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r Southern Soldier f By Hon. Th not Eloquent address delivered at gen Lancaster 011 Memorial Day by Hon. the ? Thomas F. McDow. tut Madam President, Ladies and Gen- wii tlemen: the I esteem it a privilege to speak to sco you on this Memorial Day, dedicated den throughout the Smith tn tlio w ? v?v imuivi; U6V of the Confederate dead. I shall use the l very little of the time allowed me in In < eulogizing the Confederate soldier, sov Others have done that better than to I eon ever hope to do. His fame is 1 secure and established, secure by Kei reason of what he dared and what the he achieved. We "Who," says Swinton, the North- tioi ern historian, "that ev6r looked upon ed it can ever forget that army of tat- f?r( tered uniforms and bright muskets, and that body of incomparable infantry, which for four years carried the re- I volt upon Its bayonets, opposing a SUP constant front to the mighty conceit- Sou tration of power brought against it, '"a1, which, receiving terrible blows, did ,n's not fail to give the like, and which, dial vital in its parts, died only with it-- ''hit annihilation." t'or At the beginning of the war the vob South was without an established and government, without arsenals- or stut factories, with no organized army or aaf< navy, and. from lirst to last, could * enroll only 600,noo men in her Hai army; with no credit among foreign ( nations, without recognition from 0,h any of the powers of the world, yet, ill the face of all these tremendous 11iei difficulties, it waged a partially sue ,ro1 cessful war with one of the most a r powerful nations of the world, rich I ir. all of the resources of war. with armories and arsenals, with an organized army and navy, and with an real army numbering, from first to last. as nearly three million men. P?8 The mere statement of these facts Nev luicver maniisni's (lie high quality Lot and character of tlio Southern Mil- the dier. The Macedonian Phalanx of t? 1 Alexander, the Tenth Legion of tri" Caesar, and the Old Guard of Na- live poleon never exhibited upon the hat- whl tlefleld higher qualities of endur- "?i ? ance and splendid courage than the ane Southern soldier, and his heroism ?f ( was only equalled by the loyal devo- sov tion and self-sacrifice of the Southern women. K??v ^ It is fortunate that we can now ^ discuss the causes which produced hut this fratricidal war without a trace ^'h< of bitterness. 1110 The students and scholars of the nbl; North are beginning, after a lapse of ( half a century, to do the South tardy nue justice .for many of their historians if v are now willing to admit that the the South had the legal and moral right niei to secede, and that slavery was an phi Incident and not the cause of the it 1 Civil War. cau Time has removed the clouds of all passion which obscured their vision, kee ana ineir judgment against the nitr South has been softened by a of knowledge of the fact that New bla England herself six times before son 1860 threatened to withdraw from for the Union, peaceably if it could, Son forcibly if it must; that Massachu- 1 setts boldly asserted the right of a tha state to secede as early as 1804, and enp again in 1811, when Louisiana yea sought admission to the Union, her in leading statesman, Quincy, then de- con ciaring "that the passage of the bill to to admit Louisiana would be a dis- as solution of the Union, and that it and would be the right of all the duty of tha some to prepare for a separation, woi peaceably if they could, forcibly if it v they must." leg In 184 4, when the annexation of pas Texas was under consideration, the 1 legislature of Massachusetts passed un< this resolution: "The common- tloi weath of Massachuetts, faithful to its lan compact between the states accord- Fis ing to the plain meaning and intent Am by which it is understood by them, is poi filncerplv nnvlnim f ,?? ? I v/i no \>l L'OCI >tt- |JIU tion, but it is determined, as it am doubts not tlie other states are, to Soi submit undelegated powers to no fed body of men on earth, and the pro- ext Ject of the annexation of Texas, un- yee less arrested on the threshold, may sla tend to drive these states into a dis- of solution of the Union." 