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| Memorial Ad |L of Hen I The following address was delivered Mr. Heny C. Tillman, of Greenwood, the Memorial day services of the |lliam Lester chapter, U. D. C., at ksperity, on Monday, May 10: fcday the nations of Europe are enBd in a great war for w*orld power, i pns of men equipped with every | |rn man killing device are strug-; L with other millions equally as! Equipped. In actual numbers en-1 d, in the slaughter and the cam-1 rVe. in hideousness and horrib'eness.' other wars must pale into insignificance. Only yesterday it was that a' monster grey hound of t).:e ocean was; sent to the bottom by a modern ser-j pent of the sea. The newness of war; but makes it more horrible. But out1 of it all will come tbe same results! that have come from other wars. | There will be maimed men and widowI ed women, and children who will wail the loss of a father and a friend. It will be a harvest of unrequited hopes i and broken hearts. Nations will be j laid waste and torn down and the work j of centuries of civilization will fall to! . i the cry of the hissing dohid ana tnej L boom of the bursting shell. Only two | certainties stand out. Tne one?the j (heart throbs of a depleted and disin-| tegrated citizenship. The other?a vie- j tor and a vanquished. The victor with iy redoubled power?the vanquished without power. No two of the contending nations speak the same language, but | to each the word meaning power ex*? i -i iV.:. i presses me nnai goai w. men cxavi is.; Already the men of tfrese armies of the old world have proven that men j still know how to die. Each day a' new "hero is born to give undying name ' to those who come after him. Each army is filled witia men who dare and die to write upon the scroll of his- j tory's passing page a deed that will mean a heritage of glory to his pos ~ terity. The nations of Europe hare visable "ways of attesting the love or a coun- j try for its heroes, and tonight along j the trend":es in the east and in the west many are the dreams of the decoration whic? claims for its owner a place among the immortals. T:is one perhaps is dreaming of the iron cross, i Not far away, and perhaps within tfce eame battle line, there may be another i i who dreams of the Legion of Honor j r or maybe the cross of (Victoria. How < L ? - * - i i I men win ngm ior t.je caauce u: cauu2y glory. And still, were I a soldier, witf3 a, soldier's life and a soldier's love there is a decoration that I would rather t Slave than any that can be given by prince, or czar, or king. : It is a decoration that has no pres-I tige of empire to give it power or j worldly place. It is a decoration that I is not bestowed solely upon t-e peerless or the favorite. It is t,ve decora- j tion which does not bear the stamp of State. Kingdom or Alliance. It is , a decoration that is -not inspired by an ; exhibition of prowess nor a desire of reward. It is a simple tribute of j/bve and respect by women who know how j . <o love and respect. It is the emblem j Fof a Dunea nope Diazonea uy uanas ; and i:earts, who have loved and lost a j cause. It is the gift of the Southern j women to the Confederate soldier. The I Southern cross. No prince?no potentate?no matter iiow wide ftis dominions may "be, can: K^ef/var iinftn a crwMier a PC- : r ? - oration that means as much or is as much deserved. T:e same hands which bestow it upon the living with tender care, with tenderer love, are bowing today to place flowers, upon the graves ^ of the dead. And in this springtime, ana m me springs iu uumc, uu tunfederate soldier need think of his battle as of a battle in vain, when fee k eees the unending love which that battle fcas inspired in the hearts of his people. I sometimes think that the true greatness of any people can be accurately ascertained by a study of the cinz-inri f in/1 cimnllfMTV nf ' ~ aiuvti X^T auu v. ^- v^.v ^ manner of that people in memorializing its dead. The memorials of the Sout'i are pre-eminent both in sincerity and in simplicity. In almost every Southern county there has arisen out | of the hearts of the people simple monuments to the Confedera:e soldier. I The rich and,the poor, the faumble and the great, have contributed alike to the erection of these tokens in marble and they all attest the united | love of a united people. Througfnout our land today there are meetings of the common people to drop upon the graves of their dead living blossoms. Tonight the army of gray in its sleep i*ests beneath a multitude of flowers. These flowers fade and wither with tomorrow's passing sun, but tTne love which prompts the giving lives on and j will live "until the sun grows cold and the stars grow old, and the leaves of the judgment book