Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-06-12
THE old SOLDIERS At RICHMOND.
THE JEFFERSON DAVIS ARCH UNVEILED.
A GRAND TIME WAS HAD.

Richmond, Va, June 3.--The capi-
tai of Virginia to-day resumed the
glory of the time when it was the
capital of nation with an ambition
that was world AS the monu-
ment to Jefferson Davis, the Presi-
dent of the Confederate States of
America, was unveiled men who had
fought for that nations Lost Cause
stood with hair grayer than their old
uniforms to hear the eulogy of their
dead President and the principles
he represented.
"Not in hostility to others, not to
injure any section of the country,
not even for our own peouniary
benefit, but from the high and SOL
emn motive of protecting the rights
we inherited and which it is our duty
to transmit unshorn to our children"
lii these, the words of Jefferson
Davis spoken before the United
States Senate on June 2l, 1861, was
the cause of the Confederacy pre-
sented before the ex-soldiers of gray,
the men who had sacrificed for that
cause. These words of President
Davis were inscribed on the monu-
ment that was unveiled, they were
reproduced in the speech of the day,
and found echoes in the breast of
veterans who fought for States
rights which they believed in as a
matter of right, and failed to sus-
tain in might.
Children of Richmond, three thou
sand strong, had drawn the monu-
ment to it's place through two miles
of spectators, just as children of that
city had drawn to its place in Capi.
tol Square the monument to George
Washington, the first President OF
the United States of America, whom
Virginia gave to her country.
More happy still was the scene
to-day in which the Confederate
veterans were the spectators, the
guests of honor at a reunion that
was larger than many held in recent
years.
While their ranks have been thin.
ming, the veterans and their families
have been growing richer, more
prosperous than they had believed
that they would ever be when the
dark cloud of reconstruction had set.
tied like storm upon the fair South.
land. And so they were able to re-
turn to this unwilling, which will &C
down in history as the memoria
event in the story of the Confede
racy as it lives in the hearts of Dixie
Gen. Clement A. Evans, of Geor
gia, male the principal address o.
the day When the veil was drawr
from the monument eyes were lifted
upward from the statue of Jefferson
Davis TO the figure that crowned tn,
pillar in the center of the collonade
This is the allegorical figure of wo
man, known as "Vindicatrix," rep
resenting the spirit of the South. A
the base of this pillar and on ped
estal five feet high is the bronz
figure of Mr.. Davis, eight feet il
height.
The inscription on the pedestal is
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= JEFFERSON DAVIS, +
r Exponent of +
- Constitutional Principles, +
= Defender Of State Rights. +
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On each side of the pedestal ar
inscriptions, the one on the left read
ing: GAS Citizen, Soldier, States
man, he Enhanced the Glory, tn
Fame of the United States. Whe
his Allegiance to that Governmer
was terminated by his Sovereig
State, as President of the Confedt
racy, he exalted his Country befor
the Nations"
On the right side of the pedest;
is inscribed "With constancy an
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