The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-14
Last Days Proceedings of the Alabama Division U. D. C. Convention at TuS-
 caloosa.
BY MRS. J. M. DE coTTEs.

morning session Of the convention or | the Alabama Division of the Daughters 1 of the Confederacy was opened on yes- terday morning with prayer by Rev. John l Van Lear. pastor of the Presbyterian ! Church. after which reports of Important committees. and some Chapter reports l were read.
 The first report was that of Mrs. F. I. | Wood of Troy who is chairman of the | children of the Confederacy Committee. Her report was as follows:
 Mrs. Woods Report.
 Madam President, and Ladies of the Convention-Last Summer our homo. ed President. through her Corresponding Secretary informed me, that l was made | chairman of the State Committee on the | Children of the Confederacy' Work. And after strenuous efforts to perfect sys- | tenn for the work. I made my report to | the Executive Board assembled al | Opelka in February. With few changes in the proposed membership blank and | constitution my report was acc opted. On l January 18th at the Presidents reque e.st l | had a circular letter published in The l Advertiser, U. D. c. columns urging the Iadvisability and soliciting cooperation in the work. It seems though that my en- | thusiasm was not transmitable, for have heard from only one Chapter in the l State. Miss Jones of Camden, considered | my request and ordered fifty blanks. Sha | having the first Chapter Children of the | Confederacy' in the State and was doing I 1 Chapter. But at my request and with love and pride for her State, she enrolled her Chapter Children of the Confederacy' | Sam Davis Chapter A, auxiliary to the | Charter Chapter U. D. C., Ala, Division | No 1, Children of the Confectionery. The | Emma Sansom Chapter was organized On | the l4th of January, auxiliary to the Troy Chapter. U. D. C., securing forty mem- | bership blanks. In March the sam Davis Chapter auxiliary to the Sophie Bibh Chapter, U. D. C., Montgomery was organized and placed an order for fifty I membership blanks.
 Tn April the Albert Sidney Johnson | Chapter was organized in Brundidge, | auxiliary to the Troy Chapter, u. D. c. l with an order for forty blanks. I had 800 membership blanks printed. by in struction of the Executive Board, and as l you may readily see 1 have placed 1s0 among the Chapters mentioned l have | written numbers of letters and postals and have used the amount paid to me for membership blanks in stamps, having eixtX-fiye in money on hand.
 T would'i like. to emphasize Article VIII in the Consultation, namely, That nc l Chapter, UA D. CS can have more than one local auxiliary, but 1t may have any number located at several different towns and villages hW
 T thought Madam President it would not be entirely out of order to make . little appeal here for the cause I repre-. sent. And beg the delegates to interest | Lnslr .PreSlucntS on JnSlr return nome lr this lthe Children of the Confederacy work. For to my mind the future oi the U. D. C.'s depend largely on oul children. Respectfully submitted
 Mrs. l.. H. Bowles, Mrs A. Rumpn, Ms
 F. s. Wood. Chairman Committee or
 Children of the Confa 1eracy Wo K
 Alabama Division, U. D. c.
 After Mrs. Wods report Mrs. Dowdel introduced to the convention two littf, girls who came as representatives of theil respective chapters of the Children O the Confederacy, Nellie Chaffin. who re ported for the Emma Sansom Chapter 0 port from the Sam Davis Chapter O Montgomery which was organized b, Mrs. l.. G. Dawson and Mrs. George H | McCombs.
 Winnie Davis Chapter of the Children O the Confederacy. Mrs. Wood read tn, report of the Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter. Children of the Confederacy.
 Mrs McAdory read the report of tht Bessemer Chapter. U. D. C..
 Mrs.l Ellen eter-Bryce read repor from the Marion Chapter. U. D. c.
 Mrs. B. B. Ross read the report of tho Barbour Chapter of Eufaula
 At this point Mrs. Alfred Bethea o Montgomery. asking for personal privi lege. offered the following resolution which was seconded by Mrs. M. P Wat and ordered spread upon the minutes:
 Whereas, Gen. George D. Johnston oi Tuscaloosa, a distinguished Confederate veteran, mas prepared q lecture upon Int subject, Memories of the Old South, which has been heard with pleasure anC profit by several of our chapters and 1T some of the leading cities and towns o our State; be it resolved,
 First-That we commend to our chap ters General Johnston as a forcefu1 anC eloquent speaker and one who having lived in ante-belium days knows whereof he speaks of the institutions and custom; that prevailed in the old South
 Second-That we commend the able anC scholarly effort that General Johnston makes in this lecture to present the Souti to the present generation in the viviC word picture that he draws of the South land before 1t was blasted by the breatl of war.
 Third-That we recommend to our chap ters wherever practicable to secure Gen George D. Johnston of Tuscaloosa to de liver his lecture upon Memories of tn, Old South" as most helpful to the gen eral aims of the United Daughters of tn Confederacy in the preservation of tn memories and traditions, heroism and pa triotism, sufferings and sacrifices of ou sires. and in inculcating in the minds o the young people of the South sentiment of love and Veneration for these virtues
 Report of Monument Committee. Mrs. L. G. Dawson next read her re port as Chairman of the Monument Com mittee as follows:
 Four years ago I delivered my maideI speech before this convention, then as Sembled in Selma, in behalf of placing monuments upon the national battlefields The Daughters instantly recognized tn, fact that they had been derelict not fl love but duty to Alabama's fallen soni and decided at once to undertake thu work of erecting monument upon ont of these battlefields.
 Each successive year contributions have been made by various Chapters, until VI now have on deposit While we appre ciate this sum we cannot refrain iron | aGkinn QG nTan xKrha gh, could towards helding this noble work l. Our paramount duty should be the lov ing call of the living veterans. but next t that should be the perpetuating of tn, memory of those who so nobly tough and bravely fell for the lost cause
 Northern States are constantly honorinS their sons by placing handsome monu l ments upon the battlefelds. On April Indiana. on the forty y-second anniversarl 1 of the memorable battle of Shiloh witt | imposing ceremonies and General Lew | Wallace as orator dedicated nine monu | ments to her devoted sons.
 | Were these soldiers braver, their sui | ferirg and sacrifices greater, their dyins nobler than ours? We answer no for tho world acknowledges that no truer hraver | nobler band of men ever contended foI l what they considered their rights, thar | did our beloved Southern army.
 | Extract from Colonel Patterson's letter | Will you not cooperate with your com. mittee who for second time in January | presented a bill to the Legislature re. questing an appropriation of $lO.0O0. Thi.