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CL2 The occasion of the unveiling of thi Confederate Monument in -Mann!i last Wednesday was the greatest 'i the history of the county. An im mense throng numbering perhaps 2, 500 souls from all parts of Clarendor and other counties, and one gentle man, Mr. R. R. Harvin, from Texas came, here to celebrate the happl event-the culmination of the hope. of the children and grand-children oJ - those who responded to their count try's -call. One of the noteworthy features of the occasion was the pres ence-of so many school children whc win carry with them through life the lesson of patriotism taught. Mets'a famous band from Charleston dis coursed beautiful. music throughoul the day, and the people heard two msgnidcent addresses, one by Hon. 3, J. McSwaln, of Greenville, represent tng the Sons of Veterans, and the other by that gallant old hero, Col. James Armstrong, of Charleston, who represented his old comrades. Hen. 3. H. Lekesne acted as master of cere monies, and well did he perform this function. The Veterans assembled in the court house and were taken charge of by thecoanmittee, and as guests of honor were taken in automombiles decorat ed with Confederate and United States flags, and paraded through and around --the town. Met's band playing patriot Se airs led the procession-t was an inspiring sight. When the parade was completed the "vets" were pro vided. seats on the court house-sQure in front of the rostrum which was appropriately decorated with flags and bunting, and the band played sev era8. seleGons 'which werei eOring as wel as inspikng. When the band wasiplaying "Tenting on the old Camp Ground," many of the old soldierg hummed the tune, and when It broke out with "Dixie," a shout went up from the throats of young and old alike. After the exercises the veter das .were dined by the committee at the Centzal Hotel. - The day was Ideal, the skies were clear, and there was a sweet breeze blowing.. Seated upon the stage were the speakers, -a number of the older ieroes, Rev. G. P. Watson and Hog. J. 1. Lesesne, who as we said before was in bckargeof the ceremonies. Mr, Les esne introduced Rev. G. P. Watson who opened theexerclses with a most appropriate prayer, each sentence as -they, were wafted over tho bowed heads breathed sentiments of thanks giving, love and patriotism. It was in 'deed a most fervent and magnificent deUverance. Nrecedlng the speeches the follow lng little school girls drew the veil amid. the crash of .music -and the deera' of the multitude: Summerton, Sarah Marie Richbourg, a grand danughter of Maj. A. 3. Richbourg, iile'Lesesne, a grand-daughter of - a.H. H. Iesesne. Manning, Vir inAlma Bradham. the ;youngest aughter of Captain D..3. Bradham,. -orrine McKelvey, a great-grand ~aghter of Moses Levi. Oakdale, Anna run Harrington. great-grand-daugh trof James 3. Reardon,,and Anna ipsa, a grand-daughter of D. Mltch -Thes business houses closed in honor ettbe ceremonies, and the whole town and county devoted the day -to the esause and to make everybody feel the band clasp of brotherly love. T2he m'onumnent, beautifally symnmet 'ical and chaste In design, is 26 feet $ igh and consists of a triple base, a die containtag inscriptions on all four sides, a shaft bearing -in raised sculp tore a Confederate flag drooping from a broken staff, and the whole suir mounted by a statue representing a oung soldier standing at parade rest with an old-time muzzle loading mus ket. The material of the monument Is Winnsboro granite except the stat * e, which Is of Italian marble. The Inscription on the four sides of the die are all In raised lettering and are Intended to be read progressively -from, north to east, south and west. On the base of the north side is in scribed In ornate capitals, "Our H roes," while above on the north face of the die Is this Inscription: "Erected To the soldiers from Clarendon county who served in *the war for Southern Independence, Charlestonl 1661. Appomattox 1865." 'On the east side of the die is the following Inscription: "Hope, like the eastern-sun, arose bright In the heart of the Southern er for home government and the Con (ederate States of America. Contend ing against armies overwhelming in numbers and with resources inex haustible, he 'fought with patriotism undaunted, and love of country un excelled In history. Unawed by tear .'of defeat, he defended the sacredness of home and the sovereignty of his Then on the south side is the fol lowing Inscription: "Not to disrupt a righteous unior or a true republic did the Confederate soldier take up arms but to defend cherished principles of civil rights dic be leave his all to do battle untc deathi. Though over'powered by forcE he was unbroken in spirit; offering his life as a crowning sacrifice hE faced the fate of war; unconquered lx defeat; undismayed in Divine faith; undiscouraged in hope for the future Untiring'Jn rebuilding." Finally on the west side the follow ing inscription appears: "In 1914 when this memorial 11 erected to the Confederate soldiers when the sun of life of the few wh< remain hovers In the western horizon as we view their 1 - .riotism througl half a century past; as the time stag< of their deeds recedes, their lustr4 brightens. Generations unborn wil proudly claim their ancestry. Man: answered the last roll