The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, August 11, 1880, Image 1

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g|ie Ctviiujton iispatclj, VOL. X. LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAKOLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1880. NO. 41. THE LEXINGTON DISPATCH 18 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, By Godfrey M* Hainan, LEXINGTON C. H., S. C. G. D. HALTIWANGER&G, SI. HARMAN j EDITORS. terms of subscription. *)ue copy one year $1.50 j " " six months 75; *" " three months..^ 50; -A GOOD ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Rates of advertising. Advertisements will be inserted at the Tate of seventy-live cents per square ui uue inch space for first insertion, and fifty cents i per square for each subsequent insertion, j Liberal contracts made with those wish-1 ing to advertise for three, six or twelve 1 months. Marriage notices inserted free. Obituaries over ten lines charged for at; regular advertising rates. All Remittances and Subscriptions, to-! gether with all Business Letters for the ' Dispatch, should be addressed to G. M. HARM AN, Proprietor. Terms strictly cash, in advance. ! REUNION ON TEE GTE. Speeches by Generals Kinnedy, But- j ler and Hagood. Notwithstanding the inclemency of j the weather a large crowd numbering1 between fifteen hundred and two j thousand were in attendance at the j reunion of the survivors on the 5th. i Indeed, it was not until 8 o'clock in i the morning, that it seemed possible j that the programme of the day could j be carried out Rain was steadily | pouring down and the clouds looked i heavy and threatening. At that hour j however, a considerable number of \ people were already upon the streets,! the rain had ceased, and for the rest j of the day until late in the afternoon I only one or two slight showers came in the way and every thing went on smoothly. At 12 o'clock M, the . procession j formed in front of the _ (Jourt-house ' and marched to the stana in the fol- i lowing order: Capt D. J. Griffith, Marshal of the j 'day. Maj. D. T. Barre, M. H. Witt, Dr.' W. T. Brooker and W. M. JohnsoD, Aids to Marshal. The Columbia Silver Cornet Band. Survivors bearing tbe ilh JKegiment's battle flag; tbe flag of Company K. 13th Regiment; the flag of Company A. loth Regiment, and the flag of Company F. 5th Cavalry. The following companies as far as we could ascertain were represented: Captains Griffith's and Koon's companies, 15th Regiment Companies C, H., L, and K., 20th Regiment Company K. 13th Regiment; Com-] pany F. 5th Cavalry; Palmetto Sharp ! Shooters, and such survivor* as could ; not parade with their former orgauiz-; ations; the officers of the Survivors' j ^ Association. About three hundred survivors were in the procession. A i large number of citizens brought up ! the rear. The programme at the stand was opened with several stirring pieces of' music from the Columbia Silver Cor- J net Band. Maj. G. Leaphart, the Chairman, I then announced that the proceedings i would be opened with prayer by Rev. j J. H. Bailey, who performed that duty ] ?n appropriate and impressive j ^manner. 3?aj. Leaphart then said that the .speakers he was about to introduce had been, with the survivors present, in the service and trials of the war, i and it was net necessary for hitu to dwell upon their record. Thev had also done their Stale political service since, but as this was not a political meeting he would not say any thing about that. He then introduced General John D. Keuuedy as the first speaker. We give below a synopsis of the speeches as reported in the Columbia | Hegifiler. He said this was no empty pageant, J bnt a reunion of men who, after serv- j ing four years in war, had returned : to civic duties and the pursuits of peace?men who, while they mean to be true to the government they live under, make no excuse for the past and scorn the imputation of traitor and rebel. The day was not far disI ! tant when the causes of the war 11 j would be better understood and its |; lessons utilized for the good of all;1 sections of our country. The neces- j ^ sities of the country required that the s war should come. There were mis- j! understandings which finally led to i 1 the North doing the South great i wrong. The North and the South j i construed the Constitution from dif- I ferent standpoints. African slavery j was not the main cause of the war. ; c It was only an important incident, j which led the way to the discussion : i of the right of the general govern- ? menfc to interfere in the affairs of the States. The Confederate war, as well j i as that of 177G, was waged for an ab-1 e stract