The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-12-13
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY.
Urged That Certain States Should
Not be in Jefferson Davis Monument.
To the u. d. C.'s, The Confederate Vet
Grams and all Their Friends:

To the u. D. C.'s, The Confederate Vet
Grams and all Their Friends:
Greetings:
The article in the News and Observer
about the u. D. C.s meeting in Raleigh
on the 10th instant was read with pleas
ure and we are glad to know that the
Daughters of the Old North State are
fighting, for the good friend of the Con
federacy the State of Maryland, having
representation in the monument to Presi-
dent Davis, at Richmond for if Kentucky
and Missouri are represented, it is surely
right that Maryland should have equal
rights, as all three of these States sent
many brave men South to Wear the
Grey Perhaps, it would be right for
Maryland to have a greater part in the
memorial for in proportion to her p3pula-
tion she sent many more soldiers to fight
under Lee than either of the other two
States mentioned and under greater diff
culties, for she was divided from the
Confederate States of America" by the
Potomac River and all her men who
fought for us, had to swim across this
river and that under the very jaws of the
Federal guns at the Federal Capital, the
seat of the Federal Government But
even so she is not one of the eleven
Confederate States, nor is she half sister,
but step sister, with Kentucky and
Missouri. And as the wicket step sisters
treated Cinderella so these States treated
our beloved COnfederacy. Then why
should either of these three States be
represented in our Memorial to the first
and only President of our Confederate
Government? When we place flowers on
the graves of our loved ones and erect
monuments to their memories we do not
let strange hands touch them and GER
tainly could not let enemies take part
in these most sacred homes to our dead.
These three States were the enemies of
our President, Jefferson Davis and help
ed to put all indignities upon him and
his memory besides placing chains upon
him while a prisoner at Fortress Monroe.
These States did not secede, as every
one knows, but were under the protection
of the Federal Government with Federal
Governors and Federal flags represented
in Federal Congress, all the four years of
the war If they had seeded, and iained
the Confederacy Appomattox would not
hold the place in history that it does to-
day. With fourteen States with us" we
could have made much better fight with
all the rest of these United States against
us. A small minority of men from these
States did fight with us, and that brave
y, and to these men let us give all the
honor we possibly can and if possible
have a roster containing the names of
every man who came South to help our
Loved Caused" There were so few men
from Missouri who wanted to 'come
South that when they wished their State
to secede they had to go into Kansas to
have their Congress" Surely when the
United Daughters of the Confederacv
shall have thought of all these things and
many more, to be learned by little study
OF the history of those times, thew will
have only the eleven Confederate States
OF America represented in this monument
to the President of the Confederacy. .Tef-
terson Davis. Only these eleven, whose
name sare given in the "Bonny Blue Fala,,
the eleven who voted for President Davis
and this one fact should settle the ouas.
ton of whether the other three disn,lted
States should have representation in tbe
Monument to be erected by the IT n.
C.'s. And even their best friends cannot