The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-05-19
DIED A MARTYR
.,'oEument Of Major Wiz Un-
veiIsd Wednesday
nE WAS ANOBLE MAN

- SG EG~ "a eSS ~@sS asuE sS !!
He Was offered Pardon on Con-
Gition That He In criminate Presi-
dent Davis With Cruel Treatment
OF Prisoners at Andersopville Dur
ing the War, but He Scorned 1t.
The u0veiling OF the monument to
Major Henry Wirz, c. S. A, at An
dersonville, Georgia, which took
place yesterday, was an event that
will attract attention all over the
country. The monument was un-
yelled with appropriate ceremonies.
1t was erected through the efforts
OF the Georgia division. United
Daughters of the Confederacy. and
largely through the suggestion OF
Mrs. A. 3. Hull when she was at the
head OF that organization.
at one time the Daughters decid-
ed to place the monument at Rich
mond but this idea was abandoned
this spring at meeting held IN At
:anta and it was decided then to put
ir at Andersonville, where Major
Nirz saw his most active duty as
commandant of the prison during
TIE civil war.
The. inscription on the monument
r,as selected with great care so as
4o1 to give ofense to any section OF
tie country and ct the same time
20 show the sympathy and love the
Southern women held for one looked
aoon in the South as martyr. The
inscriptions are given up largely TO
Il recital Of historical facts.
The exercises of the unVeiling
took place at ten o'clock yesterday.
Rev. P. H. McMahon, Catholic
,riest, delivered the invocation and
pronounced the benediction. Ad-
:.-esses were delivered by Dr.. Char
lesion olmstead, of Atlanta, and
Pleasant a. Stovall, editor of the
Savannah Press. A feature Of the
exercises was the unveiling Of the
monument by Mrs. Perrin. OF
Natchez, Mississippi, daughter OF
MAJOR Wirz.
The singing of Maryland. My
MARYLAND" and Dixie" by q large
chorus, the firing Of military salute
oy the Americus military and the
sounding of taps concluded the GER
emony, which was attended by a
large number Of people from DIFF
ferent sections OF Georgia.
The monument is a tall shaft o!
grey and white, thirty-fve feet in
height, in design simple. slender and
systematical, the general design be.
ing that Of a monolith. The long
shaft stands on a base formed by
four square slabs OF stone, which are
superimposed in the form OF PVT.
amid. Just above this base the
otherwise unbroken outline OF ths
shaft is &tersected by two heavy
blocks of stone, below which on the
four sides of the monument are cary
ed the following inscription:
North side)
eeWhen time s::s,l have softeEId
passion and prejudice, when reasor
shall Z have stripped the mask frou
Misrepresentation. then justice, hold
ing evenly her scales, win require
much Of past censures and praise tc
change places"
Jefferson Davis, December
1883"
(South Side)
s<Discharging his duty with such
humanity as the harsh circumstances
of the times, and the policy OF the
foe permitted, Captain Wirz become
at last the victim Of misdirecteo
popular clsmor. He was arrested IN
the time Of peace, while under the
protection Of a parole, tried by q
military commission Of a service to
which he did not belong, and con
demned to ignominous death on
charges OF excessive cruelty to Fed
eral prisoners. He indignantly
spurned a pardon profered on con-
dition that he would iacriminate
President Davis and thus exonerate
) himself from charges Of which both
were innocent
Cast Side)
In memory Of Captain Henry
Wirz, C. S. A. Born Zurich, Swift
erland, 1922, sentenced to death and
executed at Washington, D. c., No
vember 10, 1865. To rescue his
name from the stigma attached to it
by embittered prejudice this shaft is
erected by the Georgia Division.
United Daughters Of the Confeder-
acy.''
West Side)
cit is hard on our men held in
Southern prison not to exchange
them, but it is humanity to those
left in the ranks to fight our battles.
At this particular time to release all
rebel prisoners would insure Sher-
mans defeat and would compromise
our. safety here.
ULYSSES S. Grant, August, 1S,
iSS4."
OUTRAGED AND STRANGLED.
Woman Meets Horrible Fate st Prov