East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1910-11-04

honor of those who fought for, and
who died for this beautiful land of
ours, until these Monuments now
stand from the Potomac to the Rio
Grande, and are being added to as
the years roll on, all the honor, the
name of Dixie and her brave de-
fenders-"Dixie," name, as has
been beautifully said, numbered
with the names of heroes, famed in
the pages of history, treasured in
the melodoy of song, and floating
down the stream of time will gath
er glory as it glides along"
Confederate Veterans, the woman
hood of the South having done so
much, and are doing SO much for
US, should we not do something for
them. 1t has been labor of low
for them, and every effort we max
in their behalf, will be labor ..
love to us. 1t is full time. it is
high time we should beat an ad-
vance along the whole line in sup
port of this movement, already too
long delayed, and with long pull.
and pull altogether, raise the
necessary funds to make this Monu
ment to the noble Womanhood E
the Southern Confederacy glori
GUS reality. Ifproperly approach:l
If properly explained, sincerei,
believe every white man, womaf
and child will lend q help 1g hand.
AS drops makes rivlets, )ivlets
makes brooks, ana brooks makes
rivers, and rivers fill seas. so these
voluntary contributions will guic'
ly fill our Golfers, and enab!1 tho.
in charge to construct, ererr, ant
dedicate this monument to oul
womanhood, who in war between
the States, one and all, stood bS
their fathers, and their husbands,
their sons and their brothers, and
their lovers for Southern Rights
for Southern hearthS aud homes
and in their long aud blood cor |
test for freedom and struggle fol
the Independence of the Southern
Confederate, The graz due of
whose ruin, in the language of our
own Lamar, has enobIed us all
"Gashed with honorable sears,
Safe in the Glor!'s lap she lies,
And tho she fell. She fell like
stars,
Streaming splendor through tn
skies"
Let us show the world thai oul |
noble WomanhOod, in the war he
tween the States, will yet be tittl!
remembered by the chivalric daugh-
ters and knightly sons of the South
That womanhood, who from 1885,
to 1865, true as the needle to the
pole, stood by those VINO fought
the battles of the land we love;
lest we forget, remember
When first the Stars and Bar
was flung to the breeze, twas wom-
ans hand that wrought that flag,
and set those stars and bars upon
it's silky folds. Again when that
flag was borne onward by the tide
of many victory, no heart pull
sated with greater delight than that
which throbbed in the breast of
the Southern woman, and when that
flag was furled forever and laved
in the blood that heroes gave il, :,
we find the Southern woman ming
ling her tears with oursCitizen Sol
diery; having helped to rock the
cradle of the young Confederacy;
we findher now walking with them
as mourners at her tomb-4-as true
as woman at the Crucifetionplast
at the Cross, earliest atthe grave.
, Dot the South with Monuments to
our manhood and womanhood, then
the honor and the fame of the
Southern Cause, its noble. support
ers and her brave defenders, will
live until the last trumpet OF the
Archangle wakes the dead from
sea to sfa. .
, There is no historythat can SHOW
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