unfold." And what can justify such love as ^ 'tiis? As a memorial truthfully tells tfce reality of tfce love of a people, 60 dress ry C. Tillman i the reality of that love as truthfully tells the greatness of the reasons icr its existence. No people has ever memorialized its heroes unless certain conditions existed. No man has ever been memorialized unless he hag rendered some signal service in the freedom of mankind from some lorm of slavery?political, religious or i.u ? ? - ? ?w* .. KrtAr* rn am A_ Ilictll. i\o armv litis oci uccu mcaju- : rialized unless that army fought for\ more than material gain or selfish1 glory. There must have been a great cause. There must have been a great j army fighting for t "at cause under great leaders! ip and for the love of a great people. Can we of the South justify our (Memorial day, when called upon to meet the reauiremnts of history? Was our cause a great cause? That it was a righteous cause can be maintained j and proven by logic and argument, j The right of a State to withdraw from a union which that State had voluntarily entered can never be refuted by the arguments of right and it never has been denied by others than tSe apostles of might. If other States of the union had t):e right to lorce Soutn. Carolina back into a union of unde- i sirablQ States in 1861, why, I ask you,' did not South Carolina have the right ? ~ A rt+P*) nr tn'^lvo rtTlT. ' Ail 1 lOi IV iVl tU tUC t n vi *v v* 45 inal colonies into a union of indis-1 soluble States? Was that right ever; suggested or even tl:ought of? Did not all sections of the country then acknowledge that each State had the rigfot to enter the union or remain a; separate State? And was the union J ever intended to be one that cc/uld never be severed. The oniy reason ior its existence was t'.:e weakness of its integral parts and that reason of weakness did not exist in 1S61. Many men have given this subject attenuon and much has been written and said j upon sides of the proposition, but I have yet to see a single enemy of tie South's position give any reasonable excuse for his denial of the rig.t to secede. I am an American citizen and I am proud of it. I glory in the greatness ? 3 - ?*>. s*. J aaii -*-> 4- r*xr TliQ <111(1 Lilt? guuu Ui 1-L1V v;?-?uiaui j. i.ut question of secession has been settled by this country in lour bitter years of war, but as long as God gives me t'!:p nowers of reason I will always be ^ I lieve that the settlement of ti:is question was wrong and that might triumphed over right. But some contend that the Southern cause was based upon human slavery and was, therefore, wrong. Human slavery was wrong. It tad been wrong from the beginning of time and will be wrong until the end of eternity, but t i iv i IL - r* iL >_ n 4. i aeny mat me ouuui s iigai was a fight to perpetuate slavery. The postponement of this argument is giver the lie in tlie outset by t)..e fact that less than 25 per cent, of those who fought for the Southern cause were; interested in slaves or owned them. The vast majority were inspired by no such lowly motive as the mercenary i rptpnf-iAn nf frmrrar For the justification of those who fought under the Southern cross, I appeal to higher sources tJ:an either a constitution or the greed of men. I appeal to the conscience of a people' who acted with no thought but to dO| the right as the riglnt appeared. I; might defend that cause from thej /n J a "r*4V* <11 ft n I V>1 <X VUilBCIlUlIUJUL WCeO written in protest against the ruie ol force and which Lad as its foundation stone the principle that the one essen- j tial element of government was the! consent of tfne governed, but I believe' that a higher justification exists than ; any to be found in codes or articles of construction. No great revolution needs to explain ' or justify itself. T.:e rise of a whole people is a fact which furnishes the' best evidence of its right to existence.: A gust of passion may make o? a' crowd a mob, and a mob may create a temporary insurrection against a! wrong, real or fancied. But when an entire people are aroused to the point of revolution there must be a great' cause. When an entire people defend their homes wit!: desperation and devotion, when they endure poverty and \ (hardship and dare deatti and destruction for the sake of a cause based upon a principle of government that principle has to be sacred and that j cause must be just. In all time there arp ^ut two judges of the action of a people. God and the people themselves. And under God, the Southern cause needs and asks no higher justification than the acts of the Southern people enacted upon the hearthstones of broken homes and upon the running fields of bloody battle. History can not fail to accord to tl'ae Southern