The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-06-02
tBy HILARY a. HERBERT)
Chairman. Executive Committee Arl-
ington Confederate Monument As

Chairman. Committee Ari-
ingtOn Confederate Monument As
sOciatiOn.
But monuments themselves me-
MORALS need."-Crabbe.
The Washington Monument, to an
untutored savage, would be a stu
~pendous pile-and nothing more. TIC
him who is read in history, especially
IL he be an American, it is the nobiest
structure In the Universe. It's tower
ing height, it's noble proportions, its
strength, its symmetry, these tell the
story Of Washington's life-of the
Revolution, of which Washington was
the soul-of our Fedora Constitution.
over the framing and adoption OF
which Washington was the presiding
genius-of the first eight years or our
government under the new Constitu-
ton, through the perils Of which
Washington safely guided it-of
Washington's farewell address, in
which his memorable appeal for the
perpetuity of the Union showed how
anxious and fearful he was lest a
new Constitution of government might
not be able to hold the States to-
Yether. This is the story the Wash
ington monument recalls to every in
telliEent American who visits the
capital of his country.
Within plain sight of the Washing
ton monument, on a Hill across the
Potomac, on the 4th day Of June
next, there will be unveiled another
monument with a story to. tell that
will be no less thrilling and no less
interesting to future generations than
is the story of George Washington;
it 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 dis
puted question that had been be-
queathed to them by their ancestors,
who could not themselves settle it,
and how, out Of their fratricidal war,
that was the most desperate the world
has ever seen, there emerged a com
pleted nationality that Washington
and others Of the fathers had wrought
for, and prayed for, but had never
lived to see.
A Confederate monument, standing
in the National Cemetery at Arlington
will take up the story of our countr,
where the Washington
leaves off; and its unveiling will d
epochal. The first speaker is to bt
Gen. Bennett Young. commander O
the United Confederate Veterans; tn
next, Gen. G.. w. Gardner, command
er-in-chief of the Grand Army of tn
Republic. Then Col. Hilary A. Her
bert, as chairman of the eXecutiv,
committee OF the Arlington Confed
crate monument Association, will pre-
sent the monument to Mrs. Daisy Nc
Iauri Stevins, president Of the Uni
ted Daughters Of the ConfeGeracH
She will present il to the freSiden
Of the United States vino will reply.
The Constitution.
The constitution, under WhlC
Washington had launched Our ne
government, Gladstone, a great Ell
Elishman, sail was the greatest il
strument ever stuck forth in a give
fan,n ~ tho hand 81 pnf rEiS
as it was, this IS the view Of it take
by the fathers, according to an a
thorita:ive American historian, Hem
Cabot Lodge:
when the constitution was adop
ed by the votes Of States in popGl;
conventions. 1T is safe to say the
was not Il man in the country, fro
Washington and Hamilton, on the OF
side, to George Clinton and Geor;
Mason OF the other, who resard1
the new system as anything but an G
pertinent. entered into by the Stat
and from which each and every Sta
had the right TO withdraw. q rig
which was very likely TO be exercised
What caused the fathers OF the co
s~titution to regard il as an exper;rne
was their inability to settle in It Il
question whether a State could wit
draw from the Union.
The material progress IF the cou
Try un0er tnat CONSTITUTION was
amazing as to cause Charles parw.
who accounted fer the progress OF
animated creatures By AS theory
natural selection, to say. in his L
scent of Man:
There is apparently much truth
the belief that the wonderful pro
ress OF the United States. as we'll
the character OF tho people, arc I
result Of natural se.ection; for I
more energetic, restless, and Coura,
Ous men from all parts Of Euve
have emiGratoG during the last
or twelve generations to that :r'
country. AMI ave there succec.
hest. Locking to h distant futv
do not think that the Rev.
Zincke takes En- exaggerated vi
when DC Ali other series
cvcnts-as tnst which resulted in
culture Of mind in Greece. n 4