Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TT VUU\/kJVCUJ 9 Aixwj -v, ? A VINDICATION OF THE SOUTH c s (Continued from page two) c r. out of every 110 in the South. Of v these pensioners New England had 3146 more than were in aftl the a South; and New York two thirds as t many, though she contributed not t one seyenth as many men to the a war. These are authentic historical o fnrfR. and are not presented bv way " of recrimination, but to establish t equality and justice. p History also shows that the num- s ber of those in the North, who were n opposed to American Independence, was far greater than in the South. a George Washington in a letter t from Cambridge to a friend, telling 1 of the lack of powder, and arms, I and money, said: "These are evils, e ^ but small in comparison with those s wbich disturb my present # repose, t Our enlistments are at a stand. The g fears I ever entertained are real- v izod, that .is the discontented offi- h Wall paper cannot be satisfy because of the somewhat rough si any room comfortable and homeli a velvet-like texture to walls, ceilii It is easy to clean all surfac because they can be washed with We recommend Velour Finish easiest way to obtain thoroughly see the great variety ot tints you p. b. s ABBEVIL I K j ^ j||^ [i On a hoi [I "B |1 In additioi IJ keeping of y I ] patented, bu I abundance o E J impurities ca | ] AUTO [! is a blessing, II conscientious EI fitting doorsS ly insulated S INSURE A S COLDNESS rtj tomatic cir S] vents the m flavors a n [ j PERFECTL I ] FOOD, tas r 1 best. h I j You simp] Zj Automatic b } j your refrigei 1 W. A ^ErareiaiEJEJiiiiiPJU7j!jr. ? ers have thrown such difficulties or tumbling blocks in the way of reruiting that I no longer entertain hope of completing the army by oluntary enlistments. The refection ,pon my situation produces many n rnensy hour when all around me re wrapt .in sleep. To be plain hese i eople (New England) are nor o be depended on;" and he advised ppealing to their cupidity by the ffer of large bounties, for he adds notwithstanding all the public vir ue which is ascribed to these people, there is no nation under the un, that pays greater adoration to lonev than they do." Nearly a quarter of a century iter Washington penned at Cam ridge the letter quoted above, Wiliam Ellery Channing wrote from lichmond these words: 'I blush for ay own people when I compare the elfish prudence of a Yankee, with he generous confidence of a Vir;inian. There is one single trait rhich attaches me to the people lere, -more than all the virtues of I 1TTT1 I K j sssssMi law I i 1 - - f? ?_L r An auracuve noun for wall board ^ The artistic paneled effect of wall board may be made even more attractive and more substantial-looking by applying LOUR FINISH ictorily applied to wall board, irface. Velour Finish will make ke. It is an oil paint that gives lgs and woodwork. :es painted with Velour Finish soap and water. for all interior work; It is the sanitary walls. Come in and may select from. iPEED BIEfgraililiUHIiSiaiBfiUEnB t day you'll say (less that water n to its 100 per cent, sei our food, the Automati lilt-in water cooler, givei f drinking water that n ,n reach. The MATIC Refrig" too, for its economy o 5 workmanship put into i ?its thorough8-p)y walls? CONSTANT , while the auculation prerixing of food Q d INSURES ? ?EPT /TP ting its very f | y must see the lefore you buy lliTjjg rator. r u CALV1 HaaaaaaagBiaaa i' . - . _ _ _ New England,?they love money less than we do; they are more disintered?their patriotism is not tied to their purse-strings." "These people of the Southern colonies,' said Edward Burke, the great British statesman, "are much more strongly, and with an higher and more stubborn spirit, attached J - ?*' ?? il J-1 T?0 IlDCrty LII<iii liiu&c i>u mc iivi wi" ward." "The gallantry of the Southern men has inspired the whole army," wrote Adjutant-General Reed (of New Jersey,) after the Long Island Campaign of 1776. During the recent meeting of the Confederate Veterans at Chester, S. C., an address was delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford of Athens, Ga., formerly Historian General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. After speaking in glowing terms of her magnificent address, Judge J. Fuller Lyon, (one of Jackson's bravest soldiers) described to me the thrilling effect upon the veterans., when she stated that she had an apology to make to them. She said that some time ago, in delivering an address in Washington, she made the admission that it was best, that the South had not been victorious; that she now felt she had made a mistake which she promised not to make again; that she felt sh& had done