AN ELOQUENT APPEAL

Daughters Of The Confederacy Ask Co-Operation Of Lovers Of The “Lost Cause.”

THE MONUMENT TO BE BUILT

To Confederate Soldiers And Sailors Of Maryland.

A State Convention Will Be Held In Baltimore Tomorrow To Consider Plans For Raising The Necessary Money For The Project Which The Daughters Have Undertaken.

The Daughters of the Confederacy in the State of Maryland will meet tomorrow afternoon, under the auspices of Baltimore Chapter, No. 8, in Central Young Men’s Christian Association Hall, Charles and Saratoga streets, to consider plans for raising the necessary funds for the monument the society will erect to the Confederate dead. Representatives to the meeting are expected from all parts of the State, as various sub-committees to assist the board of managers will be appointed and their work outlined. Mrs. D. Giraud Wright, president of the society, will distribute to the delegates circulars which will be sent to all the members of the society and those interested in the work. At the top of the circular is a cut representing the flags of Maryland and the Confederacy, together with the monogram of the Confederate States, the seal of Maryland and the words “Army and Navy.” The following appeal is made:

“We, the Daughters of the Confederacy in the State of Maryland, have undertaken the work of building a monument to the Confederate soldiers and sailors of Mary-land, both dead and living. We ask your co-operation in this labor of love for our “lost cause.” In Baltimore no memorial in bronze or marble tells the story of the courage and heroic endurance of these men. They are of our own blood—our fathers, sons and brothers. Have we forgotten them and that for which they suffered? Have we forgotten their weary marches, the hunger and the cold, the dead on the field of battle, and the prisoner languishing far from home and friends and dying of the fever and the pain? Did we not send them forth? Would we not have felt they were recreant to their highest duty had they failed to go?

“They went, and in battle our heroes were foremost in the fight-but they did not conquer, and to us, dearer in defeat than ever they were in victory, to us belongs the sacred duty of perpetuating in imperishable stone the story of their hero-ism, the heroism of both the living and the dead.

“It has been suggested that we leave this memorial to be raised by a generation which shall follow us. We cannot take such a risk. Is it likely that the next generation will feel a more vivid interest in our heroes than we do oursevles? not leave this work to We can be done by other hands than ours. The world is rushing on-ward; new interests are springing up on every side. We see it; we know it. Year by year these men and women, the men who fought and the women who suffered, who were factors in that great conflict, are being called up higher, where we believe these mysteries of pain and defeat will be made plain.  Day by day the number lessens of those who followed our sacred banner in victory and furled its stainless folds in a sorrow which shall abide with us forever.

“The twenty thousand men of Maryland who bore that crimson flag with such dauntless courage deserve that the women of this State should rear a fitting memorial in testimony of their reverence and their love.

“Shall the stranger in our midst find a monument to every hero but the Confederate soldier? Where shall we meet his peer? The purest, noblest, highest type of Christian warrior that the world has ever produced!

“In future years, long after we have passed away, the little children in whose veins shall flow the blood of these Maryland cavaliers, pausing in their play and standing mute, with faces full of awe and reverence, before this memorial which our love shall raise, may read there the story of the heroic deeds of the men of Maryland in the war between the States.

“We, the Daughters of the Confederacy, will see to it that our fathers, sons and brothers, the men who wore the gray,’ are not forgotten!”