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\ t I ."I*.i *lr'» OFAKEM' ADDKESSES Olfi SOUHERS. Hon. D. S: Henderson, a Former Colleton- livers Eloquent Address to the Remnant of the Legion of Grey Appeals for Aid to Monument. i and gentlemen: It is need- len for me'to say how gratfied 1 am to bo preant todav and respond to the kind invitation to address you, extended by the joint committee of your Fair Anoeiation and the United Confederate Veterans. Native and to the manner of old CbUeton born. I have always been devoted to her traditions, her his tory and her interests; and so I ex pect to be ontil my last expiring breath. “The mother may forget her child. Who Mulea so sweetly on her knee, fiat I will remember thee Glencairn, And eO that thou bast done forme." And here before the public, of the goad old county, I desire to thank you all for the handsome vote you gave am when I ran for the Senate in 1808. The sequel of that race, as Javsloptd by the lapee of leaves with me no regrets; and I stand before you today aa a private dtbea, to acknowledge that what ever of success, of influence for goad, and for standing among the of my State I have, is to the liberal sentiments iration imbibed from myi (who were always' faithful to old Colleton); and her j good and patriotic people, m wHl aa | »de. from Moats to fhe comprising some fourteen hundred years, presents an unbroken series of war of defense; or of invasion and extermination. And besides that, we live in the time of an enlightened Christian generation, which has overcome the severities and bar barities of war. 3 Alexander the great, after the capture of the city of Tyre, ordered two thousand of the inhabitants to I be crucified, and the remainder the population were put to death sold into slavery. During the seige of Jerusalem. blot ever csme on her fair farr.e^and name. In the last Jays of the struggle. the boy, und, r 16 .nd old m.n over thouMllds of thCT) „„ « ow,^comp«.««dp r c.t«t. , rrirtil)U) , ivj n , “‘Sf ho rj vessels of the Temple of Jeruvlem d.d th.,r foil shore, erther m the „„ ^ b P , he Wood , uiMd hosp.ul S ormprop«m,Md^,n ?|hwMi|1(>fthtRonlim sj to front neojswv suppl.e, with; the JewWl chirf ^„ >(th the their praters md inspiration. The: of the Jewi>h conduct^ noWe women of tho« dnys « in t0 Rome whe „ ^ the trium . T , ’T v °1 thMr Phalmwchof the Uomin genenl ^’ ongthe Appien woy. «h1 then . mother of <dd buekled on m«iy a „ u thro .^ hjt ^ rtueU j. the bo„ were *nt out to he war dnned to the Forum, meet the brunt of the furious fray. I whwe ^ ^ tormented to before her sdna; sad with increased facilities of lifeeoming up to ua all froA the necevtiesof nature, let us all, in puMic and in private rededi cate ourselves to the task of elevat ing and uplifting our womanhood and our manhood in matters of use fulness. education, morality and Christianity, so that her future will be more glorious even than her historic and patriotic past. NEMO MY AT FAIR the year 70 of the Christian era. under Titus, the Ronun (enenl. j JW# MlNMED NIGH SCtlMH. CHIU' over a million Jews perished by the of or m Col. Henderson then in forcefull t death; and yet the great Titus was language gave many an incident as; no t accused by his contemporaries of to the going to the front of the{ crue ity, Colleton soldiers which brought forth truthful scenes to the old soldiers who cheered him to the echo He then made a powerfull time ' iwu appeal ’ 1 for the building of the monument to i the good people of my adopted ‘ the heroes who bled and suffered for I the confederate cause. His references to the cau^e and i the results of the war were most en- ! tertaining and instructive, replete ! as they with illustrative the historic Oattlee of those da:s and other times, and showing by comparison the renown and honor which blessed the confederate soldier, rank and flit. r lam not here to deliver any studied oration, but to talk to you J in an ofihand, heart to heart man ner. «• I heartily congratulate you on the old Colleton, which, in her name, high born from one of the Lord’s Proprietors of ftngland; uf her hi^- i He enthused the people ^ j high duty of completing with the the fund | for the erection of the Confedrate Monument on the court house square, which he said had already witnessed so many historic scenes in old Colleton. © He then closed ae follows: The struggle between the states tory;,and in the good name of aona, stands second to none