The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-11
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
Patriotic Women of the South Are Now Hold :
ing Their Annual Convention in
Raleigh.
A BUSINESS SESSION YESTERDAY MORNING


beautiful words expressive of his deep
reverential love for everything pertain
ing to the Confederate cause. His por-
trayal of the character of Jefferson Davis
was one of the finest and yet most tender
ever listened to by the many who heard
him. His tribute to the women of the
| South fell upon the ears of the Daughters
most acceDtably.
| Concluding his address, Capt. benson
i said:
ooh, the women of the South is unre-
constructed, they say and she will build
monument to Jefferson Davis; not only a
memorial pile to the bravery of soldiers
which we have agreed to concede to the
| judgment of mankind, but to build to the
| first and last President of the Confed-
crate States, is to commemorate the prin-
ciples of State sovereignty; it is to de-
clare that the soldiers of the gray were
not only brave, but right, and their cause
must receive the sanction of the ages.
The women of the South are wrong-they
are wholly unreconstructed.
Thanks be to God, in a world of shift
ing change and fashion and fortune, some
things are fixed and inevitable. Is not
truth and horror, the plighted faith of
able? Who can reconstruct truth with
| gilded falsehood?
| The women of the South know what they
do. The temptations TO place and wealth
and Dower reach not the atmosphere Of
high principle where they live, unap-
| proachable by the creatures that bark at
| them below.
"You, my dear countrywomen, will
| L,,iI5 ,no1 Of bp tvr
cause. Liberty-iustice to the faith, is
safe in your hands. Let them print what
books they please, place the image OF the
burner of Columbia, and the robber of the
Shenandoah, upon the money we use, and
deny the ground for a Confederate monu-
ment where our dead are resting in
Northern soil: with you and the grand
daughters of the Confederacy-all is
safe. Children who nestle about your feet
will not call us traitors. CorHelia, the
mother OF the Grachi. you are here:
Mary, the mother of Washington, you live
again in these of the workers Of the Me-
mortal Association.
and ycu oh sister of tombstone Petit
grew, whose presence was healing to the
wounded and despairing in the sad hospi
tails of Virginia. You live always in these
&
Dear guardians of the fame of your
dead. let rot North Carolina be the least!
in this, though greatest in every other
page of Southern history. More and more
with the passing of years, did Mr.. Davis
come to know and love our people, in the
last days of his life. Almost the final
sentences from his pen before the ap-
preach of death. we're those addressed
o1Icyh nj ba !, &c
mittee, to the people of our State at Fay
etteville's centennial of the adoption Of
the Constitution:
Without diminution of regard for the
great and good men of other colonies, l
have been led to special generation for the
men of North Carolina as the first to
distinctly declare for State independence
and from first to last, to uphold the right
Of a people to govern themselves.
She gave her sons a sacrifcial Offering
on the altar of the liberties their fathers
had won. and had left as an inheritance
to their posterity. Many sleep for from
the land of their nativity. Peace to their
ashes. Honor to their memory, and to
the mothers who love them!'
ITO these noble words, your response
will be fit tribute to him who lay in
when more than four score years had laid
their weight upon his gray head, they
sum up the judgment of history upon
North Carolina. You are the heart of
Carolina, and as you erect this shaft to
the soldier, the statesman, the orator, the
patriot and the Christian, you WILL in the
beautiful language of another
ITO the dust we give his body; the
ages receive his memory"
A vocal solo was most skilfully rendered
by Miss Alice Jones. ''Marsas in the
cold, cold ground" Miss Waddell Off
appreciated.
Mrs. w. H. Overman read the report
of the Committee on Jefferson Davis
Monument, which shows that eight chap
ters have reported. The Jefferson Davis
fund sent in is as follows:
Salisbury, $265.31; Newbern. 500: Con-
cord, $50; Wilmington. SIS; Kittrell, 500;
Winstcn-salem $25; Washington, $25
Raleigh, $50; Greensboro $40; Hillsboro,
$75; Goldsboro, $1O0; contributed. 81:
Pittsboro, 50; Wadesboro, SO; Charlotte,
500; Vance county, $12. Which gives a
total of 1882.
A Confederate calendar was shown that
Is D6lut5 EI6pdIGu ny SOUIC virginia cnaD-
ters to be sold for the Davis monument
fund.
Miss Cowper, then rendered vocal
solo Dixie, tune annie Laurie accom-
panied by Miss Alice Jones as pianist
Mr.. Oscar w. Blacknall, of KittreT.
made a short but very effective speech
Governor Jarvis, amid applause was
called on for short address.
Eliza Busbee-"Sing me a song of the
Sunny South" with Mrs. Woodell as
pianist.
The regular sessions business was re-
sumed. A telegram from GENERAL J. S.
Carr congratulating Miss Rodman on the
splendid work of the North Carolina divi-
sion U. d. c., was received.
Reports of chapters and reports of COM
mittees followed.
TUT HayEuT