call in battle others have answered since; the re 'iheir memory lives. Peace, Reverence, Union!" These several inscriptions wer( written by J. H. Lesesne, a loyal son of the Confederacy, to whom is duc the credit for the inception and most of the earlier work looking to the erection of the monument. The wora" was finally carried to successful com pleted by a special committee of de voted, patriotic women composed as follows: Mrs. Joseph Sprott, chair man; Mrs. F. 0. Richardson, secre tary; Mrs. D. M. Bradham, Mrs. C. B. Geiger, and Misses Ria Lee Bow man, Augusta Appelt and Edna Brock inton. As it stands completed the monument Is beautifu"y situated on the court house grounds facing the street to the north. When all of the exercises were over, and the people reassembled on the square Metz's band gave a most beau tiful concert and played the following numbers: Program. March-"The Ambassador". _Bagley Overture from "High Jinks". --Friml (a)-"Un pen D'Amour" .. .. -Siles's (b)-"Fairies Greeting"--- --Heed Tone pictures of the South- _-Bendix (a)-Maryland, My Maryland. (b)-Dixie. (c)-"Confederate Bugle Call." (d)-Tenting on the Old Camp Ground. (e)-Massa's in the Cold Cold Gound. (f)-The Arkansaa Traveler. (g)--Southern Hornpipe. Selection from "The Fire Fly" Frn Cornet - Solp-"Honey Suckle"--Casey .... -- By Mr. Carl Metz Medley of Popular Songs arranged by Mackie. Selection from "Adele"-.. --Brisquet March "Semper Fidelis". -... -.Sousa Synopsis of Address of Non. J. J. NeSwaIn. Surely no such sight as this could be' seen elsewhere than in America and under our peculiar democratic in stitutions. This beautiful and endur Ing testimonial of the admiration of the good people of Manning and the surrounding country for the Confeder ate soldier, is one of hundreds that dot the entire Southland and point the stranger from all quarters of the globe to the most tragic chapter of American history. The government of the Un! ted States whose sovereignty was sought to be overthrown by war in th-e Southern States, not only tolerates the honoring of Southern soldiers by this monument and by annual memorial exercises in every city and hamlet, but the Federal Government itself has ac tually encouraged the whole people to preserve the memory of the -dash and daring, and the gallantry and gran deur of those men who followed Lee and his Lieutenants. Can -we not realize how such honor o soldiers who sought to overthrow the government would arouse the jeal us .power of European governments, which would cause those who partici pated in such acts of honor to be con demned to punishment. Tolerance in the old world is of such slow growth that today the ''Orangemen of North Ireland declare that they will die by the aword before they will consent to Home Rule with majority power in the hauds of their fellow Irishmen. 'And yet with us in a brief space of a half century since Lee and Grant shook hands as friends at Appomattox and recognized each other to be pa triots; cokr Federal Government, and fellow countrymen of the North are willing to admit that the Southerners were not rebels and traitors, but pa triots as pure and true as ever covet ed death for their country. It was only on June 4th, that under the shadows of the Arlington Mansion, the home of our Incomparable and immaculate Lee, there was unveiled by the uthority of the National government a memor ial to the Confederate dead, and in those exercises the heroes of the Blue and Gray and their sons and daughters vied with each other to. glorIfy our Southern dead. It is said the Idea of bis memorial was proposed by a Re publican President who was himself an officer in the Union Army under Grant; the corner stone of the monu ment was laid by a Republican Presi ent d when the splendid structure was finished, the same was officially accepted for the keeping of the Nation by another President who was horn under Southern skies, reared under Southern influence, and who was in vested with the reins of power by the best people of all sections. Speaking on that occasion this President, our own honored and beloved Woodrow Wilson, epitomized the meaning of that occasion with these magnificent sentiments "This chapter in the his tory of the United States is now clos ed, and I can bid you turn with me your faces to the future, quickened by the memodries of the past, but with nothing to do with the contest of the past, knowing, as vie have shed our blood upon opposite sides, we now face and admire one another." But the mutual forgiveness of the sections did not begin yesterday: it began at Appo matox and slowly the feeling spread from man to man, that we are one peo pe in language, in tradition and des tiny. That our heritage of liberty is a Nation-wide trust, and that we owe it to the world to prove that. Democratic institutions my survive the test of time, that people have sense enough to seek their own highest welfare through the agency of government. Consequently, when reconstruction was over and Southern States sent tc the Senate and to the House of Repre sentatives, Confederate Generals and Captains and Colonels and a few priv ates who mingled amidst the duty o1 Legislation with those who had served In the Union Army. Fraternal organ izations which seek to make us bettet men and better citizens, were reor ganized, and others instituted, and