Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ranfflaraizrafflmi^ a i[green 1 Do You Know \ i i {i On the above date, ? 1 CLEARANCE SALE. ffi I ji customers have told us tl | j this time. This Sale will j i you can supply your daily x J J We cannot, quote piices;iu u you come to our store. This will pay railroad fare and then make ?" r i . *n i _ _ __i j. _ I j you 11 tinct It Will De a pieasaui ail II This June Clearance Sale will ]! _/ . DOl Ij RUSH l! 1 ??~ ? ifflzizraraiUEffl^^ ???????? ?????? I III I I ? And it is to the opinion of the educated and cultivated that we must look far the exercise of influence to check extravagance in style, misuse of ' words, and absurdites in spellng1, in short ,to preserve our Mother tongue, Vnviich lanonmoro in its strength and simplicity and purity. This I conceive to be one of the most important and most pressing obligations of the educated; and I commend it to the" consideration of you young graduates. | x -" ' Study Southern History. Let us now consider another of the obligations of the educated, a duty which educated Southerners owe to their Southern home,?the obligation to study carefully the lessons of Southern History. Surely this " " ... ? ? 1'.. i- XL. LI is a subject peculiarly appropriate in addressing an auaience in xne m?,toric town of Abbeville, a town that will be forever memorable as the place where was held the first public meeting that voted for Secession, the place also where was held the last meeting of the Cabinet of President Jefferson Davis, the town that witnessed the birth and the death of the Southern Confederacy. At this point I cannot refrain from repeating to you the noble tribute paid to General Lee by Professor Iorsley of England, a gentleman a*nd scholar, an Oxford professor and withal a poet. He had published a new translation of the Iliad of the Greek poet, Homer. He presented a copy to ~~ " * ** * ? i ' ? 1 1*111 _ ?. V / iienerai lee, ana on rne ny-ieai ne naa written a ume p?em vi u?r? ?ci?u^ and touching pathos. The grand old baijd that never dies. Receive him in our English tongue! I send tfcee, but with weeping^ eyes v ' The story that he sung. Thy Troy is fallen; thy dear land Is marred beneath the spoiler's heel; I cannot trust my trembling hand ? To write the things I feel. Ah, realm of tombs! But let her bear This blazon to the last of time,? No nation rose so white and fair, * Or fell so pure of <*ime. The widow's moan, the orphan's wail Come round thee; yet in ti??th be strong: Eternal right, though all else fail, Can never be made wrong. ft An angel's heart, an angel's mouth, IT Am or'c nniilrl olnno frvi* ma I Sing well the great Confederate South,? Virgina first?and Lee. I offer no apology for repeating these lines. Could there be a finer tribute to the South than the couplet, > "No nation rose so white and fair, Or fell so pure of crime." These two noble lines deserve to be engraven on every Confederate monument, as, I am told they are on the Confederate monument in Aucuof.a. I The little poem came to General Lee shortly before hia death, in the ' vgj^ranimiininLnLnijr?,n Lninimanj^irjEnuiLnimrdr^ a nr/\AF\ r* i WUKJU W What's Going To Happen Tomom Saturday, June ISth at 8:30 A. M. For a long time we've had two a le last was best." We are determ center on seasonable goods iron ! needs at a great saving. o so, would require too much space?beside o onnnrtunitv to visit the "hustli L/Vy U O^/iVA iVAAVA ^ -money by answering this call. Get up a | id profitable day. last SEVEN DAYS, beginning Saturday tinuing until Saturday Night, June 25th. VT MISS THIS OPPORTUNE pin/\?nf in DKU1 nnj GREENWOOD, S, C. midst of the dreadful days of Reconstruction. No wonder that they deeply c touched the heart of the great Southern soldier. * n The fates have decreed that more than one difficult problem must a be solved by our Southern people, problems political, sociological, and even ethhological. The changed conditions brought about by the war between the States and bjr the bitter fruita of that war, have placed on the shoulders of educated Southerners a very grave obligation?perhaps of all obligations the gravest?to be the conservators of Southern histtory, and the a perpetuators of all that was good and worthy, high and noble, in the past of the South. u Two generations ago the volcanic shock of., war rent in twain the life t of the South, sundered her past from her present, and placed between them 1 a chasm of blood, deep, dark ,and seemingly impassable. During the ten 1: years thereafter our iand had no rest; social revolutions, civil commotions, s n* sii'an AnnrM?inn and trmmnhinc tvrannv. threatened, as t | wile vuoy&iiig u*?vi* ww.w.. ?f 0 -m W9 j with the ominous rumblings and heavings of an earthquake, to overturn c j and engulf the little that the war had left stand,ng, to make the ruin ir- c ! retrievable, to rend deeper and widier the bloody chasm, and fill it deeper r still with blood. I see among my hearers a few survivors of those who liv- r ed through those fearful years. They remember as I do that worse than c war time period. Small wonder is it that during those yeare of chaos, confusion and gloom, the South neither looked at her past nor regarded 11 her future. Small wonder is it that* stunned and bewildered in her match- J i less woe, and driven desperate by unequalled disasters, when the hearts t of men were failing them, and hope for a season bade the South farewell, 1 when a pitying world spoke of South Carolina as 'The Prostrate State"? 1 small wonder is it, I say, that the memories of the past were obscured and i well-nigh blotted out, and that the South shut her eyes to the hopeless I future. It is when the future is hopeless that the past is buried, and the t present is fraught with danger, and peril. The wonder is that the South < did not whelm this land in a sea of blood, and add to history a redder page c than the records of the French Revolution. 