5,1 Indeed, the right of secession was wh taught as one of the reserved rights rar of the state ut West Point by Chan- tio: ^5 cellor Itawle, and Charles Francis rat Adams, "a typical bred-in-the-bone thi Yankee," as ho describes himself to in be in his Centennial oration on Lee, of says: "Yet, when the notional Con- Soi stitution was framed and adopted, ' that question (the right of a state pei to secede) was confessedly left un- pol decided, and intentionally so left; abl and more than this, even, the fed- gr? oral Constitution was theoretically it and avowedly based on the idea of a if divided sovereignty, in utter dlsre- wo gard of the fact that when a false frc Issue Is presented sovereignty does No THE ? w ; abolished s rraised land reconi OS. F. McDow JSX ca! woniai named its permit of division. Two whole judgment lerations passed away between dition sset adoption of the federal Consti- the most ion and the War of Secession, cover. an ?!...? ..... V ?I.? 1 turn. UIUIYO UUl 111 ISO I I TJle trU last of the fratriers had been a I tho >j0rtli re of years in his grave, but evi- sjiarp coni ice is conclusive that until the terest exls ennium between 1830 and 1840 grcw until belief was nearly universal that other than case of a Anal, unavoidable Issue Tke gell ereignty resided in the state, and that the S it allegiance was due." conflict by The law was so laid down In the witliout f ltucky Resolutions of 1808, and to 0f gecessic law, as thus laid down, Daniel nook aml bster assented. This interpreto- plain peop l of the Constitution was follow- | PUitured v by so unprejudiced and acute a upon the sign observer as De Tocquevillo. mo8t jnti? I later by James Bryce of Eng- slrongly o i the Union, f further evidence is needed to sontiment port the statement that the the South ith had the right to secede. It 1 othe|. hon y be found in the following ad- | f() witlidra sion from Henry Cabot Lodge, the wag on,y ? Linguished senator from Massa setts. He says: "When the The Rl istitution was adopted by the Soutl1 1,1,(1 es of the states at Philadelphia, ,,(M'n ?l)(>nl accepted by the votes of the nUM,,:i' 'nw es in popular convention, it is ,,ou,,eed a 1 to say that there was not a man n rov< lie country from Woshington and ,an r,>a<l " liilton on the one side to George statesmen ton and George Mason on the r(a(hi,,K 1 er who regarded the new Consti-j e,,orl ttt <>G ion as anything hut an experi- i,m<1 been ' it entered into by the states, and j question 1? n which each and every state had wou,(l reni iglit to withdraw." j hor riglits lut tliis doctrine of state severe-'(,en,e<l l,('r ty lias later been attirnied liv both j0<1, n,ul f<)1 tublicans and Democrots. It was to Uirmed l>y James G. Blaine when, ecl equalit; Secretary of State, he took the T1 Ition, when certain Italians in then ask?( v Orleans were murdered, that 'n Peare. a tisiana was a sovereign state and rosu'l of '' United States could not lie made ,lo,,s. but, inswer for her acts, and the doc- i l,eve ,l is 1 ie of state sovereignty is today a an Indivldi issue in the state of California, I<llotate8 of cli now maintains tliat tlie ques-j,)0tter> a 1 i of the immigration of the Jap-1 su,Tor ('(>,G se is solely a matter for the state t,lis reasoi 'alifof-nin. to be dealt with in its -'n 'aw> hi ereign oapacity, without interfer- 'n withdra e on the part of the United Stat* < calling l'l?f ernment. homes and Authorities might be multiplied, No peop those we have quoted over- grander st slmingly maintain the legal and erty and t ral rigth of the South to peace- was withoi y withdraw from the Union. shame, am )f course, we are aware that this flags wer stion is now only academic; that home to vas settled hy the arbitrament of j homes am: sword, and against this settle-' tire Soirtli nt we have now no word of com- age and f int. It is important now only as trated the bears upon the justice of the hundreds ( se for which the South staked its | It has b and lost, and it is important to hour of th p these facts