THE CONFEDERATE BAZAR.

The bazar which will be opened tonight at the Fifth Regiment Armory under the auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is for the purpose of procuring funds to build a monument in Baltimore to the Confederate soldiers and sailors of Maryland. This is an object which appeals with peculiar force to the people of Baltimore, and should receive their most generous support and sympathy. Twenty thousand sons of Maryland fought for the

“Lost Cause.” Although their valor was in vain, their dauntless courage and loyalty to what they conceived to be the right are worthy of a fitting memorial. Baltimore is the “Monumental City.” but no monument tells the story of the heroic deeds of all the brave and devoted men of Maryland who cast their lot with the South in the war between the States. Memorials have been erected to perpetuate the valor of Maryland heroes in other wars, yet none of the gallant men of the War of the Revolution or the War of 1812 were more worthy of honor and reverence than those who fought with Lee and Jackson and the other Confederate generals in the great civil conflict of 1861-65. The Maryland Daughters of the Confederacy have undertaken the work of building a monument to the Maryland heroes of the “Lost Cause.” They regard it as a sacred duty “to perpetuate in imperishable stone” the memory of those who gave their lives for the South. From Washington to New Orleans the South is dotted with monuments to the men who fell fighting in what they believed to be a just and noble cause.

In a State like Maryland, which sent many of her best and bravest men to fight the battles of the Confederacy, it is fitting that a monument should be erected to commemorate their valor. In every civilized country there are memorials of bronze or marble perpetuating the fame of those who gave their lies for their people. Maryland should have a suitable monument to her sons who fought under the Confederate flag, and that monument should be erected in Baltimore, the “Monumental City.” The Daughters of the Confederacy who have undertaken this work deserve the hearty support and encouragement of the people of Baltimore, and their bazar at the Fifth Regiment Armory this week should receive the generous patronage of all who honor the memory of the Maryland heroes of the Confederacy.