The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, July 10, 1913, Page 3, Image 3
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Ladies and Gentlemen: ! <
L The fourth of July, 1776, was tne
B| date of the declaration of indepen- r
fm dence, but the 4th of July 1801, was 1
5g? the date upon which it was carried! i
into full effect by the establishment! i
of our National Capital. Then we \ <
' were but thirteen States struggling !
S along the Atlantic seaboard, with a ]
population of three million: to day; <
j| ^ union and independence are watch- 1
words for ninety million people, a <
continent teeming with industry, and , i
\then stretching across the Pacific to
the far off Orient where millions live :
under the stars and stripes. It was !
no empty jingle of words when the :
revolutionary fathers pledged their ,
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred '
honor in defense of a young republic.;
This was peculiarly true of Virginia ^
and South Carolina, the favored, pet- i ^
* ted children of the mother country, i ^
v settled with her best blood. Every; ,
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one of these self-sacrificing leaders
who so nobly broke the way for a r
higher civilization could have aligned j
himself on the side of English j ?
rule and gained wealth and high posi- j 5
in? Mnrinn and Sumter: Wash-;
l ington and Patrick Henry could have \
been sharers in the profit which came ! (
from England's oppression. It would , ^
not have touched them, for all of its j
exactions would have fallen on thej ^
working masses, just as the burden ^
^ . of the present unjust taxation and r
currency system falls upon produc-; 1
tive labor. j 1
It was not with these men a ques- *
i i
tion of money, but of principle, voic- j .
^ ed in these words, "Give me liberty t
or give me death," and "No taxation .
f without representation."
Foundation of Republic. j ]
? * The American republic was found- <
ed by two classes working together j <
harmoniously to a common end. j 1
One was made up from the large \ i
? landed proprietors, professional and j s
commercial men. 1
The other from small farmers, me- t
chanics and laborers. ]
The first named were tne aream- i i
ers gifted with political . vision: j t
nation builders, whom God sends to j t
the earth when his mighty tasks are j i
I y to be done. Washington and Jefter- j i
son, Franklin. and Thomas Paine,! t
these had eyes to see the pillar of j 1
cloud by day and the pillar of fire by j i
night and lead a "chosen people" i
dry shod through the depths of a Red i
Sea into the "Promised Land." t
^ The beautiful unselfishness of 1
> ' these grand men was even more "<
sublime than their heroism. Our in- j
ternal trade amounted to very little, 1
% because England had prevented man-1 1
ufacturing development so as to force | (
the colonies to buy from her. We 1
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were absolutelv dependent upon the ]
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sale of our raw products abroad. This i
was peculiary true in the South, i i
where indigo, rice, cotton and tobac- j '<
co were sold exclusively in London.: 1
The rich planters around Charleston j
* and the city itself were dependent i
for all the comforts of life on these 1
products, and rebellion meant poverty i
and hardship. Yet Charleston was <
one of the first .to respond by send- i
ing supplies and words of encourage- 1
ment to Boston. South Carolina in s
proportion to population contributed: i
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I r more in men and money than any j ]
s nniAn roenrH chnwc i 5
sta cc m iuc uuluu. A ~ , that
at the end of the war the gerer- ]
al government owed her more mon- i
V ' - i
ey, advanced for the common cause. 1
In the North, New York, Philadel-!<
phia, and all of the large cities were ;
in the hands of the British, and were :
v crying out to stop the war, but Mari- 1
on and Sumter kept it alive and ]
hanging like wolf hounds on the i
flanks of the enemy from Eutawville <
* to Camden, until at Cowpens and i
then at King's Mountain, the brave :
men of the hills gave him such a 1
staggering blow that the surrender i
at Yorktown ended the war. | i
England seemed to be more deter- j 1
mined to hold on to South Carolina , i
: than any other colony, and concen- 1
? trated more effort in men and money, r
,<* ^ Not only in war, but in the more insidious
form of creating a sentiment j 1
for the crown. She had been so kind ! <
to the colony that the Tories were ]
formidable in number. They played '
not only upon greed, but also fears | i
and the lesson of the Scotch outbreak 1
of 1745, with inglorious death at the :
headsman's block, was there to illus- 1
trate to our leaders the kind of ]
bloody justice that England meted <
out to so-called traitors who opposed <
> her iron rule.
