passed resolutions of respect and sorrow on account of the death of "the great and good man," and instructed the governor to have erected a suitable monument to his memory." The Confederate Congress passed resolutions of respect, and three days after his death joined with the state officials and the dignitaries of the confederate government, military and civil societies, and a great body of citizens, in a great procession, which bore at its head the mortal remains of President Tyler to their rest in the peaceful grave, where rebellion and its bloody war would not disturb them.. Bishop Johns conducted the funeral services. The great men among the confederates were his pall-bearers. The vast multitude stood in respectful silence while the grave was filled, and then departed, leaving the grave to the growth of nature's adornments, but returning not with slab or shaft to note the place where they had laid him. But it was for no want of respect or affection; for, as the multitude departed from his. grave, so passed away the multitude of the confederates from state and national power.

All around him are the tombs of the great men of his section; and but a little way from it the dust of sixteen thousand confederate soldiers, whose tall, pyramidal monument tells forever of the heresy of "state rights" and the folly and wickedness of the rebellion. Singularly interesting are the names all about him that figure in the history of the rebellion, such as Governor Wise, James M. Mason, A. P. Hill, and many more equally noted. Few cemeteries in the whole country have more names to call up great memories and to stir reflection on great events, and principles, and awaken sad regrets of terrible misjudgments and mistakes. It is a good place to come and weave broadly the mantle of christian charity, so as to hold them all in the sweet heart of forgiving love.

Mrs. Tyler always believed that Virginia would erect a suitable monument over her husband's grave; but it is more properly the work of the United States, which can well afford to do it in token of its free forgiveness of its honored dead, for President Tyler is ours forever. This centennial decade should not pass without the erection by Congress of a suitable monument.

Mr. Tyler's bust, by Volk, taken from a mask made after his death, is in the state library. There is also in the library a large portrait, by Hart, presented to Virginia by his daughter, Letitia Tyler Sempte, of Baltimore.