The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-02-02

G. Dawson, Montgomery
 x White House Committee-Mrs. J.
 D. Beale. Montgomery. E
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 Notice! Officers and Directors.
 A meeting of the Executive Board ol
 the Alabama Division. U. D. C., which is
 composed of the officers and director | from each chapter, Is called by the Presi'
 dent. Mrs. A. l.. Dowdell, to meet at her ] eral matters of importance urges the call for this meeting and a full attend l ance of all officers and directors is spe- cially requested to be present.
 From The St. Louis Post-D Dispatch we clip the following beautiful tribute to Southern women and to the Daughters of the Confectionery, written by Mrs. Jef- ferson Davis from New York to the ed- itor of this paper.
 Only a Southern woman who under stands how the South has come up from the desolation of the war between the States can appreciate fully the work of the Daughters of the Confectionery. feel that too great a need of praise can not be accorded to these brave women whose desolation only melted them 10 achieve a victory over all. No nobler spirits have labored to bind up hurts. to heal wounds and repair ravages of con- fiict than these Daughters of the Con- federacy. From time to time I notice that suG- gestion is made to erect monument in our country to Southern women. The plan should be carried out. for to my mind no women ever deserved one more truly.
 When the war between the States was ended, these women. many of whom had been reared In luxury, though reduced to poverty and confronted by physical labor in their own households which exhausted them sorely. many, Of them widowed or oh hxyt hn strong young men, who had gone forth to fight, and had been brought home dead to their well-nigh heartbroken wives and mothers spent no time in idle repining. but when the fighting men of the coun- try were overpowered, turned at once to the task of helping those that were even more crushed than themselvs.
 Eager to preserve the records of the heroes, they established in each of their chapters the office of historian, so that coming genrations may have the indi- vidual accounts of eye-witnesses to the brave deeds achieved by our army. These stories which have been told at the camp fires by one hero or another are transcribed to perpetuate the char acter and deeds of OUT men. All these desolate women at time when one would have expected that women SO shielded and nurtured as the Southern women had been would have sent up
 
 which had befallen them and, with para lyzed energies. thought only of their ad- verse fortunes, loss and individual mis- cries.
 Through all this cumulative sorrow the hearts of our women have not been less open to those who were once their foes When Chicago was buried in ashes, and the bitterness of our defeat was still most Keen, I remember the women of Mem- phis and in other parts of the South casting up with anxious care to see how much could be spared for the people of Chicago: and our desolated country, in responded as generously and as nobly as the Northern people did in their turn when the yellow fever had made Southern cities one great lazaretto.
 We honor the Christian sympathy and active charity of both sections. It is rare 10 md Confederate woman who spends her time in unavailing vituperations against those who brought about the in- evitable ruin which overwhelmed us.
 They have not forgotten our wrongs. but they are willing to forgive the past and unite as hearty co=operators with our country workers of the North for the glory of the United States of America, in the formative stage of which their fore fathers bore so brilliant and leading a part. and they heartily desire the success of our united country.
 T1e Daughters of the Confederacy as an association. is the union of a number CT societies. having common patriotic and benevolent purpose.
 Four states. l believe, have claimed the Daughters of the Confederacy I do not know to whom 1t rightly belongs. Prob ably, and very naturally, the thought moved the hearts of many at about the Is not important. and in a good work for all.
 As Southern woman I am inexpres4 nfh hxra with reverence and admiration at the re- suit Of their noble, self a bnegating work and must say l believe if the Northern and Southern women could meet in daily other the affectionate sympathy that Is even now more deeply felt than either section likes to express,
 With charity as the first aim the Daughters of the Confederacy organiza- ton disburses $1O0,00O each year to care for indigent Confederate veterans and their families-historical data collected and writers of Southern history encour1 aged.
 Soon after the late war Confederate vet erans organized for social and charitable purposes. and affiliated with these were various women's societies. About 1S9 of head and called Daughters of the Con- federacy. Barbour County Chapter. U. D, C.. Flu faula' Jan. &-The monthly meetings of this chapter have been suspended 60 long, circumstances conspiring against their renewal after "the heated term" the long absence of the President sick ness in the family of others, etc until | the hearts of some of its members grew sick with waiting. However, on Satur- | day the 18th we were called together | by Mrs. and Miss Clayton who were lat | home from 3 to 5 D. m. to the Confed- | crate Daughters. in honor of General II. | F. Lee. hts birthday, the 18th. falling | on Sunday. was thus anticipated The parlors of this beautiful home pre | sented a most attractive scene. The pie | ture of General Lee placed conspicu- l Ously. draped in the Confederate colors. | and meath the folds of the flag he loved | 30 well, bespoke the occasion. Red. white | and red was the color scheme" The | new game called Confederate Heroes" l was the leading feature of the enter |