The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-22
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3. The officers shall consist of a Prcsi-
dent, Vice President, Treasurer a
Corresponding Secretary and Record
ing Secretary.
4. The President shall preside at all
meetings, give the casting vote, and be
in all matters the general administrative
and executive officer of the Association.
In her absence the Vice President shall
act. The Corresponding Secretary shall
conduct and take charge of all cores
pondence. The Recording Secretary
shall keep perfect record of all pro-
ceedings, letters, &c. The Treasurer
shall receive and pay out all money of
the Association, subject to the order of
the Finance Committee, and shall be
Chairman of the Finance Committee.
5. In addition to the above officers,
there shall be Committee on Finance,
who shall be charged with the invest
ment and disbursement of all moneys
belonging to the Association; and who,
with the officers mentioned and Board
of Directors, shall form an Executive
Committee for the purpose of transact
ing all business of the Association.
6. The President Tor in her absence
the Vice President) shall call a meeting
in Columbia of the Executive Board
every three months.
7. Committees shall be appointed in
every District of the State to invite
membership and collect funds, and these
committees shall forward all names to
the Recording Secretary and all subscrip-
tions to the Treasurer of the Association.
8. South Carolinians residing out of
the State shall be invited to become
members of the Association.
9. A regular annual meeting of the
Association shall be held in the city of
Columbia in the month of November.
The following officers were then elec-
ted:
President-AIrs. l.. S. McCord.
Vice President-Mrs. VIM. Wallace.
Treasurer and Chairman of Finance
Committee-Mrs. j. l.. Reynolds.
Corresponding Secretary-Irs. John
I. Darby.
Recording Secretary-Miss I'D. Martin.
Board of Directors-Mrs. John Single
ton, Mrs. John Preston, Jr., Mrs. John
Mckenzie, Mrs. B. Levy, Mrs. G. Has
kell, Mrs. D. Huger, Mrs. R. c. Beck,
Mrs. ]. S. Gaillard, Mrs. A. Snowden,
Mrs. j. N. Whitner, Mrs. VIM. Martin,
Miss Middleton, Miss LaBorde, Miss
Stark.
Finance Committee l.. Howe,
Mrs. S. Fair, Mrs. John Fisher, Mrs. J.
Waties, Miss Wade, Miss Hampton.
The following appeal was then adopted
and sent out by the Association:
Women of South Carolina, there needs
no urgent appeal to your sympathies in
a cause so sacred as that which we now
undertake. The great tide of adversely
which has swept over our unhappy land
has hitherto stiaed effort in this direc-
ton; but not, therefore, have our hearts
ceased to beat for the glorious dead.
Scarcely is there one among US whose
thought does not, on the first mention of
our object turn at once, with loving af-
fection, to some grave which this monu-
ment is intended to honor.
Mothers, widows, sisters, daughters,
whose hearts thus cling to the soldiers
grave, let us then unite with an earnest,
loving effort in this holy duty. Let even
our lisping little ones be brought to give
their mite to its accomplishment; that
thus impressed upon their minds, they
may never forget to love and honor the
memory of those who battled and fell
in our cause. If lost cause, even,
therefore the more holy. Even, there
fore, does it become the more incumbent
upon us to bring to this great sacrifice of
pure purpose and heroic deed that hon.
age and veneration which the world pays
only to success.
With the wish that all who have shared
in common sorrow may share also in
the privilege of raising this testimonial
to our lost heroes, the annual subscrip-
tion for membership is put at the lowest
point practicable; that thus it may be
within the reach of those who, having
little to give, have still the right, through
tears and suffering, to join US in the full
fillment of this most sacred duty.
To all others-men as well as women,
old and young-to all who cherish the
name of Carolinian and cling with fond
love to whatever is left to US of our
"good old State" we would say give to
US freely according to your means; give
generously, give gratefully to the memo
ry of those who gave their lives for us.
The Association then went to work
making reasonable progress for some
time. The following June Mrs. McCord,
the President, resigned her position and
Mrs. John S. Preston was elected to fill
the position. At the end of year Mrs.
Preston, too, resigned, finding the duties
of the Office too arduous for her strength.
The Association then resolved not to
have a President, but to commit the
management of the affairs to local ex-
ecutive board in Columbia, assisted by
ladies throughout the State.
During this time the Association suf-
: fered the loss of one of its Board of Di-
rectors by the death of Mrs. VIM. Wallace,
and two of their officers resigned on ac-
: count of their removal from Columbia
Mrs. J. L. Reynolds, Treasurer. and Mrs.
John T. Darby, Corresponding Secretary.
Mrs. VIM. K. Bachman and Mrs. j. :
Bacon were elected to fill these offices
respectively.
The present Board of Directors are the
officers of the Association, and Mrs. G.
Macfe, Mrs. G. Howe, Mrs. G. Walker,
Mrs. John Mckenzie, Mrs. John Bacon,
Mrs. a. Dargan, Mrs. G. Beck, Mrs. B.
Levy, Mrs. W. H. Gibbes, Miss LaBorde,
Miss Wade, Mrs. S. Beard, Mrs. r.
O'Neale and Mrs. John Waities.
At length Radical rule came upon the
State, and in the dependency which for
time settled upon the people, very lit
tie could be done.
In August, 1871, the Association
thought they had collected sufficient
money to justify them in purchasing a
sight on which to erect the monument,
aud they bought the lot on Taylor's Hill
over looking Sidney Park and the valley
of the Congaree. For this they paid the
city of Columbia 5000 cash.
A contract was made with Muldoon,
, Walton & Co., of Louisville, Ky, to have
the monument made and erected. All