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* MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS *
of Dr. James McIntosh, *
* Newberry, S. C., May 10, 1910. *
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Dr. McIntosh was introduced in a
few appropriate words by Major Jas.
F. J. Caldwell.
Dr. McIntosh spoke in part as fol
lows:
Comrades, Daughters of the Con
lederacy, Sons of Veterans, Ladies
and Gentlemen: As I look over this
audience, composed of thes who in the
latter part of the last century bore
the brunt of the Civil War, and who
well know and understood what they
fouant for, and also ho31 of. th%
present generation, who have heard
time and again this subject discuss
ed, and then upon those our children
of tender years, I realize how diffi
cult it will be to speak interestingly
and engage your attention for any
length of time, upon a subject worthy
of the best orator of the age, of one
who could command your closest at-!
tention, and I can only ask you to
imake allowances for one who deeply
teels his inability to present this
subject as it might be done. But in
the name of the veterans here as
-sembl6d, and in the name of those
dead heroes whose bravery, patriot
ism. and death we are here to com
memorate, let me thank you for your
presence. It is with the highest grat
ification that every veteran here pres
ent looks around upon this assem
blage. It warms our hearts and
rLakes us feel that our ch.-Ldrea aid
our friends are ready still to honor
the cause for which we fought. And
we feel as we look into your faces
that we are leaving the legacy of a
glorious honored past in the hands
of those who will ever be proud to
know that their fathers wore the
grey, and bore the starry cross to
victory on many a hard-fought bat
tlefield.
If I can impre'ss upon the mind and
mr.mory of one single listener in
this house a clearer impression as to
the cause of- the Civil War, then I
will feel tba) this hour has not been
spent in vain.
My aim shall. be to make a simple,
plain statement of the conditions ex
isting prior to 1860, that will, show
that the South was forced to fight,
not. only .for her rights and liber
ties, her homes and fireside, but for
the protection and safety of her Wo
snen and children.
I stand not here to apologize for
the war, to make any excuse for the
action of our State, or for the course
*of the South. What the South asks,
:and what every Confederate wishes,
is that the true condition as it ex
isted in 1860 be understood, and that
[history, freed from local and section-I
.al influences, sha.ll give an impartial
account of the causes of the war, for
then the South will be justified and1
all forced to agree that there was no;
other course to pursue but to do as
the South did, secede from the Un
ion.
And as I look into the faces of
- these younger men and boys, I feel:
that there is not a man or boy within
the walls of this building who, if he.
had been living in the sixties of the
last century, would not have been
fighting to the death with his broth
er and comrades.
There were .\three causes that
'breynght on the Civil War, each one of
them differing entirely from the Eth
-ers, each one becoming a 'sdominant
- s:source of discord and danger at dif
Yferent periods of time in the life of
the nation, but so indissolubly hv
'they been interwoven into the very
* xistence of the nation that even the*
Civil War could not remove them,..
!and they now, as ever, stand' out as
a menace to the republican form of\
government. These three cause
are:
1. The principle of State's rights.'
2. The tariff.
3. The negr.o.
The question of State's rights came
n1ear preventing the union of the
thirteen original States into the Unit
ed States of America.
-The ratification of the anstitution
vf the United States by the States of
'New York and Rhode Island and
V irginia reserved in plain language
'the right to secede. as, viz., the pow
'ers -of government may be reassum
ed by fhe people when it shall be
e:ome necessary to their happiness.
And with the formation of the union
*the right of a State to withdraw from
the union was acknowledged as a
right. Massachusetts threatened
to secede in 1811 and Maine threaten
-ed to secede in 1831.
The original union of the States
-was formed with' every safeguard 1
thrown around the rights of the in
dividual States that human wisdom
deemed sufficient to safeguard them.