th< delegates from all these assembled ir National Conventions, pointed to th< -lesson that true manhood, true pa 1tioim, nowsm an ectioaln bounds A few years ago the President from a Northern section appointed to that most responsible office of Chief Justice of the Nation's Supreme Court, a Southern man, who was a Democrat andi an ex-confederate soldier; a little later by governmental authority and public expense the survivors of both of these contending armies assembled upon the field of the decisive battle of Gettysburg upon terms of the sincer est respect and admiration, to honor there the graves of the dead of both sides. "Under the sod, and under the dew Waiting the judgment day, Tears and love for the Blue, Love and tears for the Gray." Then came a reunion on Southern soil at Chicamauga, when the North ern and Confederate soldier again de clared that each regarded the other as a patriot and as having fought for what he regarded as was ideal of Con stitutional freedom. Then aside from the historical and logical question as to which side was actually right, we now face the very significant fact that all the people of the South, both the Confederates and their sons, have sub mitted to -the inevitable conclusions of war and we are in fact glad that chat tel slavery is forever gone. In the re cent crises of the Nation, to wit: dur ing the war with Spain and the recent near-war with Mexico, the people of the South as one man have risen and stood shoulder to shoulder with the people of the North, the East and the West, in support of the National gov ernment: The Southern boys have spilled their precious blood and yield ed up their glorious lives with eye and heart fixed upon the Stars and Stripes, for "Bagley and Hobson and Victor Blue-prove that the blood of the South runs true." Truly this.is a time when we Southern people may pro nounce with the grand son of the South's incarnate heart, the immortal Robert Lee, this beautiful expression of patriotic ferver: "Your flag and my flag and how it flies today, O'er your land and my land and half the world away, - Rose red and blood red its stripes for ever gleam; Snow white and soul white, the good forefather's dream; Sky blue and true blue, with stars that beam aright, A glorious guidon by the day a shel-. ter for the night. "Your flag and my flag, and oh! how much it holds, Your land and my land secure with in its folds, our heart and my heart beat quicker at its sight; Sun-kissed and -wind-tossed, the red, the blue, the white; The one flag, the great flag, the flag for me and you, Glorified all else beside, tile red, the white, the blue." It is not disloyalty to the govern ent of Washington, Jefferson and Madison. for us, by tizis splendid shaft and by these exercises, to hornor the names and deeds of the Confederate soldiers. Neither is it disloyalty to the principles and ideals of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Wade Hampton for us and for you at thisI tie, and at all times, to love and to serve the people of this whole wide na Today we are one as perhaps never before since the common danger forg ed for us the bonds of friendship and assembled us in the Congress at Phil adelphia, which declared- the indepen dence of the colonies forever. In the' ranks of the urselfish and noble hearted Washington there were bich erings and jealousies; even from Yorktown's glorious day, the Confed eracy was a mere rope of sand, and the obligations of the revolution were not : net. The disputes between the thirteen separate sovereign States arose about a thousand subjects. When it wais believed by all good men that such anarchy was worse than British F tyranny, they compromised upon that marvelous document, the Federal Con stitution, which might itself have been a worth'less piece of paper unless in fused with blood and nerve by the majestic logic of John Marshall. .I Federalists and Republicans, led by Hamilton and Jefferson respectively. brought grief to the heart of the pure minded Washington, whose integrity was assailed at one time by the epi thet that he had become the "step father of his country." .On down through the years there stood two con tending parties representing antagon istic and diverse views of the duty and power of theO nation end .the states under that constitution. Neither side seemed willing to submit to the arbi tration of tile court. Even thlat coil stitution was denounced by the aboli tionists of the north as "an agreement with death and a covenant with hell;" the court which rendered the Dred Scott decision was burned in effigj. And the John Brown contingent, ree ognizing that the Southern States were in the full exercise of ample constitu tional powers, appealed to the so-call ed higher law, and sought by mob vio lence to correct a wicked wrong. But today all of that period of heart burnings and malice is forgiven, if not forgotten. Tile nation now faces a new era with its new problems and new alignments, wile new parties and divisions seam and scar the whole. social order. .A recent strike i'? a South Carolina cotton mill sounds to disinterested patriots like "a lire bell in the night." National Congress, under the inspiration and leadership) of tat brilliant patriot and unselfish statesman. Woodrow Wilson, is hold ing a modern "long parliament," and has already enacted some constructive