of history clearly in j was magn id, because it frees the conscience flowed, am our Deonle from anv taint of flced. Tin me or dishonor, and tor this rea- flowed was it may not be amiss to discuss >uth rec( a moment flie attitude of the ; ment is ii itli towards slavery. laid down fou have read in your histories a conquer* t England and New England were were plunc ;aged in the slave tratlic many former sit rs before a slave was ever owned (the native the South, and the supersensitive j tween the science of New England seemed former sir be in a state of profound torpor ; forced ot to the iniquity of the slave trade baynoets. I slavery until it was ascertained hat the S t slaves could not be profitably Union, it rkeil in New England, and while constructed vas engaged in the slave trade the Grant w islature of Virginia was busy Appomattt sing resolutions against it. to his mer n a very able paper on the Mis- United St lerstanding Between the Sec- his name us. Col. Robert Ilingham uses this every goo* guage: "We are told by John mattox. ke in his 'Critical Period of The pas lerionn History,' that further im- sure, tation of slaves into Virginia was "The vt ihibited by law as early as 1769, Lowell, "1 1 that New Kngland voted with delicate t ith Carolina and Georgia in the On a map eral convention of 1787 for an rover Ji ension of the slave trade for 20 Athens wi irs; that in 1827, out of 130 anti- of these fli very societies with a membership yot they si 6,625, 106 with a membership of action of 50 were in the South, and that terial succ He the South was working out its preliminai e problem of gradual emaneipa- The meas n William Loyd Garrison inaugu- reus is tin ed his abolition movement, and ed to the s, with the murders of Nat Turner the intelh Virginia, caused the disappearence tual hope every anti-slavery society in the kind." M< nth by 1839." South Cai The statesmen of the South at that The op riod of our country's nistory, in been quot Int of loftiness of character an.l minster 1 llity, compared favorably with the medical p atest statesmen of the world, nnd to theoloi is impossible not to believe that to literati the South had been allowed to rod. irk out its own race problem, free The ro >m Interference on the part of the statesmen rth, that it would eventually have it to sa: MWlllllilOTlillllfcffl fin' LANCASTER NEWS MA slavery with a due regard i with pri rest of the slave and of his ' spicuous ithout the horrors of war j upon tin struetion. by her i Pom's Cabin," written by a tive hal it ill-informed and fnnati- ledge, I i, set the North rrazy, in- and Mel passions and dethroned its State's p anil it? r?a ?nn Tli ? ' Wll- | UIMUMI I out in this book were, for j common part, false from cover to 1 ed by 1 leaders th is that the interests of | man 'J and the South were in years tli diet. The diversity of in- South fc iting between the sections ering i a settlement of the issues Hnian, ii i by force was impossible, ardent i leraliy accepted statement spotted outh was hurried into the ,,,c" emb rash leaders is wholly opinions nidation. The question ?rter of >n was debated in every 'aid to corner of the South; the,yard by lc as well as the rich and Pie. the vere thoroughly informed 51 'ii- rt>l Issues, and many of the in this n ential men in the South ?til had pposed the dissolution of Kershaw , but the overwhelming Jenkins, of the entire population of No ap was that there was no 51 nobler orable course left except were t ,w from the Union, which oivilizati i Union in name. izenship laraiueen rignts or in?