The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-12-06
A WORK Ut LON L.
The South Must Erect Lasting
Monument IN
Homer OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.
TIE Daughters oflhe confederacy
Have Assumed the Loving
Task o. Raising the
Funds.

Mrs, Augustine T. Smythe, OF Char
l,s,on, has issued the tollowiog clrcu.
lar TO the Daughters Of the Coutl dc'a-
~ 10 South Carolina, and has also re
cussted It's publication in our columns:
Cbsre>,cp, 5. C., Nv %. 90
70 the Officers and Members Of
Chapter, South CayoIiua Division,
Daughters Of the Confederacy-
Ladies':
At the late convention ofrhe Dargh
ters Of the Confederacy. held II Rich
mouG, it was Determined to acceoe TO
the r, gu, st If the Veterans aud a>snmc
the responsibility Of erecting the Iong,
DELAYED uouument 10 } frrson Davis,
Pr, sdeut Of the Conf, derate Sln e..
This d, cision was not r;acs e! Without
careful thought aud discussion; al he
delegates Re rtcagnized the weight thus
laid upop tie sS>, cia;ion, but they ais"
realiz d that upon the acceptance OF
this burden of Responsibility rested the
bore Of AZ early accom- pl> lment OF the
work proposed.
The Hon. J Taylor E Tyson, mayor
CT Richm"uo, Va, aid president u the
J,& rsou Davis Nor unent As oc alton,
came before the convection auc BY his
explaparion removed any lmpressl"n
that ind ference or incrtueSs on the
part Of the men had occa>ioued Il e
proposal to trAl>fer this work to other
handS.
Difficulties arising from earlier and
very expensive pIaus wsre such that
this change had become urgently "a
viSable.
The following letter from Mr. f ly
son gives tulI report Of the prrS,u'
cou6itiou of the Jefcrson Davis AUru-
meut Association:
Richu.ond, Va, Nov 13, 1899
Mrs. S. T. Mccullough, CHAIRMAN JET
fersou Davis Monument Committee.
u. D. C-Dear Madam:
The jefferson Davi, Monument As
sociauop was organized III 1890 aud
chartered by the General Assemb Of
Virginia At the meeting # the Uui
ted Confederate Veterans in Charles
ton, S. c., in May, 1899, a resolution
was adopted requesting the Unltea
Daughters of the CoDtederacy to assume
the responsibility of the completion OF
this uouumen, and authorizing the JET
fersou Davis Mauuuent Association to
turn oyer auy fluids in their possession
to the Uuited Daughters whenever they
should comply with the request OF the
Uu,tsd Confederate Veteraus. | had
the honor on Fiiday Of submitting the
question for the consideration Of the
convention Of the Uuited Daughters Of
the Conie deracy, then III session IN
this city, aud they adopted rtsolu
ton by which they consented to com-
ply with the request Of the Veterans
aud endeavor to raise sun >uIlcleut
to erect suitable monument to the
President Of the Confederate States
It Is MY pleasure to be able to report
to you that we have IN our trca-ury the
sum OF twenty thousand, four hunCr"C
aud sixty-hve dollars and 81 100, $50,
465 3l.} which We will turn over 10
Your treasury whenever requested BY
You TO do SO. Our association has DO
debts Of any sort and you will take up
the work without any en- barrassmenIs
on account of any action previously
taken by US. The idea Of the UDitrd
Confederate Veterans .0as that We
should turn Over to You The fluids We
have AID that you woul1 Ia ke up the
work as though 1t had never been be-
gun. You were at liberty to select
such design as !,u might thiuk proper,
choose such site II or near the city
Of Richmond as You might prefer aud
erect monument at such time and at
such cost as the United D4ug
might deem best.
i beg leave to renew the assurance
he-etefore extended that any assistance
that she members of the j, ferson
Davis Monument Association may te
able to render to the ladies will be
mos5 cheerfully given. We believe
that under your energetic and loving
dir, clon the task Of ouilding u-onu-
mept to Jsfer>on Davis will soon be
completed. Yvi.ss respectively,
J. Taylor Eli sou, President.
W. D. Chesterman, Secretary.