Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-08
DELEGATES PARK
TO JEFFERSON DAVIS
Acres Which Graded Chieftain Of
Confederacy Are Consecrated
To People of South by Loyal
Kentuckians.

FAIRVIEW, KY, June S.-Among the
trees which have grown up about the
birthplace of jefferson Davis since the
year early in the nineteenth century,
when the Davis family removed to Mis-
sissippi, the jefferson Davis Memorial
Park was simply dedicated today. North
east across the state of Kentucky, whose
sunlight was the first to illume, too, the
face of Abraham Lincoln, is Hodgenville,
near which Lincoln was born eight
months after his great opponent.
As quietly as the farm on which the
unions saviour was born. was hallowed
in February, the acres which cradle the
chieftain of the Confederacy were today
consecrated to the people Of the south.
Hodgenville has grown since the days OF
the Lincolns to a county seat; presi-
dent trod its streets in February, and his
successor in September will do homage
to the founder of his party. Fairview
is still a tiny town, trimmed with forests
and sloping gently toward the grass
grown battlefields Of Tennessee; and men
who stained the gray red that Jefferson
Davis might triumph over Abraham Lin
coin, blew today a trumpet from the past
gentler than those of the war in which
they served.
PLANNED DAVIS MEMORIAL.
In September, 1907, when the gray-grown
and enfiladed ranks of Kentucky's famous
Orphan Brigade" met In Glasgow KY,
to do honor to the grave Of their lead
er, General Joseph H. Lewis, former gov
enor Simon Bolivar Buckner, last of the
lieutenant generals Of re Confederacy.
preached the plan of the Davis Memorial
association. The men to whom the de-
fender of Fort Donelson spoke had made
the last stand for Davis and Lee at APP
pomattax; and the proposal that the Da-
Wis homestead be made memorable by the
south, as Lincoln's had been by the en-
tire nation was eagerly taken up. Sub
scriptions were started toward the $50
900 which the work will eventually cost,
Bennett H. Young, commanding the Ken
lucky division United Confederate Vete-
rams. advancing the $4,000 necessary to
close the options on the land. Since the
work was projected, foremost with the
veterans in raising the fund have been
the women of the south.
Oratory, music apd fiowers-to which
the wartime youth were wont to add
death and battle, and call II the south's
esprit de corps-made the day notable.
And to enjoy them and live in the misty
memories of the long ago came
people from all parts of the south.
to the south, to weep a little over hopes
that are departed and over valor that
lives always. The counties of Todd and
Christian, which share equally the town
of Fairview, were the hosts today, and
they provided basket dinner and a bar
becue for those who came and Nstayed
as late as the sunlight. From Hopkins
VILE, Pembroke, Guthrie and Paducah,
KY; from GAINESVILLE and Nashville,
Tenn, and all the other neighborhood
metropolises trains and conveyances
brought the crowds until when Colonel
Young, as chairman, opened the exer-
cises as far as he could see were gather
ed men and women and even children to
whom 1.-The Confederacy" means feudal
rank and plenty against these sterile
times.
COLONEL YOUNG SPEAKS.
Colonel Young, a sometime dashing
lieutenant of the gray, and now a promi-
nent lawyer of Louisville, made the chief
address of the day.
An address was made also by Captain
w. T. Ellis, Of Greensboro. KY, a former
congressman.
AS the exercises were planned just as
Davis himself would have wished them,
his friends did nothing ceremonious. Sim
plicity and quietude marked the entire