ta egisatin which is bound to grive all the people of this present and future generations a freer and quicker access to the rich resources of this virgin country, resources which have been bestowed by the God cZ all men To the good of all men. By this monument unveiled this day we set the seal of .atriotic approval upon our fathers who so bravely and truly stood up to protect the same con stitutional standards lid down by the convention of 1787 in Philadelphia. This monument is as it were a monu ment at the tomb of a beloved and hon ored ancestor; in our veins course his pure blood; in our form we bear his manly image; but his battles we do not renew. We haye our own prob lems and our own conflicts, and his tory teaches that if the government by the people of this magnificent coun try is to be continued, then each gen eration must bravely, honorably and unselfishly solve its own problems, and set its own house in order. We of this generation must so recognize the structure of industry that the gener ations who follow us may share with equal, impartial and fair opportunity in the blessings of nature's boundless treasure house; must have equal ac cess to the original source of supplies for meat and bread, houses and cloth ing, education and learning, recrea tion and oleasure, all of which are fundamentally based upon the right to use the air, the water, and the soil. As we now-dedicate this monument to the heroes of'61-65 who fought a good fight and kept the faith, should we not also on this very day dedicate and consecrate ourselves to the pa triotic and God-given service of doing our whole duty by our country and our fellowmen; let us banish narrow and selfisl bickerings and strIfe; let us put none but unselfish and loyal watchmen on the towers of freedom's citadel. There are now before our generation some fundamental prob lems to solve; constructive legislation of a sort that some may call radical is necessary-legislation which will invade the pockets of prieile!e nnd sloth. But let us do our duty as free men; let us not narrow and dwarf our hearts and minds over petty personal ities. Let us therefore pray that our fath rs' God may banish from the borders f South Carolina and the whole na tion the cheap and shallow clap-trap of selfish demagoguery; let the true friends of the people show brain and erve to fight the battles of today as did Marion, Sumter, Pickens, Emily Geiger, and thousands of men and wo men who of old faced common danger with equal courage. Let us remem ber, then, that patriotism is not mere ly sentiment, but a principle; that what is patriotic duty in one genera ion and one circumstance may not be in another generation and under other conditions. Let us understand that patriotism is not merely love for land and sky, nor merely geographical easure. As that splendid gentlemen and patriot, James L. Petigru, said "I do not love merely -the hills of the up :ountry, nor the swamps of the -low :ountry, but wherever there are peo ple who love and strive for freedom. there is my country." For the pa-: riot who loves his people will unsel fishly seek their highest welfare; he will recognize that the God of all the people gave them water, and sunlight and soil; boundless mineral wealth wrapped up in earth, and forests upon 1 a thousand hills; that this same God s the God and Father of all men; and 1 with Him there is no low and no high] degree, that there is no caste and no privileged class with Him. He gave. all these blessings to-all men that all might sing Ihis praises and magnify His high and holy name forever. 1 Col Armstrong's Address. It is with the liveliest emotions of gratitude that I rise to apeak of the noble and self sacrificing men, in hon-1 or of whom this chaste and hand- I some monument nas been erected: men who displayed a courage as hIgh as the cause for which they fought, I: and bled and died was holy, and who exhibited a fortitude as' sublime asi their services were unselfish and un-1 surpassed. I am privileged not only to speak ct heroes, but also in the appreciated preence of heroes: veterans who de fended to the death the patriotic prin ciples for which the South valiantly struggled in the crimson lists of bat te; principles as pure as ever illu minated the pages of history: princi pes that united Lee and Jackson, Johnson and Beauregard, Semmes and Ingraham, Hampton and Forrest, iis that golden chain of Confederate comn radehip, with the resolute and dar ing men who manned the cannon, wielded the sabres, and aimed the rifles on a hundred battle fields. Inseparably linked with the bril liant deeds of the men in gray, is the unfathomable devotion, the soul nur tured faith and the unchilled fidelity of the "Women of War," whose faineL is a fimament, in which the blue hags been blotted out with the stars." Not in any age, not in any annals, in which are perpetuated woman's work and woman's ucrth, could there be found the names of heroines who surpassed in love for, in loyalty to the land in which they lived, and to defend which their brothers andi fathers heroically fought and grandlyf died: the noble women of Carolina! and of her Southern sister States, tol whom the homage of the heart of every soldier, of every sailor, has gonef forth on the wvings of admiration and affection, and for whom in the silent' watches of the night, on