The age-herald., 1900-11-15
BY CLARA R. HENSON.

Montgomery, November 14-(Special)- The seventh annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met this morning at Il o'clock in the State Capitol. The exersices were held In the House of Representatives, the same hall where the Confederate convention held its sessions and declared the right of Southern States to secede from the Union. In the rotunda a band was stationed as the Daughters and delegates assembled, and Dixie" and other Confederate airs were played.
 On the wall above the rostrum were hung the flags of local chapters and a silk Con- federate flag. tied with knot of crepe.
 At Il o'clock Mrs. Edwin G. Weed called the convention to order. The meeting was opened by the reading of a scripture lesson and prayer by Rev. Neal Anderson, pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Montgomery. pr. Anderson read from Matthew 26, 6-12 and from Proverbs 31, 16-S1.- The Bible he used was, as he said, the one so dear to Southern hearts-the same book on which Jefferson Davis took the oath of office.
 Mrs. Chapel Cory, president of the Cradle of the Confederate Chapter, in be- half of the Montgomery chapters, delivered an address welcoming the chapters to the city. Mrs. Cory said that the wide gates of Montgomery never swung back to the sound of gladder welcome than for the Daughters of the Confectionery; that the great heart of her people never throbbed with a finer joy nor felt ten derer thrill. They had gathered from many places and from many States-some
 were from cities where the red glare of
 battle had lit the skies; some from places
 where the muse of history chants songs of
 other days. But from wherever they came
 their hearts were beating in single time to single hymn of love for the cause and
 for the men who died and for the great principles which live on. She said: ''The old oaken doors in the hall below had opened to many an honored guest. Only few years since Jefferson Davis came to lay the first stone of the Confederate mon ument Such Welco.Se was never given man since time began, and this welcome Is now given to the Daughters of the Con federacy for they stand before the world the living witnesses that the past Is not dead but all in it that was good and great and true still lives and has it's worshipers.' U Mrs Cory was frequently applauded.
 Mrs John A. Kirkpatrick, president of the Alabama State division, followed with an eloquent address of welcome on behalf of Alabama. Mrs. Kirkpatrick welcomed the Daughters to the grand old State which gave the Confectionery. She said:
 Prom all parts of the southland they had come, called hither by the same un- swerving loyalty to the memories and tra- ditions of the old south and devotion to the principles of the lost cause. She said that the lost cause and the heroic efforts made to sustain it will live in memory till the stars fade away and history shall nave recorded the last period of time; that the flight of years had brought no diminution in their faith in the justice of what was batted for in the stormy past, nor a dis position to hide amidst the hustling prog ress of the present the glory and achieve ments of a southern prowess.
 Continuing, she said: More than quar- ter of a century ago these old walls looked down upon a federal history Today they behold a strange spectacle for there In the Capitol in which was born the storm cradled nation that fell;" there under the flag of the victor, the Daughters of brave southern sons had assembled as an asso- l citation, whose avowed purpose is to com memorate the heroic deeds of their dead, | and hand down true history to their chill | dren."