FORTY-FIFTH ? UNION OF Ol Principal Address Deliver* Pertiment to 1 The forty-fifth annual reunion of tho Survivors' Association of Orr's Regiment, C. S. A., was held last Thursday and Friday at Easley. There was a good attendance of vete rans and visitors and the occasion was greatly enjoyed hy all. A num ber of addresses were made, the prin cipal address being made by lt. T. .laynos, Esq., of Walhalla. We pro duce below the address delivered by Mr. .lsynes to the members of tho Survivors' Association and others. Mr. Jaynes spoke as follows: Mr. President, Members of the Survi vors' Association of Orr's Regi ment. South Carolina Volunteers. Confederate States of America, Ladles and Gentlemen : I estec-.. it a high privilege and great honor to appear before you on this occisi?n - the 46th reunion of the survivors of tills gallant band of American heroes, lt has fallen my lot on two or three former occasions to meet with you around your annual campfire and speak to you about those daysJhat tried men's souls. Dut those meetings were held in the tranquil days of peace. Foreign was the thought that one of your annual gatherings would ever witness ano ther war-a world war-such a war as has become a besom of destruc tion on thu European continent, and in which the American soldier ls des tined to become a decisive factor, and win a lasting victory for democracy and humanity-a victory founded upon justice and truth and freedom and right, that in the end must crush the wrong out of tho world. Thoughts come trooping fast; strong men tremble at tho appalling task; tile mind is bewildered and perplexed; and while we would fain dwell upon the past, and review the historic events of the sixties, the head, the hand, and the heart of every true, patriotic American by day and by night must now serve and sacrifice that tho world may be made safe for democracy and humanity. In these days of stirring events-of events of world-wide moment -and in which history is made over night, we can only pause to dwell upon the past for a moment in order to draw les sons for our present guidance, admo nition and encouragement. We can pauso only long enough to gaze with admiration and wonder upon thc amazing spectacle of that new order of State which was born in the midst of perilous times, which stood foi four years, sustained by a great, brave and determined people, united in heart, whose ono purpose of high resolve animated the whole, and whose sacrifices, whether of blood or treasure, to be made, were not weigh ed in the balance against honor, and right, and liberty, and equality, as it was given to them to seo lt. The) may have made a mistake-a stupen dous mistake, If you please but they were honest, sincere and loya! to truth, in and through it all. Anti though that new order of State stoo? only four years; though the impos lng fabric was destined to fall anc crumble into ruin under the ponder ons tread of armed hosts, yet, lt sur vlved long enough to bequeath U humanity and to the world for al lime to come, the rich legacy of th? Confederate Character. After a half century or more, it is indeed, difficult for the men and th< women of this generation to realiz< and appreciate fully tho ideas, th< motives, and the sentiments whicl led the men and Hie women of th? sixties so freely to. offer their lives and ?heir fortunes as a sacrifice upoi tho altar of their country. 1 thlnl we may safely take it for graute? that then, as now, true to the natu ral instincts of man, they shranl from it, and would gladly hav< avoided both the conflict and the sac rifice had that appeared to them pos sible without dishonor. But when i became clear that this could not b< done and that the conflict was Inovl I able, they met it joyously, ovei "robbing both the cradle and th? grave" to maintain their annies ii the field to the last, and went to theil graves as to their beds. It was f great and terrible war, for four loni and distressing years. The armlet enlisted on both sides called into th? field three million men; it cost mon thanda half million lives; it cause? untold suffering and heart aches; i wrought the most terrible devasta Hon and called for the outpouring o billions of dollar'). But in that terrible crucible of fir? and scourge, there was wrought on the rich heritage which is our through tho splendid heroism of th men and the women, who, in tha great and hopeless struggle so mar velou8ly distinguished themselves b their valor, their sacrifices, and tho! patient fortitude. The names of th vast majority of them may be un LNNUAL RE AR'S REGIMENT ed by R. T. Jaynes, Esq. Present Time. known to fame, but there are many which time must assault in vain. And in that rich legacy which now be longs to the whole American people because of their achievements, there I is compensation for all the loss and/ sacrifice which was theirs, and all the j ills which lite South has suffered. In [ tlie lustre which shines undimmed upon their records there in inspira tion for the present and abiding con fidence In and encouragement for the future. "The glory dies not, and the grief is past! " And what can we say of the Con federate soldier? How can language picture "Tito hero In gray with a heart of gold?" During those four years of bloody warfare, and on many hard-fought battlefields, from Manas sas to Appomattox, the