the lonely picket post he invoked a blessing as his voice was raised in prayer and in praise.. I It is not often that one visits a pleasant place under circumstances so acceptable and agreeable as are those which gladden one's heart to-day, and cause it to throb with patriotic pride. -In, heoyou hours of bhohod I used to indulge in day dreams, among the most delightful of which was the an ticipation of going to Clarendon Dis trict, the tranquil and romantic home of the truest and noblest of Carolin ians. Numbered with the most compan ionable and chivalrous of those i knew and loved, is one who passed from earth years ago, Maj. Edwar.] DuBose Brailsford. Although in dif ferent companies we were messmates from 1SG1 until a few days preceding that fateful day at Appomattox. I loved him as I loved a brother. He was the mirror o.f Southern knight hood, and worthy to have been a great, great grandson of Gen. William Moul trie. I parted with one son of Claren don at Southerland Station, where the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Vol unteers, commanded by Maj. Brails ford, had its final fight with the foe, and a week or two afterwards lay ir Lincoln Hospital, Washington, mnim ed and mourning, on the cot next to that occupied by another distinguish ed and lion hearted son of Clarendon, Col. "Harry" L. Benbow, an intuitive soldier, beloved by his comrades. He was devoted to the good and gallant men of the famous 23 Regiment of outh Carolina Volunteers, as he was raithful to the cause of freedom. I have mentioned the names of Cel. Benbow and of Maj. Brailsford to show that I am attached to Clarendon by the closest and most cordial of ties: ties of comradeship, extending from he beginging of the war until weeks Liter its cilamitous close. The cher shed events of to-day, and able com nitte'e, add another precious link to :he chain of memories and associa ions, with which I am united to 3arendon. The honored names of the ;pirited youth and sterling manhood >f Clarnedon brighten the bead roll >f Confederate bravery, and I sin :erely and reverently say that their iames are included in "My Rosary" of -egard and remembrance. One of tli greatest of the Athenians leclared. that, "it is the first and fun lamental law of history that it should either dare to say anything that i?: ajse, or fear to say anything that is rue." This, my friends, enunciates a entiment that is worthy of remem >rance, and one that should be emu ated not only by those who purpose vriting about the storied and stirring ~vents associated with the war for outhern Independence, but by every on of the South, when he speaks of hat glorious struggle for constitution I liberty; of the righteousness of the ~ause Clarendon was the earliest to ~spouse, and in defence of which more han 20,000 of the gravest and best of ier defenders dauntlessly fell at the ost of danger and of duty. The sweet and gentle, the pure and >ious of our womanhood: the clever td sterling young manhood of liber *y loving old Clarendon are gathered iere on this bright July day to wel omc these old heroes, who unflinch ngly fought and unmurmuringly suf ered for hearth and home, and to ake part in the sacred ceremony inci ent to the unveiling of Clarendon's nemorial to her dead heroes. I am here in compliance Svith the racious request of the worthy comn mittee, pleasantly conveyed to me .y the Hon. .H. Isesne, a gifted son >f another of my valiant and valued :omrades of the battle field, Maj. -Ienry H. Leserne, and in concon ince with the prompting of this yld Southern heart whose proudest throb was when it beat with patriotic ardor inside the g r a y jackt of' a Confederate soldier, llngside of the determined and in trepid men of Clarendon, in the grand et army that ever routed a foe. SComrades of the battle field, half a entury has dawned and departed since you exchanged the comfort andi happiness of home, for the fatigue of the march and the perils of the fight. In most instances fifty years does not ccunt for much in the history of a Nation, but they have a melancholy significance when added to the age of an individual. Sad to say our dear, dead Nation existed but four yar s, yet they were memorable and might:- years, marked by events as brilliant as ever illustrat ed Spar-tan valor or Roman fortitudE. There were not any shields to protect you from the bullets of the formid able foe, who greatly outnumbered yoh in every battle; your only armor was tile panoply of patriotism, and of religious faith: this "enabled you not only to resist the attack of column after column, but also to drive the enemy from strongly fortified posi tions.'