The Washington herald., 1914-05-31
Statue VIII Take Up Story
Of the Country Where
the Washington Monument
Leaves OF.
NJ HILARY A. HERBERT,

ny HILARY A. HERBERT,
Chairman Exscutays COMMITTEES Arlington onnfsd-
snfe Nouument Association.
But monuments themselves memorials
need."-Crabbe.
The Washington Monument to an un-
tutored savage. would be stupendous
pile-and nothing more. To him who is
read In history. especially II he be an
American, II ID the noblest structure In
the universe. Its towering height. Its
noble proportions. Its strength. its SYM
| metry, these tell the story Of Washing
toms Iife-of the Revolution. Of which
Washington was the soul-of our Federal
Constitution over the framing and adop-
ton Of which Washington was the pre-
siding genius of the FIRST eight years Of
our government under the new Constitu-
| ton. through the perils of which WASH
| ington safely guided it-of washington's 9
farewell address. in which his memorable
appeal for the perpetuity Of the Union
showed how anxious and fearful he was
lest that new Constitution Of government
might not be able to hold the States to-
gether. This is the story the Washing
ton Monument recalls to- every intelli-
gent American who visits the Capital Of
his country.
Meaning OF Confederate Monument.
Within plain sight of the Washington
Monument. on a hill across The Potomac,
on the 4th day Of June next. there will
be unveiled another monument with, q
story to tell that viii be no less thrilling
ard no less interesting TO future genera
tons than is the story Of George WASH
ington; II will be the story OF how great
the people grew to be for whom WASH
ington spent his life-of how fiercely they
fought each other over the disputed
question that had been bequeathed to
them by their ancestors. who could not
themselves settle II, and how. out of
their fratricidal war. that was the most
desperate the world has ever seen. there
emerged a completed nationality that
Washington and others of the fathers
had wrought for, and prayed for, but
had never lived to see.
Confederate monument. standing in
the National Cemetery at Arlington, will
take up the story of our country where
the Washington Monument leaves of:
and its unveiling will be epochaL The
first speaker is to be Gen Bennett Young,
commander of the United Confederate
Veterans: the next. Gen. G. W. Gardner.
commander-in-chief OF the Grand Army
of the Republic. Then Col. Hilary A.
Herbert. as chairman Of the executive
committee OF the Arlington Confederate
Monument Association. will present the
monument to Mrs Daisy McLaurin
Stevens, president of the United Daugh-
ters OF the Confederacy. She will present
IL to the President Of the United States.
who will reply.
Right Under the Constftution.
The Constitution. under which WASH
ington had launched our new govern
ment. Gladstone. great Englishman.
CO. Instrument
struck forth in D given time by the hand
of man. But wise as 1t was. this is the
view of it taken by the fathers, accord
ing to an authoritative American his
torian. Henry Cabot Lodge:
When the Constitution was adopted
by the votes of States in popular conven-
tions, it is safe to say there was not a
man in the country, from Washington
and Hamilton, on the one side. to George
Clinton and George Mason on the other,
who regarded the new system as any
thing but an experiment, entered into by
the States and from which each and
every State had the right to withdraw.
a right which was very likely to be ex-
ercised."
What caused the fathers Of the Consti-
tuition to regard 1t as an experiment was
their inability to settle in it the question
whether State could withdraw from the
Union.
The material progress of the country
under that Constitution was so amazing
as to cause Charles Darwin, who ac-
counted for the progress of all animated
creatures by his theory of natural selec-
ton. to say, in his Descent of Man"
There is apparently much truth in the
belief that the wonderful progress of the
United States. as well as the character
of the people, are the result OF natural
selection; for the more energetic, rest
less. and courageous men from all parts
of Europe have emigrated during the last
ten or twelve generations to that great
country, and have there succeeded best.
Looking to the distant future, do not
think that the Rev. Mr.. Zincke takes an
exaggerated view when he says: All
other series of events-as that which re-
suited in the culture of mind In Greece
and that which resulted in the empire Of
Rome-only appear to have purpose and
value when viewed In connection with. or
rather as subsidiary TO the great
stream of Anglo-Saxon emigration to the
West"
Growth of Secession.
With the wonderful growth of our
country in material prosperity and pres
tige and power, love Of the Union. at the
North, ripened, until people there forgot
the beliefs of their fathers. and came to
lock upon the Union as indissoluble. and
upon secession as a crime. This the
fathers had hoped would be universal.
But a long controversy over slavery
had checked the growth of Union senti-
ment in the South, and in 1s6o-1ss1 eleven
Southern States, adhering to the beliefs
~ fba fathers seceded from the JTnion