The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 20, 1895, Image 4
McLAURIN'S
BURNING
ELOQUENCE
DLLIGHTED 3,500 OF HORRY'S
P rt -CITIZENS LAST
WEDNESDAY AT CONWAY.
Noble Sentiments from the Great
Leader of the Sixth Congres
sional District.
The "Independent Repub
lic" was in holiday attire last
Wednesday to celebrate the
reunion of the Confederate
Survivors. Congressman John
L. McLaurin, the brilliant
Statesman of the Sixth Con
gressional District, was the
honored guest of the grand
occasion. The crowd was
estimated at about 3,500,
many of whom were ladies
and children. Crowds of peo
ple from Georgetown and from
Robeson county, N. C., were
also present. Hon. John L.
McLaurin was the orator of
the day and he was escorted
to the grounds by the "Brooks
Guards" veterans, under Cap
tain Tolar; this body con
sisted of about 100 battle
scared veterans whose martial
spirit was still in them and
although they have undergone
privations and waded through
bloody seas for their country
they would do so again should
the necessity ever arise. The
"Horry Hussars," a calvary
company about 101) strong
in full uniform commanded by
Captain Long, and about 7 00
others. A magnificent dinner
was served and the day was
immensely enjoyed; of course
the speech was the event of
the day and the patriotic citi
zens of Horry applauded them
selves hoarse over an eloquent
address. The following is its
full text:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
- men:
In the selection of an orator, too
young to have paiticipated in the
late war, you bate conferred u pon
me a moat distinguished honor. It is
well perhaps that it is so, for the time
les come when we can discuss that
ep'bch historically. Then too the
geneta'on who took part in the strug
gle are 'p~l passing away, and
upon younger ' -i~~ving the
duty of preserving the em
ories of the past, and transmitting
posterity the true history of the Civil
war. It has been said that the fame
of those who spend their lives in the
service of their country is better pre
served in the unwritten memorials of
the heart, than by any material mon
uments. -It is therefore, gentlemen
of the committee, eminently proper
that you the "Survivors", should meet
at stated periods to honor your dead
comrades.
'(Lrnfederate Survivors", year by
year your ranks grow thinner, one by
one, the "Grim Ferryman" sets you
upon the other side of tbe dark river,
where again you meet comrades who
passed over amid the blood and
smoke of Bull Run, Manassas or the
Wilderness. The ranks of the "Stone
wall,Brigade" and the "Hampton Le
gions" are being rapidly recruited.
-Soon will be complete those phantom
Regiments, Brigades and Divisions,
which in this life made forever ili
ustrious the names of Lee, of Jack
son, and of Stuart. My friends you
need not be ashamed to meet your
old comrades and to look your old
commanders in the face. Yours the
harder lot. They have been at rest
these many years "ou fame's eternal
camping ground", while for you the
flight has never ended,-Easier to
die upon the field of battle, with the
shouts of victory ringing in the ears,
than to have borne the humiliation
of defeat, the pangs of poverty, and
the horrors of reconstruction. You
have won a great battle since Ap
pomattox, and you will meet them,
the laurel wreathes of victory crown
ing your brows. In the gloom of de
feat, you stepped from the battle
trenches back into the plow furrows.
You found a land all desolate. Black
ened chimneys on every side marked
once happy homes, society was . diu
organized, the Capital of your State
in ashes; your government in the
hands of aliens, and the heels of
your former slaves upon your necksa
Your courage faltered not. In the
arts of peace you redeemed the fail
ure of war, rebuilt your homes, and
organized society upon the better and
surer bases than human slavery. My
heart glows with pride, when I hear
recounted your deeds of valor on the
field of battle.
Out numbered five to one, almost
without money, for four long years
you held the world at bay. Your
whole land seamed and scarred with
the invader's track, by the light of
your blazing homes you fought in
hunger and in rags. When once
proud regiments of a thousand men
showed less than one hundred mnus
kets, your thin ranks closed steadily
on the center and preserved an un
flinching front. You fought on even
when Sherman in his "March to the
Sea", caused the wail of your women
and children homeless and hungry,
to reach you upon the battle fields
of Virginia.
But my friends' your greatest glory
lies in accepting the situation man
fully, and heroically retrieving defeat
as you have done. I yield to none
in my love and reverence for the
"Grea4Cayai' of the war; the names
of Lee and Jackson, of Hampton and
Stuart, of Hill and Longstreet, will live
forever, but to me the True Hero is
the Poor Priucte who did his duty in
the trenches, on the march and upon
picket, without glory or the hope of
reward. Dyingr unknown and un
noted, piled like cordwood in the
bloody-battle trenches;or coming home
after the war, ;enfeebled by wounds
and wasted disease, to take up the
task of rehabilitating bis State. I
never meet one of these old Veterans
without a feeling as if I should stand
uncovered in the pr(s.nce of True
Greatness. A little incident occured
in Mississippi which plainly showed
that I am not alone in this respect.