- It is true that you were finally forced to yield, to lower your flag in th glom of defeat at Annomattox. BIG but it was a surrender not to the Fed eral foe; it was to inexorable fate against which there is no armor. Hun ger and hardship, sickness and deat1 did the relentless work. A mere skir mish line numbering about 10,000 men with rifles in their hands capitulating to more' than 100,000 finely equipped soldiers. If our footsteps are slower to-day than they were when they kept time to the drum beat of battle: If our spirits are less lively .ian they were when Confederate cheers rang out in' the mptmorable charge, there is n o t any change in the sentiment )f t h e soul, for our brasts con tinue to glow with realty to, witi fondness for the principles interwoven with our flags and ingrained in our nature. Today we revive in m.emory scenes of distant and dearly remembered days, and we refresh in recollection events which had become as dim as dreams: scenes that sparkle as stars before the mental vision, that reveal to us the glories that'were once ours; the triumphs and trophies of Shilob and of Fredericksburg, of Secession ville, of Chancelorsville and of Chick amauga, events which touchingly tell of patriotism the loftiest, of fidelity the firmest, and of fortitude the most sublime; ennobling qualities of the de fenders of the South were the soul and the symbol. The words I syllable are expressed in the manly presence of Confederate soldiers, and in the hearing of other estimable citizens, who reverence the hallowed cause we today fittingly commemorate; a cause enriched by the courage, and conse crated by the rich, red life tide which flowed from the comrades whom we is %nd mourn; a cause ennobled by the moral lieroism and patient suffer ing of the women of the war; a cause enshrined in our hearts and embalmed in our affections, and as dear to us today as it was in the noon time of Confederate success. It makes the blood boil with right eous indignation to read that a man who worthily wore the gray, and held high rank in the Confederate army, said that it was fortunate that we fail ed in our struggle for. rights guaran teed by the Constitution; the prized Magna Charta of American - liberty, framed by American Statesmen and established by the hardy and intrepid followers of that illustrious Southern er, George Washington. As an anti dote for that uncalled for statement, let us turn to the soul nurtured words of the Poet Priest of the South, Father Ryan, "The Surrender of the sword is no argument against the cause which drew it from the scabbard. Battle~ felds may be the burial places of men, never of rights. Above the smoke and- storm of battle, unaffected by vic tory or defeat, ealm and immovable ustice sits on her eternal throne, and in her eyes is right and rigli~t forever; wrong is eternsally wrong, and tramp led rights is grander than triumphant wrong. The army .and the navy of the Confederacy were but the mortal flesh of an immortal cause." To have asserted that It was better for the South that she, did not suc eed was a tacit acknowledgement that e were actuated by ambition, that our Statesmen should not have advo catel resistance to the encroachment n Southern rights, but tamely to have submitted to every indignity, which en who "camped outside- of the Con stitution, wished to Inflict upon us. The wisest and worthiest of our leaders believed that the only remedy was in revolution. They wished peace ably to withdraw from the Union, bas ing their right to do so on the declar ation of Independence, in w'hich was embodied that, "The united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent States." Anterior to the war for Southern liberty the right of a State to with draw from the Union had been gener ally conceded. The power to coerce a sovereign State was never delegated to the Federal Government. To re jice at the defeat of the cause of which Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee were the most illustrious of ex emplars, and of which, comrades, you were among the most reliable and res olute of its defenders, would be a rc flctic on the character of our great leader ., and an admission that the rank and file of our army were the dupes of designing and dangerous I could cite authorities to prove that the right of a State to leave the Union '.s claimed' by prominent statesmen in Connecticut, Massachusetts and in ew York, but our legal and learned young friend who has come to us from the Pearl of the Piedmont, is to follo~v me, and lie will no doubt, intelligently and impressively dwell on the questio'i of State rights. Love feasts have been held, at which honeyed and highly col yed words were inte'rchanged, and in which the "Blue and the Gray'" clasp dhae an d vowed eternal friend ship: in which Lee was lauded and th courage of his faithful followers was eloqueltly extolled. t is not my .intentionl to criticise our comrades who took part in the exrcises at Gettysburg last July; they were prompted by patriotic motives; yet I ti.uht at the time and continue to thik Lhat the field of Gettysburg was not the proper place for a meeting of the survivors of the Federal and of the Confederate army. Some years ago a distinguished Northern Divine excaimed. "The Greeks swear by Mar athon and we swear by Gettysburg." Although Gettysburg was a drawn battle: it would have been a victory for t'he Army of Northern Viryiria, if some one on our side had not blunder ed, it is regarded in the North as hav ing been a great triumph for Meade' fores: consequently If the Grand Army of the Republic sincerely wished to bury all bitterness engendered by the war, they should have selected .. dme otereent Victorsi are expect ed to be magnanimous and it would have been a gracious act on the part of "our friends the enemy" to have chosen the 21st of December, the anni versary of Bull Run, or tie 13 of De cember, the ann-c:-sary of the battle of Fredericksburg, or the third of May the anniversary of the battle of Chan cellorsville. There is a hall of fame in