The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-05-30
HoNoRS TO THE DEAD
CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL
DAY SERVICES.
United Daughters Of the Con.
federacy Will Have Charge
and Gov. Smith Will
Deliver the Address
Next Thursday.


dead with the choicest flowers OF
springtime will this year be in
charge of the Fitzhugh Lee Chap,
ter of the Daughters of the Con-
feneracy and the Alexander Young
Camp OF Veterans of Frederick
County. For years this lovely
duty has been faithfully carried
out by the men and women of
Frederick, who have never for
gotten the heroic struggle for
Southern independence. In the
long years to come the sons and
daughters of the heroes of the
Lost Cause, as we'll as the de-
scendants of those who believed
in the rights of the South, must
see that this duty is faithfully
performed. The true history of
that great struggle must be taught
our children and the songs and
stories of the South must ever be
kept pure and bright within their
hearts. Let the South rear her
monuments to the memory of such
patriots as Davis, Lee, Jackson,
Johnson, Beauregard and the hun
! dreds of other noble men who
gave their lives in the great con-
test for Southern Rights and for
Southern Independence. Let our
people emulate the characters of
such men as were the leaders of
that great though unfortunate
struggle For years the Southern
men and boys aided by the noble
women of the South kept up the
unequal contest. Thousands upon
thousands of foreigners were hired
by the Northern Government as
then existed, to coerce and de-
stroy the South. Ruin and desc.
lation were carried out with un-
relenting severity. Cities and
towns were destroyed, the country
pillaged; and yet for years the war
went on. and day by day the
South unhesitatingly yielded up
the flower of her manhood and
gave to the armies the boys yet
in their tender years. The noble
women watched over the sick, the
wounded and the dying, they
counseled heroism, they sung the
songs of the South and they
cheered on the half.fed, the poorly
clad and WORKOUT heroes: their
cry was that right and Justice
should conquer. But our ranks
were growing thinner. the men
were all gone, the boys had been
given up and there were none left
TO meet the daily increased ranks
of the thousands of foreigners
and the meu of the North who
filled the columns of the opposing
armies. Lee at last surrendered
his noble band of heroes and
yielded up his Swo d TO the mag
unanimous Grant at the ever-to. be
remembered Appomatox. The !
days of the Confederacy were
over, the governmental of the South
ended, and to desolate homes re
turned the men and boy soldiers
of the South. In good faith they
laid down their arms, in good |
faith they accepted the terms of |
surrender, and today the waste
places are built up and all that is
left is the memory of those terri
bic days and the determination to
keep alive the true history of |
Southern Independence. Build |
up monuments to commemorate |
the greatest struggle known in |
history and then year by year |!
Strew the graves of the brave !
men who wore the grey and fol,
lowed the fortunes of the bonny
blue flag of the South.
On the fifth of June in Frede
rick at Mt. Olivet Cemetery Hon. !
John Walter Smith, Governor of
Maryland, will deliver the adj.
dress after the decoration of the
graves of our noble dead.
All who sympathize with the
Lost Cause are urged to bring
flowers. 1t is pleasure to state
that Mrs. Smith will accompany
the Governor Mrs. o. 2. Ben
nett is President of the Daughters
OF the Contederacy of this county,
Mrs. l.. Victor Baughman is the
honorary President for life, Mrs.
Geo OFT is the first Vice -Presi.
dent, Mrs. Joseph Trundle is the
second Vice President, Mrs. A.
Il. Yeakle is the Treasurer, Miss
Moliie Eisenhauer, Recording Sec
rotary; Mrs. G. o. Keedy, Cor
responding Secretary; Mrs. F. f.
Smith, Historian; Mrs. j. A. Viii.
Hanson, Registrar; Mrs. A. L.
Eader is chairman of the Memoir
lal Committee; Mrs. d. Stauffer,
chairman of Committee to get
Mrs. G. S. Howard
chairman of Benevolent Commit
tee; Mrs. Charles Baughman,
chairman of Special Memorial
Committee; Miss Eleanor Potts,
al, ~ Dpoc. /