The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-26


ever Jackson's standard was raise1,
there the Halifax boys rallied.
Down In Halifax they have not for
gotten the war or the men who fought
In It, They remember smoking home
steads and violated affairs; they re-
member midnight raids and the desert
waste behind the Federal foe. They
have not forgotten the boys who fell
at Gettysburg and Sharpsburg and
Chancellorsville and Spotsylvania Court
their heads high when they have
spoken Of the bravery of their fathers
and the fortitude of their mothers.
During recent years Halifax has pros
pered. Towns have sprung UP there.
the old red hills have grown wonder
full corn crops and the sunny, fields
have yielded fine, rich tobacco that
has brought thousands of dollars to
the good people of Halifax. AS they
have grown rich, they have not for
gotten. and recently they determined
to erect q monument at Houston to
the Confederate dead OF the county.
1t was an idea worthy of Halifax, and
the monument they proposed to rear
was intended to be worthy of their
fathers.
a committee raised tho money and
ordered .the monument-a stalwart
Confederate soldier, standing, we
imagine, at parade rest. but showing
in his determined face readiness to
charge bayonets in moment and to
move against the death-belching line
in front Of him. At least, this is what
the people OF Halifax expected they
would get. The monument came and
was unpacked by reverent hands.
anxious to uprear 1t on noble granite
shaft What happened then is best
described by the poet-laureato Of the
Houston Observation-Disclosures in these
glowing lines:
THE folks was out O. Johnny Rebs
And sent Yankee cuss.
He comes marked with big U. S.,
And that's what raised the row,
30 tney u ana put q -
He's reconstructed now"
In other words. the dealer or sculp-
tor who furnished the monument did
not happen to have Confederate SOL
der in marble and consequently sent
q Federal figure, clad in the Northern
uniform and bravely marked with the
stamp of the United States. Nothing
about the man suggests the South, and
his garb is most unlike that which the
Halifax boys wore when they went
out to fight for home and freside.
Naturally enough, the good people of
the county are indignant. and some
of the old Confederates who promised
to contribute to the monument swear
that they will not pay a dollar for the
statue of Yankee. AS the poet of the
Record-Advertiser puts it:
But ] want to fight the fust time
That yankee and his gun
amt agoing to help unveil
No blooming granite Yankee.
The Committee In charge OF the
matter has decided to call a meeting of
all interested parties and will then
decide whether ror not 1t viii accept
tho Yankee-Confederate monument.
From the sentiment expressed in the
Houston paper and from the sugges-
A. L.,
likely that the Halifax people will
decline to accept the monument and
Will raise funds for n statue worthy
of the county and worthy of its Con-
tolerate dead.
We hope this will be the case, for
Willie Houston has been especially
,nsuited in being expected to receive
Federal soldier as loyal Confed
crate, many another county shares its
disappointment in the monument
reared to the memory of our Southern
heroes There are number of deal
ers in various parts of the country
who make dozens of monuments of the
same model and send them out when
ever they are ordered All OF them
are alike and all of them are unlike
any Confederate soldier that we ever
saw or ever read about. OF course.
the marble men have a right to make
living. but the counties have an
equal right to monuments that are
true to life. true to history and cred
liable to the South. Better small
granite shaft erected in love and in
scribed with patriotic devotion than q
rampant wooden" figure to insult the
sensibilities of the people and to dis
grace the memory of brave men.
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A C.ATECHIsM FOR THE PROUD.
(Selected for The Times-Dispatcho
For who maketh thee to differ from
another?S And what hast thou that
thou didst not receive? Now. II thou
didst receive It, why dost thou glory.
as If thou hadst not received it'll
Cor iv.7.
The Corinthian Church was exceed
ingly gifted. Perhaps no other church
ha6 in II 40 many persons of educa-