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THE S?MTEK WATCHMAN, Established April, 1S50. "Be Just and Fear no:-Let all the Ends thou Aims': at, be thy Country's, thy GrocVs and Truth'.-.'" THE TRUE SO?TKKON, Kgtabltehed .Jun*. i=(>6 Consolidated Aus:. 2.1881. SUMTER. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 27. 1897. New Scries-Vol. XVI. So. 26 (The ??tatcbman an?? ?:u?ljro!i Published Every "Wednesday, IV. C3r. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : ?1.50 per annum-in advance. ADVERTISEMENT: One Square first insertion.Si 00 Every subs?quent insertion. 50 Contracts for three months, or lor-per will be made stt reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for as advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Robt. E. Lee. Gen. E. W. Moise's Tribute to the South's Greatest Soldier and Citizen. The following address was deliv ered by Gen. Moise at the Lee Me? morial Exercises at the Graded School. January 19th: Ladies and Gentlemen : This day has been set apart by tue State of South Carolina as a public holiday, and this occasion has been appropri? ately selected for the purpose of in? structing the lat gre number of the youth of this city and county in tho reasons . which have induced tho State to make this day one of almost religious observance. It is import ant thai the young people of this country should be impressed with the grandeur and nobility of the man who was born on tin's day, ninety years ago, who lived sixty-three years, and died as we shah show, leaving behind him a reputation and a name which is the brightest jewel in the cro^n of In's native Sute, ttie mother of States and statesmen We are not here to deliver a pane? gyric unon Robert E Lee "The living man scorned fulsome adulation and his living spirit, if permitted to be with us now, would reject with scorn any testimonia1 which could not bear the scrunity of time and the pure test of truth.'' The character of Gen Lee can gain nothing from what we may say here to day. We are not hero worshippers, but we adopt the beautiful thought with which Mr. Hammond opened his noble eulogy upon South Carolina's greatest son, John C Calhoun Mr Hammond said : "Faith is itu in stinct of the human heart, its st.r<>n<r est, ils purest and i's noblest in stinct : the parent of love and of hope, in all ages and everywhere. Mankind have adored and put their trust in the great Ruler of the uni verse, and descending from the holy and infinite to the human and finito, they have entertained the samo senti merits, differing only in degree for those of their own race who have especially beet! endowed with an ex? traordinary degree of intellect or of virtue. The ancient heathen deified them : amongst the early Christians they were enrolled among the saints. It is a shallow and a base philosophy which finds superstition in such usage only, and fails to recognize the working of a profound admiration and veneration for the attributes of God as manifested in His favorite creations." With strict truth and simple, unadorned statement we pro pose to demonstrate to these children here assembled and to all our audi once that Robert Edmund Loo stood in til*1 front of gifted mortals, either of this or of any other age, and we propose to prove it by the unbiased testimony of the civilized world Gen Lee was a great soldier, per 'naps the greatest <>f this or ariv other agre, but the world has been produc live of many groat soldiers They have been found I:: count ties and in all tim", but by a cati fol analysis 't w:M appear that in addition th his soldierly(t u ali ti es Gen Lee possess ed aiso in eminent degree a'! those rarer traits which constitute perfect manhood and heroic virtue Merit ;> comparative. We shall draw honest portraitures <-} the great military geniuses who have adorned history, and ".<. shall show that hot oro- pl these possessed ?ii ?t rounded, cor? p?ete ate! p< rf Vet character which had embellished tho man whose birth day wo this day celebrate. Ach.iih-s wa* sai l i-> have been <<t divine '??i rr?j? ; h> powers ;:? arms WM s con? spicuous awong groat chieftains. but it wi!! le- observed that such >.v:< his selfishness character ?s he withdrew from ibo service ?.J ;;;s allies because &>rsnoth a wretched Captive wa- Wi'estei: 'rom ;. . airt:> by his commanding chief. A< !..lo? is pf rna;-- a fictitious p"i soroi^--. y. t he em bod h s th- "ole :.!. a . f the f.