England's great anxiety to hold <
South Carolina was no doubt on ac- :
count of the Edisto river, for the Brit- .
ish General wrote home that if they j
*i lost every other colony, by all means
to retain South Carolina, because
there were no such fish on the habit
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ible globe as in the Edisto.
You know Sumter and Marion t
lever let the British stop long enough i
:o eat fish out of the Pee Dee, which
s a good thing, because if they had
found the robin and the blue-bream
>f the Pee Dee, I am afraid that
South Carolina would to-day be a
British colony, for they would have
concentrated every man and gun to
lold a territory through which flowed
two such rivers as the Pee Dee
ind the Edisto.
The World Republicanized.
In the year 1800 there was not a
lation on the earth where the masses
had a voice in its government.
They were subjects not people. In
ene century the example and influence
)f these United States has been such
;hat there is not a nation in the affairs
of which the people have no 1
,roice. They have now a constitution
ind a vote even in cruel Russia.
Europe has six republics, and the c
lew born Balkan States will ultimate- *
ly constitute the United States of ]
South Europe, and the republican *
spirit born of freedom spread into *
Austria and Germany.
China has thrown off the shackles *
)f 3000 years and 400 million people *
nodelled a government after ours. (
In Africa the status left by the *
Boer war cannot last, and in time
t
vill come the United States of Africa,
rhe undeveloped resources of that
.rast continent will surely attract the
>*oung, ambitious, and strong of all (
;he nations, as did the Unites States 1
j
n the last centuay. In Mexico, with
;he military despotism of Diaz over:hrown,
Madero murdered, and one c
revolution succeeding another, we ]
lave just such a condition as obtain- 1
id in Cuba. The strong, firm hand
]
)f Uncle Sam must be put forth, not
or conquest, but to restore peace
md civilization. We are doing the
>ame work in the Philippines, and I
lave never doubted that as soon as ^
:hose people could stand alone and
maintain self-government that the 1
[Jnited States would withdraw, reaining
coaling stations and with
hem affection, good will, and trade;
naking it the basis for opening the
markets of China to the cotton of
;he South. The whole world is being
-epublicanized: the great monarches
left are only standing to-day by 1
eason of their recognition of the (
ight of the people to rule, and even 1
;he Imperial War Lord of Germany c
las to consent to a wider and wider *
roice of the people in the affairs of 'e
government. After 137 years the *
[Jnited States stands as the beacon 1
ight, showing the road first pointed 1
>ut by the Carpenter's Son, and then 1
'orgotten for eighteen centuries. It 1
means the dealing together of the 1
lations of the earth to their mutual. *
>rofit, the advancement of civilization
md the promotion of the material
velfare of mankind everywhere.
The statesman who looks at material
things sees only the Monroe docTine,
a biilion dollars of American
tnonev and as much more British and
German capital in Mexican mines and
ailrOads needing protection, but he
tvho believes in higher things must
see the hand of Almighty God, using
is as His instruments in spreading
human liberty and Christian civilisation.
Many good people oppose expansion,
because it increases our
aational obligations.* They forget
that no nation or individual ever acquired
power and influence without
a corresponding increase in responsibility.
A shrinking .from responsibility
is cowardice, and the American
people are not cowards. This does
lot necessarily mean in every case acquisition
of territory. Standing as
the United States does to-day, the
largest exporting nation, with the
hpnvipct hnlsmop of thp world's trade I
in her favor, the wealthiest and most 1
resourceful, she is the dominant in- 1
fluence for progress and civilization, ]
our diversity of production is mar- i
ceious, our versatility in science and 1
nechanics is the wonder of the world. 5
With our vast wealth we cannot shut i
ourselves up and allow the redun- i
dance of our products to make us <
poor; we must have ever widening i
world markets for the surplus, and )
in doing this we carry with us .the 1
lesson of our civilization, with all of <
its mighty potentialities. If we right- ]
ly use our opportunities, no imagination
is sufficiently gifted to fore- '
cast the future of this country. If i
one had seen the pilgrims land on i
the barren shores of New England 1
or a feeble colony plant itself amid
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savages at jamesiuwu unu purua^cu
in true story the glorious future of :
this country, he would have been
mocked as a prophet with a distem- <
pered imagination. And yet, from 1
time's topmost peak, if one to-day
I
should give rein to his imaginatic
md attempt to forecast the futui
)f this republic, it woujd be a fail
ale, as a story half written or a pi'
ure dimly painted, with all of tt
splendid coloring left out.