in State. I heartily congratule you also on the new Colleton of today, which, though shorn of some of its territory. her; in th* the teikible war. which devastated the Soutlf. although it was as if we passed through the fiery furnace, was purification cf Amet ican citizen ship. It is no longer the puritan, the Cavalier and the Huguenot, but jret in its progress and healthy de-. it is the American, all engaged in velopmefit and liberal sentiments, the upbuilding of a great country, stands abreast with the onward' and regarding ourselves as citizens march of the enterprise which is of a great country, when we reflect evidenced in alt parts at the State, how much better, we are. as mem- If I took up the oid life and com- • bers of the great union, in compari- pared it witn the ne«, you would son to the troubles which other peo- but enjoy the leisurely habits of pies and other races have endured tMupitality and honesty reflected and in the part. we ought to be proud of engrafted on tie bustle and hustle ourselves as Americans. It was one of the new life, as »t.o *n here today of South Carolina's greatest sons, ia this magnificent dciylay of your Christopher Gadsden, who before county's resources which i see be- Ihe Revolution, in its inctpiency. in fore me. " its convention at Boston to protest TMro.d town, Waite bo o. perch-d against the iniquitious Stamp Act, here amid the healthy sand ridges, proclaimed that there should be no with its harmonious inhabitants, sup- New England, qo Virginia, no Caro- ported by the ptaatauons along the liras, but all Americans. In Pagan Rome, war was the rule; peace was the exception. The Temple of Janus was alwayA open in the time of war. ied closed in time of peadev>; History tells u*.thet from the reigon of Romulus to the time of the great Augusta, a period of some seven hundred yean, the South waa. . i Temple of Janus was always open, Its people lead the life of educated except twice, and it was closed for leisure, of Christian generosity, of only abouy five yean. the Aahepjo and the Ediato. where the Lords of th • lard worked thousands o: staves; and by smaller terms In the highlandr, where crops were made with fewer slaves; and the hardy toil of the white owners, is a good illustration of what the communities of the old devoted patriotism; and because. • people, they had never hustled with the noisy world, they lived in the belief that they would never be disturbed. The snort of ■ locomo tive would have been profound to the folks; the toot/>f an auto would have scared the children to death. Yet when the bugle note of prepara tion rang through the land; when the sons of the land, “where the me eking bird sang you to sleep every night,” were called to arms to de fend their principles, their tenets, their beliefa of liberty and indepen dence, handed down to them by their ancestry from the days of the Colonies and the Revolution, there was a response, hearty, prompt and, patriotic, in which > all classes of citiaeiiship joined, which illustrated the manly nature of the people from which you, who are here today, descended. And you should be proud of them. She gave to the war eleven dis tinct companies of soldiers; and be- •das this, at least two hundred me went in under outside organisations, about 1400 raak and AM. In compsri.on to that, when we look at the United States, she has in the past been comparatively a peace able people; four years of the Re- voluionary struggle, a short time during the war of 1812, a little brush with Mexico, then our four years of internecine strife and a few months with Cuba, and now wc stand in peaceable relations with all the world; and in comparuion to con- j and not of tinental Europe, which is an armed tyranny; and it camp and constantly making drain upon her citizenship for military purpefees, whilst we can engage in the marts of peace and keep our young people at home, and lead theff in the paths of civil life. But a few weeks ago the International court, at the „ Hague, settled (; the dispute between Great Britian and this country as to New Foundland fisheries, which if it had come along a half century ago wbould have brought war. How much comfort can we obtain from the comparison of our situation and its freedom I from war, turmoil and vaxations, when we look even farther back into the poet than Roman History! The Hebrew people were nonet ant- ly in wurfeta; The Sacred On the other hand we can recall that benevolent