Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MEMOIRS Of JOHNSON HAGOOD 1 have boon reading with both In. tercet and instruction, the work en titled "Memoirs of tho War of Seces sion" or "llagood's Brigade". While having no personal knowl edge of the service of this splendid j command, nor of its distinguished ?commander, my recollections of those ? davs and of the famous ac tors in tho I great drama of the CO's, togethor with what I hove since learned, has taught me to associate tbo name of llagood's Brigade with the very first I place In tho great struggle for Sou th orn Independence, and that in thnt brilliant ai ray, of the famous SOUS of " South Carolina, who as types of the brave mi n whoso intign.r.cont achieve ments must live forever, tho name of Hagood must be awarded a place In the foremost ranks. This work covers tho operations of troops under command of General Johnson Hagood for a long period In the ^operations around Charleston, and of greatly distinguished service in the defense of Richmond and Pe tersburg In i st; i and on to tho sur render of tho armies of tho Confeder ate States. This work, embracing in full, mem oirs by General Hagood himself, Is edited by the old war horse, W. H. Brooks, and like everything that comes from him touching the story of the great sectional strife, it is re plete with historic fact, and graphic description of events In tho Held and on the ilring line. fp closing, in IS7I, General Hagood said, "These memoirs nro.not prepared for the prJnter, nor will they, or any part of them, while I control them, be made pubRe. i bequeath them to TOy son thai he may know what part "his father and Iiis father's friends bore in tho war; and with instructions at any time to show them to thoso whose record they give, or to their descendants. | Tho time has not come, and may j not come for fifty years, When Justice can bo done to the losing party in n ' bitter civil war. Should, then, this! manuscript fall Into the hands of an Historian who approaches his task with the intent "to nothing extenuate, i or ought sol down in malice", he may ' use the limited material it contains for what It Is worth, "lie will have the asm ranee of one, tlicn long passed to his final account, of its accuracy so far as his Itnowledgo and belief ? xtonds." This work Is a most valur.blo con-' Iribution to the history of the mon and limes of wh|ch a famous South ern orator, following the close of the war, said, "Von of the North have had drawn for you with a master's haue the liioturt of your returning ar r-.ics. you "avc ho<rd n .w the' ?*n-? ? hack to you marching with proud and victorious tread, reading their glories in a nations eyes. "Will you bear with me while I tell you of another army that, sought its home at the close of tho late war? 'an army that marched homo in de feat, and not in victory, in pOtllOS and not In splendor, but In glory that equaled yours, and to hears as lovin'g as ever welcomed heroes home." "Hi- finds his homo In ruins, his slaves freo, his stock killed, his barns opintv. hla trade dost roved, his money worthless, his comrades slain, and the burden:; of other heavy on his should ers." "What does he do? this hero in gray with u heart of gold? Does he sit down In B?lleiicss ami despair Not for a day. Surely Clod, who has stripped him in his prosperity, has in spired him in his adversity. As ruin was never so overwhelming, never was restoration swifter. The soldier stepped from the trenches Into the furrow; horses that charged Federal 'Mtns marched before the plow, and fields that ran with blood in April were green with the harvest In June." 0, '5. Thompson. GADSDEN PLEADS FOR ABSOLUTION Prominent Charleston Attorney Asks Supreme Court to Investigate Into His Conduct of Lawrence Will Case. Phillip H. Qad8den, one of the most prominent men I? the State, appeared before the bar of the supreme court of South Carolina, Wednesday and. through his attorneys, pleaded for a bearing tn the appeal from the decls ston of Judge Robert Aldrlch In tho Lawrence case. In that decision Judge Aldrlch referred caustically to the conduct of Mr. GndstKni aa an attor ney. The supreme court ordered that an Investigation be held before the court on January 20. Attorney General Lyon Is requested to conduct the In vestigation. A Notable Case. This Is one of the most notable cases In the history of the courts of this State, on account of the promi nence of tho persons concerned. The Lawrence case was the suit of the heirs of a sister against a widow for alleged rights under a will of Dr. Lawrence, president of the company first operating an electric street rail way In Charleston. Dr. Lawrence's wife and his half sister had never met and knew nothing of each other per sonally. It was alleged that Mr. Gadsden, as attorney for the widow, got the sister of Dr. Lawrence, a woman of limited intellectual capacity, to sign away her rights under the will. It was further alleged that Mr. Gaddsden was guilty of unprofessional conduct In several ways. Judge Aldrich. in deciding the case in favor of Miss Lawrence, used very plain and indeed caustic lan guage in speaking of the conduct of Mr. Gadsden. Settled by Compromise. An appeal was taken. While the case was pending in the supreme court, Mrs. Lawrence and the heirs of Miss Lawrence effected a compro mise. However, in this compromise was no vindication of the professional conduct of Mr. Gadsden. Therefore he nppealedkto the supreme court not to dismiss the appeal until his personal honor should be absolved or the ac curacy of Judge Aldrlch's decree should be established. The original complaint In the suit by Miss Law rence and the criticism of Mr. Gads den by Judge Aldrlch are quoted fully in Mr. Gadsden's plea to the Bupremo court. Old Soldier Tortured. "For years. I suffered unspeakable torture from Indigestion, constipation and liver trouble," wrote A. K. Smith, a war veteran at Krie, Pa., "but Dr. King's Now Life Pills fixed nie all right. They're simply great." Try them for any stomasoh. liver or kid ney trouble. Only 2f>e at Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. FALSE REPORTS CORRECTED. Editor of Lnurens Advertiser: Having received a number of let ters of inquiry from various parts of the country concerning reports now being circulated as to my eburch re lations etc. and feeling that It Is due to the cause of truth, as well as to my own personal reputation, I seek this opportunity of making correc tions. One report Is, that since publishing my recent booklet entitled, The Bible Mode of Baptism, a Baptist preacher has taken me to task in a three nights debate, and that on the third night he convinced me of my "error" and that I made confession of the same before the public, joined the Baptist church and was immersed. I wish to say that any such report is absolutely false and utterly with out any foundation. 1 have never had a debate with any one on the subject of Baptism,?not three nights nor three seconds, nor have I over re tracted a single word published in the booklet. Being unnble to meet the argument In any other way, this report has- boen originated, so far as I can learn, In order to counteract Its Influence. ' The $500.00 offer Is still open, and yet no attempt has been made to correct the assertion which it challenges. Another report Is to the effect that no such person (as Mahaffey) is known to any one in Clinton. To this I wish to say that I am now serving the third year of my second pastorate of the Methodist church in this place, having served the same church four years about twenty years ago. and if desired, I enn furnish references to scores of bankers, 'merchants, minis ters and college professors through out the State. It is amazing to think that any one, even in desperation to brace up a pet theory, will resort to the manufacture of such fabrication. With kindest wishes for all, 1 am yours sincerely. .1. E. Mahaffey Clinton. S. C, Dec. 30, 1010. $100 Heunrd. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh cure Is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitution disease, re quires a constitutional treatment. 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