Confederate soldier was both loyal and heroic In his devotion to duty. What a record! Truly may it be said that upon this world's stage no more pathetic scene, no more heroic incident, has ever been witnessed. With what pride the generations yet unborn shall claim descent from those who, true to their sense of duty, fought under that old flag, so battle-scarred, tattered and torn-now forever furled-but once the proud ensign which was follow ed, even though it led right into the jaws of death, whore, amid the sounds of shrieking shells, mingled with the groans of the fallen and the dying, there were none to falter. As we think upon these things, the query naturally arises: Was It all In vain? Was there no gain? N'o recompense, for all that costly sacrifice of blood and treasure? We answer, "No!" All was not lost; it was not all in vaiti; there was gain, great gain, foi then and there, by "the hero in gray," as tan ensample to the heroic American youth of to-day. who b> countless thousands are again an swering their country's call, as well as for generations yet unborn, was wrought out the priceless treasure ot the Confederate Character. As a flt representative of this char acter stood Gen. Lee at Appomattox illustrating in his calm and loft} bearing, the noble adage which hf afterwards announced, that "The vir tue of humanity ought always t< equal its trials." An eye-witness o that trying ordeal, the late belovet and heroic Gen. John B. Gordon, o Georgia, spoke of him as "self-poise* and modest, bearing on Iiis grea heart a mountain load of woe, will the light of an unclouded conscient upon his majestic brow, with an in nate dignity and nobility of spiri rarely equalled and never excelled the central figure of the Confederat Cause rose tn this hour of supremes trial, in the estimation at least o those who followed him, to the high est place of tho morally sublime." The place of Lee in impartial his tory ls forever fixed. As the year come and go, his name and fame wi! become dearer and dearer still t the hearts of the whole American pee pie. Long after that bronze statu In the Hall of Fame at our country' capital, where it so worthily stand to-day, in Confederate uniform, sha have crumbled into dust, his nam will survive, and his fame as a American soldier will shine out n one of the few greatest warriors an generals this old earth has ever prc duced. The earplugs of small erith of former days, as well as the name of the critics themselves, will el long be forgotten and bruted In cte nal oblivion, but the name of Le will stand forth as the Great Amer can Soldier of tho Nineteenth Cei tory. The Women of the Confederacy. And what cnn we say of and ft the women of the sixties? Wort are halting and language lame whe we come to speak of "Thc Women < the Confederacy." No mortal tongi: can give adequate expression to the heroic fortitude, patient endurant and lonely suffering during those foi years, as they stood guard the po tals of the homes throughout 01 Southland or watched by the bedsit of the wounded, the sick anti the d: lng. The nervous tension, the constat dread? the anxious watching forevt and aye, the wanting to hear, and y< dreading to hear; the waiting fi tidings from the front; the receij of news that father, husband, so brother or loved one had fallen ai were to be seen no more-all th i and more, called for ?he exercise i the highest type of patriotism ar uncomplaining devotion. Says Ge Gordon: "1 have seen those patriot women of our Southland sendli their husbands, and their fnthei their brothers and their sons to tl front, cheering them in the hour disaster, and tempering their joys the hour of triumph, J have wltnec ed the Southern mother's anguish as, with breaking heart and streaming eyes, she gave to her beloved boy her parting blessing, 'Go, my sou; go to the front! I, perh?ps, will never see you again, but I freely commit you to God and to the defense of your people!' 1 have seen those Southern women with the sick, the wounded and the dying; and in the late stages of the war, I have been made to mar vel at their saintly spirit of martyr dom, standing as lt were, almost neck deep in the desolation around them, and yet bravely facing their fate, while the light of heaven itself play ed around their divinely beautiful faces." And lt is the high, holy and sacred mission of the Daughters of the Con federacy to perpetuate the memory of the heroic deeds of the men and the women of tho Confederacy, and to collate and keep In permanent form the valuable records of those deeds. I believe It ls estimated that there are now more than ?0,000 women who proudly bear the name of Daughters of the Confederacy. They aro located in thirty-two States and from Ocean to Ocean; they all have the same hopes and aspirations of giving honor where honor ls dite, and of preserving from falsehood and mis representation the true history of the Confederate States of America. "No Nation rose so white and fair, Nor fell so pure of crime." Survivors of Orr's Regiment, in your 45th annual reunion assembled, as we stand in your presence to-day, we see the highest type of American patriot. Venerable men! You have come down to us from the former generation. You stand to-day as the connecting link between the gen eration of your comrades and ours. You have been spared for 5 2 years