But from the year the thirteen orig
inal States formed the United States i
of America, there has been continual i
strife and contention between those
striving to centralize the power of
the government and those who stood
for State's rights. These contentions
have passed from the halls of Con
gress to the United States court, and
back from the court to congress, and
now there are pending in the United
States court many questions at this
time that involve principles vital to
the rights of the individual States,
the decision of which will either
further strengthen the centralizing
power of the general government or
will stem the tide and protect the
States and the individual inhabitants
of those States in the enjoyment of
those rights that the Constitution
grants to States and individuals.
2. The question of the tariff has
been a subject of discord from the
very formation of the 'United States,
and is now the most momentous.and
important question before Congress
and the people themselves.
-After the revolution, in 1784, to
r.et the needs of the government for
fioney, a tariff for revenue was pass
ed. The hatred to anything British
at that time was so intense that
many who would have otherwise ob
jected agreed to it, through the de
sire to keep out British goods and
encourage home manufactures. But
a tariff to pay the government's ex
penses soon becanje a tariff to protect
bome industries, and has truly year
by year been the means of impover
ishing the South and enriching the
North.
This tariff has built up the fortunes
of the millionaires, the monied cor
porations that have robbed you and
the trusts that now control prices in
our country, and may yet bring on a
revolution that will shake this gov
ernment to its foundations.
3. The negro.
These two questions, State's rights
and the tariff, had been the bone of
contention up to the Mexican war,
but with the admission of Texas, and
the opening of her vast extent of ter
ritory to the extension of slavery, the
abolition party of the North, that had
been growing steadily under the in
flammatory writings of William Lloyd
Garrison and the bitter denunciations
of Wendel Phillips against the South,
now assumed increased activity and
bitterness.
As a .little boy of twelve years, I
heard in Washington our congress
men and senators discussing this
question, and they were all looking to
the future with forebodings of evils
to come, and the feeling in the North
as it impressed me was that the
South had really but few friends
among the Northern politicians or
people. Then and^there I became a
Democrat, believing in State's rights,
tariff for revenue, and slavery, and
have been a Democrat ever since.
Dr. McIntosh then spoke of the ad
mission of Kansas in 1,854, and of the
test of strength between the aboliti
onists and the profslavery party on
the plains of Kansas, which led to a
bloody condlict which it took the
strong arm of the general govern
m'ont to stop. But that blood shed
in 1854, he said, bore '..ts fruit. As
a volcano, it slumbered until 1861,
and burst out in civil war. Newber
ry, he said, was represented in the
Kansas conflict by her sons, 5. Pope
and James Glenn, J. M. Crosson. Con
scious of its strength, the abolition
party put forward eGn. Fremont as
its candidate in 1856, and polled a
vote surprising its own leaders. -'
The Kansas war, Mrs. Stowe's
book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and the
vote of 1856 cemented'the following of
olitionists in one solid column,
whose demands and threats against
:he South 'grew steadily until in 1859
:here was planned and attempted
:hat crime against,. humanity, that
>lot upon a Christianized civilization,
:arried out by one man, but assisted
md sympathized with by others as
Laders-a negro insurrection- with
all its attendant crimes of fire, mur
ier, lust upon the defenceless and in
aocent. In the history of North
A.merica nothing equals this diaboli
cl, fiendish act of Johig Brown as he
>anned and carried out his negro in
uurrectionl at Harper's Ferry, Va., in
1859, October 29: Fortunately for the
3ke of humanity it was crushed at
>nce, and under a court of which
ln. Lee was the head, John Brown
as convicted of a heiigous crime
>.nd hanged on December 2, 1859. The
1anging of John Brown by the United
states authorities created a clamor
md uproar all through the North.
Keeetings were held by the ;abolitionl
>arty in city, town, village and coun
ry. Speeches vWith the bitterest de
iunciation of the general government
Lnd the South were greeted with
houts of approval and shrieks ot
rnzy. Every abolition paper strove
' wido its competitor in the rancor
L.nd abuse heaped upon the South.
This man who had planned the mu~ir
[er of women and children,' and the
uning over of these defenceless in
Lent to the cruetie and lusts of
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