Nearly everybody has heard of "Pri
vate John Allan"; few know how he
got the name. John Allan, then an
obscure individual, was running
against some General, (I think Darks
dale) for Congress. The General was
running upon his record and title,
and told of how on a certain night
upon the eve of battle, he lay awake
in his tent, thinking of his country,
while ther rain beat down and the
lone sentry paced to an fro in front
of his tent. John Allan got up to re
ply, and said: "Every word the
General said is so. I know it is true,
because I was the "lone sentry" who
paced to and fro in the rain, and now
you Generals who lay in the tent
vote for Darksdale, and you "lone
sentries" who paced to and fro in the
rain vote for "Private John Allen".
It is needless to add that "Private
John Allan" was elected to Congress,
and is now one of the best known
members, and I can testify myself to
his high character, honesty and- use
fulness.
"On Monday in Darlington, I beard
of a pathetic incident-some of you
may know the man-at the battle of
Gettysburg a brave, stalwart lad from
Darlington was advancing in the face
of a hot fire, when a finger was shot
off. His officer ordered him to the
rear. "No sir," was his reply, "they
would call me a coward, if I went
back .for that". A moment later a
piece of shell took off his right arm,
clean and clear above the4jbow. As
a comrade caught him, the brave fel
low said: "Well, I will go back now
but I had rather lose my arm than be
called a coward."
Two weeks ago, a pauper) died in
the Poor House. The bed was hard.
The walls bare. The man's face was
still and cold, while the empty sleeve
was pinned across the] breast. The
once heroic soul of Henry Miller had
winged its flight to God, far beyond
the reach of ingratitude and want.
Oh, my friends, why honor the dead,
why build monuments of brass and
marble, when heroes such as this, die
neglected, and dishonored?
I want to say a few words to-day
about these "Private John Allans".
Colonels and the Generals who sur
vived the war, have been well taken
care of, and I am glad of it, for it is
an honor to our people that they
have taken care of these old Leaders.
Somebody must now take care of
the Poor Old Private. And in this
connection, let me mention another
"Private" whom I have the honor to
know. Soon after. the war there
jnded in the streets of New York a
poorly elad boy from Virginia, who
had fought as a private from Bull
Run to Appomattox. He was foot
sore, hungry, and without money.
He tried place after place for work,
and finally went into a. big store,
rhere something in bis- accent or
esa-told the merchant be was a
"rebel boy". In an insulting manner
he was ordered from the store. The
proud Southern blood leaped to his
cheek, and with kindling eye and
angry voice he hurled the insult
back, and said to the merchant: "Sir
The time will come when I will buy
your old store out from under you".
That proud boast has been yerified,
and that Virginia boy owns this very
store. I heard of this incident, and
went, a few years ago, into a grand
eight story building on Broadway,
.aw and shook hands with this noble
.pcmen of Southern manhood.
Who has not heard of Charles Broad
way Rouse, the millionaire, who the
other day, drew his check for one
hndred thousand dollars to assist
"Confederate Survivors". Misfortune
has overtaken him, he has lost his
eyesight, but in his blindaess, the
love and sympathy of thousands of
his comrades, sustain and comfort
him.
The poor Confederate Soldier, dis
abled by wounds and disease, is an
object that would move to pity the
hardest heart. He is without a
*country. The cause that he fought
for is called rebellion No strong
treasury pids him. The Federal
soldier is pensioned liberally; soldiers'
homes provided to comfort his de
clining years, while the Confederate
in the same situation, must die in the
Poor House, or subsist upon scanty
charity. More than this, out of his
slendor means he has contributed to
the pension of his former antagonist,
and assisted in buildinig his "Home".
This you say, is the fate of war, yes
but an enlightened and generous
people are rapidly building up a
sentiment for his relief. Only the
other day, the proposition was made
to admit him to the G. A. R. Posts,
the next step will be to place all
-"Survivors" on the same footing.
My seat during the last Congress,
was with General Newton M. Curtis
of New York on my left, and General
James F. Islar, of South Carolina, on
my right. Each is a grand type of
their respective sections. General
Curtis with a generous heart and
strong practical mind, the tallest man
in Congress, six feet five inches in
height and erect in person, is the
very embodiment of the martial
spirit of the North.
Judge Izlar you all know, as Sol
di, Jurist, Gentlernan-courteous
and learned-a splendid type of the
"Old School", whom to know is to
love. Both are pairiots, brave in war,
gentle in peace. It so chanced that
during the war General Curtis led the
assualt upon Fort Fisher, and that
General Izlar was in command when
the fort was captured after a desper
rate hand to hand conflict. I have
often heard those two old heroes
fight over again their battles, I have
seen them exchange the silent grasp
of frindship, and witnessed the
courtsey and tender consideration
with which they treated each other.
