“Resolved, That we respectfully invite the ladies of the Hollywood Association to lend us their assistance and cooeperation in the collection of subscriptions.

“Resolved, That we cordially approve of the local monument now proposed to be erected by other associations at Atlanta, and at Lexington, his last home, whose people were so closely united with him in the last sad years of his life.

“Resolved, That, while we cordially thank the Governor and Legislature of Virginia, for the steps they have taken to do honor to the memory of General Lee, yet in deference to the wishes of his loved and venerated widow, with whom we mourn, we will not discuss the question of the most fitting resting-place for his ever-glorious remains, but will content ourselves with expressing the earnest desire and hope that at some future proper time they will be committed to the charge of this Association.”

Generals John S. Preston, John B. Gordon, Henry A. Wise, and William Henry Preston, and Colonels Robert E. Withers and Charles Marshall, delivered eloquent and appropriate speeches, and argued that Richmond is the proper place for the final interment of the remains of General Lee.

The resolutions were adopted, and the meeting adjourned.

COLUMBIA, S.C.

At a meeting in this city the following remarks were made by—­

GENERAL WADE HAMPTON.

“Fellow-Citizens:  We are called together to-day by an announcement which will cause profound sorrow throughout the civilized world, and which comes to us bearing the additional grief of a personal and private bereavement.  The foremost man in all the world is no more; and, as that news is carried by the speed of lightning through every town, village, and hamlet of this land which he loved so well, and among those people who loved and honored and venerated him so profoundly, every true heart in the stricken South will feel that the country has lost its pride and glory, and that the citizens of that country have lost a father.  I dare not venture to speak of him as I feel.  Nor do we come to eulogize him.  Not only wherever the English language is spoken, but wherever civilization extends, the sorrow—­a part at least of the sorrow—­we feel will be felt, and more eloquent tongues than mine will tell the fame and recount the virtues of Robert E. Lee.  We need not come to praise him.  We come only to express our sympathy, our grief, our bereavement.  We come not to mourn him, for we know that it is well with him.  We come only to extend our sympathy to those who are bereaved.