act upon the capi tulation. which was granted by General Grant to the soldiers of Lee st Appomattox, when they were allowed to .return to their homes without any humiliation, and permit ted to take their horses for the pur poses of building up waste places; and yet while the asperities of the Confederate struggle gave us some lessons of improvement on the part of the conduct of the victorious armies, as taken into comparison with those of the people of old, the indiginities and the outrages which were forced upon our people by the politicians of the North in the re construction period has no parallel in history. The effort on the part of those in power to enfranchise the former slaves of the South; and to make them the masters over the white people of the South, was the greatest outrage that was ever per petrated upon a civilized people; and we have lived to see the day when the successors of those politi cal tyrants, who perpetrated these outrages upon us, realize the tre mendous mistake that was made, not only as against the Southern people, but as against the ,poor slaves, who wdfe'made the dupes and the tools of those, who desired to obtain political aggrandizement. Today we stand in a new light; today we live a new life; around us and with us and among us are greater responsibilities, but greater hopes. We belong to a great nation. Let us demand and have our share in her honors and emoluments. Let us send forth as our representatives those who will enfrree our right and discharge our share of our common duty.. We have been recently witnessing the remarkable sight of an ex-presi dent of the United States, after hav ing been feted by ‘ the crowned heads of Europe and Asia, pranc ing all over the states and endeavor ing to incite the pupular mind to a fanatic propaganda in favor of “a New Nationality"; urgifig a greater centralization of the power of the Fed ral Government at the expense of the reserved rights of the States as guaranteed by the Federal con stitution. as given to us by the fathers: and even going to the extent of openly criticising the plain enunciations of the Great Supreme Court of the United State*. These are dangerous sentiments to be taught in our enlightened age | and should receive thhe condemns | lion of ail good citizens, who seek to : make the Nation one of moderation REN MAKII IN PARAK IF NEGRO SCHOOLS ANI LISTEN TO ELOQUENT AWRESSES. fair the new Negro day at the county was characterized by one of speakers as ‘Something under the Sun, " and it possibly was. But such "new" ventures should prove most beneficial to the members of both races, and the fair management will possi bly continue this occasion from year to year. Judging from the earnest manner in which the large crowd of negroes listened to the eloquent addresses of the invited sneakers, It'will do much good to tne race in this county. A very creditable exhibit was that in the negro building, al though it was not so large re it may have been and not nearly so large re it will be next year. The purposes of this negro day w ere doubtless not so Well under stood is the reason for the fail ure to have a large exhibit The speakers referred to this build ing re an evidence of the friend ly feeling existing betw*een the whites and negroes in Colleton county. And it can he said to the cred it of the negroes who were pres ent and there were fifteen hun dred of them, that not one word nor act of theirs was the least improper. It was a sober, earn est well-meaning crowd. The advice given them was good arid will result in good. The exercises of the day be gan with a parade of twu hun dred of the school children of the Walterboro and other schools. This parade was formed at, the negro school at 10 o'clock and led by the negro band of the old plantation show, marched down Hampton street Railroad avenue. Black street and encircling the race track halted around the speakers stand. Rev Martin principal of the Walterboro school commanded the parade which was preceded by Dr. H. W. Black, county superinted- ent and W. W. Smoak re mem ber of the county board of educa tion. Pink badges were pinned on eaeh pupil. Upon assembling at the speak ers stand. Rev. wTT. Frasier de livered a brief introductory ad- ress in which he referred to the wonderful progress made by the negro race since freedom, and expressed the belief that this progress is but just started. He thanked the Fair association for this negro day and the negro building which is something new under the sun. He then introduced Rev. £. B. EDISTO EDDIES. Smoak*. Nov. 10.