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____NO .b TlEPICKENS_ __ PICKENS: The Pearl of the PIEDMONT, Entered April 23. 1903 at picicens. s. C. ax~ second4 class mall maxtere under actfCnrs fMrh317 41st YEAR. PICKENS, S. C., NOVEMBER 16, 1911. HENRY WATTE PAREl Reports Are Branded A GIVES HIST( in an Address Delivered on the 4 Gave Minute Account of Lit aud Disproved the Falsehoo Frankfort, Ky., Nov, 8.-Col. Jenry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, de livered an address to-day on Abraham Lincoln, on the occa sion of the unveiling of the Lin coin Memorial. Mr. Watterson's - oration was devoted mainly to the "person ality, the origin and spiritual life and character" of Abraham Lincoln. He gave a minute ac count of the Lincoln and Banks /- families derived from document ary evidence; disproved the falsehoods touching Lincoln's birth and traced his noble qual ities of head ard heart to his mother. In concluding this pas sage he said: To-morrow there will assem ble in a little clearing of the wildwood of Kentucky a goodly company. It will embrace the greatest and the bestfof our time and land. The president and the chief justice and the rest will gather about a lowly cabin, whose unhewn logs like the serried battlements of Elsinore gave prelude to the swelling act of a theme yet more imperial to consecrate a shrine. 0 f him that was born there the final earthly word i'as spoken long ago; but, Mther of God, shall that throng pass down the hiil -ide and away without looking into the heaven above in unut terable love sand homage with the thought of a spirit there which 'knew in this world nought of splendor and power' -and fame; whose sad lot it was to live and die In obscurity, struggle, almost in penury and squalor; whose tragic fate it wasegter she had lain half a lifetime in her humble, unmiark ed grave, to be pursued by the deepest, darkest calumny, that can. attach itself to the name of woman-the hapless, the fair haired Nancy Hanks. No falser, fouler story ever gained currency than that which impeaches the character of the mother of Abraham Lincoln. -It had never any foundation *.whatsoever. Every known fact fairly contradicts it. Every as pect of circumstantial evidence stamps it a preposterous lie. It was a period of heroic achievements tempered by relig ious fervor. It was a pious, God-fearing neighborhood of simple, hard-working men.and women. Debauchery was un known. Double-living was im possible. Thomas Lincoln and g- Nancy Hanks, as I have shown came of good people, Historic ally, it would not matter who were the parents of Abraham Lincoln any more than it mat ters that he whom the English monarch is proud to call his pro genitor was a bastard; but it offends the soul of a brave and just manhood, it should arouse - in the heart of every true wo man a sense of wrong that so much as a shadow should rest upon the memory of the little cabin in which Nancy Lincoln gave to the world an immortal son, born in clean, unchallenged wedlock, nor thought of taint or shame anywhere, Let no one of those that gather there go thence without a heart to salute the gentle spirit of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, that maybe somewhere beyond the stars among the angels of the choir invisible will look upon the scene, serene and safe at last in the bosom of her Father and her God! His story of the love-life of Lincoln and his relation with Joshua Fry Speed, an uncle of. ~the donor of this statue, in tihe * aL 4asat Springfield, fIli, RSON -ON THE ITAGE .OF ABR 4s False'and Vicious b Journalist. RICAL DATA 1 )ccasion of the Unveiling of the 1oln and Hanks Families Derive Is Touching Lineoln's- Birth-Say closer to Joshua Fry Speed than to any other. The ties of early manhood between the two were never broken. To the end Lin coln could turn to Speed, certain to get the truth, equally sure of sound counsel and unselfish fidelity. "He was one of those men," says John Hay, "who seem to have to a surpassing degree the genius of friendship, the Pyth ias, the Pylades, the Horatios of the world. * * * It is hardly too much to say that he was the only, as he certainly was the last, intimate friend that Lincoln ever had. * * They knew the inmost thoughts of each other's hearts and each depended upon the honesty and loyalty of the other." - The story of the way their intimacy began and how -they came to abide together relates that, entering Speed's store in Spiingfield, saddlebags on arm, the just-arrived Lincoln ascer tained that the domestic outfit he requied would cost the enor mous sum of seventeen dollars. "I had no idea it would cost the half of that," said he, "and I haven't the. money to pay for it; but if you'll wait on me till Christmas,and Imak eanything, I'l pay; and. if "don't, I can't." Said Speed: "I can do better for you than that. I have all the things you want and I sleep on a bed thiat's. big enough for two. You just come. and bunk with me, and it shall cost you nothing." He pointed the way