Our fathers laid broad foundatioi
md forecasted well the future. Tt
rrises through which we have passe
ike the late war, while menaciE
he stability of the union, never in
perilled the principle of human fre<
lom.
Out of that fiery ordeal we stan
;o-day with a union stronger aE
jatriotism broader and deeper.
Has the world ever had such
jaegant as this day sees on the ba
:le-field of Gettysburg. Tne survr
)rs of that great conflict, worn wit
ime, clasping hands as brothers; ba
.le flags furled; with tottering stei
;hey march, where Pickett charge
md Hancock thundered. Whj
;houghts, what visions they se
vords cannot tell. The charge <
:hundering thousands, the boom <
jreat guns, the rattle of the muske
y, the groans of the wounded an
he cold dead faces; Longstreet call
ind immoveable; Pickett leadir
lown his hosts to death, and at tl
md the noble, majestic Lee, maj
janimous to the last, taking all tl
ilame.
Gathered peacefully on that fie]
ire veterans from the rock-bour
masts of Main to California's golde
?ate, from the crystal waters of Si
lerior to the ever-green shores of tl
Mexican sea; from Carolina's sunr
dopes and Dakota's bleak prairie
Dne people and one flag; all contei
;o rest like brothers beneath its fob
'rom the dawn of morn, when tl
jarth is wrapped in grey, to the se
;ing sun, when the skies don tl
ilue. We have made mistakes, ar
;he grievous blunder of the 14th ar
Loth amendment still threatens, bi
as we see the vanishing shadov
lown the great highway we ha^
;raveled, we hear the tramp of tl
footsteps of our race, now diml
is. the path falls into some de<
;hasm of hate and sectionalism; the
more clearly upward and on war
lever backward. Step by ste
he process of education and advanc
nent has proceeded. Each decac
las shown some progress in son
liTection of human endeavor ai
human improvement. Even war
jreat ploughshare turned under mai
veeds and brought to the.surface
)ewer and richer soil. I doubt no
"Through the ages one increas
ing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are wi<
ened with the process of tl
suns."
Moral Advancement.
No nation in past history has ha
such a scheme of government i
>urs; whereever there has been fai
ire it is because we have.fallen sho
)f its ideal of true human freedor
isolated for a century in the Wee
is was the earliest race in the Eas
;he United States became the gre;
moral center from which politic
ight has been diffused over tl
vorld. The Spanish war ?udden
pushed us into a more conspicuoi
Mace, that is all. New resjponsibil
:ies like Cuba, the Philippines, ar
Mexico make us a nation of f<
nore importance to the human ra<
md its history than ever was Isra
)f old.
More progress has been made :
science in the past century than
5000 years preceding. In the fieb
)f discovery mechanical inventic
las revolutionized agriculture by fu
lishing substitutes for the labor i
nan, and insured abundance of ra
naterial for manufacture, so that tl
ordinary laborer has more real cor
Jorts than old time kings. The pri:
ciple of these inventions lay dormai
:hrough all the centuries until tl
christianized intellect of the 191
century explored these hidden mini
md harnessed great forces to be se
rants of the material progress <
nan.
So, my friends, must the intelle
)f the twentieth century master tl
noral forces which go hand in har
vith these material things, in ordi
to secure lasting greatness. It
?asy to see that we are now form:
ating theories in human governmej
:o correspond with the handiwork i
Morse, Edison, and Marconi. Socia
sm begins to take on a new meanin
:he progressive Western states a:
jrving out for new tools and ne
machinery, they call them stranj
names, the initiative, the refere
3um, the recall. It all means th;
government was made for man ar
not man for government, and th;
vritten constitutions are not stron
ir than the needs and wishes of tl
people who live under them.
South Carolina has been havii
'growing pains" these twenty year
ind I hope that I will live to see tl
lay when she will again take tl
lead in national thought. Gover
ment is coming to rest absolute
upon the consent of the governe
mrt the old idea of political socie
enacting laws to hold men in phys
? ? ?? x ? 2 ? a ?? ""'a f a cr\n\
j3,1 resiraim must guc na? w
tv upon a plane where the sense
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