The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-15
fH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF
 DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
5baIna Division in Session at Eufaula---Lively
 Discussion as to the Right of Off, cerS to Vote.

| .t- first of these is the organization and keeping alive more chapters of the Children of the Confederacy. Every
 child of the Confederacy is worthy of your concern and demands your loving
 consideration. 1t isl right to know the true history of his Southland. 1t is l his heritage to save it from forgetful-
 ness and to glory in the renown of Southern patriots and heroes. It is | upon these very children we must de- pend to carry on our work when we l are gone. They can best be prepared
 for this duty by arousings their erthu- siasm and teaching them, that though our sires be dead, the principles of which they fought can, never die. {, 1 q would also commend to your notice | that more interest be taken in the
 educational and social feature of our ! chapter meetings. You know best how this can be brought about, but I would
 suggest that papers on the life and | character of Southern men and wo- men. descriptions of noted battles. his- l torical anecdotes. social life in tine South before and during the Civil War De read and commented on, and when practicable a prepared lecture on some notable man or event could be given. I know that the work in some of the most successful chapters in our division is thus carried on, and In So doing the members have found both pleasure and profit.
 When called to this high position by your partiality promised that my best efforts should be put forth in an earnest endeavor to advance the interest of our Division. and. with your aid, to contribute to the glorious Al-a A~ -Ae ent~ kx Al~a Daughters of the Confederacy at large. In what manner have kept this prom ise leave 1t for you to say, hoping that your judgment will be tempered with mercy and you will attribute my errors to the head and not the heart. It has been to me a genuine pleasure to serve you, and the work for the ad vancement of our organization has been to me, always. a labor of love.
 For the Chapters, who have so read fly responded to my every appeal, for
 the officers, who have been so loyal and faithful to all the requirements of their
 duties I have heartfelt thanks and
 bespeak for my successor the same loving courtesy and considerate kind
 ness theyNhaye always given me-" | Mrs. Kirkpatrick expressed regret at the absence of both Vice-Presidents,
 Mrs. Dowdell being at the sick bed of her mother, and Mrs. Ellen Peter
 Bryce having recently. received a fall | that prevented her attending.
 Mrs. Clifford A. Lanier of Montgom- cry, asked the courtesy of the Conven-
 ton for Mrs. John w. A. Sanford of
 Montgomery. whom she presented as | the wife of Gen. J. W. A. Sanford, and
 loyal Daughter.
 Mrs. Sanford's Address. | Mrs. Sanford spoke as follows:
 Daughters of the Confederacy: T have been deputed by the White
 House Association of Alabama to con. vey to you message of love and de- votion, and the assurance of a cordial cooperation in all the laudable pur- poses for which our noble sisterhood l was organized. Among them are the collectionsof all historical records per taining to the Confederacy, the preser- vatfon of all relics connected with the existence and career of the Confeder- ate States and their illustrious states men and soldiers. and by no means the least important Is the purchase and care of the house occupied by Mir. Davis
 and his family during his residence in
 the city of Montgomery. This enter prise begun several years ago at the
 instance of the Alabama Daughters of
 
 ceived the most hearty, I may say
 the most enthusiastic, approval of the Confederate Veterans, and such pa- triotic women as Mrs. Jefferson Davis, the beloved widow of our revered Pres ident; Mrs. Virginia Clay Clopton, for
 more than forty years in the very front
 ranks of the illustrious women of
 America, Mrs. Weed of Florida, the President of the United Daughters, and m oraxy oil .nar fakf
 guished. Under this influence and in their zeal to carry out your desires,
 formerly expressed, large number of
 Daughters obtained from the State of
 Alabama charter. It confers upon
 the White House Association the
 powers. authority rights and responsi-
 bility usually bestowed upon similar
 associations. The charter was ob- tained because the incorporators be-
 Iieved that the existence of such a cor poration would enable us more speedily
 to accomplish the purpose dear to the patriotic men and women of this grand
 commonwealth, and indeed, of all the late Confederate States, bound togeth- CT once by a community of interests, hardships and suffering, and now united forever in a common heritage of im- perishable glory.
 No argument is needed to persuade you, DauRnterS, 10 persist enefgetl-
 cally in the accomplishment of our pur- pose.
 Other civilized people have been dis
 tinguished by similar conduct We
 are governed by our ideals. and every
 where monuments are erected to those
 persons who are famous for achieve
 ments in arms; or for wisdom in states
 manship, or for success in arts and works of genius that have benefited and blessed mankind. The places, indeed the very house where such characters YeHen born, or lived. or labored, have been held in veneration. It is hardly necessary to remind you of the indig nation that burned over England. when Barnum proposed to buy the home of Shakespeare to exhibit for money, or the pride which animates his country men as they contemplate the home of Sir Walter Scott, and the pains with which the dwellings of other great
 men in foreign lands are kept by their countrymen. We afSknow the care be- slowed on Mount Vernon, the home of
 Washington; or the Hermitage, the
 home of Andrew Jackson; and even
 upon the small dwelling in which Stephen A. Douglas lived in Chicago, (the lot upon which was the house in
 which Mrs. Davis was born has been consecrated by the erection of a church).
 "Verily, this seems to be an era
 which s0piafiaS ana nfs