It has warmed my heart with love
for my country, made me proud thatI
I am an American. I have seen so
often General Curtis favor any meas
ure looking toward the help of an
Ex-Confederate soldier or his widow;
heard him say that they ought to be
placed on the pension rolls just as
the Union soldier was, and freely ad
mitted to all privileges and benefits.
The time is not far distant when this
will be done, and the last vestige of
bitterness wiped out by an act of
generosity. In the words of another
soldier, ~"The day will come when
this Great Country will recognize the
wonderous glory of the late war,
when the names of our dead will be
inscribed on the common roll of ill
ustrious sons, not as traitors worthy
of death, but sons worthy of love
and reverence".
Hampden and Cromwell are dear
to every English heart, and if from
English history, every English traitor
was stricken, the glory of the past
would be lost. Our Lee will be here
after what Cromwell is, but more; for
to him no crimes will be imputed,
no unmeasured ambition charged.
Our dead will be honored and our
heroes loved. This thought is beau
tifully expressed in the lines of a lit
tle poem no doubt familiar to many
of you, for they have become classic.
I will repeat a verse or two:
"By the flow of an inland river
Whence the iron fleets have fled,
Where the blades of the grave grass qui ver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day.
Under the one the blue;
Under the other the gray. -
Those in the robings of Glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with battle blood gory,
In the dust of eternity meet:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the laurel the blue,
Under the willow the gray.
So with an equal~splendor,
The morning rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Broidered with gold the blue;
Mellowed with gold the gray.
So when the summer calletli
On forest and tield of grain,
With an equal marmer falleth
The cooling drip of the rain;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Wet with the rain the blue,
Wet with the rain the gray."
These verses fittingly present the
sentiment of our Courtry in refer
ence to the dead. The poet who will
crystallize in verse the same senti
ment in respect to the living will
strike a responsive chord in the Am
erican heart. Indeed the history of
our Country ii this respect is without
parallel. Never before have a peo
ple so lately divided in hostile array,
been so quickly reunited. The gen
erosity of the North in this respect
stands forth unrivalled, as the only
ingtance of "victory without ven
geance, and defeat without degreda
tion." The assassination of Lincoln
was a ealmity to the South, because
it intensified the bitterness more
than the war itself, but even then the
South escaped lightly compared to
other conquered nations. The re
cords of other Dations are full of
wholesale massacres and proscriptions
of the conquered, of confiscation of
property, and the execution of the
Leaders of an unsuccessful revolu
tion. Had this been indulged in af
ter our war, two centries would not
have restored the harmony that now
exists.
In England the Puritans and Cav
aliers, and Jacobites and followers of
Hanover, never joined hands in har
mony.
The scaffolds and proscriptions of
the restoration were offset later by
those which followed the bloody field
of Culloden. It was only after sev
eral generations had passed awvay
that Great Britain ceased to be torn
by party hatred and insurrection.
We are satisfied with the result of the
war, and former deadly foes meet in
friendship. But even to this day
what Irishman can tamely accept the
position into which England forced
his country? What Polish patriot
has ever acknowledged, even after
sixty years, that Russian conquest
was best for his people? We all now
admit that it was best to have pre
served the Union intact, and the time
has come, when, without bitterness,
the very actors in the Great Drama
can discuss the events of the war.
In this connection, for the ske of
the truth and the young people that
are preseht, I desire briefly to allude
to the real motive of the war, so far
as man was concerned, It has be
come the fashion in some parts of the
North to make it appear that the war
was begun and fought upon the -high
moral ground of freeing the slaves,
and we of the South too readily yield
to this assumption. This is not true.
The Emancipation Proclamation of
Mr. Lincolin was a war measure and
an afterthought: the real cause of the
war lay deeper and was of a more
commercial character. After the
Revolutionary war was over, and the
new goverment commenced to run,
political parties were formed on sec
tional lines, based upon the different
industrial system of the respective
sections.
The South agricultural with slave
labor; the North manufacturing and
commercial with free labor. The
North wanted bounties for her ships:
the South opposed this. The North
wanted a Goverment Bank: the South
opposed it. The North wanted pro
tection for her manufactures; the
South opposed this. Wealth through
a protective tariff, was insidiously
drained from the South into the
North. In 1828, Benton, of Mis
souri, in a speech in the Senate said:
"Wealth has fled from the Soutb, and
settled in the regions north of the
Potomac, and this in face of the fact
that the South in fotur staples alone
has exported since the revolution]
eight hundred million dollars, and
the North comparatively nothing.