principle, and therein they {s both differed from the War of the! 1 Roses and other wars in Europe, ; f which had their origin in practical' i grievances or in the desire for power, j c We of the South fought for principle j ? and to resist encroachmeuts upon our, institutions; and, while no section of | f this country is more loyal to the gen- j ? eral government than the South is to-11 day, yet let it be proclaimed forever j s that no true Southern man ever asked f pardon for the part he bore in the j r armies of the Confederacy. j [ He bestowed an eloquent eulogy j i upon the leaders of the Southern t army, and said that the time was | c coming when the impartial verdict of! f history would embalm their names ji A?wrvn/v Orr-Ziofoof r?f ftftrfll Twfl I C ULUUu^ tug ^i guvvov v& WMW VV?? ?*? , v of tliem, however, far excelled the j c others, and stood the peers of auy j t military genius the world has ever j f produced. These were Jackson andii Forrest, and he gave an interesting c description of their different military f methods and peculiarities. He Would t not, he said, join in the cry as to the (1 obstinacy and self-opinionacy of the j c distinguished geutlemen who stood i t at the head of the Southern Confed- j c eracy. His great services^his talents.j i and his sufferings would embalm himl r forever in the hearts of his people. But the virtues of the Southern j r people shone brighter far in the char- j r acter of the soldiers they sent to the j ( war, and in their devotion, patriot- ' a ism and self-sacrifices, and the faith 11 they had in the justice of their cause, j c To pay a tribute to the noble dead, j t the women of the South are erecting j c monuments to their memory. "Would j s that the base of each of these mouu- j ments could be as broad, its shaft as ! g lofty and its proportions as beautiful f as the patriotism, the virtue and the j lives of these dead heroes. He said r that it was the duty of the people of t the South, while honoring their past, t to look the present and the future in s the face and realize and adapt them- r selves to the new order of things.! f Upon the aesthetic we must engraft i the practical and the material. ?ue\ glorious attractions of our climate and j c soil will attract immigrants to our | borders, and our people must be' f prepared to meet them and grapple ; \ with them in the race of life. With j s this infusion of new blood will ioevi- j tablj come changes in the constitu- j ? tion of our society. These changes i t are now beginuing, as the result of f our contact with other peoples of the j f world and of our new condition. ( . Education is essential and must reach :i every strata of society?not simply in j s consequence of the franchise but be- i c cause the struggle of the future will' i be one of brains and not of muscle. I In mentioning the changes in our. 1 condition he said that it is a fact that' ? some of our people reprobated the ' methods of avenging private wrougs ; 1 which wen- formerly in vogue, nndjc the Leifiskiture has been invoked to i t * i rovido a more perfect protection to ' I person and property; that we are de-1( termiued to perpetuate catholicity of i i opinion in this State, and this dispo- j 1 sition has gone abroad more than ever among our people. These are ; i some of the changes to which we 11 ? i have to adapt ourselves. After the i struggle we have gone through in the : 5 past fifteen years our country has ( come forth many fold stronger than s ever, and to-day we are living in the i best country and under the best gov-; i eminent the world ever saw. The, i example of our fallen heroes tells us j i to preserve for our prosperity the 1 i benefits we have won in those struggles, and the fields where they fell will yet become shrines where the fouth of our country will draw inspiration for noble conduct in the hture. Let liberty be regulated by aw, and le t the preseravtion of our orm of government animate every member of our community, and let it )e understood that in religion and in j politics the law of progress is the law ! >f right. [Applause.] At the conclusion of General Kenicdy'e speech little Rosa Meetze pre- j sented him with a beautiful bouquet. ! Major Leaphart next introduced j ...... i XT t1 lX.il/... .vt.A t*.ac ! DCiiUlUi iix. V^. JDUUCi, ?uu 11 t40 gibvi-j id with applause. He spoke with | ;ome complimentary remarks to the j adies, and followed these up with a unny auecdote, which captivated the ludieuce and prepared them to re:eive the solid advice he was about to jive them He said he would not impair the orce of what had been said by bis sloquent friend General Kennedy by nakiug any extended