The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-02-28

doctor and Ammo D0mlni the sOftening
solvent OF all malignant passions. But
this is enough from me concerning the
great commander lt was the sublime
Christian faith OF Lee and Jackson
that made their characters complete
and added luster to their military
fame. They were men Of prayer.
For a little while / would ask your
kind attention TO those whom since
1892 have called themselves the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Their
mission has been aad still is and we
trust long will be as declared IN Artl.
Gle 2 Of their constitution: "Educa.
ional, memorial, social and beneyo.
lent-to collect and preserve the ma.
terial for a truthful history OF the
war between the states-to honor the
memory Of those who fell IN our ser.
vice and to record the part taken by
southern women during the war and
It's aftermath, their patient endurance
Of hardship, their patriotic devotion
during the struggle and to fulfill the
duties Of sacred charity TO the sur.
vlvors" All Of these are noble oh.
jects but the greatest of all Is the
establishing Of the truth and preserv.
ing 1t. The poet saith that Truth
crushed to earth will rise again." and
It has risen and will continue to rise.
Even that popular magazine, Frank
Munseys Monthly, in its last num-
ber has forever blotted out the malig-
nant and fanatical story of Barbara
Freitchie, and only the last week the
ladies Of Lexington, Ky, put under
the ban the drama Of Uncle Toms
Cabin" 1t was the Daughters OF the
Confederacy who did it and to their
widespread and influential organiza-
tioD the south must look for the
maintenance Of the truth. Just think
Of it. Within the past nine years
twenty-five states have been chartered
as grand divisions, including Califor-
nia, New York, the, District Columbia,
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory.
In all these there have been chartered
an aggregate of over three hundred
chapters with a membership of $4,000
good, loyal southern women. The
largest federation Of women in the
world. OF this membership, Texas
GAS the largest number, 2,435 Geor.
Eia comes next with 1850 members
But my friends, this great army Of
daughters and mothers who, whether
alive or now dead, instilled this love
IF truth and unstained confederate
honor in the hearts of their children.
They are the ones who sacrificed and
suffered and still were strong. For
more than fifteen years I have OBJ
served a trait in womans nature that
IS lacking in most men. She never
gives up. The sad results of the
war that wrecked the fortunes of
! southern men FASTENED thousands of
them to untimely graves, but their
widows still dot the land from Vir-
ginia to Texas. The mothers Of
these daughters endured more hard
Ihips and privations than their hus-
bands and sons who we're in the
army, but they never complained.
Goldsmith wrote:
MAN wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long"
But some cynical old bachelor para
phrased it:
Man wants but little here below,
For so the poets say,
But woman wants it all, you know,
And wants it right away"
Well, she does want all she can get,
and wants it as soon as she can get
It, if not sooner but if she can't have
It she surrenders cheerfully and ac-
commodities herself to the situation.
During the war they actually smiled
at their own pitiful and distressed
condition. They boiled down the dirt
rom the smokehouse that had long
been saturated with the drippings OF
the hanging meat and made pretty
good salt out of it and divided with
their neighbors. They parched rye
and gubbers for coffee and sweetened
It with sorghum and Dragged how
good it was. They cut up their old
garments and made clothes for tneiI
children. Endeed, it is always an
amusing entertainment to listen tc
these good old mothers as they rec
cite their makeshifts and their trials
after Sherman had passed through on
his march to the sea Not long age
four or five of these matrons by chance
met at our house and it was nip ant
tuply bptvvppu thppo &c fbpv told nj