—Mr. and Mr*. Liston, Mias Annie Laurie Liston, EL O. Connor. Frank Connor, Miss Lula Connor, Prof. M. M Wilke*. Mi* Jenr.ie Risher, Clifford Ri*her, Mias Agnes Connor and Tom Connor are in Walterboro this week attending the Colleton Co .nty Fair. ™ , . The long looked for "bird season" ! will soon open. This portion of the county AttfZ not abound in birds as it has for the past few years. The. reason as given by the people living here. is. “Too much rsin in the early spring, of which but few survived.” Nevertheless. L think there are' enough to afford some pleasure toi hunters of this game. "Deer sea-j son” will also open in the near future. I think they 01*6 plentiful in our surrounding swamp*, i take this ground from hearing several farmers complaining of th^ deer eating up their peas. The surveyors who were appoint ed by a joint meeting of Warren township citizens, and a committee from Bamberg, held at Smoak* three or four weeks ago, have finished surveying the portion of Colleton County, which will make an aftempt to go into Bamberg county. A committee composed of J. J. Liston. Joe King and Mgj. Edward Minus left Monday for Bkmberg to make a report of what they had ac complished I Viewing this situation from a “Fence Rider’s” attitude, it seems evident that the upper part of,Colle ton County known as Warren town ship will succeed in cutting off from its mother county and go into an ad joining county. If this plan is carried out. Colleton County will certainly be the looser, while Bamberg the gainer. If Col leton looes this portion of itself, will in my opinion, (and I am sure others wjll agree with me) shed one of its most valuable jewels. If a strong effort is not made to hold this es timable territory, the succeeding generations to come, will look back on this event as a lost opportunity, which their ancestors refused to A CARD. Martins Point. Nov. 4, 1#14). Mr. W. W. $«noak. % Walterboro, S. C. Friend Smoak:—Say. what bus the madam been doing to you lately? Why you look like a youngster of twenty in the pape r this week!,, You boys are keeping the wires hot, eh? Let the good work goon. I am in this county, but my heart is always with my mother county—a county that did so much in 1871 fot- S-uth Csro'ira in fact, as Hon. C>eo. D. Tillman said, more than any other. Y<*ur editorial on cutting our county in this week** issue and Arthur Brabham's letter is to the point ^ .*h 1 could be with you all, but you know my wishes are yours. Sincerely, i W. E. Capers. Burroughs, D. D., of Charleston, who delivered s most masterly and eloquent address having for hia theme* The Develonment ot 10 Bamberg county is a panacei itSf* ^ i!ta Adopted Children gen cold victuals, we are told. — leton stands ready to give the people of Warren township "liberty but prefer centralization and is a glorious thing but last Thursday the people at the North have squelched this greatest of all bosses. Each state of the great Nation has its part to perform in the onward march of American enterprise and American progress. South Carolina should not be a laggard. She has always done her full duty, according to the lights befefre her. In time s of great emergencies and in times of ercisea of t *ying crises, which have arisen in the past, she has alaways measured up to the high standard of an er- one of the leaders of hit race and is a most pleasing" and eloquent speaker. He is a bright mulatto and created much laughter by his witticisms on the fact that he is related to both races. In the audience were a good number of white people who enjoyed his address equally as much as the large audience of negroes. A fuller report of this speech which contains much food for thought on the part of both whites and negroes, will appear later. Dr. H. W. Black was next in troduced and complimented the* negroes on the splendid showing they made, and urged them to heed the advice given by Dr. Burroughs. Prof. I). R. McTeer, of Ruffin and A. P. Washington of Round, leading members of the negro race in this county delivered ad dresses, containing wholesome advice. ^ This concluded the literary ex- the day. It is the opinion of many that the negro day of future fairs will De much more largely attended and that of [Our corespondent evidently labors under the delusion that certain others seem to have, that annexation to Bamberg county