The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-11
THE WORK OF THE UNITED
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY,
They Have Achieved Through Their
Labor of Love.
Especial to the News and Observer


Especial to the News and Observer
Charlotte N. c., Oct. 10.-The conven-
ton of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy has been an occasion al
once brilliant, enjoyable and profitable
in the highest degree. The closing day
has been marked by most encouraging
reports.
At the business session this morning
the Soldiers Home Hospital Committee
made an excellent showing They re-
ported the hospital equipped and bal
ance of funds on hand of $145.
/ Mrs. Parker, chairman of the com
mittee Of the North Carolina room of
the Confederate Museum at Richmond
reported to the convention and was re-
ceived by rising vote.
Mrs. Allison, chairman of the Jeffer-
son Davis Monument. Committee, re-
Forts 81, 1S6 raised for the monument in
North Carolina up to October, with
$472 additional now in hand.
The address of welcome yester-
day by Miss Julia Alexander
was gem. This extract shows
: the spirit: at is not for us to revive the
bitter animosity and sectional feeling that
| existed in those by.gone years, but keep
| ing alive in our hearts those great prin-
| ciples which the men of the Confederacy
| struggled so valiantly to uphold, let US
| labor diligently to accomplish the ORR
ginal purposes of our organization. Real
izing how rapidly the work has progress
| ed in the past, we feel that much is possi-
| BILE to the future; and looking into the
faces of so many noble women met togeth-
| er in the furtherance of a great work
| representing a. you do, more than fifteen
| hundred members composing this State
| Division-it is with a thrill of pride we
| recognize North Carolina to occupy no
inconspicuous place in this rapidly-in-
| creasing association"
| In her response, Mrs. VIM. H. Overman,
of Salisbury, president, said in part:
Guests of the Stonewall Jackson Chapter
Daughters of the Confederacy with Mrs.
Jackson your president companion of him
who was the Stonewall of the Confeder-
acy. First among our generals distiu-
guished for his bravery, his religious
character-appreciated by an admiring
world His military tactics studied and
practiced by other armies. He passed
over the river and coined the choir in
visible" and with the fall of Jackson
came the vital wound to the prospect CT
Southern Independence. With Mrs. Bar
ringer your CO. President, wife of General
Rufus Barringer, one of North Cardinals
grand and heroic sons. He served his
country on the fields of battle, preferrirg
| such service to a seat in the hall of
| the Confederate Congress.
Living to return to his home after the
war ceased he felt all the horrors of re-
construction days. He was always ten
der and true to the soldiers who followed
| him on the bloody battle fields of Vir-
ginia and with his dying breath he COM
mended to his family the care of his Con-
federate veterans.
"Thus these two noble and distinguish
ed women, your presidents, are links OF
| the past to the present and represented
| by Miss Alexander, their co-worker, a
beautiful and lovely type of the glorious
womanhood of today, of the South, VINO
| has welcomed us as guests of your Chap
ter and city with words of grace and elo-
cuence."
The beautiful portrait of Senator Vance,
painted by Mr.. Jacques Busbee, of Raj
eigh, was unveiled by Miss Florence
Martin, grand daughter of Mrs. Vance.
The presentation speech "a gem of purest
ray SERENE was made by Miss Bessie
Henderson, of Salisbury. 1t was received
| for the Daughters by Mrs. W. s. Parker,
of Henderson. Mrs. Parker is daughter
of the late able preacher. Rev. WIN.
Gloss d. d. In accepting the picture
Mrs. Parker said in part:
Vance himself never failed to pay the
highest tributes to the women of North
Carolina and to their great and noble
qualities of common sense and patriot
ism. In lecture delivered before Q
Andrews Post, No. Is, of the Grand Arm
of the Republic in Boston, he says: AS
in the Wars of the Roses the women were
greater partisans than the men, and
with them the memories of the struggle
were longer in dying out so it proved
with u.s. A just estimate. There is
small need for the women of North Caro-
lima to rear sculptured marble to his
memory.
" browning has said that if after his
death some one should cleave his heart
in two on it would be found written the
word-Italy. In like manner on the
hearts of the women of North Carolina
who passed through the dark days of
the Confederacy, there is engraven the
name of Vance. They knew him and ap-
preciated him as the brilliant, versatile
lawyer, the master of inexhaustible
scintillating wit, the resistless orator,
the brave, gallant soldier and the wise
and able statesman. They knew him as
an uncrowned king.
WHO waved his scepter DER his kind,
By natures first great title-mnd"
The portrait of Col Chas F. Fisher
was presented in choice speech by Hon.
John S. Henderson. 1t was accepted by
Mrs. Parker who, after referring fittinglv
OF Col. Fishers glorious deeds, paid this
tribute to his daughter, Mrs Tiernan
christian Reid who was present and re-
ceived an ovation. Mrs. Parker made
this suggestion:
1T has been proposed that the South
shall rear a monument to it's women.
North Carolina owes it to herself to
place in the capitol at Raleigh a statue
of her high priestess of literature
Christian Reid. Had she been born in
New England her fame would have been