The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-10
SHAFT PRESENTED
 LOWNDES VETERANS Monument Unveiled at Co.,
 lumbus, Miss, Friday GIFT OF LOYAL WOMEN
Thousands Attend Impressive Cere- mOnies-Cord Pulled by Sixteen Children-Addresse Made by
 Brewer, Lee and Others

Columbus, Miss, August 9.-(Special) While 5000 voices blended singing My Country 'Tis of Thee" as the Seven teenth Infantry band played the ac- compartment, while the stars and bars rippled in unison with the stars and stripes which 1oated from Lowndes county hourthouse and all buildings and trees nearby the handsome Confeder ate monument presented to the veter- ans of this county by the stephen D. Lee chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, was unveiled by 16 chill dren at exactly 40 o'clock this morn ing.
 Throngs of people were here. Special trains began arriving at 9:30 from points as far west as Winona, as far north as Corinth, and many came from below Meridian. Alabama sent another train load from, Tuscaloosa and inter- mediate points. It was the biggest day Columbus has had since the President was here. Ii was a day replete with inspirations on account of the splendid exercises incidental to the unveiling and the presence in Columbus of all Mississippi troops and the Seventeenth infantry from McPherson
 Addresses were made by Governor Brewer. Mrs & E. F. Rose. state presi- dent of the United Daughters of the confederacy, who formally presented the monument to the Lowndes county veterans, and others.
 Lees Oration
 The final oration of Blewett Lee Is as follows:
 Members of the stephen D. Lee Chap ter, United Daughters of the Confed- eracy, Ladies and Gentlemen:
 The invitation which these ladies have graciously extended to me came at a time when it was impossible to prepare an address suitable for so impressive an occasion, but l came anyhow, knowing that the other speakers would leave noth- ing to be desired. The honor. 1 know. was not to me, but to the memory of a Confederate soldier who passed from earth too soon to behold this beautiful and touching memorial, which now gladdens the eyes of his old comrades and friends. royal invitation may not be refused. Among the membership of your society are still some of the queenly women Of the Confederacy-that immortal company who never surrendered who keep alive in faithful hearts the traditions of the old south, like the Sybil's books, more precious the fewer they become. Their services for the southern cause were as potent as those of any warriors in the Held. These tender. loving and exquisite women sent husband and son to the front ane then turned to fill mans place and woman's too in the work at home. These Confederate mothers were soldiers as true, as brave. and unconquerable as4ever fell on field of glory.
 Tn the Daughters of the Confederacy I recognize the strongest organized force which exists today to honor the southern soldier and keep alive the great memories which are the sacred treasure of the southern people In the erection of this noble memofial l see fhe' same spirit at work in the daugh- ters which was in their mothers before them-the spirit that puts self-sacrifice above all: that honors courage; that glorifes love of country; that walks as seeing the invisible. These stones will commemorate not only the brave men who fought for the Confederacy, but also the loving and faithful women who more than 50 years after the call 10 arms have gathered to consecrate this monument. It has cost their long and devoted efforts. through dseour- agements and disappointments. which would have baffled weaker souls, but now at last the end crowns the work. Purer than this marble is the love which placed it here
 T see before me some of the men who in in their own lives gloritied the Confed- cracy. noble and venerable figures in whose presence it is fitting that we younger men should stand uncovered Your comrades who fell in battle showed