To Honor Confederacy’s Women∫

The resolution introduced by Capt. B. F. Weathers at the reunion of Confederate veterans, favoring immediate action toward building a monument to the Confederate women of Alabama, was timely and appropriate. It is a subject which has been discussed at various times and on various occasions, but is always postponed to some time in the future. It has already been put off too long. It ought to be erected and dedicated while veterans of the war are here to assist in building it and to welcome its consecration.

We notice that the United Daughters of the Confederacy Convention in New Orleans expressed disapprobation of this movement until the Jefferson Davis monument at Richmond is completed. This act of self-abnegation is characteristic of the women of the South, but it should not be accepted by the veterans themselves. Monuments to Davis and Lee and our other leaders are right and proper and no Confederate survivor can object, but we of Alabama should erect a suitable memorial to our own women. It should be erected by Alabamians and for Alabamians.

The women of Alabama have been foremost in every movement designed to honor and perpetuate the deeds of Alabama soldiers, and the latter and their sons should be as ready to do honor to the wives, mothers and sisters of those who fought and died for a righteous cause. Our women themselves may deprecate any effort to do them honor, but this is one case where even the good women of Alabama should not be allowed to have their way. Let the Confedrate veterans’ camps all over the State go to work and there can be no doubt of the result. The survivors themselves are able to build this monument and they ought to do it and let it be finished while they live to see it. Such a monument will honor those who build it and those in whose memory it was designed.-Birmingham Age-Herald.