> i < n<- i it the Constitution hud I fcderacy y nullified and the fundi- j love. ha of the land had been do- ' Hitli a s "a league with death never < { mailt with hell." No one ,,,(1 hav le debates of our Southern ' true 1 during that period witliout '"er and lie eonelusion that every have ma meiliation and compromise heroes o exhausted, and the sole j They' h;i 'ft was whether the South marble j uin in the Union and have the virti under the Constitution ; dlers of , her just demands refus- on all oc an indefinite time submit measure y and insult. She demand- "ty nol y in tlie sisterhood of'the doo< lis was denied her. She ' federate I to he allowed to depart j from th< nd this was refused. The | ish the t ler action proved disas- ' love of c for my own part, I he- J The < the duty of a nation, as of I by the ( ral, to act according to tie* j to the 1 its conscience; that it is after tin thousand times better, to to his i at than dishonor, and for ; dust. 1 the South was justified 1 repe morals and in conscience reason o wing from tlie Union and achieved >n her sons to defend their \ It is l firesides. j Day all ?le ever made o nobler or j s,,ould truggle to obtain their lib- Iove to heir rights. Their failure i t,le,r ?r lit any taint of dishonor or ')l1' 'f H 1 when at last their battle- i orial 1)8 e furled and they eame j sion for rebuild their dismantled to Go(1 I broken fortunes the en- Patriotis exhibited the same cour- I co"rage ortitude which hod illus- ple of 1 valor of its soldiers upon ^i,r- I 3f battlefields. I sfon for een contended that in the ,rv in 8 e South's defeat the North to t,,e h animous, that no blood our Peo d that no lives were saeri- fftctiona i statement that no blood time an ? true. The state that the ! c?tlon c elved magnonimous treat- ni?tion lfamously false. After it moral * its arms it was treated as onr P?? 3d province. Its people ! ,1,e occt lered and oppressed by the 8r'ence ive. the carpetbagger and concept I > renegade. Equality be- j ai,(1 white master and the 1)e w?rt ive was sought to be en- look fo the point of United States tree an Contending tor four years ! an<1 str outh was never out of the 11111(1 to 51 nevertheless had to be re- ! 0(1 an<1 d into it. tains to - nrnftnori as magnanimous to l.ee at ^ )x, and for that all honor vvor"1. s nory. As President of the 'n,el'ecl ates, his conduct covered I with shame and wiped out ^ Re< :1 thing he did at AppoJ it of South Carolina is se- Two down, n ilue of a country," says fered ft is weighed in scales more ,)'e' ^hl han the balance of trade. i of the world you mov Kilmer' idea with your thumb, am in th a tlngertip, and neither nU)st a? .... . using ti gures in the prices current, rel|eve<l lilt live in the thought and i cheerfu every civilized man. Ma- and hoi ess is good, but only as the py of better things. The ure of a nation's true sue- Swor: e aniuont it has contributthought, the moral energv ?etual happiness, the spiri- i i ond consolation of man- J ^ ^ jsasured by this standard, | Blnjcli olina has nothing to fear, r inions of her Judges have prove ^ ed with approval in Westiall. She has given to the Send irofession J. Marion Sims, Co., Bii gv the great Thornwell, *)ze boj . , ,V on wi ire Sims, L.egare and Tim- I vajuabj the kid ill of her distinguished ing, he is too long to call. Suffice ?*ster y, that our hearts thrill 1 pt Y 14, 1915^ de as we remember the con- Ciivi i part played by our people j Fountain Inn Trib e battletlelds of America and j Friday morning repesentatives in the legisla- into my shop and I in the golden days of ltut ; Kaeh asserted thai Mnckney, Laurens, Lowndes, 1 members ot his eh )ullie. In that period of our tlieir duty, glorious Past her people were Always and evei >y a common pride and a complain because i love of country and animat- give as they should a common purpose. Our | jS cause of compl were not only masterful , would be no cause ut patriots. For forty bership was confin e highest aspirations of the i told this truth < Mind expression it. the tow- that a man spends ntellect of the great t'aro- tilings lie lov~r.. W 11 his unyielding courage, his there his money g latriotism, his pure and nr.- hjs wife, he spend life and character, tie was .. r pleasure. If odiment of the thought the overmuch, he spem , the principles and tlichar- own pleasure. If the South. W iien he was tohnecn imp?? * > rest in St. Phillins church clothes?no matter a stricken aiul devoted peo- in> spends his mom type of man of which he was There are no ex< jresentative was not extinct nature is a fixed loble old commonwealth. We labors for and spen with us the lion's brood. ( the things on whicl - and Wallace, llagood and heart. Hampton and the Hask'dls. Christians, I tak? ;e or country ever produced to jove tjle Lord. ' or a knightlier race. They ;l ma? s love for t lie representatives of our sincerity of his pro on and tlie types of our cit- ianjty |)V the waj Lord?not by the 'nited Daughters of the Con for some are ri?