The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-11-04
TO MARK WOMEN'S MONUMENT.
inscriptions SIected From More Than
Fifty Compositions Submitted An
onymously in Contest.

to the women Of the Confederacy in
Columbia were this afternoon furnish
ed the press.
Capt. william E. Gonzales, editor Of
the Columbia State, prepared the in
scriphons that are to go on the monu
ment The selection Of Capt. Con
zales's composition was made follow
ing a competitive examination of
number of efforts submitted anony-
mously. Fifty inscriptions were sub
anitted to the commission.
The selection of the winning in
scriptions was by: a committee, the
members Of which took under consid-
Grafton thirty of the compositions SUBJ
uitted to the monument commission.
The Committee.
The committee was: Miss Euphemia
McClintock, president of the College
for Women, of this city; Stanhope
Sans, Lift D.; the Rev. DR.. William
McPheeters, of the Columbia Hheolo-
gical Seminary; Prof. Yates Snowden,
of the University of South Carolina,
and Col. U. R. Brooks, clerk of the
supreme court, who is writer of his
tory.
This committee reported six COM
positions to the commission in the Or
der of merit and the commission
adopted the report. Capt. Gonzales,
himself a member of the commission,
absented himself from this meeting,
and the commission decided upon his
composition as worry to be placed
upon the monument to the women of
the Confederacy.
The four next succeeding compost
Sions were submitted, in the order re-
ported by the committee by DR.. George
Armstrong Wauehope, head of the
English department of the University
of South Carolina; by Dr.. E. S. JOY
nes, professor emeritus of modern
languages at the University; by the
Rev. A. N. Fraser, D. D., of Staunton,
Va, who last summer was invited to
become president of the Columbia
Theological seminary, and by ".
Banks Dove, formerly superintendent
of city schools Of Washington, n. c.,
and now assistant secretary Of state.
Their respective works are submitted
in this article as Exhibits A, B. c and
..
Much thought was given to the pre-
paration of the compositions submit
ted. It is aid that DR.. Wauchope re-
wrote his inscriptions % times and
DR.. Fraser corrected his composition
several times by mail after he had
sent it in.
The Monuments Inscriptions.
The following are the inscriptions
20 pe placed on the monument:
(South Side.)
In this Monument
generations unborn shall heart the
Voice of a grateful People
Hes,ifying to the sublime Devotion
sof the Women of South Carolina
in their Country's need.
Their uncomfortable spirit
strengthened the thin lines Of grey
Their tender care was solice to the
stricken.
Reverence for God
and unfaltering Faith in righteous
Cause
inspired Heroism that withstood
The immolation of sons
and Courage that bore the agony OF
suspense
and the shock of disaster.
The tragedy Of the Confederacy may
be forgotten,
but the fruits Of the noble Service
of the Daughters of the South
are our perpetual heritage.
NORTH Side.)
When reverses followed victories
when want displaced plenty
when mourning for the flower OF
Southern Manhood
darkened countless homes
when Government tottered and Chaos
threatened
Ehe Women were steadfast and un-
afraid
They were
unchanged in their Devotion
unshaken in their Patriotism
unwearied in Ministrations
uncomplaining in Sacrifices
Splendid in Fortitude
rhey strove while they wept
sn the Rebuilding after the Desolation