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UNTIL'D DA UGHTEKS gs CONFEDEK.A C Y
A Great Coming Together of Southern Patriotic Women
HE past week has been one long to be
remembered in Atlanta by the presence
of the many warm-hearted women
brought here by the convention of the
U. I). C. Not only were the gates of
the city thrown wide open, but the
homes and hearts of the people were
all combined in a successful effort to
extend to this body of earnest women
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the whole-souled welcome so characteristic
of Atlanta and her people.
The Atlanta chapter and vicinity were
ready in every sense of the word to receive
this great body.
The First Morning’s Session.
With the “Bonny Blue Flag” and fes
toons of Southern smilax and King Cotton,
artistically held in place by great bunches of
red roses, decorating the walls, and patriotic
music filling the air, the first session of the
fifteenth annual convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy opened Novem
ber 11, at 10:30' o’clock in the Cable concert
hall. Several hundred delegates, represent
ing every Southern State, were present at
the opening session, and other delegates con
tinued to arrive during the day.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia, Mayor
W. R. Joyner of Atlanta and General Clem
ent A. Evans, commander in chief of the
United Confederate Veterans, made welcom
ing addresses. Mrs. C. Helen Plane, founder
of the Georgia division, U. D. C., and Miss
Alice Baxter, president of the Georgia divi
sion, in behalf of the Daughters of Georgia,
and Mrs. Edward G. Warner in behalf of
the Atlanta chapter, joined in welcoming the
visiting delegates.
At the conclusion of her welcoming ad
dress, Mrs. Wafner introduced Mrs. Cornelia
Branch Stone of Texas, president general of
the organization, who formally assumed the
chair, gracefully acknowledging the many
kind words that had been spoken by those
who preceded her. An unexpected and
beautiful incident of the morning session was
the presentation to Mrs. St.one of a handsome
banner, on which was symbolized the senti
ments embodied in the United Daughters of
the Confederacy.
Mrs. E. McDowell Wolff, founder of the
Children of the Confederacy, was introduced
and made a brief address in which she em-
phasized the necessity of perpetuating in the minds
of the children, the history of the South’s heroic
conflict.
Mrs. Seabrooke, widow of the late General Fran-
ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 19, 1908.
cis Bartow, C. S. A., made a short talk, smiling her
acknowledgments to the Daughters of the Confed
eracy, who are perpetuating her husband’s memory,
in building the Francis Bartow memorial dormitory
at the Rathburn Industrial .School, for mountain
boys and girls, descendants of Confederate sol
diers.
Miss Virginia Clay Clopton, author of “A Belle
of the Fifties,” and Mrs. Claud Swanson, the wife
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MRS. CORNELIA BRANCH STONE, of Galveston,
“The Little Lady With the Gavel,”
Who presided throughout the convention with the dignity and
clear judgment of the ideal officer. She was re-elected president
general of the U. D. C. at the close of its convention here.
of Governor Swanson of Virginia, were both escort
ed to the front and given great ovations. Mrs. Clop
ton responded in a brief talk “trenchant with hu
mor and good feeling.” This very interesting and
highly enjoyable first session closed by the calling
to the platform of the former president generals,
each being warmly applauded.
And from Wednesday morning until Saturday, the
closing day, every session was filled with enthu
siasm, patriotism, educational progress and liberal
thought. The U. D. C. is not a propagator of
narrow prejudices, but, with true and loyal pa
triotism, (hey desire to perpetuate southern his-
tory. With brave hearts and noble sacri
fices they give their time, energy, brains and
money to educate the children of the new
South to understand aright the cause of the
old South, and to beautify this beloved
Southland with monumental love sacred to
the dead heroes, who gave their lifeblood to
their country’s call.
A Beautiful Sentiment.
It is a beautifully sacred sentiment this
great organization of Southern women stand
so living memorial of a glorious past,
which through them will never be forgotten.
A past which held all that was best ami
noblest of the South, an age ami condition
which never had its like on earth before,
and which can never be repeated,’’one I hat is
sacred to their every heart. And their conven
ing, on the old “camping ground” of Sher
man, from which he, marched leaving devas
tation in his wake, must have brought to
memory many an unpleasant reminiscence:
yet there was a true spirit of Southern for
giveness exemplified when the vote was re
corded to admit to their ranks their North
ern sisters, who could be eligible.
After listening to these brilliant women
hailing from the North, South, East and
West champion, as they did. the sacred
memories of the (ill's, iro one can dare say
aught against the perpetuating of their his
tory. A very notable feature of the conven
tion was the magnetic influence the hand
that held the gavel swayed over that great
body from the first Io the (dosing session,
and the U. D. ('. most emphatically demon
strated sound judgment in re-electing as
president Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone, of
Galveston, Texas.
Atlanta, ever noted for her royal enter
taining of “the stranger within her
gates,” seemed to throw around this no
ble body of patriotic women her most
gracious mantle of love; and every hour, when not
gathered in their business sessions, some delightful
reception was accorded them. So beautifully were
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