them, and the cause for which they fought, a great injustice, and asked them to forgive her. Their applause was tremendous, and attested the fact that they deeply appreciated her touching words, and willingly forgave her. A Kofaninni tn .TllHvP LvOn it ZXXVC X *WWV1I.?6 VW 0~ occurred to me, that this would be an appropriate occasion to show, that the admission in her Washington address, was unjust to the cause for which we fought, and Miss Rutherford was right in withdrawing her words. We do not wish to be misunderstood in the remarks which we shall make. There is unanimity among the people of the South, that the abolition of slavery was one of the greatest blessings, that could have befallen us. If the South had been victorious the indications are, that slavery would have been abolished by the consent of the Southern people themselves. The abolition would perhaps have been gradual, but it would have been accomplished in a few years after the war. We would thus have been spared the days of Reconstruction, when the United States Government committed a racial crime unexcelled in the history of the world, by placing as far as it was able, and at the point of the bayonet, a portion oi its own white citizens, under the political heel of an inferior race, that bad just emerged irom slavery; especially when we remember, that the North introduced the system and sold the slaves which they imported, in order to make money out or them. . It must not be forgotten that the theory of the North was, that the Southerners had never ceased to be citizens of the United States. ' I % Next ij ~ I? ir^ ! mm |i ;j cooler" i! rvice in the [ ] ic, with its 11 5 a constant I j .0 odors or {I ij erator j i f ice. The !] :t?its tight- [ I i! ii _fi i| ?S=r \ I! [i ERT jj mraraiHiajmiiiJaiEfaiM The result which the North contemplated was, for a time, carried into effect as we shall proceed to show. General James S. Pike was sent by President Grant in 1872 and 1873 to investigate and report the status of affairs in the South. He made a report and afterwards wrote j i a book, entitled. "The Prostrate State." . In speaking of the officials j then in power he says: "It is the dregs of the population j habilitated in the robes of their intelligent predecessors, and asserting over them the rule of ignorance and corruption through the inexorable machinery of a majority of numbers. It is the barbarian overwhelming civilization by physical force. It is the slave rioting in the halls of his master, and putting that Master under his feed." "The rule of . South Carolina should not be dignified with the name of Government It is the installation of a huge system of brigandage. The men who have it in control, and who now have it in control, are the picked villians of the community. They are the highway; men of the State. They are pro" i 1 kL.? ' iessionai legituuuve jtuuucio. iuc; ; are men who have studied and prac1 ticed the art of legalized theft. They ; are in no sense different from, or ! better than, the men whp fill the ; prisons and penitentiaries of the ' world. They are, in fact, of pre' cisely that class, only more daring ; and audacious. They pick your ' pockets by law. They rob the poor and the rich alike, by law. They con' fiscate your estate by law. They, do 1 none of these things even under the tyrant's plea of the public good or ' the, public necessity. They do all 1 simply to enrich themselves person1 ally. The sole, base object is, to ' gorge the individual with public plunder. Having done it, they turn ' around and buy immunity for their [ act by sharing their gains with the ignorant, pauperized, besotted crowd ; who have chosen them to the stations they fill, and which enable them thus to rob and plunder. It is 1 a hybria, born of unnatural con1 nections, offensive alike to ' God " and man." 1 Parenthetically, we may remark that the civilization of the South, ! would have been destroyed, and we [ would have sunk to the level of Mexico and the Antilles, if it had not been for the bravery and wisdom I of the South, in daring to organize the Ku Klux. The mysterious workings of that organization frightened the negroes, kept them indoors at night, and checked them in their carnival of lawlessness. There could not be a greater contrast between the people of the South, when they were under the political heel of the negro, the scalawag and the carpet-bagger, and the political power they now possess. Ristnrv shows that the South re cognized the immorality of slavery 1 long before it seemed to prick the conscience of the North. Vrginia, it is well known, in the year 1784, ceded to the United States?then united only by the original Articles of Confederation? her