and more since you sheathed the sword at Appomattox to pursue the paths of peace and virtue; and though your ranks be thin and num bers few, you stand as the highest exponents of true patriotism and real Americanism. Your record is an open book, known and read of all men, and the lesson lt teaches ls one of everlasting rebuke to tho slothful, the selfish and seditious in this peril ous hour. We may take Webster's definition of a patriot as "one who loves his country and zealously supports Its authority and interest"; and, meas ured by this standard, whether in war or peace, your record will abide as a perpetual memorial of true Ameri can patriotism. To this end I would cito the loyal message and trenchant words of the United Confederate Veterans in their reunion at Birmingham in May, 101G, and forwarded to President Wilson almost a year before the war cloud, then ominously rolling darkly to ward our shores, broke upon us. Listen to this stirring utterance and heed its call: "To the President and Congress of the United States: We. the Confede rate Veterans, in reunion assembled at Birmingham, Ala., this 16th day of May, 1016, do hereby renew and declare our unfaltering allegiance tc the government of the United States in this hour of great international difficulties. "We took up arms against the gov ernment, not as rebels, but to pro tect our homes and firesides, to pre serve and maintain the principles ol States' Rights; and although the ar bitrament of arms was against us we lost neither our courage, our man hood, nor our patriotism. "To-day the remnant of the armlet of the Confederate States of Amerlci does hereby offer Itself, it| sons anc Its property upon the altar of a re united country, which we love ant seek to serve, protect and defend. "We recommend that every mah citizen over 16 years of age residing in the United States and Us Territo rios be required to report I m med! ately to the probate judge of hit county, or other like officer, mulei penalty of the law, and there sweai allegiance to this government, pledg lng his loyalty to support the govern ment against any and all foes, who ther internal or foreign, who may nt tempt to binder or destroy the prop erty or liberty of its people." Thus, a full year before the cal for army service went forth to tin American youth, these "Veterans li (?ray" gave voice to the principle later proclaimed by President Wllsoi "that In a democracy the duty t< serve and the privilege to serve fal upon all alike." And thc reunion at Washington the nation's capital, last June, cappci the climax. In the march of th Gray, accompanied by the Blue dowi Pennsylvania avenue, and In front o the White House, in grand review h; President Wilson, these veterans o both armies on National Roglstratloi Day for young American manhood Joined anew in the mutual dedica lion of thomselves, their lives am thoir fortunes, to a reunited countr -a nation powerful In spirit and ii purpose for the accomplishment o the groat end which God In his mys terious providence must worl through our Instrumentality. Among ( no other people could Buch a scene and such an event transpire; and this was so because, as declared by President Wilson in his address of welcome, "At the heart of tho men of the North and of the South there was the same love of self-government and of liberty. Now we are to be an instrument in the hands of God to see that liberty is made secure for mankind. At the day of our great est division t?tere was one common 1 passion among us, and that was the : passion for human freedom." And this is the spirit or the South , to-day. Here and there some dema gogue may rise to assail the govern ment, and a few unthinking or wrong ly informed people are misled. But tili? is only to be expected, for there was never yet a cause, however no ble, that did no't have its recreants and its foes. Our war Tor American independence had its Tories, the North had its Copperheads, and as of yesterday we may recall the words of President Davis, penned in great an guish of spirit in February, 1864, in his special message io the Confede rate Congress, as follows: "While brigade after brigade of our brave soldiers, who have endured the trials of the camp and the battle- , Held, are testifying to their spirit and patriotism by voluntary re-en listment for the war, discontent, dis satisfaction and disloyalty are mani fested among those who, through the sacrifices of others, have enjoyed quiet and safety at home. Public meetings have been held, In some of which treasonable designs are mask ed by a protended devotion to State sovereignty, and In others is openly avowed. Conventions are advocating, with the pretended object of redress ing grievances, which, if they exist ed, could as well be remedied by or dinary legislative action, but with the real design of accomplishing treason under the form of law. To this end a strong suspicion is entertained that secret leagues and associations are being formed. In certain localities men of no mean position do not hesi tate to avow their disloyalty and hos tlity to our cau.se, and their advocacy of peace on the terms of submission." Alter three long years of patient waiting and hoping against hope that the course of the imperial German government would not become in fact war against the government and peo ple of the United