people the glory of valor and achievement and it must not fail to accord to the Southern cause the justification of right and honor. But let us hastily pass to the next essential of a great army. It is told that on the cay aft^r t e spine oj Stonewall Jackson had winged its way across tie river to rest in the shade of the trees, Richmond lay crushed like a great bleedir.g heart, and as ti e thousands passed the bier of that immorta genius, the sobs and the tears were but echoes of a pain of a nation | which had been stabbed in a vital spot. Among the last to look upon i at noble i face was a young boy who paused and 1. . v:. ' v. ^ bUUtvfcl IU JiiS UfctU CUiCl cur, 11C said, "if today you consort with Caesar tell him we still make war." How J truthfully did this youth describe the real meaning of t- e arm of the South. Upon the book of history I have stood wi:h the Spartans at Thermopnvlao Km n T havp u-nrifiprf>d ami nd mired. But the band of Robert Lee, falling back from Richmond across Virginia to Appomatax, did not have the protection of a mountain pass and was not even sustained by tf .e food necessary to keep up a starving body. Still it fought a force more than five times as grpat and its spirit was so un- \ broken that Lee's first statement to Grant was mat unless ne could maKe honorable terms for his men, the bat-; tie would Ciave to continue until the army of Northern Virginia was no more. I i.ave stood upon the pages of hicfr?rv c.rtn watrhprl tho 1p<nnnc nf Caesar in their battles with the Gauls. I have seen them cross toe Rubicon! and bring back to Rome fresh glory, and yet the army of Stonewall Jackso> in the Shenandoah campaign fought and defeated two armies either of, l which excelled it in numbers, and it j was Gen. Early who said of that feat | of arms that in its beginning he be-; lieved that Jackson was mad, but that, before it was over t:e was convinced that Jackson was inspired. I have seen the charge of trne Light Brigade at Balaklava and the last fu-,. tile effort of the old guard at Waterloo,! but the brave men who followed the flag of Pickett across H:e open fields; of Gettysburg have been to the world a , new record of daring and courage. I have seen the array of Napoleon cross the Alps. I have followed it into the frozen north of Russia. I have seen this man of destiny survey a fal- i len enemy at Austerlitz and then dis- : tribute kingdoms of J-is fallen foes among his relatives and his friends, i but t'.:e army of the Tennessee, with untrained men, poor equipment and insufficient supplies, kept a far greater force from breaking the backbone of the Confederacy for four years, and under the leadership of Forrest and I Jackson peformed feats upon whicl*! any people might defend its greatness. I And the Southern cause had great j leaders. 'Jefferson Davis it was who i led victorious American troups in Mexico, wfco returned to sway the American RPnatP and who ctnor? hpfrvro the bar of the American nation accused I of treason. He saw victory first upon | V:.e banner of the nation which called; i him "chief"?and he was made a cap- j tive. He became the ruler of a great i people and fee was put in chains. He 1 helneri to creatp a nation Hp it rise and he saw it fall, and he was j made the "scapegoat of that nation's j failure, still l:e murmured not. He i . was greatest in that defeat and in that1 humiliation which sought to break and destroy him. Far be it from me to indulge in sac- j lilige in any form, but I honestly be- j lieve that since the days of Christ no : man Las lived on earth with so ex- j alted a character as Robert E. Lee. j Great in war and great in peace. When ! he stood upon that fatal field and saw j tJ'ne brave men of Pickett's division! offer tnemselves upon the shrine of their country, as a sacrifice which has no superior in the annals of time, lie doubtless knew that the turning point l !had come and that the Southern wave I had reached its crest. And vet he was : ; great enough to shoulder all the blame.! "It was all my fault," he said. And he who had led Southern men; and wTuO was the idol of his people in war laid down his sword and sought to 1 teach tl:e vouth of his country the 1es_ ! sons of life. Xo reward would he' accept, no position did he seek, noth- \ ing could detract hi:n from the path i of duty and duty demanded that he1 (Should stand by the Sou to which had; fallen. As great as he was upon the field of battle, equally great was Leei at Lexington, training Ce young men oi tne soutli to be Dimd to ail save duty. Those who have enjoyed a sight of its beauties relate t!