The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-07-28
STATUE OF GEN. LEE.
Bronze Effigy Will be Placed in Sta
tuary Hall at Washington by Old
Dominion State.

" aSlIlISto1l, culS G3.-IuC people
throughout the whole South may rca-
sonably be expected to take an in
tcrcst in the placing Of n statue Of
Gen. Robert e. Lee in Statuary hall
in the United States capitol. The
State of Virginia will place this sta
tue there, and ii has just been cast
IN bronze ut Providence, r. l., by
Edward V. Valentine. Before the
end or the present year it should be
ready to be unveiled. And when this
ceremony does take place, do not
doubt that there will be interest in it
on both sides of the Mason and Dixon
line. Already protests have been
heard from certain G. A. II. agitators,
who arc afraid that if Gen. Lee is not
put down in history as an arch trait
or and rebel their pensions might be
cnt off. The real heart OF the North
seems to have outgrown the bitter
ness towards the South, and the
whole country is in position TO rec
ognlzc the greatness OF Lee and to ac-
cord HIM place among the countrv's
grcntrSt men, But not all the dcma-
E"Sucs are dead yet, and some Of the
a. y. IL. camps, rs perhaps some OF
the Confederate survivors, camps,
are presided over or at least great
ly influenced by dcmagogues. There
are heap of denlagogucs in tho
world. So listen for few scrceches
when the Lee statue is unveiled.
This will be the first memorial to
a Confederate hero whose chief claim
to distinction is his service to the
Confrdcracy which anywhere up-
pears in the capitol or in any Of the
buildings Of the United States GOV
rrnmcnt. There is already in Sta
tuary hall one Confederate, DR.. j. u.
NJ. Curry, member Of the Confcd-
crat" congress. placed there by his
native State of Alabama. but DR..
Curry had other claims to distinction
winch "ntwrighcd those Of a servant
OF the t"nfcdcrary. Alabama and
Texas, by thc way, are the only two
of the seeded States which arc
represented in Statuary hill, Texas
having contributed statue Of Sam
Houston within the past few years.
But Sam Houston was not n Con-
tcdrratc soldier nor il man OF whom
Texas in the Cos was especially
proud. Two Of the dislinctively Sou
thcrn States before the war, that is
they were slave States, Maryland
and Missouri, each have two statutes
in this hall, but Kcnutcky so far is
mrcprcscntcd. When South Caro-
lima puts in the statute of John G..
Calhoun, which is now being made in
New York by the sculptor Ruck-
stuhl, and will be ready some time
during the present year, or ought to
be, then Kentucky will probably fol-
low with one of Henry Clay. Who
the other one from Kentucky will be
there is also little doubt, for the most
distinguished and the greatest Of
kcntuckians next to Clay was Daniel
Boone. Virginia has decided to pul
IN also Il statue Of Washington, a
bronze copy Of its famous Iloudon
statue in the capitol at Richmond.
This Is the original of the one on the
State house grounds in Columbia. and
The one jefferson pronounced the
best ever made of Washington.
There is plaster east copy Of this
already in Staiuary hall. set back Il
little from the rest. but n is not the
one placed there by Virginia under
the regulation by which each State
is given the privilege Of putting in
two statues.
Statuary hall WAS established in
lS6l al the suggestion Of Senator
Morrill, Of Vermont, who, by The way
will turn over in his grave and groan
when the statue Of Gen. Lee is un-
veilcd, if he has not already turned
over on account of the Curry figure.
Each State is invited to send "thc
ciligicS of two Of her chosen sons in
marble or bronze to be placed per-
nlancntly here SO il is left en-
tircly with the States themselves to
determine whose "clligics' shall be
placed there. The G. \. RS can
kick all they want TO and can not help
themselves. But, for all that. it is
safe TO say that no Vermont scnato or
in 1864 ever dreamed that Robert f.
Lee would have Il place in this Hall
of Fame. If he had dreamed such Il
thing he never would have moved TO