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Consolidated Aug. 2,1881. SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1897 New Series-Yoi. XVI. So. 26 Cfj? P^|i?ut w? Sou??jro?t Published E^ary Wednesday? -BY KT. C3r. Osteen, SUMTER, S. C. TERMS : $1.50 per annnm-in advaoce. ADYEBTISSMSKT: One Square first insertion.$1 00 Every subsequent insertion M. 50 Contracts for three months, or longer will be made at reduced rates. All communications which subserve private interests will be charged for a9 advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for. Robt E. Lee. Gen. E. W. Moise's Tribute to the South's Greatest Soldier and Citizen. T|ie following address was deliv? ered by Gen. Moise at the Lee Me? morial Exercises at the Graded School, January 19th: Ladies and Gentlemen : This day bas been set .apart by the State of South Carolina as a public holiday, and this occasion has been appropri? ately selected for the purpose of. in? structing the large 'number of the youth of this city and county in the reasons . which have induced the State to make this day one of almost religious observance. It is import ant that the young people of this country should be impressed with the grandeur and nobility of the man who was born on this day, ninety years ago, who lived sixty-three years, and died as we shall show, leaving behind him a reputation and a name which is the brightest jewel in the crown of his native State, the mother of States and statesmen We are not here to deliver a pene gyric upon Robert E. Lee. "The living man scorned fulsome adulation and his living spirit, if permitted to be with us now, would reject with scorn any testimonial which could not bear the scrunity of time and the pur? test of truth." The character .of Gen Lee can gain nothing from what we may say here to day. We are not hero worshippers, but we adopt the beautiful thought with which Mr. Hammond opened his noble eulogy upon South Carolina's greatest son, John C. Calhoun Mr Hammond said : "Faith is an in stinct of the human heart, its strong? est, its purest and its noblest in stinct ; the parent of love and of hope, in all ages and everywhere. Mankind have adored and put their trust in the great Ruler of the uni? verse, and descending from the holy and infinite to the human and finite, they have entertained the same senti? ments, differing only in degree for those of their own raGe who have especially been endowed with an ex? traordinary degree of intellect or of virtue. The ancient heathen deified them ; amongst the early Christians they were enrolled among the saints. It is a shallow and a base philosophy which finds superstition in such usage only, and fails to recognize the working of a profound admiration and veneration for the attributes of God as manifested in His favorite creations." With strict truth and simple, unadorned statement we pro pose to demonstrate to these children here assembled and to all our audi ence that Robert Edmund Lee stood in the front of gifted mortals, either of this or of any other age, and we propose to prove it by the unbiased testimony of the civilized world. Gen Lee was a great soldier, per? haps the greatest of. this or any other age, but the world has been produc tive of many great soldiers They have been found in all countries and in all time, but by a careful analysis it will appear that in addition to his soldierly qualities Gen Lee possess ed also in eminent degree all those rarer traits which constitute perfect manhood and heroic virtue Merit is comparative. We shall draw honest portraitures of the great military geniuses who have adorned histor, and we shall show that not one of these possessed ?hat-rounded, com plete and perfect character which had embellished the man whose birth? day we this day celebrate.^ Achilles was said to have been of divine ori? gin ; his powers in arms was con? spicuous among great chieftains, but it will be observed that such was bis selfishness of character that he withdrew from the service of his allies because forsooth a wretched captive wa? wrested from his arms by his commanding chief. Achilles is perhaps a fictitious personage, yet he embodies the epic idea of the first and greatest of heroic writers With Gen Lee there was no selfishness His high soul claimed no credit for his achievements, but gave ail praise to that overruling Providence to which he ascribed his greatest suc? cess and in fact all of his victories.. Alexander conquered the Eastern world, yet slew his friend, Clytus, in a moment of wild dissipation "and ; left a name to other times linked j with one virtue and a thousand j crimes." Gen Lee left a name j which he who dv.es not honor is him j self unworthy of respect. Ile fought no effeminate Persians, but met the resolute sons of the great North and West, men who could rally after de? feat, and before whose eyes was al? ways borne those "Stars and Stripes" which had given freedom to the world, and which he had learned at his mother's knee to honor, to love and to defend He met those skilled officers who fell upon every field and before, whose dyiner eyes, the world receding and growing less and less, yet revealed the spirit of patriotism, waving that loved standard and beck? oning his dying soul to the reward of the patriot an ^ the mart jr And such a memory our chieftain left that the survivors of our folds unite in heaping laurel wreaths upon his humble bier " Caesar was great in peace and in war. a scholar, as well as a soldier, yet Caesar fell, not at the hand of the enemies of Rome, but by the dagger -o*'. Brutus, his friend, who struck him down that liberty might live. Lee had not the ambition of Julius Caesar, and no man could have been found within the length and breadth of the Ameri cati Continent, friend or foe, who would have lifted a hand to hurt that humble citizen whose brow reflected alike to Northerner and Southerner "those rays of light which gleamed on Moussa's cheek, run down the mount he trod, all glorious from the presence of his God " Napoleon was preeminently a soldier, a genius of war, and also a profound politician. His renown has filled the world, "and lo ! the trump of fame makes seldom echo of a nobler name" For twenty years Europe stood aghast before the wild i I i ti m i ni?t on which flashed from his red artillery. France became an oriflnne of war, and all mankind recognized and bowed before the genius from Corsica Yet was Napoleon's pri vate life blurred and stained by the darkest