vast possessions northwest of the Ohio, from which the great states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and' part of Minnesota, have since been formed. In 1 1879, before the adoption of the Federal Constitution, tne celebrated "Ordinance" for the government of , this Northwestern Territory, was i adopted by the Congress, with the { full consent, and indeed at the ex press instance of * Virginia. This j Ordinance included six definite "Articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said Territory," which were j to 'forever remain unalterable un- , less by common consent. The sixth of these Articles ordains that "there shall be neither slavery nor involun- ' tary servitude in the said Territory, , otherwise than in the punishment of | crimes, whereof the party shall have , been duly convicted." ' . tu- Kill +? ollnw ? slave-hol IX lie IIIOO kj AAi wv ff * ^ der to free his slaves was introduced ! by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson urged that a provision < be inserted in the Declaration of ; Independence, that the slave trade be forbidden. John Adams, of Mas- ] sachusetts, was opposed to such a provision. A committee of five Virginians? ( Jefferson, Pendleton, Wythe, Mason and Thomas Lee?was appointed to revise the laws and prepare all 1 slaveholders in the State* for the gradual emancipation of their slaves, i Thomas Jefferson advocated that ' /all slaveholders free their slaves by 1 [gradual emancipation, as soon as " 1 **? 1? MiooAiiri 1 possiDic, ior, oy uic iuioovui.* wm. promse, where a State's right was interferred with by other states, he < saw plainly that the day might 1 come, when sudden emancipation < i would take place, and he said "hu- ' man nature shuddered at the pros- i pect of it," but he thanked God he 1 would not be alive to see it. George Washington urged the gradual emancipation of his slaves, I and freed them by his will, and told < Thomas Jefferson he wished that all slaves could be freed. 1 George Mason believed in emancipation and freed his slaves. < I John Randolph, of Roanoke, freed 1 his slaves and bought territory in ' Ohio, where they might reside after their freedom. < Henry Clay advocated the gradual ? emancipation of the slaves. i Gen. Lee and his mother believed in gradual emancipation and prac- ] ticed it. ' J Jefferson Davis when in the U. S. < Senate, urged that a plan be made < for emancipation, that w*ould be best for the slaveholders. . There were in the United States < at one time 130 abolition societies? 1 106 were in the South?and 5-6 of mom hers, were South em slave- 1 holders. < The Abolition Crusade which began at the time of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and which 1 reached an intense pitch in 1839, ? caused Southern men to withdraw 1 their membership in abolition societies. i This statement, together with i what we have already said, shows 1 that the Soutuh for years had been 1 preparing for the emancipation of ] I rS??!SS???ES?^ I i | GRADUATING TI I Have you seleci one who will gr Come in and I Jewelry for th< ent. You wil want in this erf " ? CJ~ ' W. E. JOtW Abbev Jr^i a InYour m iviaKe youi show some he* H pay-day. The man tematic savings hab wk prosperity and h Whynotfigur much you cc every pay-d your savi by op< accoun On Safety?HonestyTk^ Not; A 11V A 1 Ull' Abbev the slaves. If the South had beei victorious, there is no doubt tha slavery would have been abolished The emancipation would have beei gradual, and as said by Presiden Lincoln, tha]; would have been tb best plan. If the South had been successful it would be an injustice both to th North and the South to suppose tha they would not have had the wisdon and the patriotism, to act for th best interests of the entire countr; as they did in 1787, when the Unitei States Constitution was adopted and when they adopted the Declara bion of Independence. I am satisfie* that if the North had been willini to pay for the slaves as they wer gradually emancipated the Soutl would have consented to such ai arrangement. It was wrong for th North to insist upon the abolition o slavery, and to. refuse to make com xi-- xt- -i . pensauon iur trie aiaves wniuu nm been recognized as property evei by the Constitution of the Unite< States by Congress and by the Unit ed States Supreme Court. In order further to vindicate th South from the untrue assault upoi it by the Enclyclopedia, we wil mention a few of its leading men who have taken part in the buildinj of the Nation. When this country went to wa with Great Britain,in 1776, Georg Washington was selected as th commanding General. He was elect ed President of the Convention tha adopted the United States