remarks. He ;aw in the audience many familiar aces that recalled scenes and memoies which reanimated his heart with )iide and he did not believe it was j nconsistent with our new obligations bat we cherish the memories of our lead cause and dead heroes with a eeliug of respect and veneration. It s not inconsistent with our highest luty to our common country that we iccasionally revive those memories as hey were doing here, and pay homige to all that is glorious and worthy n them, arid rescue from oblivion the levoted co rrnge and patriotic sacriices of the men and women who made he Confederate struggle immortal.: L decent rejpect for the grandeur of! >ur own achievements will prepare us he better lor a faithful aud patriotic lischarge cf the duties of citizenship j mder the new ponst^tutiop ,and thej[ lew Union. He said: I need not admonish yon,; fiy soldier friends, my fellow-com- j ades, that a faithful obedience to the | Constitution and laws of the country,! i cordial support of the proper au- j horities, is the first and highest duty j if every soldier who wore the gray;! hat he can best fulfill the obligations | if an honorable parole by a strict ob- J :ervance of his responsibilities as an i American citizen. This government j md this Constitution is ours. Our I orefathers shed their blood for the j >rinciples of both, and we shed ours, j lot to destroy those priucipies, out o perpetuate them as we understood hem. Republican institutions were ilways dear to us, and there was lever a day or an hour during our j :trnggle for the maintenance of our j interpretation of the Constitution j vhen we would have cousented to the i lestruction of the wo.k of the fathers. J Chat work lives to-day endowed with j ill of its essential elements and is as vortby of our support and guardian-: ;hip as when it contained, in our .' udgment, the doctrine of secession ind the protection to slavery. Both hose features are dead and buried brever, and their traces are fast dis- j ippearing. Shall we, the surviving Confederate soldiers, build upon their : uins a new country which shall pre-' offn oil ll>o orlnrips nnd rrranrl mem- : '"'u "** """ b ? b i >ries of the old whilst we forget and >nt behind all that is not worthy to )o remembered and cherished ? The j lislory of your conduct since the war tuswers the question affirmatively., rhe foundation of that building has ( jeen completed by the peaceable res-j :uc of our country from the hands of ,he stranger and the grip of the rob-j ;er. We must now go forward and jomplete the superstructure by keep-' ng it jealously covered and protected j jy the mgis of good government. iTou can only do this by keeping the ; vhiteness of your souls uncontamina;ed by contact with Radicalism. 11 ncan by Radicalism that political and ! social dynasty which arises out of the jorruptible and vicious elements of j ?ociety and has for its basis the rotten \ 'oundation of ignorance and imbecil-,! ty. You have overthrown that dy-; aasty once. You must keep it down, j md whenever and wherever it raises i ts crest in your midst, and in what ever form, strike it down as you would a hissing serpent or some* special abomination. Radicalism is abroad in the land. It is stealthily and insidiously watching its opportunity. It will ^eize you by the throat when you least expect it. So keep your lines dressed, your sentinels out, and heed the Itlarm in time to save your civilization, for I can assure you more than Democratic supremacy is at stake. It ? is not a political organization alon^that we have to combat; it. is not a^Miptellectual contest that wo havo^fo wage with people of our own race, equally capable with us of the exercis&of those powers aud faculties necessary for good government and equally anxious with us for its blessings, but a contest with trained villains directing the dark masses of ignorance, operating upon their worst passions aT!3 stimulating them to the most dangerous acts of violence and intolerance which constantly menace the peace of our society and the safety of our property. Sometimes this evil manifests itself in the form of Independentism, sometimes as a Greenbacker, sometimes it raises the familiar crest of unadulterated Radicalism. In any aspect it is dangerous to the best interests of our people and must be put dogm If any man doubts that he has profited by Democratic rule let bim take out his tax receipts andj:ompare them, or let him look at the school houses, or at the faces of thg darkeys, and see how much slicker and greasier they are now than they were under Radical rule. Let him lock, too, at the countenances of our purple aud see how much better satisfied