ % the Confederate women,
- cid ~ some day a monument to
49,, --o,,l5be erected. He spoke of
~ birl<r trd the lighting men of the
>--+, o,5buth had for each other. and
;5 10y day had already come wl7"n
~ rort,Lers accorded to the SOUL,
or,,.rs III Just due as soldiers and men.
rTti. ie fenced by the fact that Robert
loo ready occupies a place in
-or+heT-hall of fame. Major DAME:
ga ~ he believed the DAY would come
~ I Federal Government would it
sails It a monument in the city of
11r.sbiton, having on it the figure Of
1nborE. Lee-Confederate uniform and
4 REUNITED COUNTRY
u,tclared that the late Spanish Amer
,o,~tar had shown. as nothing else
coTI that the countr?: was reunited.
hat he was more than ever Impress
"a fth that when he was in Havana.
ortaw Fitzhugh Lee anu other Confed-
n,(s with blue uniforms on. The speak
hid high tribute to the Confederates
southampton county. most of whom
,je with Pickett in the famous charge
lthe bloody angle on the field Of Get
fburg.
THE MONUMENT UNVEILED.
kt the conclusion of Major Daniels
feech the band played Nearer, My God.
! Thee" and the monument was I'M
teilcd by Misses Blanche Edwards Bessie
f. Prince. Mary Owen White, Charlotte
iSilliam. Maggie A. Woodward. and Iu-
lie Drew Parham, all daughters OF Con-
'ederate soldiers of Southampton coun-
~
The monument is of beautiful Virginia