~at it is worth a| trip across the equator to enjoy the) splendors of that great constellation of the southern hemisphere known as the Southern Cross. ;t is the guiding light oi the soft Southern seas. We can imagine then how the mariner of' thosp wst.ers would fpp] if this rnn steilation should be suddenly blotted from the sky. -So I can imagine what the emotions and sorrows of tfae Southern people were when the flashing, meteoric career of Stonewall Jackson was suddenly ended. I read the other day teat when some one remarked to Lord Roberts, the great English soldier, that Jackson was a great student o? tlae campaigns of Napoleon, that .-Roberts replied: "And well might Na poleon have been a student of the campaigns of Jackson." It "was Lee "who told him after he was !>.:ot, "You have lost your left arm, but I have lost my right." To whici. the sturdy, unselfish warrior replied, "Better a thousand Jacksons should die than one Lee." I It is doubtless idle to speculate upon t'/:e probabilities of what might have been, bui had Jackson lived I firmly believe that the flag which flies over us today would have been a different flag. And there were the two .Johnsons and Forrest, Stuart and Early, Hampton and Butler, Gary and others too numerous to be named. I have heard it said that it was a thought expressed by Jc n W. Daniel that if a -^reat tidal wave should sweep over this country and wipe frgm the face of the earth everything that we iiavo except a copy . of the declaration of independence that the future people w o should discover . this country would know that this had been the home of a free people. I be1 * 1 - - ? ? ~ 1 i *??i +r* 4* l t Jieve u.ia: it is an euu<*i iruui mat n nothing of t< e South should be left except the names and the lives of its leaders the future people of the world would know tnat this had been the home of a great people. The people after all were tl':e bul-! wark of the Southern Confederacy. No leaders could have risen to the pedes- j tals of fame without tae support of men of the type of t.he Confederate private. A soldier of fortune and a soldier of despair was he. Were I an orator I could paint to you in vivid words the merits of t):e private soldier of the Confederacy. I know that since the world began it has produced no nobler figure than the figure of the private soldier of the Confederacy j fighting for his I'-ome and his country, i Many there are who have answered the ' long roll for foe last time. The rest! are bent with honorable age. Taeirj sun is slowly setting, but it is the' hope of the young South that they may j be spared to us for many years in' comfort and in peace, and when the summons does come wp kiiow wjcj will go as men unafraid to die, and we j Lope they will sleep the sleep of those : who deserve an undisturbed rest. And the last and greatest of the jewels of the South is its women. No; war has brought greater (hardships upon the homes of the people than did the >W(ar Between the States, and still no women could have borne these hardships more nobly than did the women of the SoutiJ. They worked with willing hands to give all they could to the fighting force of their country. In pain and in sorrow the smile never left the lips of this d:am-j pion of the South. Her work did not end with Appomatox, but has continued throughout the loalf-century of peace, and t)-e obligation under wnicn the manhood of the South fcas been put by the deeds and lives of these noble women can never be measured in words and can only be repaid by lives of useful and honest endeavor. j Yes, my friends, we are a conquered nation. Our nation was born in war and it died in war. Just as England bowed before the Norman conquerors and just as France and Prussia and Spain, and every great power, have at times been overrun and conquered, so were we conquered. But our captivity was not prolonged. Tl:e soldier w*!bo crawled away from Appomatox went, home and went to work. In 1876 the ! government of his fathers was reclaimed from the black hordes which j had been forced upon a Toelpless State.1 In very truth' the swords were beat; into plow shares and those who had l performed deeds of valor were as eager to do deeds of labor. The waters of a thousand streams, as they rushed from the mountains to the sea were harnessed and made to' turn the wheels of industry. The laws nf nntnrA 9c thpv atp written hv thp hands of science have been applied to the tillage of the soil and our coun- j try once more blossoms under tlie touch of the falling rain and the shin-! . ing sun. A conquered nation? Yes! A nation which has nothing of its sovereignty leit but a name ana still a nation whose sons ftave returned to tl-ie helm ! of a national government and whose voice is heard in the councils of the conqueror. And through all of our troubles, inj our darkness and in our light, in our days of famine and in our days of pros- ; perity