The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-12-21
Annual Report of the SOuth Carolina Monu.
ment Association,

The regular annual meeting of the South
Carolina Monument Association was held in
Columbia on Tuesday, November %, 1871
The officers of the preceding year were unani-
mously reelected, and Mrs. W. Il. Gibbes was
added to the Board of Directors.
The Treasurer made the following report OF
money received during the past year: Orange
burg, $21.65; Sumter, 1925; Beaufort, %;
Chesterfield, 1850; Chester, 1926; *Darling-
ton, e6.55; Anderson, $40; Edgefeld, 13625
Richland, IS; Barnwell, z; Lexington, II ;
Kershaw, $50; Pendleton, q; GreenVille, 4
Abbeville, 12 Union, 20; Spartanburg, 2S.75
Williamsburg $40.
*In the former report, Darlington was credit
ed with S11.75 which was contributed by Chcs-
terfeld. 1t is now correct.
The committee which was appointed to man
age bazaar to aid in procuring funds for the
monument, reported as follows:
Contributions were received in money, fancy
articles and provisions from the following Dis
tricts Anderson, Abbeville, Kershaw, Pendle-
ton, Darlington, Union, Chesterfield, Richland,
Laurens, Edge6eld, Lexington, Beaufort and
Fairfield. Total amount realized by the ba-
zaar and handed over to the Treasurer of Asso-
citation, $500. The committee desire to return
their thanks to the State at large for the liberal
patronage given to the bazaar, and especially
to the community of Columbia, for their gen.
erous and constant contributions to the ladies
of the city, for their earnest cooperation, and
particularly to the young ladies who waited at
the tables-teeling sure that to their unwearled
efforts to please is due, in very great measure,
the success of the bazaar.
The following resolution was offered and
unanimously adopted:
Rcsolued, That as the funds in the treasury
oc L., ofrthr
erection of monument to the Confederate
dead, we are bound in good faith to use them
for norother purpose.
In laying this resolution before the State the
directors of the Association would say, that
they have noticed certain resolutions adopted
at the late meeting of the Survivors Associa-
tion, in regard to the funds in the treasury Of
the South Carolina Monument Association !;
and while they, with all their hearts, bid God
speed to any efforts which may be made for the
noble purpose of educating the orphans of the
men who have died for their beloved country,
still the small sum which has been collected
has been contributed for the special purpose Of
raising O monument to the dead heroes and the
glorious past of South Carolina, and they do
not feel that they have the right to divert it
into any other channel, however sacred.
After two years of effort, they have succeeded
in raising about one.third of the sum they
deem necessary for their purpose, and they
earnestly entreat all those who love South Car
olina, both for her past glories and her pres
ent calamities, to come promptly to their aid,
SO that they soon shall be able to rear monu-
ment to perpetuate the memory of all that
should be held mOsG sacred and most dear.
The members of the Association do not feel
that they are raising this monument merely to
the dead heroes of the cause, for each one OF
these has, for himself,
"Won the wreath of fame,
And wrote on memory's scroll deathess name"
but to the cause itself; and, as their brothers
and friends showed their devotion 10 the right,
by giving their lives in its defence, so they, the
women Of South Carolina, through persever-
:ance toll and self denial, would attest their
undying fidelity to the principles OF the past
by raising, in our capital city, monument of
granite, cut from the bosom of our mother
State which shall be firm as her ancient virtue
and lasting as her past renown.