The Washington herald., 1914-05-31

for the most part quits snAi. and, e.
was desirsble, came from thousands Of
men, women, and children. mostly Con-
federafs sympafhisefs, II Is moro biessed
to give than recsive, and those who give
for = psriotic purposs are bleDed with
y the <Twedfy-tnlrd Nav JSf9ey volun.
tariiy sent S1eo. o<hars sums have come.
likewise .unsoaicited. bnt always val
coined. nom o<hsr unian soyAjesa
The compaeted meunlpent includiug the
base or pltufh. S6d Ghiv<y-tuo ,life-s sized
figures. Al a full cs1fof. surtounding Il.
q entirely. - bro1DsS 1kt assist Il fur
nishing no deucy1Dtln of Il tor the press.
and he insists. 4aftiee-IfEe. that the mon
ument must speak for itself
But there are millions Of Americans
who can never see the monument, and
for the benefit Of such Of these a. may
read this article We are Publishing with
It q photograph taken from \ front view
OF the chief hgures and our own brief and
very inadequate description.
The monument stsnd1 upon q founda-
ton Of beautiful DARK gray. highly pol
iched Woodstock gsAnlte. The figure of
the South. the plow-stock. and sickle.
and . verse from the Scriptures. consti-
tute the synfhesis % the whole work. 1t
means. primarily. peace Tie parole CIV
en- by the Confederate soldier and the path
Of allegiance taken by the Southerner
were meant to be and were kept. A
fresh and breezy illustration of the in
tertion of the Confederate to war no
more against the United States 10 the
recent telegram, anent Mexico. to the
President: I'VE vdeplofe war. but II It
Esnnn ~
confedeate Veterans, Huntsville. Ala,
100 stropg and of average age seventy
three, SILL game and At for the night OF
our lives. offer our services to our coun-
try"
Rests Faith In Labor.
The South Gin the monumenD rests her
faith In the. future on labor. while she
holds laurel wreath to crown the mem
ory Of her dead. and wears. herself. q
wreath of olive leaves. sacred to Min
erva. the Goddess. who in the group In
front upholds the South when she Is
sinking down and trying to sustain her
self in the shield Of the old Constitution.
which she had set up for herself at
Richmond.
The attitude and the general effect Of
the thirty-two figures around the relief.
as grouped. illustrate in q striking man
ner the enthusiasm that animated the
South when the tocsin Of war was sound
ed. and. in detail, these figures exhibit
every. phase Of the heroism and sacri-
fees Of the period; the soldiers who
came to the front; the oficer taking leave
of his baby in the arms of the old
nanny. the blacksmith. who has forged
his own sword: the preacher and his
wife. bidding good-by to their schoolboy
son: the bride putting the sword and
sash around her lovers waist. etc.
After the unveiling critical public will
soon decide how far IN this monument to
everlasting peace between the sections
of the Union the artist has succeeded in
carrying out his great conception
Inscriptions are:
To Our Dead Heroes
n. United p.ushssn Of the oonfs-,y
They have beat their swords into plowshar.s and
their spears into pruning book
victrr csusa Dis pl,euit. SD rie.s c.toui
Not for f.ne: not for place. or for anh: not hred
y ambition. Or enaded BY necessity: but in sim
pie otedienoe to duty they understood Il. thess
men suffered al. sacrificed all. darsd sli-and lied
Cooperation Of Presidents.
The loving admiration Of the officers of
the old army and navy so freely extended
after the surrender to their old comrades.
whom a sense Of duty had parted from
them in 1851, has come down the lines of
both those branches Of the service to this
day; ana with the hearty consent of
Presidents Roosevelt. Taft and Wilson.
the executive committee Of the A. C. NJ.
A. has had In Its preparation for the erec-
tion OF the monument, the hearty CO.
operation. whenever available, Of Army
and Navy department officials. Thanks
are due to Cen Ayrshire. Col Downey.
Col. Gerard. Col John J. Glen. Mai. Ma
goon, Col. Wilder. and Admiral Dewey.
Especial thanks are due to Mr. A. c.
Weeks, who has supervised the erection
the laying of the cornerstone to its COM
pletion.
In the foregoing the writer has at
tempted the story of the genesis and
some description Of the Confederate mon
ument at Arlington. When the corner
stone was laid he sought to portray in a
somewhat broader way its meaning,
partly in these words:
We are in Americas second era OF
good feeling. In the first It was only a
dream of the fathers that the Union
would be perpetual. a dream inspired by
the belief that because the theory of
states rlsntS was tnen senerdllN accept
ed there never would be cause for seccs-
sion. Now we know that the Union Is to
be perpetual, because there never can
be secession. that question having been
settled forever. To us has come, instead
Of uncertainty. certainty. Ours is the
substance OF what the fathers only hoped
for. 1t has been given to US to see with
our own eyes what their prophetic vision
could not have forecast-the material
the grandeur. the power of
this united republic, as 1t is today. Our
eyes. too. have seen the unspeakable
horrors of disunion-an outpouring. dur
ing four years Of war: of blood and treas
ure. which It could never have entered
into the Imagination of our ancestors to
and for which nothing could
atone except the exultation Of this hour.
In which there come 10 US. from every
battlefield Of our great war. memories of
heroic deeds that have brought US closer
together IN a union, to preserve which
our posterity Will never be called upon to
make sacrifices" 80
NEW YORK FLOODED
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