Virginia, the two Carolinas and
Georgia may be said to defray thbree
fourtbs of the annua! expense of
supporting the Federal Government,
and of this great sum annually furn-i
ished by them, nothing or next to
nothing is returned in the shape of
governmental expenditure. The ex
penditure flows in an opposite direc
tion: it flows Northward in one un-C
interupted and perennial stream. t
This is the reason why wealth dis- i
appears from the South and rises up!'
n the North. Federal legislation
does all this. It does it by the sim
plenproes of etearnally takingrn al
from the South and returning noth
ing to it. If it returned to the
South the whole or even a good part
of what it exacted, the four states
south of the Potomac might stand
the action of the sysbem, but the
South must be exhausted of its
money and its property by a course
of legislation, which is forever taking
away and returning nothing. Every
new tariff increases the force of the
action. No tariff has ever yet in
cluded Virginia, the two Carolinas
and Georgia, except to increase the
burdens placed upon them."
This is a true statement of what led
to Nullification in 1882. South Car
olina boldly refused under the leader
ship of Calhoun to submit to the new
tariff: the war nearly came then.
Why. I am told that the old brick
machine shop in front of the Gov
vernor's Mansion, was built to forge
guns to fight before submitting furth
er to the new tarifi, but "Old Hick
ory" Jackson was most too much for
us at that time. A compromise was
patched up, and the war only post
poned to break forth with greater
tierceness and upon a grander scale
thirty years later. The question
arose about the new territories, and
the North opposed the carrying of
slaves into them, not so much from
hostility to the institution of slavery
per se, as from the fear of trans
ferring the balance of political power
when these territories were admitted
into the Union as slave States, and
thereby imperil the system of protec
tion. Why, even after the first bat
tle of Manassas. a resolution of the
Federal Congress declared that the
war was not waged to destroy the
institution of slavery, but to pre
serve the Union. No fellow citizens
I do not propose to allow my chil
dren taught that on one side the mo
tives of the actors in that drama were
high, pure and unselfish, looking
alone towards the freedom and lib
erty of all mankind, while upon our
side all was selfish and narrow, look
towards the perpetual enslavement of
a portion of the human race.
Men have motives which influence
their conduct, and sometimes.ignoble
and selfish as they are, God uses
them as blind instruments to execute
his decree.1 Slavery had served its
purpose in partially civilizing the
blacks, and opening up and clearing
vast forests. It had reached the point
where it enslaved not only the negro
but-the "poor white man", and by a
life of luxury, in one more genera
tion, would have enervated and
ruined the sons and,daughters of the
rich. No my friend, you who owned
no slave, and shouldered your mus
ket and fought for four long years,
do not wish your children to believe,
that you were fighting for own
enslavement, as well as that of the
negro. The principles of local self
government and equality in taxation,
with all these fundamental questions
which have lain under every con
test for freedom, were at stake, and I
verily believe that slavery was the
only thing which kept the South from
succeeding, because that alone put
the God of Battles against us. "Ren
der unto Ceasar the things that .are
Ceasar's". I am thankful that the
negroes aretiree; glad that my whole
life has been spent amid a nation~ of
free people, and for the sake of pos
terity I want true history.
The average man North, in the be-i
ginning of the war,jwas heartilyin fa
vor of slavery,tand fugitive slaves were
readily returned by the very soldiers
who afterwards liberated them. The
influential and wealthy classes in the
North upheld slavery, because there
was money for them in the Southern
markets. The pro-slavery vote held
the balance of power, and United
States officials hunted fugitive slaves
across the Canadian border. A mob
of Yankee aristocrats dragged Win.
Loyd Garrison through the streets of
Boston with a rope around his neck.
Elijah Lovejoy was murdered because
he attacked human slavery| and the
Attorney General of Massachusetts
presided at a meeting in Fanieul
Hall which approved the murder. U.
S. Marshal Rbynders at the head of a
mob, broke up an Abolition meeting
in New York City. Forty years ago,
no Orator could in any Northern city
attack slavery without endangering
his life. Keep the record straight.
The school histories used in the
South are full of poison along these
lines, and I charge you as you love
your country, not to be placed in a
false position.
The North brought the slaves here,
sold them to us, and through a pro
tetive tariff enjoyed the lion's share
o the'profits of their labor. She is
as much responsible as we are, in the
ight of a just God, for the institu
tion. and cannot escape the truth of
history by claiming motives that did
not influence her conduct. The Re
publican party, based on protection
and born through sectional selfish
ness, was not influenced by the ab
stract right or wrong of slavery from
a moral standpoint. Let me be un
derstood. I speak of motives influenc
ing men. The North found out by
practical experiment that slavery in
that section was a failure, that it waEs
more profitable to sell slaves South,
and acquire a share of the profits by
leving a tax on their labor and calling
it a tariff. Inevitably the "Irre
pressible Conflict" came between
two sections, the one based on free,
the other on slave labor. The North
feared that the new territories coming
into the Union with slaves, would
transfer the balance of power, and
"nullify" the protective tariff so
essential to New England's prosper
ity. The inevitable shock of battle
came; Fort E--mter was fired upon
the old flag with its stars and stripes
was pulled down. The South ex
pected Northern aid from Democrats,
but national instinct taught those peo
ple, that there could be no enduring
prosperity except under one flag.