arouid a pile of boxes and bar rels and up a -fiight of stairs. Lincoln went as directed, and quickly returned, but without the'saddle-bags. "Speed," said he, "I've moved." Conscience and. destiny' had joined forces to write a drama such as may not be found else where outside the pages of ro mance; as compact and as uni fied as a Ureek tragedy; mysti cal and weird, but real. Speed was short, of stocky build, and given to loquacity; a little ab rupt in speech to the end of his days. Lincoln was very tall and angular, coniciliatory, pa tient, not even wanting the per suasive word. He might have described himself and his friend as he once1bescribed himself and his wife, as the "long and short of it." The first. and .nost serious affair of life to them was mar riage. The amatory matters which sengaged and engrossed them were not many, but they cut deep. Lincoln had already had what he thought was his finishing stroke in the death of Ann Rutledge, when jhe met Mary Todd. Speed's love pas sage with Fanny Henning was to come later. Each as the se quel showed suffered the comn mon lot of heartache, as each in turn and in the hour of trou ble delivered to the other fra ternal wisdom and comfort. "In the year 1850," I quote from the Hay-Nicolay..biogra phy, "Abraham Lincoln be came engaged to be married to Miss MXary Todd, of Lexington, Ky. ** * The engagement *vas not in-all respects a happy one, as I oth parties doubted their compatibility. * * * His af fection for his betrothed, which he feared was not strong enough to mnake happiness with her se cure; his doubts which yet were not convincing enough to induce him to break off all relations with her; his sense of honor which was wountded in his own eyes by his own aset;his sense of duty which condemned himi opqurteand fidnOt sust aiig Iiqa tbje opposite course, com-, 411AM LINCOLN y the Noted Kentucky N A SPEECH Lincoln Memial Mr. Watterson d From Documentary Evidence i Story Was False and Foul. I and passionately wretched. T< his friends who were unused t< such finely wrought and ever fantastic sorrows, his troubl< seemed so exaggerated that the3 could only account for it on th ground of insanity." But he was not mad. Speet picked him up bodily,as it were, and carried him off to Kentucky, and into the bosom of his own happy and pious family circle, where he quickly recovered his equanimity,returning to Spring field again. It was Speed, who on his home visit, met his fate, and, in pertubation of spirit, ex changed places w ith Lincoln. Lincoln, who became the phv sician of his friend, and, out of his own experience, administer ed the needed mediciue of thoughtful and tender sympa thy, The correspondence is yet ex tant revealing the innermost throes of two natures exquis itely strung and stretched to their tension, neither Hamlet, nor Werther, closer upon the edge of the precipice, which happily was withheld from them. Their period of travail endured for nearly two years, from 1840 to 1842, the close of the latter year finding each of them safely married, Less than twenty years thereafter-two short decades-Lincoln, elected president of the United States, wrote to Speed: "It's like a dream isn't it?" Mr. Watterson told a graphic story of the coming of Lincoln to Washington and his first in auguration. His narrative took the form of a personal'reminis cence. "I was engaged by Mr. Gobnight, the general manager of the Associated Press in the national capital" said he, "to assist him and Major Ben Perley Poore, a well-known newspaper correspondent of those days, with their report of the inaugu ral ceremonies of the 4th of March, 1861. The newly-elected president had arrived in Wash ington ten days before-to be exact, the morning of the 22d of February. It was a. Saturday. That same afternoon he came to the capitol escorted by .Mr. Seward, and being on the floor of the house, I saw him for the first time, and was, indeed, pre sented to him." He continued as follows: Early in the morning of the 4th of March I discovered thrust into the keyhole of my bed room a slip of paper which read: "For Inaugural Address see Col. Ward H. Lamon." Who was "Col. Ward H. Lamon?" I had never heard of him. The city was crowded'with strangers. I went directly Willard's Hotel. As I passe ~rough the long corridor of e second floor, spliced with lttle dark entree ways, to the apartments facing on Pennsylvaniai avenue, I saw through a half-opened door Mr. Lincoln himself pacing to and fro apparently reading a manu script. I went straight in, He was alone, and as he turn ed and met me, he extended his hand, called my name and said: "What can I do for you?"i I told him my errand and dilem ma, showing hini the brief memorandum. "-Why,'' said he, "you have come to the right shop; Lamon is in the next room. I will take you to him and he'll fix you all right." No sooner said than done, and sup plie-with the press copy of the inaugural .address, I gratefully and gleefully took my leave. Two ho~ later I found my selefin tieenate