we liave but tried to follow the' example of the Confederate soldier. , i My venerable friends, well may we pause in the activities of life to pay tribute to those comrades of yours who have fallen along the pathway, and to those of you who are left we say! ''greeting." May God's richest bless-! ings rest upon your days in tJhe land: of your labor and may He bring you | safe into the Tnaven of those to whom He will say, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." The School Improvement association of Pomana will give a barbecue in the grove at Pomaria on July 3, for tJbe benefit of the school. Mrs. Jno. C. Aull, Pres. See Sc Co A 1 > A special a real values ii You will d spect my stoc ing. MA' Book & Va The House of a ' I ARF YOI to Panama-Pad a San Francis Diego, C by one of VARIABLE PREI 4 I If so, write the under fares, folders and all parti' Excursion tickets pe: famously attractive and T. C. \ General Passenger Ag< Atlantic ( The Standard Rail MEMORIAL DAT. The exercises for Memorial day, May 10th, were, for the sake of convenience, divided into two parts, the decoration of the old soldiers' graves taking place at Hosemont cemetery Sunday after noon and tlae dinner ana puDiic Bpea.iving occurring on Tuesday. Rev. Mr. r Dibble, of tihe Methodist church, gave us a very interesting and appropriate address at the cemetery, stressing especially the duty of training our children in a right understand!u.; of the true meaning of the Civil w<-.r to us, of the valor of our (Su srOI'ers (the very flower of our Soutlil'r.-d) that similar principles be ins'Hed into them, and that histories be given them to study that give an account of events by a Southern historian. Although Tuesday vas a very inclement day, of the 183 soldiers given tickets, there were 135 at the table. We estimate that there were at least 200 persons served altogether, counting the daughters of Drayton Rutherford chapter. Calvin Crozier chapter and Osborne Schumpert chapter, the West End band and visitors. > i>r. uurren, tne ;oresi'ient or me university of South Carolina, made a most inspiring address at the opera house. He avoided the well-beaten path of secession and the causes leading up to it, and gave a most interesting sketch ,of Robt. E. Lee. He gave incidents in his life showing his modesty, his thoughtfulness, his bravery, ihis refinement, his reluctance to allow his enemies to be abused, Tais refusal to let the "almighty dollar" make him swerve from the path of duty, fais handsome physique, how strong were the allurements to make him take up arms on tibe Northern side (of which he was asked to be commander-in-dhief) espe" 11 " Vl C, TllTYl Cdlf Tint TVP- 1 JJIdll J UVj Uijaiwv-*, U*u ?WW - ~ ^ unter >c counter of i china. !o well to in k before buyLTTT'OJ I CO Lriety Store rhousand Things J GOING the ic Expositions t ?co and San * alifornia i tne many DIRECT ROUTES 7 9 signed for low excursion * t i _ cuiars regarding your inp. rmit stopovers at many scenic points and resorts. VH1TE, l TTT *1 5 l XT 3111, w liming ion, in. *u. ^oast Line road of the South. lieve in secession or slavery, although, lie did believe in States' rights. Ho | called the attention of the children of 1 Newberry schools, wijo .had marched in to the strains of the West End band, y to certain beautiful traits in Lee's ' character that he wished them to em? j ulate, and showed how t'nat even Lee's enemies "could find no fault in IMm." i He especially recommended for our j reading a history of Lee by a Northern til*Via prvnfpsspri that, at JH-1CIJLI, UAftUiViu, ? "v one time he had been very much prejudiced against Lee, but on a careful study of ftis life, candor constrained I ihim to say that all was favorable. ! Dr. Currell, "himself, lived in Lexing' ton in tfae house once occupied by Lee, in the parlor of which "Stonewall" j Jackson was married. He closed with | the tale of a benignant face, carved j by Nature on the side of a mountain j in Virginia, of which it was prophesied j that a man would be born to bless the ! people, with a face like that. | Some lived in whom the prophesy was at first thought to be fulfilled, but later tfcey developed traits so ini consistent that popular clamor said, j "No, not you;" but at last a poor boy i was born who looked and looked at that face until it affected his whole life, and in him the prophesy was fulfilled, j So may we who continue to study and j copy the life of Lee come to be like him?tfie benignant. One of the Ladies. I Barbecue at Pleasant. A barbecue will be served at Mt. 'Pleasant church on Tuly 17 for the beneft of the MethodT>t parsonage at Pomaria. Every one is invited to come and get a good dinner and help a good cause. G. H. Cromer, i Chairman of Committee.