p. 153 | Unfinished Monuments and Public Memory

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1890

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 16, No. 10.

Unfinished Monuments and Public Memory

It does not take long for the good and worthy to pass from memory. Marian Harland, editor of the Home Maker, is doing all in her power to build the half-finished monument to Mary, the mother of George Washington, which was falling into decay. It looks doubtful as to whether the monument to General Grant will ever be finished. Both that and the monument to Mary Washington will probably wait unfinished long after the monuments to H. W. Grady and Jefferson Davis are completed. It is impulse and emotion that move the masses, and the Southern people are people of impulse.