*li a , by tlieir unselfish labor of but by the amount vo laid upon the men of the portion to his mean debt of gratitude they can love the Lord, at in cel. They are collecting ing to the Lord's w e collected the material for | the truth isn't iti li listory of the Southern sil- That's a hard s the Southern people. They truth is hard, rkecl the graves of the fallen Not all men who f the Lost Cause everywhere. Christians, for son ive reared monuments of personal eTlvi uid granite to commemorate out of it. les and the valor of the sol- ( Hut of this you i the South. Everywhere and i No genuine Christ casions they have more than j nets or forgets to d up to the full standard of i to God's work and ily done to the living and to it follows, then, 1. The memory of the i on- day, that church ni soldier can never perish nothing are not 3 earth as long as men elier- therefore belong ,-irtue of courage, honor, and discipline they n< ountry. conversion, leeds of heroism performed | _ _ 'onfederate soldier will live ^ Pantile o iterature of all lands long , Adair ( Ky.) Count ? granite monuments erected m . , . , . . Then shall tlie 1 nemory have erumhled into he likened unto a , ? . . ., . . seed. which tho at that his tame is secure bv , ... . , . ..." small, was cast 111 f what lie dared ami w hat he . sprang up and gre1 ..... ... .. , ... . . a great and in i k h t fitting that 011 this Memorial _ ., , forth rank and over the South our people .1 1 n . ? every side insomut ;ather to pav their tribute of , . , , vile worms found a his memory and to deeorat aves with choicest Mowers, ., . ., , ,, And it came to 1 eems to me that this Mem.... ... ot men looked upi iv should he made the occa. . ... , thought it beautiti deep and reverent gratitude . .. .11,. , ... , ly desirable to ma tor the lofty ami unselfish .. .. and manly. And tm, as well as the supreme ... .... . , ... forth their hands which characterized the peo. o .1 1 . .1 /-.11. chew the same. A he South during the Civil ... . . sick, and some it m t ougli to be made the occa..... , others it caused to awakening the love ot coun.. . . , .. v. And it came ill our hearts, for appealing . . . , .. . , were all taken w iigher and better instincts of . . , , , , , mighty spitting, in pie to cease from petty anil , . . ., . . . .... did spit even 111 tl 1 striie, and to devote their .... . . ,. .1 and in the House d their substance to the edu... . . Hosts. And it fur it nnr ptti7??nghtn t inn **?"> ' and advancement of thol,"at ,,ie-N ,)eramo v ind spiritual welfare of all j ?n?>miich that the; pie, that it should be made not <|Uit t,lis 1 ,lf> islcn for quickening the con- ! of our people into a higher Ion of civic and religious life, j Ij I I mi this is (lone our future will 1^ I liy of our past and we may rward to a South Carolina d emancipated from discord a(Uj womcn 15 Ife among her own people. Rkcjistkr, 506 "l 1 l citizenship educated, cultur- | enlightened from the moun- ?~~" the sea. rich in material < ty. gloriously rich in moral < sublimely rich in spirital and :ual greatness. < * , al Kidney Medicine? Always Reliable. years ago I was badly run I ^ iot able to do any work; suf- ? om nervousness, heart trou- If* ney and bladder in had shape, j / I w tite, unable to do .any work; I ce using six bottles of IJr. ?; s Swamp-Root, I feel fine; ( yvvi excellent health and can do I f I f \j j ly kind of light work. Since1 1 he Swamp-Root I have been | J , i 01 an nit; auovtt irouDies. 