- ! oxan'i I. VC? . . rn?noteo t...>' Las .w his ?! ho,-!, CivtUi a moment of wild dissipation "and left a name to other times linked with one virtue and a thousand crimes v Gen Leo left a name which he who does not honor is him self unworthy nf respect He fought no effeminate Persians, but met the resolute sons of the threat North and ! West, men who could rally after de? feat, and before whose eyes was al? ways borne those "Stars and Stripes" which had given freedom to the world, arni which he had learned at his mother's knee to honor, to love and to defend ile met those skilled officers who fell upon every field and before whoso dyin<? eyes, the world receding arni growing less and less, yet revealed the spirit of patriotism, waving that loved standard and beck? oning his dying soul to the reward of the patriot and the martyr And such a memory our chieftain 'eft that the survivors of our folds unite in heaping laurel wreaths noon his humble bier Caesar was great in peace and in war, a scholar, as we'l as a soldier, yet Caesar fell, not at the hand of the enemies of Rome, bot by the dagger "f" Brutus, his friend, who struck tum down that liberty might live Lee had not the ambition of Julius Caesar, and no man could have bee:; fourni within the length and breadth of tho Amen can Continent, friend or fx1, win) ! would have lifted a liam] to hurt thai I humbie citizen whose brow reflected ! alike to Northerner ami Southerner ? "those rays ol light which g?< a m ed on Mousse's chet k, inn down tin* mount he trod, a!' glorious from the prese.: ce "t his (>od Napoleon was ore eminently a soldier, a genius of war. ami also a profound politician, ll?s renown lias ?iii ii iii" world, "and 1" ! the trump ol larne makes seid m ooh > o! a nobler name" Por twenty years Kn rope stood, aghast bet?re thc wild i i I tim i ti lat on which flashed from his red artillery. Fiance became an ?rilluno of war. and ail mankind recognized and bowed before the e;<-n;i]s from Corsica \ cl was Napoleon's pii vate life blurred and stained by the darkest excesses. Ile did m>t h;,si tate to send forth from her high state the. woman who [rad loved him 'eng ere his fiar had reached its zenith The mindi r of the Duke d'Engheiri is a stain upon the memory of Napoleon His retreat from Moscow, where he had been de? tained by a loathsome a ?soase, t hc I loss of the great battle of Lvipsic, j the loss ?f Waterloo ure blasts upon ! his escutcheon. Waterloo might nol ' have b?en lost had Napoleon heh! ! Grouchy ::: C?ORC corrimin: teat :on and rthus prevented Blucher from falling upon his flank in the critical hour ot tlc (lay. The retreat from Water ! loe was I?:?? CI editable to Napoleon, ! ami history mu*t regard him as great in victory, but weak in advers- for? tune, whilst Gen Lee shone through the darkness ol tlc blackest night ami became in ruin ami defeat the errand apostle ol' that nobler courage which is proof against tin1 adverse arrows of relentless fate His words, when al! was lost, ring in the cars cf his surviving people and will be heard to the remotest posterity : 'Human virtue should be equal to human misfortune, and, oh, a thou sai d deaths were preferable to this but if we die what will become of the women and the children of the South ? We must go home and care for them, and *build up anew our ruined homes and till the soii, with profound submission to the will of God." These words, so indica'iv?' ! o? a mind attuned to the highest sense of duty, are in accord with ?he sentiment he impressed upon his young son. "That duty is the noblest word in the rCngiisb language The world resounds with the plau? dits given in most generous maimer I to Arthur Wellesley, tie' link" of j Wellington, ami well did this iron mah merit the praise he received I Vet must it be remembered that <?;? the great day o? Waterloo, at 1 o'clock i:i iii?' afternoon, he cried ont iti the great travail oj his soul : '.Won!'