THE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT RESOLUTION.

The resolution granting permission to the Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States to erect a monument to Confederates in Eutaw Place passed the second branch of the city council on Wednesday night, and is now in the hands of the mayor. There was no recorded vote on the question in the second branch, but Dr. Thom, himself a comrade in arms of the brave men to whom the monument is proposed to be erected, and as competent as any person in this community to speak the sentiments they would probably hold upon this subject had the war spared their lives, declared against the proposition very distinctly, and voted accordingly. In a modest but earnest speech he avowed his faith, which would abide as long as he lived, in the justice of the cause they fought for, his esteem for their virtues, his loyalty to their memories. But these feelings did not blind him to his duty as a public officer, and as a representative in the municipal councils of the community. He voted “no” in view of that responsible position, while as a private individual he would rejoice to give his con-sent. Dr. Thom may rest assured that his manly course in this matter will be respected and appreciated by every one. It seems to be a pity that others did not follow his example. THE SUN’s views in regard to this subject have already been expressed, and it is needless to reiterate them. The justice and expediency of the policy we suggested is confirmed already by the intemperate comments which this proposition and the kindred one in the Legislature have provoked on both sides. A correspondent in a morning paper is rather unfortunate, in his advocacy of this measure, in having referred to the monuments of Paris, some of which are pulled down or set up again with every revolution. Is there not danger that impolitic concessions of the sort of this action of the city council, if persisted in, will reduce us finally to the temper of the people of ancient Rome, where every change of administration saw the statues of some Sejanus “drawn with a hook” and cast into the Tiber? The mayor, however, has it in his power to prevent such a beginning.