1 ivu i / lly Rive the above testimony, >e others may be benefited. U . ' J/fc Very truly yotirs, V\ \ \ /(r^C J. L. DICKSON, / V>^ Westminster, S. C. ' ?J ' n to before me, / S. L. BROWNLEE, / ? M~[<. \? Justice of the Peace. / J vetter to l' .timer A Co., | j aniton, X, Y. I I < > .Vhat Swamp-Root will Do for J | You. <, ten cents to Dr. Kilmer's &| lghr.mton. N. Y., for a sample i ;; ttle. It will convince anyone. ' 11 also receive a booklet of e information, telling about ! neys and bladder. When writ- wi mm sure and mention The Lan- M MJ JJ Ngws. Regular fifty-cent and JLj* llt M\ lar size bottles for sale at all | ores. lt 11 4 I mm* ?g. slaved." V une. But others took of the plant and two men came "'tnningly wrought it into rolls and talked of givint. 1 set tire to one end thereof, and t the majority 01 1 such vehemently at the other ureh fell short of an ' did look exceedingly grave ' ! calf-like, and the smoke of their ywhere, church* s i orinent ascended nn forever it?i men be' v vju not ever. . Doubtless there And still others took of the plant aint. Hut there and did grind it into fine powder, i if church mem- and did stow the same away in holed to Christians, ties and boxes, and it came to pass 0 be self-evident; that the matrons and the fair maidt money for the 'tis of the land did procure these rliere his heart is, bottles and boxes, and did take oe3. if he loves sticks and did chew one end thereof. Is tuoDRv to give and did thrust the same into the fine he loves himself powder, and did rub vehemently [Is money for iiis across their front teeth and the yelhe love whiskey, '<>w juice did run down the corners eatres, chickens, of their mouths. what ?t may be. And it came to pass that the tratiic >y fo -it. in tobacco became a great and migh'eptions. Human business in the earth, insomuch quality. \ man j that the merchants waxed rich thereids his money lor 011. And it came to pass that even 1 he lias fixed his I the poor took the money witli which uiey snouiu ouy oread, and snoes and ? it, are supposed books, and clothing for their ehildi'ou may measure ren, and did rpend it for tobaeeo. he Lord end the And the thing displeased the Lord Cession of "Ihrist- and lie said unto them "Turn front r he gives to the your abominations and from your amount lie gives, filthiness, cease your puffing, spitnd some are poor, 'inn and chewing, convert your tohe gives in pro- ha ceo fields into wheat-fields and is. He who claim stop all this wast id yet gives notli And they all with one eon set t ork. is a liar, and cried out an 1 sa 1: ' v.- cannot; we im. are enslaved." aying. but most give liberally are q . , . ft f ue men give >0: OWISll! bOMIS (lOIlO! s We Use "GETS-IT!" nay rest assured: iau refuses, neg- 2 Seconds, 2 Drops ? Corns Vanish ! give what he eatl for everybody with corns, thero Is In Cod's imnr every drug store In the land 0110 of the ' ' real wonders of the world, and that's as tin night the "GKTS-IT" for corns! It's the ltrst and 1 em hers who give Only corn-cure 1 vvr known that removes y plant and shot V ^k broad leaves on ?*^//wS5^^ ^ \ ^VS h that huge and St*vS ^ habitation there"Some Fo*y Trot, M'amiclle. What? Corn* Cone? Ye?, 1 U*cd "GETS-IT."" ,?ass that the,soi; ; any nnd every corn or callus without fall, on the plant and without fussing with thick bandages, toe il and ovcpimIiuc harnesses, corn-swelling salves. Irritating ' " ointments. It's applied In 2 seconds ? ike lads look big Win*, blng?2 drops, tho work Is done, the so they did put corn shrivels up. your corn agony endg J ' and tho corn leaves forever I All the and did take and limping, tho pulns that dart to your ind some it made heart's core, tho crucifixion of having to wear shoes over 6creaiulng corns, the lade drunken, and danger of blood poison from making them vomit most filth- bleed by using knives, razors and scissors ?are gone at last 1 "GETS-IT'-is the new to pass that they way, tho sure, simple, painless wuy. Try it li a great and It *or corns, calluses, warts and bunions. #"GETS-1T" Is sold by druggists everysoniuch that they where, 25c a bottle, or sent direct by E. tie padies' parlors Lawrence a Co., Chicago. s of the Lord of 0 . . . T . , , j hold in Lancaster and recommend-! tlier came to pas; ,-eak and unmanly 0,1 as ,he wolld's b?8t Corn Cure by| v said: "We can tll,> Lancaster Pharmacy and J. F.j wing; we are en- Mackey Company. ?. 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