! to God that night or Blucher would eo??ei M lt must also be taken into consideration thal win le he '.vas opposed to the gratest soldier ol ?J'S j day, yet the army oj Napoleon B ma parle was composed larg'-ly >>\ boys, ami Nap-?icon himself was obese, un? sound iii health arel ovei conti.lent, and it must h<- afro remembered that I.i a ei ; : ;.-.;! I, .:).' o' ttie avilv rein! >rc.< bv ev! h.:;! courage loni been severely tested at Vittoria, Torres Ved ras and Ciudad Roderigo-all resources were avail? able to him - whilst Lee stood with a ragged army, half fed, half clothed and often barefooted, wit ' few re sources, in his rear, and with a country blockaded as to everv port : without manufactories of anns or munitions, [ ; and having only such supplies as he ! wrested from his enemy-yet, hurl ! ing back annies larger titan lu's own i until exhausted by the attrition of ! armed men Cat? there be any com \ j parison between these two : Uly ses j ; S. Grant coming from the West with I the reputation < f never having been j = defeated, (although on one or two oe ! j casions lie had approached singularly j ! near to that unfortunate condition, ,i with entire command of all the ! United State? : with his lieutenant,! Sherman, in the West cutting o IV sup I plies of men and materials or even j ? provisions from Gen Lee ; with an lanny outnumbering his opponent's ; on every field : with a disposition I I prodigally to expended the life blood j : of his soldiers, knowing that while j ; he could reinforce his depleted ranks, j ! his adversary - to usn his own words j ;-"had robbed the cradle and the i grave to organize the force he then ! j held in the field " Yet. notwith : j standing ali this, it is mattoe of his | ? tory, admitted to be true on all sides, j ; that from the day when, in the spring j of 1 SGI, Gen Grant appeared in | fr(,nt of Lee in the Wilderness. until ; the close o{ the campaign in i80J at j i Cold Harbor, Gen Grain lost more : men in killed wounded and missing \ I than Lee had in Iiis army, and it is absolutely true that, although Gen i Grant had announced his determina ? tion to reach Richmond on the line : he had taken up, "if it took him all j summer," yet he utterly failed to ; keep this promise, and the summer oi 186-J closed with Grant beseiging the j cities of Petersburg and Richmond j and constantly extending his left ? flank as fast as reinforcements came ; to him, whilst his opponent held a j weak line of thirty miles in length, ; with a force utterly inadequate. Gen \ Grant called to his aid the soldiers of fortune from all over the world, I and his country rewarded them with ; bounties which the South co? !d not : pay. lit summoned the engineering j skill of the miner and through the ? bowels of the earth ii" tunnelled a i path terminating between the bat j (eries ol his foe.. At daylight he ex ! ploded one 'nun.Ired inns of gun I powder beneath ihr- !;nes of hrs ad? versary and moved 5j>0'J men to j enter i ike a wedge into th14 crevasse \ thus made But when the morning sun rose on that beautiful Juin.- day j it reflected bach' the sei ene brow ol Robert Lee as he. with his full and en!i?e stall', rallied his soldiers, and, after a desperate conflict, reinstated his lines with immense slaughter ol (icu Grant's troops - a slaughter so ..?rea' that Gen Burnside was Court mart jailed for the- min brought to his division on that bloody day. That Lee was finally cnmpel'ed to surrender the remnant of bis army is no proof that Grant was tho greater general, and such has not been the vcr diet of mankind Hannibal stands to d^y immensely higher in the world's estimation than Scipio, who conquered him at Zima. The three hundred Spartans who fell at the Pass nf Ther uiopplae, upon whose monument is in? scribed ihese words : "Oh, stranger, fell it to the Lacedemonians that we lie here in obedience to her precepts ; have j done more to make the raun- of (.?reece j famous than all tin: glories sh''d I ar.'