The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02

II must come Eghert j. Jones Camp
Of the Confederate Veterans Hunts
vile, Ala. 100 strong and Il aver
age age Of g. still game and nt for
the fight Of our lives. offer our services
to our country"
The South Gin the monument) rests
her faith nthe future on labor, While
she holds a laurel wreath IL crown
the m Of her dead and wears,
nerSeIf. a wreath Of olive leaves. "a
cred 10 Minerva. the Goddess, who IN
the group IN front uphoids the South
when she Is sinking down and trying
10 sustain herself in the shield OF the
OLD constitution, which she had set up
Tor erself 1T Richmond.
Souts Enthusiasm Illustrated.
Inc attitude and the general effect
OF the thirty-two figures around the
fieif, as grouped illustrate i'm a strik-
ing manner the enthusiasm that ami
mated the South when the tocsin ef
war was sounded, and. in detail. these
hsures exhibit every phase OF the he
roism and sacrifices Of the period:
the soldiers who came To the front:
the officer taking leave Of his baby
IN the arms OF the old m the
BLACKSMITH. who has forged his own
sword: the preacher and his wife,
bidding good bye to their schocl- boy
son; the bride putting the sword and
SASH around her lovers waist. etc.
nitkk lIt dfiNStil1S d tffIf16t HEI-
lie Will soon decide how far in ,hi.
monument TO everlasting peace he
tween the sections Of the Union the
artist has succeeded in carrying out
his great conception.
inscriptions are:
To our Dead Heroes
by
The United Daughters Of the Confed-
/ eracy
They have beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into
Il pruning hooks
NictriX causa Dis placuit, sed victa
+ Catoni.
Not for fame. not for place. or for
rank; not lured by ambition, or goad-
ed by necessity; but in simple obe-
? dience 10 duty as the understood il,
these men suffered all, sacrificed all,
dared all-and died.
Army and Navy Cooperation.
The loving admiration the officers
of the old army and navy so freely
extended after the surrender to their
s old comrades. whom a sense Of duty
had parted from them in 1861, has
come down the lines Of both those
{ branches of the service to this day,
and with the hearty consent Of Presi-
@ dents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, the
G executive committee Of the A. {. M.
r A. has had in its preparation for the
q erection of the monument. the hearty
cooperation, whenever aNdllabIe, or
II army and navy department officials.
Thanks are due to General Ayrshire,
4 Colonel Downey. Colonel Gerard,
q Colonel John j. Glenn, Major MaSoon,
Colonel Wilder, and Admiral Dewey.
Especial thanks are due to Mr.. A.
Z. Weeks, who has supervised the
II erection of the monument in its every
detail, from the laying of the corner
stone to its completion.
l. In the foregoing pages the writer
al has attempted the story Of the gene
sis and some description Of the Con
federate mum at Arlington
When the cornerstone was laid ht
Ic sought 10 portray in a sofnewh hal
q broader way it's meaning, partly II
these words:
w are in Americas second era ~
good feeling. In the first it was onl,
J. a dream Of tie fathers that the Unioi
6 would be perpetual, a dream inspiree
by the belief that because the theor,
Of States rights was then general,
10 accepted there never would be eaus,
# for secession. Now we know that tn
is Union is TO be perpetual, becaus'
O there never can be secession, TIA
"a question having been settled forever
tainty, certainty. Ours is the sub
stance Of the fathers only hope
for. 1t has been given to US TO Sc
&c with our own eyes wha their prophets
h yisition could not have forecast-th
90 material prosperity, the grandeur, IN
power Of his united Republic, as
Mt is today. Our eyes, too. nave see
the unspeakable horrors Of di$unicl
10 IAN o%utpouring, during four years @
,t war: of blood and treasurer, which
ve could never have entered into tn
II imagination Of our ancestors to con
,n ceive, and for which nothing coul
u att.ne except the exultation Of thi
- hour, in which there come to US, fror
an every pd'tieheio :" oui sieat ""
, memories Of heroic deeds that hav
brought US closer together in a VI
ion. to preserve which our pcSterit
~ viii Fever be called upon TO max
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