1 Happily the South has emerged from the darkness and the danger; she has passed from out the cloud; she now looks before and after; hope ( (broods dovelike on her brightening future; and her eye instinctively s glances back to her heroic past She has bravely endeavored to remove s the marks of desolation and with stout heart striven to rebuild the shat- i tered fabric of her national life. And her voice is to her educated sons i and daughters to preserve for her children and her children's children the ( history of her glorious past, the records of her triumphs, and her trials, 1 the story of the great things that were done for her by her worthy sons of t the olden time, the examples of the noble lives which crowned her head f with .honour, and endued her arm with strength, and made her history for- 1: ever memorable and ilustrious. t No New South. 1 Some there are among us who would have us believe that the past his- r tory of the South has no lessons for us now, no lighf*to guide nor beacon t to warn us, no voice for us to heed nor example for us to follow. They e even speak of a New South. They tell us that a new South has arisen with t which the old South has nothing to do and nothing in common; that, leav- r ing the dead past to bury its dead, we should turn our back upon our c 4- ond +nrn nil* -F?J/?PC tn llPT flltllTP. As Well {TO tell thfi t | y O lUObVAjr UlkU wubit v v.* ?? w _ mariner to leave the shore without chart or compaass and sail through un- t known seas. What can the future do^for us? It is a dark mysterious l region, hiding in it both gladness and sorrow, but giving us neither guidance o nor help. To the future we stretch out our hands in vain; in vain do we y call to it for aid; we see nothing in the darkness, we hear nothing in the v silence. What can the present do for us? Its innumerable voices are in- s articulate; its countless purp.oses are as yet untried; and its numberless ' p projects without form and substance; we are stunned by its Babel-like ULLING |fl nur luna 1 &lli? II 1 IMT; UUI1V 1V/U1* || ,| , we will open our JUNE >! j, i| iionr nn/j re-hontprlhi Mir !1 1 y vvii V4i ivi v|/vM?vv?b^ v%?t | a ined to compel approval !] if i eoeru debartment and !i I j, r ----7 ?, I! '1 ft 11 jM s, we want to surprise you when [ | J ng" city of Greenwood?you can | j aarty of friends and come over; I * ffi: .. \ - 11 ,11 I *3 Morning, June 18th, and con- I j 1 rvf I 1 RS CO. Ill ' 'II I 11 i! -1 . i ' ? lUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMUM laraour and bewildered by its confusion and unrest. To the past alone lay we look for help; to the past we must call to guide us; and is it deaf nd dumb? . , Ah no! the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrents fall And answer. - 1 i '_j 11--- - j:_i i. a Ati no: tne voices 01 me ueaasounu mie a uaiauc wucuta iau nd answer. It is the voice of the generations that are gone which alone has for is articulate utterance. The Voice of the past alone gives forth no uncer- ' ain sound. And woe be to that people who turn a deaf ea rto that voice, [he strength of Rome was sapped and her ruin came swift and sure when ler Forum was trodden by men who had forgotten or heeded not the tory of their ancestors, and who recked not of those mighty men of yore, he Consuls, Tribunes, and Imperators, whose valour and wisdom had :lothe8 Rome with power and majesty and exalted her to be the mistress f the world. And when prance, in one mad whirlwind of revolutionary tassion, demolished her socal and political fabric, and obliterated the ecords of her past, she began a career of experiments and theories, of loubtful successes and repeated failures, of which the end is not yet. Now look from France across the narrow channel and contrast her with Sngland. Great as England's history is, the outstanding fact in her his;ory is her fathfulness to her traditions and to the teachings of that hisory. Strong as England is, her strength lies in her wise conservatism, vhich enables her to undergo momentous changes with safety and accomilish revolutions without bloodshed. Her ruling principle is "the immemorial custom of England." This is the source of royal prerogative, of >arliamentary privilege, and of that just pride in the commons that makes he poor man's house his castle. This is the foundation of that British n-t notinnol 1if/? ond PiiQ+nm whirh nnlitical and even relieious ;UUl>lilUiigr vi uobiviMi ?**v * ?- v.wvvm. ... x w :hanges have never seriously affected. This is her supreme law, for England's Common Law is only the history of England. Shall, then, these Southern States sever themselves from their mem>rable past? Nay; let us take heed. Recognizing their obligations to preierve the records of the past and emulate its examples, let the educated ions and daughters of the South sit at the feet of their venerable mother ind listen to the lessons she teaches. It is high "time to learn those lessons, f, for example, we would maintain those State's Rights which the frames of our Constitution thought they had secured for us. It is time to ook across the chasm riven by the Civil War. The crimson cloud has disippeared that once hung over us and like a curtain divided the present :'rom the past. And now it is our hign duty, in xms caxm 01 peace, 10 go >ack into our historic past and save and perpetuate all that was precious here. Young men of the South^ yours is a grave responsibility. When you ecall the names of the great Southerners of former times, the statesmen, he scholars, the judges, the divines, the orators, are you not constrain:d in humility to ask, "Who is sufficient for these things?" If you would ?e their worthy successors, enter the picture gallery of the past and gaze everently upon their portraits. Bring those portraits forth before the olours grow dim and the lines fade away; hold them up to the admira. ion and veneration of your countrymen. Copy their example and adopt heir standards of lfe and action. Read and learn the record of those iU ustrious men who, born it may be in a log cabin, were touched in some ld-field school as with a live coal from the altar of Teaming, whose outhful hands alternate held the plough and thumbed the old gray book: rho paid for their college education out of the hard-earned savings of chool-teaching; who with toilsome step and slow climbed the ladder of' a ure and lofty ambition, till their brows were laurelled with honours, and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 4