States, on April 2, I 1917, President Wilson was forced to ! appear before Congress, and with a j profound sense of the solemn and I even tragical character or the step j he was taking, and or the grave ro I sponsibilities which it involved, but , in unhesitating obedience to what he ! hightly deemed his constitutional duty, advised Congress to declare that the course of the imperial Ger I man government towards the govern ment and people ol* the United States was nothing less than war. Verily, it was a distressing and oppressive duty which 4ie that day performed, knowing full well that there must be many months, perhaps years, of fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. He declared that it was a fearful thing to lead this great, peace-loving people into war-into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars-civilization it seir being in the balance. As a re ward for our neutrality up to the dec laration of war by Congress, 226 ^Vmerlcan citizens, many of them wo men ff id children, had lost their lives by the action of the German subma rines, and the challenge of German frlghtrulnes8 was to the whole civil ized world. A complete indictment of German policy must contain at leaBt ten probative counts against the German Emperor: 1. He has set the torch of the in cendiary to our factories, our work shops, our ships and our wharves. 2. He has laid the bomb of the as sassin in our munition plants, and the holds of our ships. 3. He has sought to corrupt our manhood with a selfish dream of peace when there is no peace. 4. He has wilfully butchered our citizens on the high seas. 5. lie has destroyed our com ino ree. (>. He seeks to terrorize us with his devilish policy ol' frightfulness. 7. He has violated every canon of international decency and set at naught every solemn treaty and every precept of international law. 8. He has plunged the world into the maddest orgy of blood, rapine and murder which history records. 9. He has intrigued against our peace at home and abroad. 10. He seeks to destroy our civili zation. Patience is no longer a virtue; fur ther endurance ls cowardice, submis sion to Prussian demands is slavery. This compact summary of tho grievances of tho United States and the necessity of war was given by G. Ki. Foss, of Illinois, a distinguished member of Congress, in that memor able debate in the House of Repre sentatives on April 6, 1917, and every count has been sustained by ample proof. Thus we find that wo have( been forced into this titanic conflict in self-defense, and for thc preservation of democracy arainst a cruel autoc racy. For the United States as well as for the other democratic nations, it is a question of life nnd death. If Germany wins there is no pince for an English-speaking democracy on the face of the earth. We have been slow to grasp this Idea, and to realize thc full scope of the issue; but it looms before us now in all of its hid eous portent, and there are before us two possible features: Independence and Freedom, with the allies victori ous; or the position of n vassal state, subservient and obedient to a world emperor at Berlin. As the represen tative of the oldest and strongest de mocracy in the world, Woodrow Wil son stands to-day as the recognized champion of, world democracy, while William ll stands as the most power ful representative of relentless au tocracy. These two systems of gov ernment are diametrically opposed, and there is no possible reconcilia tion. The world, as the final result of this titanic struggle, must be made a safe place in which to live safe for all states and peoples, great and small-or must become subserv ient to the will of one man, who plays with men as with pawns on a chess board. Such being the nature of the con flict, and such being the war made upon our country by an insulting foe, should we wait until our sleeping cities are awakened by the terrible music of bursting bombs? Till our green fields are trampled by the hoofs of the Invader and made red with tho blood of our brethren? No! A thou sand times no! We must send forth our fleets and armies-we must un loose upon the broad ocean our keen falcons, and the thunder of our guns must arouse stern echoes along the *hostlle front. This is but national defense and authorized by the same great principle of self-protection, which applies no less to nations than to individuals. The thing I wish to impress and drive home to every one worthy of the proud title of A ?erlcan, is, that we are in this fight; we are in it to win; we cannot win without fight ing; and we cannot successfully fight with divided counsels. We cannot stop for referendums or to walt on jury verdicts or moot court trials. The die has been cast, and there are no more open questions. The con stitutionality of the draft act for ser vice ol the government has beert de termined for the past half century or more. The absolute fairness of se lective draft and individual liability to military service is self-evident. It ls nothing short of a public calamity that there are found those In our midst, and some in tho public service, who are advising resistance to law to a law passed in the time of great national necessity, in the time of ac tual war-and who, by unfriendly criticism or for pride of individual opinion, or through political motives, encourage the gro