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Show THE STA1MVEILED. The South Honors the Memory of Gen. Lee, Her Greatest Hero. CONFEDERATE VETESANS IN LINE. Meeting of the Scotch-Irish Congress at Pittsburgh-The Oldest University in France Specials of Interest. Richmond, Va.,May 2!). Special. Tho ceremony of drawing the Lee statue through the streets to the monument monu-ment site, nearly three weeks ago, surprised sur-prised almost the entire country with its enthusiasm. It was, however, as nothing compared to tho demonstration that took place today on the occasion nf tho unveiling of "the monument to the great military leader. It was not Richmond alone that turned out to do honor to his memory, it was the w hole south, aud even the north contributed its quota to swell the multitude. The committee on arrangements felt as if the eyes of the country wore upon them aud that they should rise to tho demands de-mands of the occasion. The procession was one of the largest ever witnessed in the south. Confederate Confed-erate veterans, now resident in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston aud other northern and western cities, came here to join with their former comrades iu paying tribute to a hero. The streets over which the procession passed were handsomely decorated and on every baud were to be seen the stars and stripes floating gracefully in the breeze. Cen. Fitzhugh Lee was chief marshal of the parado and his chief of staff was Geu. John P. Cooke. 'The assistant as-sistant marshals were taken from all the southern states. The procession having reached the monument, Governor McKiuncy called the meeting to order, and every head was uncovered as Dr. Minnigerode led iu prayer. General Julal A. Early was then summoned as chairman, and after a brief address, he introduced the orator ora-tor of the day, Colonel Archer Anderson Ander-son of this city. The address of Colonel Anderson was a brilliant effort. He reviewed re-viewed the life and career of General Lee, and paid an eloquent tribulo to him as a man and a soldier. .Special invitations were extended only to Generals Gen-erals G. W. Smith, P. T. Beauregard, 'and Joseph E. Johnstone; Mrs. Jefferson Jeffer-son Davis and Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, Mrs. Davis was uuablo lo be present. The statue was uuvciled by Gen Joseph Jo-seph E Johnstone. As he pullc.Vasido the veil and .exposed to view the well known feature! and form of Gen. Lee a mighty shout was sent up by the assembled assem-bled multitude. The statue is the work of Antonio Marcic of Pans, who was present at the exercises to-day as the guest of the state of Virginia. It is an equestrian liguro and critics have pronounced pro-nounced it one of the finest equestrian monuments iu the country. Since the close of the war tho South has been gathering the price, li0,0lH), of this beautiful testimonial of their love for one of tho bravest of their generals. It is forty feet high, forty -one feet across, and weighs eight tons. The statue was cast in eight sections and was six months i'l the foundry. 'The pedestal is twenty-one foot high, making tho total to-tal height sixty-otic feet. It is granite, almost w hite as marble; four columns of polished bluo granite, one on cither side. The base is designed for the statues of six generals who served with Lee. The three already selected arc Stonewall Jackson, J. E' B. Steuart and A. P. Hill. 'The statue represents Gen. Lec on his favorite war horso Traveler. He lias just come upon the field of Gettysburg, Gettys-burg, in his strong open face, in tho hand clenching the hat at his side, in the curved neck and panting nostrils of Traveler, there is prophetic couslerna-tiou. couslerna-tiou. His orders have been miscarried. Horse and rider feel the stab of an tin-loyalhand. tin-loyalhand. ; Colonel Andersons address, while abating no jot of love and admiration for Lee, was couched in words so as not to jar upon sensibilities of the most ardent ar-dent unionist. He began with the statement that a people is known by its monuments, and tho world always gave its most devoted admiration for its warriors. war-riors. He sketched in a masterly way the transcendent qualities necessarily wanted in a good general. Lee, however, how-ever, was not merely one of the greatest great-est captains, but was also a man of absolute ab-solute unblemished christian life. It 'was the singular felicity of Virginia to have produced two great and stainless military leaders, W ashingtmi and Leo. The orator gave an elaborate biographies bio-graphies I review of tho general's life, and dwelt upon the painful struggle which it cost him to decide whether to give his allegiance to the nation or to his native state, but finally, in face of ambitions temptations in face of Ihe offer of a command in the Union army, he decided that his duty called him to st-md by Virgidia. The speaker then sketched Lee's campaigns in illustration illustra-tion of his military genius, and touched unon the modcratiou and good sense of the north at the close of the struggle and its happy results. He spoke of Lee's subsequent quiet and dignified life, and closed with a brilliant peroration. |