The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-09
WOULD PRESERVE
LEES OLD HOME
Movement Starts to Give
Confederate Daughters
Full Control
By BAsCOM N. TtMMoNs
Worlds Washington Correspondent.

! WORLDS Washington Correspondent
| WASHINGTON "A movement 10
give tho Daughters OF tho Coufed-
Ierncy proper authority 10 take over
| tho nome OF Robert H. Leo I'm Arliug-
| ton national cemetery, restore II and
RnNc u To the memory OF the great
Z leader uf tho Confederate army, ust
| ns Mount Vernon Is maintained to
| the memory uf George Washington.
At tho head OF the movement are
| Congressman O., g. Iowrov wilder
| Mississippi and Mrs. Henry wilder
kcyes, wife OF the senator from New
Hampshire. Iowcry Is a former
Texan hud Was AZ one time head OF
a school at Amarillo. Mrs kcyca
| IL the vito of q republican United
States senator from New Hnmpshlrc.
Tho Ice mansion stands on one uf
the most beautiful sites In Virginia.
overlooking the Potomac. From the
mansion can be obtained one OF the
prcttioHt views Of the capitol build
ing.
II was taken over by tho federal
government after Loo had offered
his sword to the south The hand
lying about IL became tho buryiug
ground OF the federal armies and
later II was made the big national
cemetery
Speaking I'm tho house on the pro-
puSul to turn the mansion over to
the daughters OF the contcdcracy for
restoration, Congressman LoWery
sid;
Not many days ngo we heard u
southern democrat on this floor
speak OF General Grant, who was as
generous as he was brave; and we
have witnessed under the very
I d a N on N - ~
| of the Grant memorial whore tho
most striking tribute paid TO the
union commander came from the
present commander OF tho United
Confederate Veterans.
why should II not he so1 Men
who are gallant enough 90 eight rs
these men fought arc usually gcner-
Gus enough TO do each other Justice
when tho fight IL over. II Is typical
| Of the spirit of the nation. The great
/ objective 20 which we NIL aro now
arriving is permanent world peace;
ana the eyes OF the world ure turned
| tn America for leadership. II we
are 10 lead tho world to peace we
must be M pencc among ourselves.
"Twenty-fivo years ago | came 10
| Washington, as people do OCCASION
ally, with n party OF sightseers---
about one hundred persons. all OF
! them southcrnoTH. Most ~ them
wero on their first visit 10 Washing
| ton. | Noted with grief. and yet
with approval their expressions OF
| disappointment that in and around
the splendid residence Of Robert r..
| Loo there was not one thing 10 re-
mind ua by atmosphere that this was
once his home. There mingled into
our party n stalwart New Englander
who had come 10 visit tho grave Of
his father, As he heard these ex-
pressions from my southern friends
he quietly remarked, ! don't blame
them. ] should feel that way my
SELF
| From that day TO this I have had
n growing conviction that this thing
ought 10 he changed, and that ono
| day ~ would he changed. There Ii
reason enough In the man, Loe. him
self for the change. His enemies
/ themselves being judges. he stands
ms one OF the purest nrd gcntlest
and at the same time ono OF the
| most brilliant ana heroic men in
American history.
81 need not argue other reasons.
They nro obvious. The loyalty OF
the south IL esta tabllshed--scaied with
/ tho blood OF hor sons. BEFORE the
secession che had given largely to
| the building OF the nation. Since
| the reunion Hho hns given Just us
| generously. I would not sny that
she has come back 20 the nation
conquered, because I'm her attitude
toward the government she has ex-
/ hihited none OF the auimus OF the
| defeated and mono OF the sniveling
| OF the crowd. I do not know another
case In history whore n people have