vth of distrust, dissension and disloyalty In the minds and hearts of those who look to them for the light of truth. It ls, Indeed, unfortunate that some persons fall to realize at once that war ls an abnormal condition of so ciety, and that wherever it obtains and whatever be the form of the gov ernment, the status of the citizen, or subject, ls more or less modified to meet Its demands. The citizen is transmuted into the soldier, and th? soldier is neccasrily subjected to arbi trary rules, such as the citizen knew not before. The freeman's consola tion is that every sacrifice, whether of personal usc, or freedom of action, of property, of health or of life is an offering on the altar of liberty. Hence, lt is the ever present duty of the strong toward the weak, of thc Informed toward the uninformed, pa tiently, kindly, but none the less firmly, to speak words of warning; yea, even of stern rebuke to those who seek to resist, tQ obstruct, tc hinder, or to sow seeds of distrust and dissension; because the under mining of confidence In the govern ment, during war, is to afford aie and comfort to the enemy. Our individual and national libert} was bought for us with the blood o! patriots, which was freely shed or many a battlefield all the way fron Lexington and Valley Forge to York town. Here our forefathers made th( first experiment In democratic gov eminent ns set over against the auto eratic system of government whicl then prevailed throughout tlx world. In order to preserve and porpetu ate this priceless heritage which hat come down to us in our good day, th< whole world must now be made saf< for democracy; and the price to b< paid ls still the blood of patriots patriots In the Army and Navy of th< United States of America on land ant sea. Only last Juno, In hls mcmorahh Flag-Day speech, at the foot of Wash Ington monument, tho President o tho United States made an oloquen and stirring appeal to the patrlotlsu of all Americans when ho said; MAJOR ?KN. WOOD TO KANSAS. Oftlccrs Assigned for Duty ut South Carolina Camps. Washington, Aug. 16.-Assign ment of general officers to the army cantonments, announced to-day, re veals that Major Gen. Leonard Wood, commanding tho Southeastern De partment, is to be transferred to com mand the Eighty-ninth (National Guard) Division, Camp bunston, Ft. Riley, Kansas. (icu. Wood's Associates. These orders are part of the gene ral announcement to-day of assign ments of commanders of national army and National Guard camps. The four brigadiers who will command the Camp Funston division under Major Gen. Wood are: Brig. Gen. F. L. Winn, 177th infantry; Brig. Gen. T. G. Hanson, 178th infantry; Brig. Gen. G. J. Hunter, 164th depot brigade, and Brig. Gen. W. L. Ken ley, 164th feld artillery brigade. South Carolina Officers. Camp Jackson, at Columbia, is to be the Eighty-first division, and its commanding officers will be as fol lows: Major Gen. F. H. French, commanding; Lieut. Col. C. D. Rob erts, chief of ste ;T; Brig. Gen. G. W. Mciver, 161st Infantry brigade; Brig. Gen. C. H. Muir. 162 Infantry bri gade; Brig. Gen. C. H. Barth. 150th depot brigade; Brig. -Gen. ?. A Haynes, 156th field artillery brigade. Camp Sevier, at Greenville, will be in charge of this staff: 'Major Gen. J. F. Morrison, " commanding; Lieut. Col. A. W. Bjonstad, chief of staff; Brig. Gen. S. F. Faison, 58th Infant ry brigade; Brig. Gen. W. S. Scott, 59th infantry brigade; Brig. Gen, L. D. Tyson, 56th depot brigade; Brig. Gen. G. G. Gatley, 55th field ar tillery brigade. Camp Wadsworth, at Spartanburg, will have these officers: Major Gen. J. F. OHyan, commanding; Col. H. H. Bandholtz, chief of staff; Brig. Gen. R.E.L. Michie, 53d infantry bri gade; Brig. Gen. H. D. W. Hamilton, i 54th infantry brigade; Brig. Gen. J". W. Lester, 52d depot brigade; Brig. Gen. C. L. Phillips, 52d field artillery brigade. Typewriter Inventor Dead. Sound Beach, Conn., Aug. 15-Geo. C. Bllckensderfer, 66 years old, vice president of the Bllckensderfer Man ufacturing Company, died at his home here to-day. He was the inventor of the typewriter which bears his name. He later adapted lt to the Chinese alphabet, an accomplishment which so interested Hie Japanese govern ment that it revised its written lan guage to adapt lt to a typewriter key boa rd. VES ? Ii I FT A CORN OFF WITHOUT PAIN'. 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Woe be to the "man or group of men that seeks to "stand in our way In this day of high "resolution, when every principle we "hold dearest ls to be vindicated and "made secure for the salvation of the "nations. Wo are ready to pload at the bar of history, and our flag shall "wear a new lustre. Once more we "shall make good with our lives and "fortunes the great faith to which wo "were born, and a new glory shall "shine in the face of our people." The highway that leads to this glo rious consummation, so devoutly to be wished, ls none other than the path of duty, the path that fearless patriots tread, the path along which, from the North, from the South, from tho East and from the West, come trooping once again the mighty hosts of American patriots, to dedicate and reconsecrate them selves upon tho altar of their coun try, the nltar erectod by the Fathers of the Republic and baptized with their blood. 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