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* * * * * * * *- * * * * * MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS * of Dr. James McIntosh, * * Newberry, S. C., May 10, 1910. * * * * * * * S S * * * Dr. McIntosh was introduced in a few appropriate words by Major Jas. F. J. Caldwell. Dr. McIntosh spoke in part as fol lows: Comrades, Daughters of the Con lederacy, Sons of Veterans, Ladies and Gentlemen: As I look over this audience, composed of thes who in the latter part of the last century bore the brunt of the Civil War, and who well know and understood what they fouant for, and also ho31 of. th% present generation, who have heard time and again this subject discuss ed, and then upon those our children of tender years, I realize how diffi cult it will be to speak interestingly and engage your attention for any length of time, upon a subject worthy of the best orator of the age, of one who could command your closest at-! tention, and I can only ask you to imake allowances for one who deeply teels his inability to present this subject as it might be done. But in the name of the veterans here as -sembl6d, and in the name of those dead heroes whose bravery, patriot ism. and death we are here to com memorate, let me thank you for your presence. It is with the highest grat ification that every veteran here pres ent looks around upon this assem blage. It warms our hearts and rLakes us feel that our ch.-Ldrea aid our friends are ready still to honor the cause for which we fought. And we feel as we look into your faces that we are leaving the legacy of a glorious honored past in the hands of those who will ever be proud to know that their fathers wore the grey, and bore the starry cross to victory on many a hard-fought bat tlefield. If I can impre'ss upon the mind and mr.mory of one single listener in this house a clearer impression as to the cause of- the Civil War, then I will feel tba) this hour has not been spent in vain. My aim shall. be to make a simple, plain statement of the conditions ex isting prior to 1860, that will, show that the South was forced to fight, not. only .for her rights and liber ties, her homes and fireside, but for the protection and safety of her Wo snen and children. I stand not here to apologize for the war, to make any excuse for the action of our State, or for the course *of the South. What the South asks, :and what every Confederate wishes, is that the true condition as it ex isted in 1860 be understood, and that [history, freed from local and section-I .al influences, sha.ll give an impartial account of the causes of the war, for then the South will be justified and1 all forced to agree that there was no; other course to pursue but to do as the South did, secede from the Un ion. And as I look into the faces of - these younger men and boys, I feel: that there is not a man or boy within the walls of this building who, if he. had been living in the sixties of the last century, would not have been fighting to the death with his broth er and comrades. There were .\three causes that 'breynght on the Civil War, each one of them differing entirely from the Eth -ers, each one becoming a 'sdominant - s:source of discord and danger at dif Yferent periods of time in the life of the nation, but so indissolubly hv 'they been interwoven into the very * xistence of the nation that even the* Civil War could not remove them,.. !and they now, as ever, stand' out as a menace to the republican form of\ government. These three cause are: 1. The principle of State's rights.' 2. The tariff. 3. The negr.o. The question of State's rights came n1ear preventing the union of the thirteen original States into the Unit ed States of America. -The ratification of the anstitution vf the United States by the States of 'New York and Rhode Island and V irginia reserved in plain language 'the right to secede. as, viz., the pow 'ers -of government may be reassum ed by fhe people when it shall be e:ome necessary to their happiness. And with the formation of the union *the right of a State to withdraw from the union was acknowledged as a right. Massachusetts threatened to secede in 1811 and Maine threaten -ed to secede in 1831. The original union of the States -was formed with' every safeguard 1 thrown around the rights of the in dividual States that human wisdom deemed sufficient to safeguard them. But from the year the thirteen orig inal States formed the United States i of America, there has been continual i strife and contention between those striving to centralize the power of the government and those who stood for State's rights. These contentions have passed from the halls of Con gress to the United States court, and back from the court to congress, and now there are pending in the United States court many questions at this time that involve principles vital to the rights of the individual States, the decision of which will either further strengthen the centralizing power of the general government or will stem the tide and protect the States and the individual inhabitants of those States in the enjoyment of those rights that the Constitution grants to States and individuals. 2. The question of the tariff has been a subject of discord from the very formation of the 'United States, and is now the most momentous.and important question before Congress and the people themselves. -After the revolution, in 1784, to r.et the needs of the government for fioney, a tariff for revenue was pass ed. The hatred to anything British at that time was so intense that many who would have otherwise ob jected agreed to it, through the de sire to keep out British goods and encourage home manufactures. But a tariff to pay the government's ex penses soon becanje a tariff to protect bome industries, and has truly year by year been the means of impover ishing the South and enriching the North. This tariff has built up the fortunes of the millionaires, the monied cor porations that have robbed you and the trusts that now control prices in our country, and may yet bring on a revolution that will shake this gov ernment to its foundations. 3. The negro. These two questions, State's rights and the tariff, had been the bone of contention up to the Mexican war, but with the admission of Texas, and the opening of her vast extent of ter ritory to the extension of slavery, the abolition party of the North, that had been growing steadily under the in flammatory writings of William Lloyd Garrison and the bitter denunciations of Wendel Phillips against the South, now assumed increased activity and bitterness. As a .little boy of twelve years, I heard in Washington our congress men and senators discussing this question, and they were all looking to the future with forebodings of evils to come, and the feeling in the North as it impressed me was that the South had really but few friends among the Northern politicians or people. Then and^there I became a Democrat, believing in State's rights, tariff for revenue, and slavery, and have been a Democrat ever since. Dr. McIntosh then spoke of the ad mission of Kansas in 1,854, and of the test of strength between the aboliti onists and the profslavery party on the plains of Kansas, which led to a bloody condlict which it took the strong arm of the general govern m'ont to stop. But that blood shed in 1854, he said, bore '..ts fruit. As a volcano, it slumbered until 1861, and burst out in civil war. Newber ry, he said, was represented in the Kansas conflict by her sons, 5. Pope and James Glenn, J. M. Crosson. Con scious of its strength, the abolition party put forward eGn. Fremont as its candidate in 1856, and polled a vote surprising its own leaders. -' The Kansas war, Mrs. Stowe's book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and the vote of 1856 cemented'the following of olitionists in one solid column, whose demands and threats against :he South 'grew steadily until in 1859 :here was planned and attempted :hat crime against,. humanity, that >lot upon a Christianized civilization, :arried out by one man, but assisted md sympathized with by others as Laders-a negro insurrection- with all its attendant crimes of fire, mur ier, lust upon the defenceless and in aocent. In the history of North A.merica nothing equals this diaboli cl, fiendish act of Johig Brown as he >anned and carried out his negro in uurrectionl at Harper's Ferry, Va., in 1859, October 29: Fortunately for the 3ke of humanity it was crushed at >nce, and under a court of which ln. Lee was the head, John Brown as convicted of a heiigous crime >.nd hanged on December 2, 1859. The 1anging of John Brown by the United states authorities created a clamor md uproar all through the North. Keeetings were held by the ;abolitionl >arty in city, town, village and coun ry. Speeches vWith the bitterest de iunciation of the general government Lnd the South were greeted with houts of approval and shrieks ot rnzy. Every abolition paper strove ' wido its competitor in the rancor L.nd abuse heaped upon the South. This man who had planned the mu~ir [er of women and children,' and the uning over of these defenceless in Lent to the cruetie and lusts of THE At RESC Loans and Discounts . Furniture and Fixture Banking House Overdrafts, Secured aj Cash on hand and wit JNO. M., KINARD, President. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets will clear the sour stomach, sweeten the breath and create a heal thy appetite. They promote the flow ham & Son. of gastric juice, thereby inducing good digestion. Sold by W. E. Pel earwhn ama hs loths oi y fire. 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