Washing ton: I do not allude to the Pension Building, although that is famous for the almost fabulous amount of money directed to be paid to the devoted and disinterested patriots who "saved the Union." The grand old State of Virginia, where you comrades so often met the foe, properly and patriotically agreed to place a statue of the immortal Lee in the hall of fame in Washington. A few mean and malevolent men protest ed against having a statue of the re nowned leader of the Confederate forc es placed there. Gen. Burdett, a prominent Grand. Army man, did not object to having a statue of Lee in the National Hall of Fame, but his re marks concerning the matter were de cidedly more reprehensible than if he had voiced the views of the malcon tents, for he basely slandered the memory of our pure and peerless lead er by saying. "I have never believed that the heart of Lee was in the fight on the side where he offered himself." "Corporal" Tanner, who has been feted and feasted by Confederate Camps in Virginia and elsewhere, said he could not talk in opposition to the placing of the statue of Lee in the Hall of. Fame, but that he deprecated the in consistenc" and the incongruity of putting under the dome of the Capitol the statue of any man who did his level best to destroy the Nation. We have recently read of -the dedi cation of the beautiful ~and costly statue to the Confederate dead'at Ar lington. Both Northerners and South erners offered eloquent tributes to the memory of our good and gallant com rades who died from wounds, or from sickness. Strange to state not a word was said by but one of the gifted men who represented the South on that oc casion about -the scholarly and ster ling President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis. Was the omis sion of his honored and revered name unintentional, oi was it because thd other able orators were aware of the fact that President Davis was disliked at the North, and they did not desire to displease the Northerners who were gracious and liberal enough to attend the ceremonies at the lovely old home of Robert E. Lee? I am charitable enough to believe that the distinguish ed Southerners inadvertantly failed to include the name of the first and only President of the Confederate States in the grand chorus of commendation which welled forth from their cultur - ed and classic lips. Jefferson Davis was atthe birth and at the burial of Southern liberty, and above* his ner veless breast under the sylvan shades of Hollywood Cemetery, rest the shat tered shield and the stainless crest of the Confederacy. The people among whom he lived, that he so deeply loved and grandly served, knew the nobility of his nature and properly appreciated the rectitude of his character. There have been few men so cruelly and cowardly maligned as was President Davis. He was denounced as a trai tor, charged with being an accessory to the assassination of President Lin coln: confined in a damp dungeon, manacled and tortured, yet never brought to trial. It was fear not fa vor: statecraft, not sympathy which prompted the Attorney General of the United States not to press charges against President Davis. I am not concerned as to the fame and renown of the defeilders of the South, but I am anxious in regard to the view generations to come shall tke of the cause and the conquest of the Confederate States. The valor and endurance, the famous feats and un surpassed, and unsurpassable achieve ments of the men who wore the gray are as firmly and lastingly set in the chronicles of the Nation, as are the1 stars which gem the boundless blue of Heaven's arch. If I lay particular stress on the im portance of conveying the lesson and Impressing it deeply upon the youth of our treasured Southland. that their fathers fought In defence of principles as pure and as precious as ever in- I spired the breasts of freemen, as ever enriched a Nation, glorified a cause, or immortalized a people, it is because, as has been forcibly said, "The per tiality of the historian is content tq follow the stream of fortune and to praise the conqueror. The lofty les sons deduced from the lives of South - ern Statesmen should be taught the youth of Carolina, who In some in stances are conning over text books which mislead the mind and grossly misrepresent the character of our peo pei in their struggle for constitutional liberty. "Does it not concern the stream when the source is troubled." The source from which many of the sons land daughters of the South deprive their knowledge of the war betweeni the States, and the manner in which it was waged, had its origin in the minds of men inimical to our institutions, our traits and our traditions. You have erected a memorial of your love for the brave and the true who feil Ion blood deluged fields, or who suc cumbd to sickness in homes or in hos - pitals; heroes who died in defence of the land in which they lived, that they o devotedly loved. The monument: is not intended to keep alive rancerous recollections, to foster sectional feud. It has a higher and a holier significance, and com mends itself to the good and generous everywhere. In the crection of this monument the people of Clarendon had a two fold object in view: to ex 'press their affection for the patriotic dad andt eac h a leson to the liv 'AY ing; an effection as deep and