chamber, wit nessingthee t.he oath of Office adminisd ~M Vice President I tollowed the cortege through the long passage-way and across the rotunda to the East portico, where a temporary wooden platform had been erected, keep ing close to Mr. Lincoln. He was tall and ungainly, wearing a black suit, a black tie and a black silk hat. He carried a gold or a silver-headed walking cane. As we came out into the open and upon the provisional stand, where there was a table containing a Bible, a pitcher and a glass of water, he drew from his breast pocket the man uscript I had seen hini reading at the hotel, laid this before him placing the cane upon it as a paperweight, removed from their leathern case his steel-rim med spectacles, and raised his hand-he was exceeding deliber ate and composed-to remove his hat. As he did so, I lifted my hand to receive it. but Judge Douglas, who stood at my side reached over my arm, took the hat, and held it during the de livery of the Inaugural Address which followed. His self-possession was per fect. Dignity, herself, could not have been more unexcited. His-voice was a little highpitch ed, but resonant, quite reaching the outer fringes of the vast crowd in front; his expression serious to the point of gravity: not a scintillation of humor. In spite of the campaign pictures I was prepared to expect much Judge Douglas had said to me, upon his return to Washington after the famous campaign of 1858 for the Illinois senatorship from which the Little Giant had come off victor: "He is the greatest debator I have ever met either here or any where else." To me the address meant war. As the crowd upon the portico dispersed back into the Capitol I found myself wedged in be tween J hn Bell, of Tennessee, and Reverdy Johnson, of Mary land. E:.ch took me by an arm and we sat down upon a bench just outside the Rotunda. They were very optimistic. No. there would be no war, no fight; all the troubles would be tided over; the Union still wvas' safe, I was but a boy, just one and twenty. They were the two most intel lectual and renowned of the sur viving Whig leaders of the Clay and Webster, one of them just defeated for president in the preceding election. Their talk puzzled me greatly, for to my mind there seemed no escape from the armed collision of the sections-Secession already ac complished and a Confederate Government actually establish ed. There is in youth a pro phetic instinct which grows dul ler with advancing years. As I look behind me I not only bear this in mind, illustrated by the converse of those t wo veter an statesman that day in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Wash ington. but I feel it and realize it, so that I am much less confi dent, with a lifetime of exper ience to guide me, than I was when bouyed by the ignorance and bravery but also the inspir ation, of youth, the problems ahead read plain and clear as out of an open book. Of Lincoln and the South he said: The duty he had been com missioned to do was to save the Union. With an overwhelming majority of the people the in stitution of African slayery was not an issue. In his homely, enlightening .way, Lincoln de clared that if he could preserve the Union, with slavery, he would( do it, or without slavery, he would do it or with some free and others slaves, he would do that. The Proclamation of Emancipation was a war meas ure purely. He knew he had no Con titutional warrant, and, true to his oath of office. he held back as long as he could; but so clear-sighted was his sense of justice, so empty his heart of rancor, thati he wrished and sought to qualify the rigor of the act, by some measure of res titution, and so prepared the Joint Resolution to be passed by Congress appropriating four hundred million dollars for the purpose, which still stands in his own handwriting. He was himself a Southern man. All his people- dere Southeners.__If slavery be .not wrong "-fie said "noth' is " ~ echoing in this h. m-atad ftaS Century and voicing the sent ments of thousands of brav men who wore the Confederat gray. Not less than the North therefore, has the South reaso: to canonize Lincoln; for he wa the one friend we had at court aside from Grant and Sherman when friends were most in need If Lincoln had lived ther would have been no Era of Re construction, with its mistakez theories, repressive agences :in oppresive legislation. If Lincol had lived there would have beer wanting to the extremism of th time the bldody cue of his tak ing off to mount the steeds an< spur the flanks of vengenance For Lincoln entertained, witi respect to the rehabilitation of the Union, the single wisi that the Southern States-to usA h i s homely phraseology "should come back home and behave themselves," and if 'he had lived he would have made this wish effectual as he mad( everything effectual to which)E sericusly addressed himfelf Poor, insane John Wilkes Booth Was he, too, -an instrufient in the hands of God to pit a still deeper damnation upon the tak ing off of