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i* GEN. ROBE Address By Dr. H. W. E January 1 Confederate Veterans, Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy; La dies and Gentlemen: I received an invitation a few days ago from your distinguished citizen, Col. 0. L. Schumpert, to be present and deliver an address on this occas ion. I need hardly say that I appreciate most earnestly so distinguished an honor; and I wish to make due ac knowledgment for it. When I re ceived, and accepted the invitation to be present and address you at this hour,: I did so, with serious misgiv ings, because of my own conscious li mitations to do justice to the occas ion. An occasion which calls to mind the advent among men of one of Amer ica's greatest soldiers and purest, Robert E. Lee. Mo,reover, these occasions will for ever be the solemn reminders to the living of the patriotic and unselfish devotion of the dead; the dead, whose deeds we cherish as one of our rieh est inheritances, worthy to be trans mitted to future generations. To do justice, therefore, to an oc .casion like this, requires the pen and tongue of an artist of no ordinary skill. When I accepted your invitation 1 Zid so with the hope and belief that you would take the address as you took, or are to take, your husbands and wives-"for better and for worse''-and if you are not willing to do so, "I now demand that you do make it known, or forever hereafter hold your peace." A friend of mine, a South Carolin ian, once told me that the first duty of a stranger )n addressing a South Carolina audience, was to make due .pology for not being a South Car olinian himself. That I am not a South Carolinian, is not my fault, but rather my mis . fortune, for I was not consulted, either before are after the event, asi to where I should be bori. Permit me to say, however, that I was born in the very best State ini 1 the Union outside of South Carolina -' -Virginia. Then I made further atonement Carolinas to get me a wife. -Moreover, Mr. President, on other ( grounds I may claim the right to ad * dress a South Carolina audience; all right founded upon the patriotism of 1776.t My great grandfather fought at the I battle of King's Mountain, Cowpens s and Camden, and returned to his Vir- i ginia home-never until the eagle 1: flapped and folded his wings above the homes of American freemen. You s will please parden these personal I 'words. As this is the memorial day of Genera'l Lee's birth, a brief .survey a --or sketch of his life will be both ad- i iissible and proper. t Robert Edward Lee was born in S * Virginia, Jan. 19th, 1807. He was the son of'Lighthorse Harry Lee,"'j' from whom, as well'as from a long I liner of distinguished ancestors he in- r herited the patriotie and martial i spirit. t With means sufficient to give him 1 leisare for reflection, he was able in i .early life to discover t:he bent of hise own mind, and thereby choose his pro * ession. t He accordingly chose the profes- t si"n of arms. In 1825 he entered i .the Military Academy at West Point,r .and in 1829 he graduated from that f institution-second in his class. From that date to the Civil War C Between the States he tilled various c places of honor and trust in the ( United States army. IHe won high distinction in the war jc with Mexico, and was promoted for .gallantry on the field, at the con- i elusion of each of the great battles in a which he took p)art during the en tire campaign.t When the War Between the See- I tions became inevitable, Colonel Lee at once decided to cast in his lot< with 'his native State. He according- I ly resigned his place in the United < -rmy, and offered his services to the South, then being threatened by an invading army. He soon became, commander in: chief of the Confederate forces; and then for four years, he was the een- I tral figure in a succession of martial' tragedies, rarely, if ever surpassed in the history of modern warfare. He never lost his supremacy as a soldier 4 in the confidence of his countrynren.i The proof of his superior military genius appears in the rapid changes: whi.h were ma in the roll of chief RT E. LEE. 31 lays, at Newberry, S. C. 9,1909. commanders for the Federal army; more to find a man who -could meas ure arms with this genius of the South. Mark how rapidly they come, and go, in more haste than they come! Geo. B. McCleland, to my mind the ablest of all the Federal captains save one,-after the battle of Gaines Mill was forced to retreat be Core Lee's victorious army, and