Why Should Not The State Honor The Memory Of These Noble Women?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN- Sir: The United Confederate Veterans throughout the Southern States are erecting monuments to the women of the Confederacy.

The Maryland Confederate Veterans are eager to pay their homage to the memory of these noble women, but the Maryland men “who followed Lee” no longer muster 20,000 strong; there are now but a handful left, and they cumbered with years and their numbers lessening day by day. Without assistance they can hardly accomplish this work.

A bill asking for an appropriation of $12,000 was Introduced last night in the Legislature to be devoted to that object.

It might be suggested in this connection that the Legislature gave $25,000 for the erection of the monument to Federal soldiers in Druid Hill Park, and it would seem that half that amount would not be too much for the State to appropriate for that monument which would perpetuate the memory of the noble women of the State, whose suffering and sacrifice were unequaled.

And another point of view suggests itself. Shall it be said that Maryland places her noble women on a lower plane than her sister States in the South? Shall Maryland be the only State in that sisterhood of tragic suffering not to honor the Confederate women as they deserve?

Baltimore, Jan. 28.

G.