Thousands of thoughtful men in the
South felt the same way, but went
with their States. President Lincoln
leclared his indifference whether he
saved the Union "with or without
lavery, but it must be saved". After
wo years of fighting the slaves were
freed as a war measure. The Union
vas preserved: that wvas man's part.
lavey was abolished: that was God's'
art. For the North to claim its ab-'
lition as a primary philanthropic mo
ive is not only absurd, but totally op
>osed to all the facts of history. The
rue friend of the negro was not the
orthern sentimentalist, who thrust
ipan him so suddently the full respon
ibities of citizenship. Hoping to.
control the country through his vote,
and having failed in this, they are
equally ready to see him disfran
chised, if thereby they can iucrease the
representation of the South in Con
gress. The best friends of the negro
are the whites of his own land, and
with them he must settle his future
status as a citizen. A proper view of
the rights and duties of man in the
broadest sense;a high conception of
the sacredness of the ballot; a consti
tution which will confer no right or
privilege upon any citizen, in the exer
cise of which he cannot be protected,
must be the final settlement of the ne
gro question, because, whether dis
tasteful or not, this is the only founda
tion for enduring prosperity. Rights
to none that are not for the good of
the whole, but once conferred, sacred
and inalienable, because the safety
and welfare of a part of our population
must depend upon the safety and wel
fare of the whole. How strangely the
providences of God work out.
With the abolition of slavery came
a new industrial, era in the South.
With free labor manufacturing in
dustries, and a more intelligent agri
cultural system. The protective tariff
had steadily drained the resources of
the South, but now the stream began
to turn its current and flow South
ward.
The iron and coal of North Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, in
vited Northern capital to take advant
age of cheap free labor and a mild cli
mate, tnd to-day Birmingham is the
rival of Pittsburg. The sane mild
climate, cheap free labor and absence
of frieght are rapidly moving the cot
ton mills of Massachusetts and Con
necticut to South Carolinnand Geor
gia; affording a home market to our
farmers, and diversified employment
to their sons and daughters.
Spartanburg ships manufactured
goods to China and Japan. In Greens
boro, N. C., Northern capital is now
building a two million dollar plaid
mill, that will finish goods equal to
those of Manchester or Leeds: Seven
new factories built and in process of
construction, in Columbia, and hardly
a town in this State where the hum of
the spindle is not heard and the
smoke of the factory is not rising like
incense to heaven. The "Manufact
urer's Record" of October 18th, has
a large picture representing a scene
that was probably never witnessed
before. It shows the Granby cotton
mills, now being built near Columbia;
the cotton had to be cleared away from
the site, and the picture shows the
brick layers at work, while twenty
yards away, hands are picking cotton.
This mill is three hundred and seventy
feet long, and one hundred and
twenty-seven feet wide. What pic
ture could more forcibly tell of the
rapid growth of manufacturing in the
South. Mills situated right in the
cotton field, a living object lesson,
showing the folly of transporting raw
cotton one thousand miles for mann
facture. The mills will come to the
cotton, and freight saved will be
money in the planter's pocket, as well
as for the mill man.
In the county of Marlborough, we
have a factory at Mecioll, built with
home capital and officered by home
talent. Five years ago there were
three stores and about one hundred
inhabitants in the towvn. A few en
terprising spirits determined to build
a factory. Fifty thousand dollars was
subscribed, and a factory costing $110,
000,00 was soon in operation. Last
June the sixty thousand debt was
cancelled, and the plant increased fifty
thousand dollars, the new stock being
divided among the old share holders.
The result is that every man who in
vested one hundred dollars, has one
hundred and sixty dollars in stock.
The population has increased to
eight hundred, with schools and
churches oi the most modern archi
tecture, while the factory makes the
town one of the -best cotton markets
in Marlboro' or Marion. What was
possible at McColl is possible at any
town in South Carolina where there
is a Tatum and a Gilson.
