The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-07
WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERAoY.
Call for the Erection of a Monument
In Memorv of Their Services.

Call for the Erection of n Monument
In Memory of Their Services.
The following address to The Sons and
Daughters OF the Confederacy, signed by
the officials of the two organizations, has
been sent out:
Whatever opinions, time yet to come,
may bear about the war, its actors and
its Incidents, there can be but one concep-
ton of the character of the women of the
south during that period.
"A great author has said that Women
are weak, timid and vaccllating." If he
had known women, like our own women,
he would have understood how they can
be strong, brave and fixed in the cause of
liberty, and unyielding in the defense of
right. History teaches no more blessed
lesson, than that taught by the superb
courage. and undaunted devotion of the
women Of the confederacy. In splendid self
sacrifice, she has no counterpart, other
than the Greek matron who pointed her
son to the battlefield with the injunction:
Return with your shield or upon it,"
our boys and our old men responded
with heroic enthusiasm to the call of their
country. They fought with the proud cour-
age of the race, until patriotism could per-
init no further sacrifice to might. We
love, with the utmost tenderness, the liv-
ing who returned to US alive, out of that
awful storm, and we cherish the memory
of the dead Their lives and their deaths
are the sweetest testimonial to their no
bility of soul. To them, have been reared
all over this southland, marble shafts, to
remain for all time, beacon lights to call
us and our children to bow the head in
reYerent gratitude We would not take one
wreath from their crown, nor make by
one thought, less blessed their memories,
but we ask at the hands of the south, the
commemoration of the noble women of
that sacred time, which their superb cour-
age, their unrivalled patience, their mar
velous fortitude and their splendid self
sacrifice so richly deserves.
William Gilcome Sims with exquisite
pathos and beautiful truth, said of the
women of the cOnfederacy; "They have
lost a cause, but they have made a tri-
umph-they have proven themselves
worthy of the best womanhood, and in
their posterity, will leave no race which
shall be unworthy of the cause which Is
lost or of the mothers, sisters and wives
who have taught such noble lessons of
virtuous effort and womanly endurance.
I'VE ask at the hands of a southern
sentiment, which is priceless in its value
to our people, that a monument, to sur
pass all others in grace and beauty be
erected, to be a perpetual remainder of
the lives of the confederate matron and
the confederate maid. From the banks
of the James, where their prayers and
their hopes We're so nightly focused, let
it prophesy TO posterity, that their hus-
bands, fathers and sons. their children
and their children's children will fondly
cherish the memory of that golden-heart-
ed race of gentle women, whose patriot
ism was without fear and whose courage
was beyond reproach.
Let us, then. the descendants of those
who sacrificed for us, take up with pride
and gratitude, the erection of a monu-
ment to the women of the confederacy.
The chapters of the Sons and the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy of this city earn
estly ask that every chapter in the union
cooperate with them and join them in
this memorial to the United Confederate
Veterans"