the Confederacy and to sink the Southern people yet lower in the abyss of affliction and humilation the living Lin coln had spared us? He spoke of Lincoln's teach ing and example, an& paid a glowing tribute to President Taft. as follows: Tragedy walks hand-in-hand with history and the eyes of glory are wet with tears "With malice toward none, with Charity for all"-since Christ said "blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God," has heart of man, stirred to its depths by human exigency, de livered a message so. sublime? Irresistable the mind recurs to that other martyr of the ages, whom not alone in the circum stances of obscure birth and tragic death, biit n those of simple living and childlike faith. Lincoln so closely resembled. Yon lowly cabin which is to be officially dedicated on the mor row may well be likened to the manger of Bethlehem, the boy that went thence to a God-like destiny, to the S(Zf God, the Father Almighty) 'of him and of us all. For whence his prompting except from God? There are utterances of his which read like poscripts from the Sermon on the Mount. Re viled even as the Man of Galilee, slain, even as the Man of Gali lee, yet as gentle and as unof fending, a man who died for men! Roll the stone from the grave and what shall we see? Just an American. The declar ation of Independence his Con fession of Faith. The Consti tution of the United States his Ark and Covenant of Liberty. The Union his redoubt, the flag his shibboleth. Called like one of old, within a handful of years he rose at a supreme moment to supreme command, fulfilled the law of his being, and passed from the scene an exhalation of the dawn of freedom. We may still hear his cheery voice, bidd ing us be of good heart, sure that "right makes might," en treating us to pursue "with frmness in the' right cas God gives us to see the right.'. The problems he met and solved are problems no longer. Others, it may be greater prob lems, rise before us. Shall there arise another Lincoln! May God gird round and guard his successor in the great ffice of Chief Magistrate w~ hom we have here with us this day; give him the soul of Lincoln. to to feel, Lincoln's wisdom to see and know; to the end that which ver of the parties prevail and to whatever group of men are ommitted the powers of Ad ministration, wholehearted de votion to the public service and arge-,ninded fidelity to Ameri an instutions may continue to lorify the teaching and ex ample of Abraham Lincoln. His peroration was as follows: "Let us here highly resolve," the wgrds still ring like a trum pet-call from that green-grown iilside of Gettysburg dotted with the graves of heroes, "that hese men shall not have died in ain; that this Nation, under od, shall have a new birth of freom: -nd, th at gnwarnmant - for the people, shall not perish e from the earth." Repeat we e the Declaration. As we gather about this effigy in bronze and a marble in, this the capital, of s Kentucy-of Kentuckv the most - world-famous among:the states - of America, whose birth-right carries with' it a. universal and unchallenged badge of honor: of Kentucky, which gave to the longest and bloodest of modern wars both its Chieftains, Abra ham Lincoln and Jefferson Da vis, and to each of the contend ing armies a -quota of fighting men larger than was contribut ted by an other state singly to either army; of that Kentucky whose Clay. antedating Lincoln in the arts of concillation and eloquence, tried to effect and did for a time effect by com promise what Lincoln could only compass by the sword, and whos3 Crittenden was last seri ously to invoke tho spirit of fra ternity and peace: of our own Kentucky, dark and bloody ground of the savage, beloved home of all that we hold gener ous and availing in man, grace ful and lovely in woman, where in when the battle was ended the war was over, and, once a Kentuckian always a Kentuck ian, the Federal and the Con federate were brothers again let us here, whether we call our selves Democrats or Republicans renew our alliegance to the Con stitution of the republic and the perpetuity of the Union. TE * CE. It The Speech Secretary Wilson a Ought to Make. It is to be hoped that Secre- G tary of Agriculture Wilson is keeping a scrap-book these days, 9 and is carefully preserving the li varied and vigorous comments 1 which are being made upon the f fact of his acceuting the honor ary presidency of the Brewers' T Congress. If he will permit his t intellect and conscience to grap- t ple with the truths presented by s the religious and reform press, I he will have abundant material for a masterful address at the '3 Brewers' Congress in Chicago - f a speech which will give the li liquor men something to think t about for a decade to come. i The Central Christian Advo- f cate recommends to the secre- < tary that. in his presidential address be- devote one division- ( to the relation of the brewery to i public welfare, and 'having I shown the relation, (namely that I the saloon is the disturbing