and happy they are. Some people think that a Governor ought to tfe a stump speaker, and that because Governor Simpson hadn't run around and made a great deal of fuss that he isn't much. But his administration hgd^een.one of justice, honesty and mqdesty. He (the speaker) didn't have as much respect for stump speakers now as he used to have, for he had come to the conclusion that to be a good stump speaker it was only necessary to have a loud voice, plenty of brass and no brains. It was the duty of every one to go forward and elect our ticket by a tremendous majority. [Applause.] The Radicals are Greenbackers, and 'Imp vmnld rtanpnd nn Radical votes. IUVJ " r [Applause.] Music by the band. Captain Leaphart then introduced General Hagood as the next speaker. [Cheers.] General Hagood said he was Dot here to make a political speech; that pleasure he promised himself at a later day when the clans of Carolina had gathered together to meet the Radical hosts. He had prepared notes to be used on this occasion, thinking it due to his audience that he should do so, and he would use them freely, inasmuch as he was not one of those stump speakers so humorously described by General Butler. In the days of the war he had the honor to command the brigade to which the citizen soldiers of Lexington belonged. In that command he was preceded by one of Lexington's own citizens, who was $tul among them?General Fanl QWfelebaum. [Applause.] At subsequent, periods of the war he had beenj associated with the soldiers whom Lexington had sent to the front, and he had found them the peers of any who fought beneath the red cross of the South in that contest which was one to challenge the classic pages of history, and upon that page the soldiers of Lexington had indelibly inscribed their names. And among the women of the South, though there arose none to emulate those heroines of ancient times, who unsexed themselves in be coming sucn neromes as mey were, yet the women of the South by their exertions almost entirely clothed the Southern army, and they tenderly nursed and cared for its sick and wounded. They inspired them, too, with that courage which bore them through the struggle. It is fit that the women of Lexington should rear a special shaft to the memory of her dead. The issues of the past are dead, bat if we would do oar duty we mast emalate the fidelity and devotion of the men of the Confederacy, j The new South is but the daughter oi the old, and the daughter claims the characteristics of the mother, though those characteristics will be manifested in a different way. Look at that period when we were overrun with all that was vile in the population of the earth and when desertion from the ranks of patriotism and virtue was rewarded with almost certain promotion and wealth; how few of our people yielded to the temptation! And when the opportunity for relief came, how gladly they availed themselves oi it And now, with virtue and intelf 1?1 it. i ligence exerciaiug cuuuvi iu cue jjuyernment and with the bed rock of fij nancial security well fixed, the era of i prosperity has come. But in all her j future greatness her history will never j have a chapter in it which will com! pare, for all that dignifies humanity, ! with that which records the heroism, the trials and the sufferings of the j Lost Cause. [Applause.] ; It had rained once or twice while ! General Hagood was speaking, and | also during General Butler's speech, i and General Hagood closed his remarks without proceeding ^ to great length. After some music, the exercises at the stand were adjourned, and in a short time the company were invited to partake of au abundant picnic and j Daroecue. I Ladies Monumental AssociationIn the afternoon on the 5th a | meeting of the ladies was held in the Court-house, for the purpose of organizing a Ladies' Monumental Association. Gen. Quattlebaum was called to the chair, and G. D. Haitiw>~??er reqneated act as fcecret^ry* Gen. Quattlebaum on taking the chair delivered a short and appropriate speech. The names of forty-sis ladies were enrolled as members. This organization is to be known as the Ladies' Monumental Association of Lexington County, and has for its object the erection of a monument to the memory of the Lexington men who lost their lives in the Confederate war. An election of officers was then had and resulted as follows: President, Mrs. M. Y. Harth; VicePresidents (one from each township): Mrs. W. D. Schoenberg, Lexington; Mrs. J. W. Geiger, Congaree; Mrs. Alfred Mims, Black Creek; Miss Virginia Quattlebaum, Chinquepin; Mrs. Samuel Harsey, Bull Swamp; Miss Carrie Iveisler, Gilbert Hollow; Mrs. Martin Chapin, Broad