is a panacea for erslly Cof- fome of them seem "death"-Editor) THE WORLDS 6REUEST SEWIN6 MACHINE LIGHT RUNNING the blush of shame been blazoned on her good name. % And now la the flood tide of the Nation's progress, with new avenues of Industry faring her, with new >i" '“P K-r respects. Kvocybody's Betook Oil. < friend—Dr. The Curse toctfcaehe. MRS. MARY ANN HOWARD DEAD Mrs. Mary Ann Howard, a beloved citizen of Osborn, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Georgians Galloway, on the night of October 5th at the age of 93 years. Mrs. Howard was a member of the Hopewell church for a number of years, and has lived a Christian life ever since her connection with this church. She was married to Gabriel Howard, who proceeded her to the grave about 18 month* ago. She leave* one daughter. Mrs. W. B. Galloway, of this place. Her re mains were laid to rest in the rid Hopewell cemetery October 7th in the presesce of a host of relatives and friends, Sh*» was good red kind to everyone who csme her way. » S. J. T. Osborn. October. Aft*r a me*., lake a <>oapte of T >o*n'* itarutau. *n«< gweyour atoauch. irar tad ►owel* the help they will weed. Rexulet© brtP* «a*t, eguUr passage* of the b weU Why do the ihe people of this community want to disconnect themselves from Colleton? They want two absolutely necessary things. First of all: Good roads. Second ly: Stock law. Why cannot Colle ton give to its dearest children that which would make them happy, or will she stand firm and see rebellion and separation come. In 1776 thirteen little colonies strung along the Atlantic coast, and declared themselves free and in dependent from their oppressive and strenuous masted England. When during the middle of the nineteenth century the vote being much stronger than this dear old Southland of ours, their views op posite ours in regard to "State rights ” We withdrew from the Union in order to have our rights and beliefs. When they tried to force us back, we fought for four ng rears in order to retain them. # This same spirit has now broken out in the upper portion of Colleton County, and should not these wrongs be redressed—the only remedy is Bamberg. M. M. W Announcement We desire to announce to our friends throughout the county that we have open ed an up-to date hardware store in Walterboro, and shall be pleased to have their continued patronage. Our store is located on Main street next door to The Press and Standard. You will be welcomed at our store. PeUnm Hardware Co. MASTER'8 SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Colleton, In the Common Pleas, W. V. Carter, etal. vs. J. Adam Carter, Trustee, et al. By virtue of the Decree of above court herein. I will aril at public outcry before the courthouse in Walterboro oh saieedey in December next, (5th day) within the hours of sale, the following deaerf realty: All that certain piece, parcel or tract of land., situate in the county and State aforesaid, containing one hundred and forty-one and one-half (1411-2) acres, and bounded North by lands of WHHam Carter, Major Joe Carter, and a part of the original tract, now owned by Curry. East by lands of Jamet Goodwin, south by lands of S urt Walker and H. W. Carter, and West by Carolina River* and H. W. Carter. Terms of sale cash Purchaser t» pay for papers. C. G HENDERSON. Mast';.-. November 12. 1910. 0 irrnu w»nH*tfc<T»VW>T»tln*BhotU« 1 Rii'tAry »hutU»«r k Htrwtc Thnwl [CMm ScUrV) Dewtuf writ* to tni icw reat stwtaa Rucatet eeanav M ««r memUtg macMnc* ar» m*** to ««I1 rffctrdleia fc»< tfea Mow IImm h Md« w *«•(. . fcf MASTER'S SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROL! N >., Colleton Ounty, In the Common Plea.*, J G. Padgett. » VS. D. W. ConneM (nee Hiera) et : By virtue of the Decree of atx • court herein, I will sell at p h r outcry before the courthouse in VVa - terboro, on salesday in Dece iit«-r- next. (Gth day) within the hours of sale, the following detu n. -t Realty: All that .certain piece, patv-1 - tract of land, situate in V'-»'lo r township, county and State aPn * said, containing une hundred ir.d ninety-eight (198) acre*, mon* "or less, and bounded as follows: North by lands of Solomon Hiera, Sour 1 ; by lands of George Sullivan; Ea.-i bv lands of estate of F. Mims^and by landa of Harley Groves. J •)><» Groves and Solomon Hiera. Terms of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for pepors. C. G. HENDERSON, i November 12, 1810. T [l r\ I I * i > 7 * , i 1.