.utid thc plain of Marathon and the i Cape of Salamis " Ir is in the tins ot j adv. r-ity that the nature of man 1< purified and refined "The stubborn i lue?al of fi;;1 mme must hum before i's surface shine ' I? wa-; indeed in ! defeat and with a heart brok eu hy the m i> fort un es "<f hi^ countrymen that ? Gen. Lee reached the highest pinnacle -of his true great'i0:??;:. When the war ; was over tn was offered positions of ??rea.* emolument, In- would suuvr bis I uauie to tie used in any com inercia I eil ' lerp ri se, bur firm as gran:'" rock bc ' stood against all teaipta?i m, and dc I v :t! d thc ba!at: v ? : his iii-, so short, : to tio- education ol ri:-- you?h conn : rr y As fie' m em (?fr en dispels the cl iuds of a dari; rii^li- a:.?i >!:;:.es in placi? j r"-.v.ry, did rhcexatrph- -f Robert K. ? L .. cairn ?ii" storms :n the popular h'-ijf. ii T? ? : mad.; ol S ?Uth?rn tuen ?i?*?i*-? ! ? r o rash and d? re rat- , five ..x p-r.n'.'it.- ..' hu in i if y. of rc.-: ;.'t:a*ien and i . T* - r lt*- -.'* - r . ready ba the Crown Prince with a colossal my. and a ela-* of generals ann staff <'i? >crs without superiors oo farr h in their severa] lines of duty Opposed to i)ir?i was Bazaine, sinon adjudicated to ho a tr:?ir. . r ; McMahon, h g.>od soldier, ber who rushed upon the German advance a' Woerth before in- had realized that there were ?oldiers before him. who would shoot ar hi? troops through specraeles He had the Emperor Napoleon HI. an effete mon? arch, who rushed into war wi'h one of the strongest powers of Europe at the behest, of bis wife, and to save hi- tot? tering dynasty. Lives th? :e a ?nan in Europe cr America who for one moment believes that if Lee had had Von Moltkc's troops in perfect equipment, or Grands legions, fat and slt-ek, with ail the munitions of war: ?ives there a man, ? say, who docs nor know in his heart cf heart:-, that with such armies and such ?quipaient L^e would have marched in triumph across the conti? nent r Lat us not be, however, blind to the censure or deaf to thc cavils which have been heard as to our hero's generalship. Ir ha- been said thar Lie was worsted at Sharpsburg, or Antie? tam, as it is sometime-; called, and de? feated at Gettysburg. Lst aa look to this charge with candor Ir is a well known and recognized fact that just previous ro th" battle i-f Sharp-=burg a copy of Gen. L^e's ordc. detailing the proposed movements of thc army, which had bren sent to Gen 1>. (I. Hil! for his guidance, fell by accident or treachery info the hands of Gen George B. McClellan, commanding the United Staffs army. Any person of ordinary intelligence c tn estimate the immense advantage accruing to Gen. McClellan from this unfortunate a ec i dent, if accident ir h.-. Ir enabled him to move by inferior lines and counter-check j Gen. Lee's combinations; ir. enabled him to force an engagement while Gen. I L?e's great licutenS'i . Jack-on, wa-: a? ? Harper's Ferry. It is true that by ! forc:d marches Jackson came up, but : his troops w-rc worn and fangced I . . . n ; Notwithstanding al! this on the second I day a: Sharp-burg Gen. Lee proposed ; to Jackson to move areund rh- left ? fl mk of McClellan, (after crushing thai fl mk with artillery fire.) Jackson and . his chief af artillery differed wi rh Lee; I and deemed the position of McClellan j to be so we!; supported by batteries ? that it would he unsafe to make the i move Who can tell what would have been the re>ui? had-Jackson adopted ! L-.!.'?. views, as he did afterwards: in I the Wilderness, and af Chahcellors I ville ? Even af^r this brid move had : b> -n abandoned L?0 stood in ?nie ali dav cod awaited ar; attack bom i McClellan, which d: I not come. A j ivtro-ir followed, eur i" wa- nor a defeat, ' ami this notwithstanding the great pr?? pond?rance of McClellan's forces Ar Gettysburg success attended the arms of the South on the first two day-;, and on the third day Gen. Lee deer mined to arrack Gen Meade on Ceme? tery Ridge. That atrack wouid in ail human probability have sueeeded bad it received from (?ec. Longstreet that hearty support that Gen Lee had a right to expect. Pickett's division was j of Longstreet corps, and thc future j historien will, in all reasonable proba? bility, conclude that if Longstreet had accompanied the oharge in person and supported it with his whole corps and hi5 whole heart the result of Gettys? burg might have been different We have thus endeavored to show that the American soldier and Christian gen? tleman, whose birthday we this day commemorate, was a- pure a man and I as noble a character as history portrays. We n<uv propose to show what others ! thought < f our knight The morning j Chronicle, ot' Halifax Nova Scotia, in j < prober 14. 