take shelter under his gunboats on the James. Next came General Pope, who took charge of the .Federal army near Richmond -and to the north, and who n August 29 and 30, 1862, was over whelmingly defeated by Lee and Jackson on the fatal field of Bull Run, and was forced to retreat to ward Washington. On Nov. 7th, 1862, Gen. Burnside was put in command of the army of the Potomac. "He came, tie saw,71 and was "conquered." He massed all his immense army against Lee at Fredericksburg. The battle was fought on Dec. 13, 1862 with almost fatal results to the Fed eral army. This battle, for the time being, put Burnside out of business. He was succeeded by General Joseph Hooker, who came with an army twice the size of Lee's. He de elared that he would drive Lee from iis fortifications, and then, ''on to Richmond." The arnies met at the Wilderness, )r Chailellorsville, where, as a north ern writer says: "The superior gen us of Lee never shone with greater ustre; for while his army was infer or' in numbers to that of Hooker, he ignally defeated the latter in a great I attle and forced him to retreat with iis whole army across the Rhapahan 1oek. But I shall pause here and simply may; changes soon came after these Lvents which made it apparent that he highest tribunal to which nations< ppeal would decide the issue against i he Confederate cause.' In defeat, tiherefore, we' discover i he greater qualities of General Lee. I Inwilling to sacrifice the lives of his. c nen, and to avoid further blood-shed. ie surrendered the fragments of his y omy to General Grant at Appoma ox in April. 1865. Whether it be true or a fable, that 1 seneral Grant refused the proffered word of General Lee at Appomatox; i wish only to say, that if the sword r was offered by the vanquished, and r he victor refused to accept it, it was e eause the victor knew that that t word had never been tarnished by C isgace, nor rendered odious by dis .Onor. ' General Lee refused to enrich hima t elf by allowing his name to be used f y scheming speculators after the war q ras over. H.e became a quiet school teacher a t Lexington. Va.. and .along with his .efeated comrades began to rebuild, n he fallen fortunes of his native b outhland.o With a eharaeter above reproach, ith no stain upon the escutcheon of b is matchless career; with no comnpro- e ise of his saered convictions touch- b ng his duty to his people, he refused a o become a party to doubtful specu- c ations in order to. make money, and t: .ie rich, at the expense of a good g onscience. s On the morning of Oct. 12, 1870, e his matchless spirit of the South re- b urned to God who gave it. Enshrined t the -hearts of his countrymen his ame has become an household word v 'rom Norfolk to the Rio Grande. i Mr. Chairman. life and death ar0 a loselv related. The deeds and death t f men, the rise and fall of nations, a ome and go like a passing shadow. c While it is true that the traditions f individuals.' families and nations. f ire rich and eherished inheritances.. t is also true that great individual y~ .d national achievements are not al- t rays the results of long and patientv raining in the schools of traditional ore. It has been said that a people with- u. iut traditions can never become ~reat. This is an assumption, it may, s r it may not be true. But when I say, that a people who t ire incapable of revolution to resist t Lmd overthrow oppression, has never et become great, I speak a truth, t chieh the universal history of man- r ind bears out. Revolution i1 sometimes t-he only I reapon left in the hands of the op- r ressed, to oppose the encroachments r f usurped authority, and therefores I not always an unmixed evil. Revolution is no't rebelion, no r is *eeession t.reason. wheni constitutional >f 1776 were rebelz and traitors of blie vilest type! The sovereignty of individual States was recognized in the very Lerms of the compact by which they ntered into the Federal Union: with >ut the slightest modification of their several rights. These rights they held to. be in inalienable, as their only sure and iertain safeguard against the tyrrany >f a possible centralized despotism. The distribution of power, since the lay that God confounded the languag as at Babel, has been the divine meth )d to secure and maintain individual ind national freedom. This distribu Lion of authority makes the indivi lual, the State and the nation each, .h-a zealous guardian of his own, and the rights of others. If you will take time to run over the history of past iges, you will find that where this ?rinciple has been set at nought, the individual has been robbed of his eights, the weaker States have been ;horn of their rightful authority, and i. political or military despotism has nsued. You will discover also that revolu ;ion has interposed in behalf of the )ppressed, and fixed limits to human )ppression. Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage md Rome are all painful illustrations f this solemn truth. Tonight the king and his court are runk in the hous-%; of their Gods, wvhile Cyrus environs the throne with 111 army~. Tomorrow Belshazzar is dead. and the Empire of the world is in the iands'of an Assyrian stran(kr. Why ind wherefore? The death of despot Sm in the blood of revolution. Egy.pt, rotten with accumulated de ,ay of centuries., after an unsurpass ld debauchery in the lives and lib ,rties of her people. has at last be ome the tool of diplomacy, and the )lay thing of tha English politician. ost amid the smoke and fires of ivenging revolution! Alexander, Macedonia's boy king, n the name of Greece and the Treeks, whipped the world into sub nission at his feet: despotism per onified- in the youthful despot, he ay down upon the pillow of univer al dominion, and that night died the eath of a drunken sot! Asa rebuked to his folly, the facts ~f his achievements were scattered, 11l over the civilized world, and at ast Macedonia and Greece wire over un by the heel of the b,loody Turk. Tational dreeay followed in the wake fa military despotism.. I know it has been said that Re ublies rarely ever become despotic. Believe that sir and you are fanned y the wings of the Vampire! and ar~e ed by the "song of the Siren" Carthage the republic city of As rubel, Homelcor, Hanno and Han ibal, founded in order to avoid op ression, at length herself became a entralized des.potism: and at last, onl be fatal' field of Zamia, the star-of 'arthage went down to rise no- more! .Trhe Roman Republic was no cx eption to this rule. Invincible while de laws of Pompilius obtained, but eeble under the 'sway of the Lar uius. Regulus "and Fabrius led her rmies to vietogy, but Semprosiius nd Flaminius to defeat! On~ the fall of Carthage Rome hadI o rival. Her provinces were then rob ed vy a rapacious harde of greedy ffiei A s. The city became rich, the provinces eame poor. A wicked and debauch ci oligarchy bore rule in her senate ails. A more wicked and licentious ristocracy were in charge of her so ial, domestie and religious institu ons. Individual rights were disre arded; the streets of Rome were saked in the blood of her best citiz ns; Julius Ceasar crossed th-e Ru icon, and th'e republic died in the troes of a military despotism! Thus it will be seen that authority, hich is the rightful property of the telligent many when usurped and bused by the few, has forever led Srevolution, blood shed and nation 1 decay. I recall not one single ex eption in annals of time. In the light of these facts I am rced to the following conclusions: (1) Revolutions come from the ices of the great, not the small. from he crimes of the strong and not the (2) Oppression is the hybred of a 1alignant bred, born in the bed of surped authority! (3) The rock on which nations have hivered themselves into atoms and onie to pieces. has been the assump ion of authority that was guaranteed c them by neither God nor man. (4) Nations are invincible only in he integrity and patriotism of their ~eople. (5) That nation, whose leaders seek rotection in standing armies, squad ons of b)attle ship. floating amnd sub .erged marines, is doomed to disap ointment. if these things b)e its only uiardians. (6) The fidelity and virtue of of fle usn, the narti lfjudi-i BEFORE having your clothes clean ed or pressed it will pay you to see Satterwhite & Baxter, City Pressing Club, Over Herald & News office. Phone 117 8t. SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. As the executors of. the last will and testament of the late S. J. Kin ard., deceased, we will sell at the home place on the 11th day of February. 1909. the personal property of which the said S. J. Kinard died, seized, and possessed, consisting of household and kitchen furniture, one horse, one mule colt, one shoat. one cow, corn, fodder, and farming implements. Sale to begin at eleven o clock. Terms cash. J. C. C. Kinard. Annie E. Kinard, Executors. Jan. 21, 1909. A Night Rider's Raid. The worst night riders are calomel, croton oil or aloes pills. 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