The President of a large Massachu
setts mill just moved to Georgia, has
the following interview in an Atlanta
paper:
"We built this factory of 10,000
spindles in Georgia for purely busi
ness reasons. We believe the Manu
facture of cotton yarns in the South
more profitable than in Massachu
setts. Cotton is cheaper, coal is
cheaper, and labor is cheaper. For
instance, we pay $4.00 a ton-for coal
in Massachusetts, while I have con
tracted for a supply for our mill here
next year at $1.30. We shall con
tinue the operation of our mill in
Lowell. Having decided to enlarge
it, we made the addition here instead
of there."
The decision of this company to
make its extensions and enlaigement
in the South rather than in New
England will doubtless be repeated
by many New England concerns.
The following occurs in the Boston
Herald, and is clipped from the "Man
ufacturer's Record :"
The commercial primacy of the
worldjis very likely to be with the
country that can produce iron and
steel most cheaply. In addition to
having the largest iron product in the
world, the United States is evidently
becoming the seat of all the commer
cial activity which depends *on the
ability to produce iron and steel
cheaper than it can be done else
where."
As the South can prcduce iron at
a lower cost than any cether section,
and will eventually do the same in
steel-making, the commercial primacy
of the world must come to this sec
tion, The handwriting is on the wall.
Southward-the course of Empire takes
it away, and so the great business
leaders who made Chicago and the
West now see that they must take an
active part in the South's develop
ment in order to share its prosperity.
With ten years more of protection the
onsumers in the North, the great
:enters of population, will cry for free
rade as they did in England 50
years ago.
Aside from factories, among the
ther "infant industries" of South
arolina, tobacco culture plays a con
ipicous part. Our tobacco is bring
ng the top of the market. One of
1arlboro's farmers told me that his~
obacco crop netted him eighty-two
wd one half per acre. The News
md Courier, and Register have
horoughly advertised eastern Caro
ia in the tobacco industry. The
-ior datc of wa attasege on the cu
S. and N. Railroad; he got off the
train, kicked up some dirt, felt it in
his fingers, pulled up a cornstalk and
did the same thing, got off at the next
station and the next, and repeated
his capers. My curiosity was aroused,
and I asked him if he was some Yan
kee hunting dirt to adulterate meal
and sugar with". (You know our
Marl' zo' dirt is 'most good enough
to cat.) He said, "Oh no"; that he
had read "J. E. N"., and was hunting
land to make tobacco upon; that he
was from Virginia, and thought there
was a fortune in South Carolina to
bacco. le said that he would soon
have a monoply in certain grades of
tobacco.
In soil, climate and natural re
sources the two sections will not bear
comlparison. The fields of the South
are richer than ever with unfailing
crops; her mines, scarce developed,
each year increase their product of
inexhaustible wealth. With manu
facturing industries constantly ex
panding and railroads spreading over
all available territory, we have but
to turn our hearts and our hands to
utilizing thesevast resources, and out
of the ashes of defeat we sill pluck a
glorious victory.
When the South makes bread and
meat to feed her people, and with her
ownmills spins her own cotton, then
will she stand forth infinite in riche,
mutchless in beauty, a Glorious Queen,
the commercial mistress of the earth.
The figures of the last census all
prophesy this, and God be praised,
out own -State does her share. In
the last ten years she has outstripped
all conpetitors in the increase of
msnufacturing industries. Proud little
SK!e, in the forefront, leader again,
in ' the new battle for supremacy.
T'is too my friends in spite of an ad
verse financial system, in spite of a
volume of money that has been stead
ily contracting. Let every farmer
make his supplies at home, cotton and
tobacco his surplus crop and our iron
fun.aces and cotton factories will ac
c .lish what cannon faild to do at
G' tysburg.
Ladies:-I would be an unworthy
sn of Carolina did I not pay my
special respect to you on this auspic
ioas occason. I am glad you are here;
your presence is honor to the dead
and encouragement to the living. I
Dave addressed some of the men pres
b.nt as "Survivors". It is thirty years
since the war closed. Age is a del
icate subject to handle in your pres
dee; I never saw a "horse trader"
with an animal more than "nine year
prt", or a widow or maid more than
twenty-eight years old. Judging by
the looks of all I see before me, I am
sure none of you can be more than
"sweet sixteen"; or, if you are "Surviv
ors", your hearts yet sweat, tender
and young, have enabled you to defy
the ravages of time. The "Women
of the South" during the war! What
a flood of tender memories these few
words recall! My only recollection of
the war is the close, and a fair young
mother barely twenty-two, widowed,
with three children, myself, the eldest,
less than four years of age. Oh, those
troublous times when Sherman
marched by! I remember very well
that they took everything on the
place except one old yellow pullet
that flew too fast and too far for even
"Sherman's Bummers" to catch. This
old hen lived many years after the
the war, and I always imagined that
the other chickens looked upon this
fnoe old ante-bellum aristocrat, and
sole "Survivor", with more than or
dinary respect and awe. You ladies
did your part nobly during the war,
and sincethen you have been the stay,
comfort and inspiration in the re
demption of our country. Hundreds
of women all over the . South,
reared in the lap of luxury,
whose fingers touched nothing rough
er than the keys of the piano, whose
weightiest thought was as to which
shades of silk best adorned their
beauty, left the piano for the loom,
substituted homespun of their own
spinning for silk, and foresook the
ball-room for the hospital. Instead
of fashionable garments for them
selves, they made clothes for the sol
diers. and bandages for the wound
ed. History records the fact that
nearly all the bandages used at the
irst battle of Manassas were made and
forwarded by two Georgia women.