1870, contained a rao.-t beautiful tribute to tiri). L .'. inen I which we ex*ra:-r tin1 following: "Ah. i Sir Lau ncc lot."' he Mid. '.thou ;:rt bead I <?[ a? Christian knights/' "And n>>w. j I dare say," said Sir Kc tor, "fir':', S:r i liliane dor, there tho*j liest, thar tijou ! wert never marched ot earthly knight's i hand, and i h eu wert the cou rt li >si : knight thar cv :. i: ire shh hi. and thou i wert the kindliest man rh::: ever stroke ; with sword, and thoa wert the g>> ?d??.:--. ; person thu? ev. r came among press el knight*, and thou weir the meekest mit:, the gee Lest, that t vt-r ate rn ha j i wirb ladies, and thou wert the sternest knight to m.?.rtal foe rrVtr - io Co; M r; IV.Yrrhu; i ' ' VV ir !? ri our tr ii) ? bat Lui Napier, McMahon and Von Moifke. and thar A ru erica has also Sheridan. Sher? man ar?ii L ?ngstrec-f. but ail these men and their follow soldier- lack rho grandeur which wa- inherent in Lee. I.'.- every [articular he possessed thc requisites of a true soldier; he was brave : his whole military record and his lifelong .-corn of dancer alike bear testimony to his bravery." - mw mmm - A Remarkable Criminal. NEW ORLEANS LA, Jan. 19 -John I Johnsoo, the regro who butchered the . Colton family of five persons near Tick i faw, Tarigipahoa Parish, iu September j I last, and who has ever since been con- ; ! fined in the parish prison in this city, ! was taken :o Amite City this morning ; to stand his triai. Johnson is one of tho most remarka- : 1 bit- prisoners who wa- ever confined in \ the pariah prison. Ile speaks of his j j crime as if ir was an every-day occur- j I renee, and, white he does nor realize : the enormity of bis offence, he krmws j that he will bo unceremoniously I banged for what be bas done i ; He i- a fair type of the country ? i negro, lie is 18 years of age. of a low I order of in 'elligence.and and very black, i I Ir. has been expected that ha would bo ! ' i . i j lynched the moment ne was taken to ; I Tangipaboa Parish. A special from ; I Amite Cit'/ t.) the Daily States savs : J m J . J j John Johnson, in charge of a deputy sheriff, arrived here safe and weil on the 9 1" a. m. train. There wa- n>, j demonstran m on tbs trip here, though ; ar several stations crowds wer.: waiting ! to see hi;:;. A large crowd awaited I bim here Fie was rushed off to the j court hou*e, where be was arraigned. ! Three law-yeas were appointed ro defend ; bira Lie pleaded nor guilty to the b>e : indictments for murder. The ease was assigned for Friday. He will remain ! here until tried Lie implicates a white ; mar. State Press Association. The executive committee of the State Press Association mci here to-night. I: was decided that the annual meeting : w ;:;i 1 b? held in N rwbenry on May 25, ar S p m 1 bis i- the no;:r of tue hrs: I meeting. It is proposed to be in se? j -ion Until Thursday or Friday night i An invitation was'received from the j Harri- Li thia Springs Comnany ro : accept th . hospitalizes of Harri? ! Snring and t > attend a barque* there. j This will be on Thursday or Friday j An invitation was rece* vc J by ?ho e;: ! tire Association to visit the Te .rn es j sec Centennial ']i?xDosi*:on during th* ; men I li ". .'day. Other invitations came mi 'he Chamber cf Commerce, thc Governor of Tennessee, thc mayor of Nashville, too city council, tho hoard of publie works and the Press Club ro attend the celebration. These invira I lions were accepted, and thc Associa i - j ?ion will go from Newberry to Nash ? vi?e in a special car The exact route has not yet been selected The Hon. