Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-11-16

N'fAAA al . MONUMENTS III
mississippi to honor the grand women
VINO were the mothers, wives, sisters
and sWeethearts of the Confederate sol.
ulers-those women who, by their sub.
lime faith in the justice Of the cause.
their dauntless courage in the face of
danger and their unparalleled endur.
ance Of loss, disappointment, privation
and toll, made it possible for the sol.
dlers OF the South to fight the hard.
est highland to fight it grandly-that
the world has ever witnessed.
1t was a strength born of love that
enabled her to adjust her delicate
shoulders to burdens that must other.
wise have crushed her 1t was her
patriotism that breathed the breath
OF life into Hope, and kept it alive
and glowing gainst the soldiers 70.
turn from fields of death to fields of
desolation.
1t is to honor the women Of the
Confederacy who abide with us yet,
and the memory Of those who have
gone before us to "a land that is fairer
than this that efforts are being made
In so many counties (and should be
made in alD to build such monuments
as will tell to generations yet unborn
how well we loved our mothers.
But we have a suggestion to offer,
before this money is spent, and we
believe that those great and good
women would, one and all, unite with
us in the desire we now express, that
these funds be utilized in raising such
monuments as may serve the children
and children's children of veterans"
the while they tell the story of rev.
erent love, The thought has just
come to us, and so we feel some hesi-
tation in speaking without due consid-
Grafton.
But our idea is that something like
this would serve:
In each county, or wherever else it
is desired to show the women of the
COnfederacy the honor they have
earned, let a memorial tablet with
suitable inscription be placed in some
prominent building or chosen spot and
with the rest of the money establish
a fund by which each year some
worthy, ambitious girl, the child Or
grandchild of veterans" and who Is
not financially able to get the desired
education, may 60 to the industrial
college free Of all expense.
This ought not to require sum
larger than each county can raise.
And think how fine a thing it would
be to build just such a monument to
the women among whose sorest trials
ofttimes was the necessity Of seeing
their daughters grow up without edu-
cational advantages,
To train and fit for the battle Of
life, each year, seventy-fve young
women, would indeed be a fitting man
ner in which to show proof Of our love
and a worthy undertaking for the
State that gave such women to the
world
No marble ever Quarried would be
as enduring as the beneficial influences
emanating from plan like this; no
inscription ever written would tell of
our love as will the lives-nobly
lived-of these girls of Mississippi!
Unlike most monuments, this one
would year by year increase in beauty,
its foundations would deepen and
broaden, its head be lifted higher and
higher toward the heavens that bend
above us" and its inscription written,
as it were, upon the brow or cut into
the heart of hundreds upon hundreds
of l-.e children and children's children
of the men and women of the Confed-
eracy, would be read of men from
end to end of the civilized world.
For so important a question as this
we have, perhaps, not given the time
and thought we should have given be-
fore speaking, but our heart is so full
of this idea that we cannot refrain
from Offering it, and we believe that
our readers will forgive the crudeness
of plan and expression for the sake
of the love for our girls and the re-
spect for our women that prompts
the writer of it.
The Synod of Mississippi will meet
in Natchez on the 18th inst, at which
time an important educational ques'
tion will come up for settlement. 1t
is proposed that this synod shall adopt
two Observation-Disclosures (for
boys) at Port Gibson and Chickasaw
for girls) at Pontotoc. The boards
of trustees of these institutions have
offered to make deeds of gift to their
property If the synod will agree TO
support the schools with liberal en-
dowments. Chamberlain-Hunt, with
its splendid new building, just I'M
ished is one of the finest school prop
critics in this section, and 1t would be
hard to find, even in the South, n
more beautiful location or finer
school building than Chickasaw Fe-
male College. The stately structure
is a relic of ante-bellum days, when
the rich people of North Mississippi
we're able as we'll as willing to give
to their daughters (while away from
the plantation home studying) all the
comforts and Injuries to which they
were accustomed. Hence the broad
Ill, loroa and airy bed rooms, SDlen-