Constitu tion, and was the first President o: bhe United States. He is popularl; Irnnnm na "TVio Pnfhpr nf TTifl flnun try." Thomas Jefferson?the world'i greatest democrat?was the autho: oi the Declaration of Independence. James Madison is known as th< Father of the Constitution. John Marshall, the great expoun Jer of the Constitution is concede< to be the greatest Jurist of th< LJnited States. Calhoun, Webster and Clay are re Cognized as three of our greates statesmen, two of these?Calhoui ind Clay?were from the South. The verdict of the world is tha' Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jack son are beyond question, the great ;st Generals the United States ha: iver produced. General Carl Schurz said, that ii Fackson had not been killed, th( ihances were that the North woulc lot have been victorious. The greatest Presidents of the LJnited States were Washington, Lin :oln, Jackson, Jefferson and Wilson. All were born in the South. The genius of the war with Greal Britain in 1812 was Andrew Jack ? ? "*1*A rt nfffinnror/la >UI1, wuv wao aib^i no?uu viwwv President of the United States. Ex-Speaker Cannon in speaking for the Lincoln Memorial, on th< loor of Congress, stated that wher ;he impartial verdict of history shal je written the great men of th< period from the Bevolution to th? V / ME IS NEAR 111 ted a gift for the loved 1 aduate in a few days? ook over my line of 3 most desirable pres1 surely find what you ;at stock. Come today . (SON, Jeweler ille, S. 0. Savings : omm uuuk h ^ H idway for every who cultivates a 8y8- H, ) ;j|l >it when young reaps ";v :i|| appiness when old. ' }]|| e now just how K >uld put away [ay, then start ings system ;ning an t with us pay-day. -Courtesy?Service Mj onal Bank illeS.C. n present time would be Geroge t Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Rob- -v^i I. ert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, all' "$ a born in the South. _ ^ * When the people of the United. V ? e States met to celebrate the centen- y nial pf the Declaration of Indepen l? dence, Sidney Lanier was selected' ' . f ? to write the poem for that occasion. r T?_ r if?:? o: lji. u. iuanuii oiiiu, a uauvc ux ., v 1 South Carolina, the great physician -j e who began in Lancaster, S. C., that ' , ^ 7 career, which brought him world- Vj j* wide fame, and honors from the crowned heads of Europe, was the~ only physician and surgeon, who ever J lived, possessing a reputation so ? great, that he could commend a lu? crative practice in any capitoT of the ? civilized world, as soon as his arrival I was known. , . : v, ? Dr. Crawford W. Long of Georgia* * was the first to use sulphuric ether - to produce anesthesia in surgical 3 operations, and whose statute is in . II the Hall of Fame. 1 Dr. W. C. Norwood of South ^ < Carolina, discovered the therapeutical effects of veratrum viride in e controlling the action ofthe heart. v> 1 n William Gil&nore Simms and Ed* .. 1 gar Allen Poe.are now recognized throughout the world, as ambng the g greatest novelists and poets. TUa "M" AmM non o-ffoTWor/la XUC i'iV-1 X Jiiuv i*jiwinM<.viw wu?w r tened "The Virginia," was the first e iron-clad war vessel; ' and tbe plan B of converting her into an iron-clad, i_ was devised by Lieutenant Brooke Qf t the Confederate States Navy. The origin of the torpedo and ,; f U-boat dates from the experiments Y made by the Confederates on the_ Potomac July 7, 1861, and was first ; appreciated by Gen. Beauregard in s command at Charleston in March r 1863. where it was developed, and became the precurseor of the boats ; g now universally used in the navies , of the world. . , 1 On the 26th of February, 1917, ' 1 Col. D. W. McLaurin, a brave Con2 federate soldier and State land agent, wrote an account of the first . effectve work accomplished by a t submarine in the sinking of a Federi al war vessel off Charleston Harbor, from which the following facts apt pear: "The port was at that time . blockaded by the Federal fleet. The . U. S. S. Housatonic, a war vessel, 3 carrying eleven guns, was a member of the blockading squadron. She f was sunk by the Confederate sub; marine 'Hundley', on February 17, | 1864. During that day Col. McLaurin with another member of his > regiment, was requested to go on . board the 'Hundley' to fix some machinery. They went aboard, ad iiiafofl tlio mnr?VnriP'ru\ rptnrned to t their command, and that night they . learned that the 'Hundley', with a I well-directed torpedo, had sunk the Housatonc. The 'Hundley* herself r sank from a cause which has never ? yet been ascertained. After thft i war the submarine was found on 1 the bottom of th'e ocean, close to ? (Continued on page six.) / i - ' . .li.i v"t