River; Miss Carrie Bookman, Fork; Mrs. M. H. j Witt, Saluda; Miss Leila Barr, Holjlow Creek; Mrs. John Green, Boiling ! Springs; Mrs. John S. Brooker, Piatt j Springs; Miss Hattie Geiger, Sandj I Run. Treasurer, Mrs. G. Leaphart: | Recording Secretary, Miss Lizzie I Souter; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Alice Meetze. The organization being completed, j Col. T. S. Arthur and Capt. H. W. : Rice were appointed to conduct Mrs. ; Harth to the chair, j On entering the Court-house Mrs. j Harth was greeted with applause. A j better selection could not have beer ; made. She is energetic, capablo and i patriotic, and under her guidance w? i may expect every thing to be done i that can be towards erecting a monu| ment. The President stated that the vairious committees would be appointed | at an early day and published in the county papers. It was moved and carried that the | proceedings be published in the county papers. Capt. Rice addressed the Associa! tion in an excellent speech of half an j hour's length, urging the importance j of erecting a monument worthy ol i the cause for which so many of oui I brave men gave up their lives. The meeting then adjourned. A fresh tomato leaf is a sovoroigr 11 cure for a bee-sting. I > Bill Arp-Sis Crops. When a farmer baa laid by his crop r and the seasons have been kind and the corn and cotton look green and 1 vigorous, and the sweet potato vines have covered the ground, what an innocent luxury it is to set in the pinzzer in the shades of evening and with one's feet on the banisters, contein plate the beauty and bounty of nature ; and the hopeful prospects of another year's support. It looks like that j even an Ishmaelite might then feel i calm and serious, and if he is still unj grateful for his abundant blessings j he is worse than a heathen, and ought j to be run out of a Christian country j with the Chinese plank in tbe JDemoi cratic platform. Every year briDgs toil and trouble and apprehension, but there always comes along rest and peace and the ripe fruits of one's labors. In tbe journey of life the mountains I loom up before us and they look high and steep and rugged, but somehow they always disSappear just before we get to them and then we can look back and feel ashamed that we borrowed so much trouble and had | so much aDxiety for nothing. What ; a great pile of miserable fears we | build up every day. It's good for a j man to ruminate over it and resolve | to have more faith in providence, and I am reminating now. I was thiuki ing about the crop that has been laid j by and that brought to mind another j crop that was pretty much done with j and is able to take care of itself with j a little watching. I mean the crop of | children that for 30 years has kept us j a working aDd worrying by day and j by night, in summer and winter, in I maaaa rtrvd in too* Knf if'a nil Al'fir nATO pctiuc auu 1U 1TOI, UUU 1VO ?Ii VIV1 UVIT thank the good Lord for His mercies. ; The last tender shoot is about laid by. No more nursing and toting i-kcouud and warming the.-milk by the midnight lamp. No more baby soDgs or paregoric or teething or colic or catnip tea. No more washing and 1 dressing and undressing and putting to bed. No tiptoeing round the room when they are asleep or playing horse and bear and monkey when they are : wake. Never again will there be a two or three of em crawling all over a man or under his chair, or riding on his back or trottiDg on his weary knees as he siDgs the same old songs that he has sung a thousand times before. Our last and yonngest, has passed the rubicon. Bless her little heart, if it was all for my sake, I wish she would never grow any more or any older, for she is the comfort of my declining years. She can now wash and dress, and undress, and say 1 her own prayers and put her little self to bed. She can sing her own 1 songs, and look at the picture books, aud save us many a step, for she ' j waits on us now like a fairy and fills ' the house with sun-light. The crop : is laid by, thank goodness and I wouldn't undertake to make another I for a house full of gold. In the hay1 day of our youthful vigor a kind > Providence enubles us to bear up splendidly under these sort of bur> deus, but an old mau can't?it wasn't intended?it's against the order of j nature. Many a time have I watched j the old blue hens that lays and sets and hatches her little brood, and works and watches for ein a couple of 1 months, and then lays by the crop 1 and goes to layiDg again for another. ' We can't do that, and I don't want ' to, for I tell you I'm tired. If there's any peril in life that is like a linger ing suicide, it is for and old widower ' who has raised one crop to marry a young wife and go to cropping again. 