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta, was select? ed as orator for the annual meeting. An interesting programme wa- ar? ranged, and many valuable papers will be read, among them essays by Flitors Apppeit. Garlington and R. K. Hemp hill. Newberry proposes t> make the meeting nf the editors enjny. able and memorable. There were pres? ent a? the meeting M. 15. McSweecey, President H. H Aull, Secretary C G j Langston, the Rev. Si di lt Brown, R. ; R. Hempbili, Lmis Appelt, H. <?. I Osteen and John S Reynolds. The maror of a programme tor the trip will be arran?ed by Secretary Larrgs stmn a?ei President Aull -Columbia cr ir. News and Courier, Jan 14. A Popular Man m Tennessee. NASHVILLE, Tenn. January 21. T ' dav Kobe rt L. Taylor was i nan gu rated Governor ol Tennessee for the third time The inaugural cere? monies t .?.!< place- in the hail of tire House "t tveprirseritaiiues, beginning ;it li o'clock ami ending a lew min? utes after ic ion. The hail and galleries were crowd ed" The scats .m tin* floor id the !'[..us- wet- occupied hy tin- mem? bers < ?' i?, th branches cf the General Atsembly alni their {fiends, while iii-' ?ail'-ries were thrown open P< tin? ge ii ?*r al pir?iHc T?!-- l'ami from the Tennessee \ tc:ns!reu Ndioel was in lire gai lei V at the lc*: Of tin- Speak er's stami. an 1 the Imm! !i< m tin >. . <. : I-:A->ii v Commentiation of Gov. EHerbe. Gen. M. C. But'er Considers . Him Honest and Patriotic and Predicts Peace and Prosperity. To the State. WASHINGTON*. D. C , Jan. 20.-I cannot resist the impulse to say a word of commendation of the inau? gural address of Governor Ellerbe. It is most excelcnt in style and the tone and temper and matter of it is above criticism. Of course I do not agree with him in his endorsement of the dispensary. That institution is, rn my opinion, radically and fundamentally wrong; in principle, and indefensible in prac? tice, but Governor Ellerbe discusses it with the fairness and frankness of patriotic conviction and therefore w-ill command the respect and confi? dence of these who do not agree with him The address of Governor Ellerbe is in most refreshing contrast, with the screeds that have been fulminated by his imm?diat" predecessors, and the good people of the State are certainly to be congratulated on the improve? ment it: their chief executive officer, and the harbinger of a decent, digni? fied administration, wine's the recent inauguration promises. Lie Ou?ht to have the cordial port of ail good citizens, and. I will receive it Taxati >n has increased without, as it seems to me, compensative benefits commensurate with the increase. Public offices have been multiplied beyond the number needful fur good administra? tion, and sources of revenue have been recklessly impaired that might have been fostered and secured, but we have assurances now that the St it-1 government will address itself, patriotically, to bringing about hon? est reforms where evils are discov? ered, instead of fomentiug discord and inviting' antagonisms among tie people. I predict for Governor, Ltlerbe a prosp?rons, p race fui, h mest admin? istration, fur I kn >w him t > be a straiirht forward, honest arid capable m an. .?I. i> ;T?er. i. li": .,1 n t deposits. '.. in g shortly before il o'clock The bank owed depositors at its last re? port <?:i the 0?h instant, ?."?51.158, and its assets were $C?jl.i?*0. The failure was a great surprise LONDON, Jan lil.-The Globe pub? lishes a dispatch from Bombay, sent ont by a news agency, which says that three shocks of earthquake oc? curred on the island of Jvihrn in the Peisian gulf on Jan 15, destroying thousands of houses and kiHing 'J,500 persons. A majority of the House of Rep? resentatives has decided that Ivir. Tucker, of Virginia, shall retain his 6eat. Fifty three republicans voted with the democats The sch.-oner Nahum Chap?n, from Baltimore to Boston with coal, was lost within 300 yards, of shore near Quogue,Loiig Island, yesterday morn incr bine entire crew an i o ire wo? man and child were drowned. There were hundreds of spectators, but tro help could roach trie ship in the rug? ir;'': sea l.>it!.:> t1.: 1.J- -.vi; -i ;-r: !e of !!<;.< ?. & Co. .-. . . ' ' a . A hvrjre steck ot crt-:.- ..: .. ;. : .#1 roll: ---.-^z3> - o > - <ai .i - Tin* <. rainl? -t lit rn t-dj . .r; v?-rj te :! :t: nv? +'j?jt #*'*"*. Ijjf? fciX*fi S tin