Blessed with a land of unrivalled
beauty, and marvellous richness, our
women are its chief jewels. Show me
the me~n who does not reverence wom
en next to his Creator, and who, for the
sake of his mother's memory, is not
tender and considerate to all her sex,
and I will show you a wre tch whose
heart is dead to every noble impulse
and generous emotion, and who
"Shall go down,
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, Unhonored, and Unsung."
Paraphrasing the words of another,
Ther6 is no shrine of God so sacred as
a mother's knee; there is no school,
academy, or university, whose light
so fructifies the mind and kindles the
heart, as that which radiates from the
hearthstone of nomae. Ladies, would
you mould the destinies of mankind,
then let it be by your influence upon
the homes of this country, and not
through the ballot box. lou are now
above man; do not be dragged down
to this lower level If the women of
South Carolina went to vote, why, in
the name of the Lord, turn the gov
ernment over to them, and let them
run it without the men: elevate the
suffrage so high that the men are un
fit to participate, but I have no sym
pathy for the sic/dy whine, that we,
the inen of South Catrolina, cannot
maintain white supramecy without
dragging down our wives and daugh
ters, to soil their while robes in the
quagmire of politics. In intelligence
and fitness, woman is the peer, nay,
her moral qualities make her the su
perior of man, and while woman suf
frage will come, the time is not yet.
I am a little old-fashioned, and, per
haps, sefinsh. The women like my
mother are good enough for me, and
it makes me shudder to think of my
mother wearing bloomers, riding a
biccle, and voting. Women have
ruled the world wvithout ballots ever
since Adam ate of the apple because
Eve did. More than fifteen hundred
years ago, Cato, the Roman censor,
said, "All men naturally govern wom
en, we govern all men, and our wives
govern us." The same is true to-dayv.
I have addressed the3 "S urvivors"~,
paid my respects to the ladies, and if
you will permit me to say a word to
the young men, I will trespass no
further upon your time.
Sme wise philosopher has said
that "young men are more like the
age in which they live than they are
like their fathers." "This must be
tras of the progressive races of hn
manity, and well that it is true.
Our fathers had their work to do,
and well and noble did they do it.
We have another and different duty to
perform. We live in another and
different age. Let us keep in full
touchiwith its advanced thought and
spirit of progress. Let us push
steadily to the front, thinking for our
selves and acting for ourselves; rev
erencing the past, but ever mindful
that we cannot live in it.
In spite of everything that you and
I can do, prosperity will come to the
South. The question is, shall we "to
the mannor born", secure to our
selves the fruits which by inheritance
should be ours, or let them go to bless
the "stranger within our gate"? The
Almighty will not permit the un
rivalled natural advantages of this
land to be wasted because of our fail
ure to appreciate and utilize them.
Foreign capital and other brain and
muscle will be quick to seize every
opportunity. A political cyclone
struck our State five years ago; it had
to come in the very nature of things,
but its main purpose having been ac
complished, a period of rest and an
era of patriotism is needed. Young
men would we have our share in the
coming prosperity, our share in the
glory of the building up of this State,
then for the next four years let us
have less politics and more factories.
Instead of making ourselves noted
abroad for the bitterness ofQour fac
tional fights, let the progress and
development of our internal resources,
advertise South Carolina to the world,
as the land of "peace and;:plenty."
Let us ever be ready to sacrifice poli
tical ambition to the good of our
State to choose rather the rewards,
which follow the consciousness' of
duty done,'than',the ephermal gloryof
the wily politician.
Raise high the standard for public
honors! Political cowards and petty
time-servers never led a nation along
the paths of true greatness. Re qnire
of your public men the intelligence,
patriotism, and independence of
character that commands confidence
abroad,andifittingly.presentsyou to the
world asta broad minded, cultivated,
and progressive people. He is
greater "that ruleth his own spirit
than he that taketh a city." Stamp
out what is little, narrow and sec
tional in ourselves, and we will have
the world at our feet.
It is not the toweiing mountains,
the wide plains, the fertile valleys or
the flowing rivers that can make us a
great people.
"What censtitutes a State?