111 don't think th?y will ever get to Heaven, for the Arabs say that Para1 dise wasn't made for fools. If ever I I am a lone widower which the Lord forbid, I'll flee from a marrying woman like I would from the wrath to 1 come, for my time is out. I've served ' my full term, and now that I am luxf' uriating in the long shadows, I don't want anybody but her to eing John Anderson my Joe to me. I've been trying to get her off to Catoosa for a week or so to recuperate her feelings 1 and enjoy society. I offered to sell a | yearlin and raise a few dollars, but she is afraid that something might happen. Little Carl is her idol and yesterday he was footing around shutting up bumble bees in gimpson weed blossoms and got stung and his hand and his arms are all swelled up and ray wife, Mrs. Arp, she had read about a little bee sting killing a maa and of course a big bee sting could kill a little boy all the easier. Then I (lin'm-miou nrp rinA and the an I Ufctt.U ... 1 1 pies are green and the children hanker after em aud might get sick, and there's some little clothes to make; and the winter socks are to he knifc and so on and so forth, and'lastly bat not leastly there seems to b6 some trouble about something to wear. When she puts on her best clothes she always looks mighty pretty to' me, but I suppose I'm no judge of such things. I told her that every blessed woman at Catoosa was i xnctly in the same fix. They hacf nothing to wear. But after all, that is a little pardonable weakness that we men' have no right to complain of, for they are a heap better than we are whether they have got anything to wear or not. We must all do the very best' we can to clothe em decently. When old mother Eve had to leave home" she made the same complaint and father Adam did the best he conM? he got her some fig leaves and a fetf straws and fixed her up. A farmer has got some leisure now to ruminate upon his State rnd hiscountry. It's every patriot's duty to' reflect upon the political sit if.It ion' j and prospects and get all the light he' j can. For several years we have been' j mostly concerned about our State? J prizing her out of the mod. But now she is all safe and its a fitting time-" for us to consider our national affairs;Our national politics is a big thing. I It always was a big thing, bivlilstems' i to me now that the coming presidential [contest ia bigger than it.ever was-be?* : fore. I've been hoping a cbftngfc1 j ever since the war, bat it was a weak J sort of a hope that was pre pared in' ! advance for a disappointment, batnow I've got an abiding, consoling^' faith that the end of the lane is in! wo om hnnnd to whin 'em' OI^UV VUUV ?? V t?4V w W M?i ? - ? A horse, foot and dragoons. My hopes' are so pregnant and exhileratiug that' I could hardly bear up under defeatThe calamity to the nation a::d to rxuy would be awful. As one of the ctlly' two original Hancock men, may be I ?take it to heart too much and feelmore responsibility than I ought Me and Mr. Stephens got on the same line together somehow and started1 the Hancock boom. "We are the only two pure and unadulterated originalsJim Waddel comes next. Ho was mighty close on behind. "Wo liirea" will live in history like them fellers who arrested Maj. Andre in the revolution. They saved the country aud: so will we. The Democratic' party j took our advice and now, if it don't! make any mistakes or blunders, the' ! countrv is safe. Another revolution is going on. Office-suckers ami officeseekers are feeing from the other side' iu gangs. I hear the flutter of their' j wings and their plaiutive sdreech1 sounds like the wild geese tlviug south; j in the fall of the year. I's most I astonishing how some men can diag: nose an election and how shirty they' i suddenly become. I hear men hoi-; leriu for Hancock now who have been ; side-wipin around Grant and Hayes I and Sherman and company ever sincej the war. They are tryiDg to imitatei the regular Democratic yell, and are' | ready to swear they never was anyj thing but a Democrat. These office' | suckers and seekers are the best sort j of diagnosers. Its a good sign to see | em slipping and sliding uuck into j ranks. Crpx asd Pretention of Hog Chol| ara?Bj experiments I have discover^ i ed a cure for this fatal disease, i Knowing it will be of great 'benefit ta i tbe whole country, I send it ta you for publication r Au equal quantity j of molasses, lard, and a light sprinti ling of salt, stirred together and given cnee a day, spread on a board, will put a stop to this distressing disease among swine. S. P. Wilson, ! Societ? Hh.t., July L?>. i