durable as ever pulsed the heart: a lesson as grand and glorious as that which has been transmitted by the immortal three hundred who defended the 'a mous Pass. "Stranger, the tidings to the Spartans tell, That here, obeying -their commands, we fell." I wish that I could mould my thoughts into felicitous words, with which fittingly to express how lovingly the noble women of Clarendon have worked to accomplish the cherished and commendable object so dear to their trusting and generous hearts; to procure a monument to symbolize da feated valor and liberty dethroned: to stand for ages and silently, yet sub limely convey the moral that the peo ple of the South have never given, nor shall ever give, their assent to the falsity which has been proclaimied: "That success alone can make the pa triot: misfort-.e :--- makes the rebel." Of thcse dev - a women let me say that their mc.' eloquent cu logy Is to be found ir their beautifnl and blameless lives. Comely matrons and charming maidens, God bless you for the lively interest you have taken in these pa triotic proceedings. Your sweet pres ence enlivens and ennobles the house hold hearth, and you grandly gace this auspicious occasion. You are the daughters of heroes, and I know that your gentle and confiding hearts warm toward these old soldiers, who delight to do you honor. I am speaking to veterans who were with Johnston in the Army of the West: with Beauregard during the in :omparable defence of Charleston har bor, and with Lee in the Army .of Jorthern - Virginia. The men who !ought under Lee, Johnston and Beau egard were worthy of their renowned yommanders; gallant, -faithful com -ades, this heart of mine is. thrilled he recollection of your valiant deeds, mnd willing self-sacrifice, which re urn to me on the mystic. tide of hought, and though I have suffered se rerely from inflammatory rheumratism 'or the past ten days, and was in pain when I reached this hospitable town, n your presence; in the magnetic presence of the sweet, fair women md the brave men who are padtently istening to my somewhat rambling go narks, this breast glows with the ar ]or of boyhood. I again see the resolute mea witit * -ifle in hand, their manly faces lighted ip by the sheets of flame flashing rom .their guns, The furrowed breast f the red battle plain seems to shako seneath the Cavalry and the-Artillei'y. Spirited chargers go rapidly' to the ~ront: -the shrek of shell and rattle of ullets are heard. Our men gayly ad ance to meet the foe,'unmindful of :he superior numbers arrayed against :hem: Undepressed by danger; with L courage as inflexible as their bay mets with a firmness equalled only by :heir affection for the dear ones at tome; the guardian 'angels of the iousehold, who knelt before the family ltar and offered their Invocations to the Lord of Hosts, to guide and to uard from danger the soldiers> and :he sailors of the South.. - Listen comrades, It again rings In >ur ears: it expands our breasts, every pulse throbs as on the weird winds 'of nemory there is borne to us that old Rebel Cheer." No -roll of drum, no 1ast of bugle, no sound of pibroch, was so heart strirring, soul inspiring is was that familiar cheer- which de cted a Confederate charge, which was the percursor of a Confederate rictory. Many tender tributes have been of ~ered at the shrine of our dear, dead iation. Admiring audiences have lis ened to orattors that intoned the ti imph, recounted the valor and spark .ed with the devotion of her faithful lefenders; that pethetically recalled he lamentable close of the struggle in efence of Southern rights. Yet no reasure of thought, no wealth of lan ~uage, is so impressive as ,are the woinds of our comrades. The empty leeve, the crutches which tell of an irm or a leg lost in battle: the scarred 'ace, and the bullet marked breast, ire more eloquent evidence of duty iobly done, of privations endured, of erils encountered, than all of the stat esque sentences and glowing har nonies that the most gifted orators ould syllable. Whenever I see a maimed veteran t evckes from me~ a tribute of tl'e eart, and I am reminded of what one f tl e heroes of the great Napoleon aid, when a woman on passing him nurmured, "poor old man," when a tudent exclaimed. "see the worth of glory," when a merchant said, "what deplorable use of human life." The veteran knit his brow, as ha. aid, "They all pity me because they :o not understand it, but if I were to znswer them?"~ "What would you say," remarked a bystander: "I would say first to the woman, who weeps whenI she looks at me, to keep her tears for >ther misfortunes; for each of my wounds calls to mind some struggle for my colors. There may be room for doubt how some men have done their duty; with mec it is visible. I carry 'the account of my services, writ ten on my body with the enemy's stee'l and lead; to pity me for having done my duty is to suppose I had better have been false to it. I should tell the student, "you do not know what, self-sacrifice and suffering can teach." The books which he studics I havepu' into practice: the principles he ap plauds I have defended with power and bayonet. I should say to the mer chant that true glory is the bread of the soul; it is this which nourishes self-sacrifice, patience and courag;; bestow no more of your pity upon th old soldier wounded In his country's