Not high raised battlements or labored
mound,
Thiek walls or moated gate;
Not cities proud with spires and turrets
crowned;
Not bays with broad armed ports,
Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies
ride;
Nrafter spangled courts,
Where low browed baseness wafts per
fumes to pride.
No! Men, high minded men.
Men, who their duties know,
But know their rights; and knowing -dare
maintain,
Prevent the long aimed blow,
And crnsh the tyrant, while they rend the
chain
These {constitute a State."
"Men! Men! High minded men!"
in the field, in the shop, in the forum,
in public office, "These constitute a
State."
CLARENDON'S HA1(
For Honest Goods a
Levi-:-Broti
FALL 0
Elegant Goods and Mo
Investigate the golder
stock affords. We si
and see our goods,
will find the highest
prices. Our new go
appreciated. Samplei
Dr'e88 Goods.
inspection. This line includes the
styles in cheviots, Scotch effects, t
covert cloth, with smoother weaves
Shoes for Men.
Shoes for the
Shoes for Kisses.
In this depart
Notionsand gents' hand
in all sizes, colors and styles, and
thread, needles, pins, soaps in al
hair-pins (plain and fancy), perfun
spreads, doylies and hosiery for
styles, colors and sizes, and at p
(trimmed and untrimmed) for lad
best desigas; velvets, satins, ribb<
Low-Priced Clothing for
Best and Cheapes
Tin-ware.
When you visit Sumter e
our store your headqua
tentive salesmen alwayl
trouble to show goods.
goods and prices before
Come early and avoid tl
Highest Prices F
I.m~V1 aIL
Money to Loan.
M.&Nmio, S. C., Oct. 29, 1895.
I have made arrangements with brokers
in New York City, through whom I am able
to place loans secured by first mortgage on
improved farms for five years time, pay
able in instalments, at the low rate of 8
per cent interest pet annum. The brokcr
age and the charge for abstract and inspec
tion are small and at the expense of the
borrower.
If you want cheap money come in at
once, as the supply is limited.
B. PRESSLEY BARRON
Attorney.
Have
You
"Daisy"
Woven-Wire
Spring'?
If not, how can you expect to sleep well
without one? With a "Daisy" your mat
tress will not be continually dropping be
tween the slats, and you will not be for
ever hunting a comfortable spot to rest
your weary bones. The entire bed wI be
comforable, and your mbttiess will last
four times as long.
T3LtT OT3
OUR PRICE, ONLY $2.
All other kinds of Fur
niture just as cheap.
ARTHUR BELITZER,S..
The TelTy Fih Company
WHOLESALE SHIPPERS OF
N!ih Ni of a En~ds, 0y1tei Clap
Our regular season for shipments of
fresh fish (packed in ice) being now open,
we are prepared to ship you any desired
quantity. Charleston is the only market
south that can offer a large variety of fish,
and, being situated on the ocean, where
they are caught, must be fresh. We solicit
your patronags.
Consignments of poultry, eggs, etc., so
licited. Account sales and check mailed
*day of sale.
22 AND 24 MARKET ST., CHARLESTON. S. 0.
0. 0. LESLIE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
COMMISSION DEALER IN
Fish Packed for Ceuatrj Srders a Special
No charges for paeking. Send for price
list. Consignments of country produce are
respectfully solicited. Poultry, eggs, etc.
Stalls Nos. 1 and 2 Fish Market.
Office, Nos. 18 and 20 Market st.,
east of Bay. . . . .
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Notice to Creditors.
A LL PERSONS HAVING CL AIMS
1.against the estate of Susanna E. Plow
den, deceased, will present them, duly at
tested, and those owing said estate will.
make payment to "H a~a~araw-.
E. R. PwDENxr, .
Executors..
Sardinia, S. C., Nov. 5, 1805.
1UARTERS IN SUXTER.
nd Popular Prices Is
iers'-: Bazar
PE NING.
st Splendid Attractions
I opportunity our new
mply ask you to come
issuring all that they
grades and uniform
as must be seen to be
i sent on application.
gest assortment of Dress Goodl:
ight to this city now open for your
newest, latest and most correct, ..
wo-toned silk and wool, English
Sblack and domestic dress goods.
Shoes for Ladies.
Little Ones.
Shoes for Boys.
ment will be found laces, ladies'
kerchiefs in lace, silk and cotton,
at the lowest prices; hamburgs,.
1 the latest styles and fashions;-:
les, towels, white and colored beds
men, ladies and children, in allt.
rices to suit all; underwear, hats.
ies and misses, all the newest andj
ns, and many other notions. ..
Xeni, Boys and Children
Best Bacon.
t Canned Goods.
Willow-ware.
all and see us and make
rters. Polite and at
s in attendance. No
Call and examine our
purchasing elsewhere.
:e rush. . -
'aid for Cotton..
- -mas