Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-03-13
MONUMENT TO SOUTHERN WOMEN.
An Appeal that WIN BE Responded TO by
Every True Southerner
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Our country IS getting to be land OF
monuments. Wherever humanity congre-
gates IN busy. working mass, there one
finds monuments of some kind hitting
their heads towards the sky, telling TO the
surging life below the story OF some great
soul who lived and thought and worked
for the sake OF his fellow-men. Scarcely
n week passes but one hears something OF
a new monument TO be erected to the
memory Of dead hero. 1t is most lauda-
bic spirit-this gratitude, admiration, re-
sppct. call il what you may-that makes us
desire to show our appreciation OF those
whose lives have been noble, and whose
efforts have done something for the gOOu
or glory of their race. All through the
South there are monuments 10 our brave
leaders who gave all their greatness OF
heart and hand to the cause and the peo-
ple they loved. There are shafts OF marble
and granite 10 the dauntless soldiers who
fought and died for their country. and
short time since some one proposed q
monument to the "Slaves OF the Contede-
racy." 1 would not say word against
their affectionate loyalty towards the heip-
less women and children they were LETT TO
care fort was the touching iaithiulncss
of simple natures almost without gulle
but | wish 20 ask my readers if 1t has ever
occurred to them TO wonder why some
one does not propose "monument 10
women Of tie Southern Confederacy."
WHO HAS FORGOTTEN?
You men of the old South, have you for
gotten the brave. true-hearted women
who struggled with you through al that
long. weary tmeg Who. while you
marched and fought. nursed the sick,
soothed the dying. fed the hungry. who
prayed and worked and wept for you
Have you forgotten bow, with steady
hands and smile on their hps, they luck
led on your armor and babe you 20 forth
and battle for the right, never giving u
thought 10 the terrible days OF anguish 10
follow, when. with aching hearts they
waited-waited with every breath prayer
for news of the loved ones! Have YOU
forgotten? Or. remembering. do you fail to
appreciate the grandeur, the true herolsm
OF it all!
YoUn HEROIC MOTHERS.
And Won. children of the new South, do
Won. too. forget how, when the smoke OF
battle cleared away from land stripped
of we'll nigh everything that can nOurish
life, those white hands, that never knew
toll before. labored for your comfort and
welfare? The busy brain that schemed
and planned for your support and educa-
ton found dainty fingers willing to do the
work, and through it all the brave spirit
never failed. The courage OF the women
stands side by side with the valor Of the
men, yet who has ever thought of rearing
| a monument to these southern heroines
In all history there is nothing to equal
| the dauntless spirit of these high-born
danes. who, reared In absolute wealth and
| luxury, saw 1t all swept away without
| fiinching, and with their hearts torn by
many greater losses. took up the burden
| of the new life with gentle patience and
| choerfulness, and so won for themselves q
| fame that should be our pride and boast.
Tell me, you men of the old and the new
| South. do you not think these women
worthy of q monument IN our landl
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