end a of the brewery) which' exists 1 between the brewers and saloons, i he should grow eloquent on the relation existing between the I saloon and pauperism and dis- I ease and crime. The paper further recommends that in order to make the brew- I ers who come from foreign lands < morre perfectly familiar with the character of the ownership of our saloons by their American hosts, Secretary Wilson give to them the word picture of ex Gov. Folk, of Missouri: "The most dangerous saloons , in the cities are usually the brewery-owned saloons. Corn petition -among the brewers causes them~ to establish innu merable saloons and compels them to employ a low class of f men to run these places, as no 1 others are available. The brew ery saloon is the WORST sa loon." It would add to the interest of 1j the occasion if the secretary d were to quote the statement made in McClure's Magazine of i September, 1909:t "The signs of breweries flame p from before the worst saloons of ai the city. A grand advertise- 1 muent, genitlemen from foreign ' lands, of the institution in a ,whose behalf I have the honor to welcome you. "Yes, gentlemen, in their moral influence, the two are one."-Union Signal. David Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stanford University says: "The basis of intemper ance is the effort to secure through drugs the feeling of happiness where real happiness does not exist. Men destroy ?heir nervous systems for the tingling pleasures they feel as its, structures arp forn apa . The evil in drink jif/ot primdny inantiar5hii'nerve di-irt i . . .... .... . ALCOHOL 3 PE rCZXT. an , litanuh l~ies a fnseuh NWn on ti -som ma Dd WormsCon nessadLOssOSmP. Facsimil Sigatu or Ect Copy of Wrappr. Judge Lindsay's Declaration. 0 "It is only within recent years hat I have determined to be- C a total abstainer,because I ink1 - best for my physical r: ud moral ea and a'use wish to set a go 'example tor thers. "I believe that every boy and ho irl should be taught to avoid quor in any form, as he would o e taught to avoid poison in any orm. "The consumption of liquor, s o matter in how small a quan- at g [ty, when taken in the form of L eer, wine, or whisky, etc,, is L imply another form of sl3wly 2 oisoning the body. "I wish every boy in America rouid keep the pledge to refrain sj rom intoxicating..iquogfo any s ind or character as a beverage; S Sdo allin his power to end thS rink habit, kill the liqu - ic, and to abstai, the use f tobacco mn any form. "I have been in the Juvenile )ourt ten years, and in that s line I have had -to deal with s housands and thousands Of i >oys who have disgraiced them- s elves and their parents, and s vho have brought sorrow and s nisery into their lives; and I do Is iot know of - any one habit s hat is more responsible for the roubles of these boys than the rile cigarette Ihabit. - "No pure-minded,honest, gen- i le, manly, brave boy will smoke i igarettes." - - a e Clerk's Sal6 tate of South Carolina. County of Pickers, a Common Pleas Court. V. E. Findley, Plaintiff. vs .1T. Rice, et al, Defendants. c In 1.ursuance of a decretal order in i be at ove stated case made by Hon. E ~eo E. Prirc -, at chambers in Anider a c~n. 5. C'., dated Oct. 2.5, 1911, I will i eli to the highest bidder on Saleeday in d lecember, 1911, during the legal hoursd :>r sale at Pickens, C. H,, 4. C., the fol.d >wing~ real estate, to wit: 1st All that piece, parcel or tract of Lnd in the County of Pickens, in Eas iLtoe towrship, adjoining lands of J. J. [erd. estate of Jordani Rice. William 'urner and others and contain one hun red an.1 forty (140) acres more or less. 2 All that. piece, parcel, or tract of m3I on ' aters of C-4ar Creek baeinning n a sranish oak, thenc3 north to a rock, Mace east to a rock, thence south to a ine, thence, south to the begining cor-1 er, containing fifty acres (50) more ors es adjoining lands of Milton Hester, 7'. J. Duffie, J. D. Crershaw and others. Terms cash. Puachasers to pay forj Il papara and re-cording the same. t A. J. Boggs, Clerk of Court, y Pickens County 8. .c.jF a Prompt 'Its beneficial fects are usual felt very quick 'P. Makes rich,. red, p~ - system--clears the bra-~st A positive $ 0~E foI Drives out .. is a wonder~dtI xd Beara (f " For O01 Thirty Yhar, vs os1me e, as-om Tax Notiee. Mice of County-Treasurer, Pickens Pickeus, S. C., September The books for the collection of Sta >unty taxes will be open from October 15th 1911-toDecemberSist 191 Those who prefertbdo so can pay In 1912, wIth 1 per cent .d so cent O' can xaso by Sby paying e nt. Ifteruaid-date ' wilMl N. B ~-Ta payers V x fq; other, -will plae fta eadh townsp or special school D Ach he or tfey may ownproperty. as there are so many boold ts. Those who do not me to the office can write me, not- later cembert and I will furnish them e amount due and they can remit me- b eck, money order or registered letter, l unps are sent do not send- above two (2) ot, as I cannot use them. 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