excesses. He did not hesi? tate to^. send forth from her high state the woman who had loved him long ere his star had reached its zenith. The murder of the Duke d'Enghein is a stain spon the memory of Napoleon. His retreat from Moscow, where he had been de? tained by a loathsome disease, the loss of the great battle of Leipsic, the loss of Waterloo are blasts upon his escutcheon. Waterloo might not have been lost had Napoleon held Grouchy in close communication and thus prevented Blucher from fajling upon his flank in the critical hour of the day. The retreat from Water loo was not creditable to Napoleon? and history must regard him as great in victory, but weak in adverse for? tune, whilst Gen. Lee shone through the darkness of the blackest night and became in ruin and defeat the grand apostle of that nobler courage which is proof against the adverse arrows of relentless fate. His words, when all was lost, ring in the cars of his surviving people and will be heard to the remotest posterity : "Human virtue should be equal to human misfortune, and, oh, a thou sand deaths were preferable to this, but if we die what will become of the women and the children of the South ? We must go home and care for them, and *build up anew our ruined homes and till the soil, with profound submission to the will of God." These words, so indicative of a mind attuned to the highest sense of duty, are in accord with the sentiment he impressed upon his young son, "That duty is the noblest word in the English language." The world resounds with the plau? dits given in mo6t generous manner to Arthur Wellesley, the Dake of Wellington, and well did this iron man merit the praise he received. Yet must it be remembered that on the great day of Waterloo, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he cried out in the great travail of his soul : "Would to God that night or Blucher would corner." It must also be taken into consideration that while he was opposed to the gratest soldier of his day, yet the army of Napoleon Bona? parte was composed largety of boys, and Napoleon himself was obese, un? sound in health and over-confideut, and it must be also remembered that at a critical hour of the day he was heavily reinforced by Field Marshal Blucher-sometimes called "Vor wartz," meaning forward ?-with 80, 000 Prussians Lord Wellington was a noble character, and deserves his great reputalon ; but when he met Napoleon France was wear}7 of war and all allied Europe wap. at his (Wei lington's) bael:. Iiis country was ! abundantly supplied with ail the re- j sources of war The wealthiest na : tion on earth, with a navy superior 1 j to thai of all others combined ; with ! I Alexander of Russia moving to his { aid, and Fiancis Joseph of Austria i I approaching with a splendid army, with immense reinforcements already : mobilized, and a nucleus of British j soldiers whose tenacity and stubborn ? courage had been severely tested at Vittoria, Torres Vedras and Ciudad Roderigo-all resources were avail? able to him-whilst Lee ntood with a ragged army, half fed, half clothed and often barefooted, with few re? sources, in his rear, and with a country blockaded as to every port ; without manufactories of arms or munitions, and having only such supplies as he wrested from his enemy-yet, hurl? ing back armies larger than his own until exhausted by the attrition of armed men Can there be any com? parison between these two : Ulyses S. Grant coming from the West with the reputation rf never having been defeated, (although on one or two oc? casions he had approached singularly near to that unfortunate condition,) with entire command of all the United States ; with his lieutenant, Sherman, in the West cutting off sup? plies of men and materials or even provisions from Gen Lee ; with an army outnumbering his opponent's on every field ; with a disposition^ prodigally to expended the life blood of his soldiers, knowing that while he could reinforce his depleted ranks, his adversary-to u?e his own words - '.had robbed the cradle and the grave to organize the force he theH held in the field " Yet. notwith? standing all this, it is matter of his tory, admitted to be true on all sides, that from the day when, in the spring of 1864, Gen. Grant appeared in front of Lee in the Wilderness. until the clo?e of the campaign in 1864 at Cold Harbor, Gen Grant iost more men in killed wounded and missing than Lee had in his array, and it is absolutely true that, although Gen. Grant had announced his determina? tion to reach Richmond on the line he had taken up, "if it took him all summer," yet he utterly failed to keep this promise, and the summer of 1864 closed with Grant beseiging the cities of Petersburg and Richmond and constastly extending his left flank as fast as reinforcements came to him, whilst his opponent held a weak line of thirty miles in length, with a force utterly inadequate. Gen Grant called to his aid the soldiers of fortune from all over the world, and his country rewarded them with bounties which the South coi ld not pay. He summoned the engineering skill of the miner and through the bowels of the earth he tunnelled a path terminating between the bat? teries of his foe. At daylight he'ex ploded one hundred tons of gun powder beneath the lines of his ad? versary and moved 5,000 men to enter like a wedge into the crevasse thus made. But when the morning sun rose on that beautiful June day it reflected back the serene brow of Robert Lee as he. with his full and entire staff, rallied his soldiers, and, after a desperate conflict, reinstated his lines with immense slaughter of Gen. Grant's troops-a slaughter so great that Gen Burnside was Court martialled for the ruin brought to his division on that bloody day. That Lee was finally oompel'ed to surrender the remnant of bis army is no proof that Grant was the greater general, and such bas not been the ver diet of mankind Hannibal Btaods to day immensely higher io the world's estimation than Scipio, who conquered bim at Zama. The three buodred Spartans who fell at the Pass of Tber mopplae, upon whose monument is in? scribed ihese words : "Oh, stranger, tell it to the Lacedemonians that we lie here in obedieoce to her precepts ; bave done more to make the name of Greece famous than all the glories shed around the plain of Marathon and the Cape of Salamis." It is in the fires of adversity that the nature of mao is purified and refined. "The stubborn metal of the mine must burn before its surface shiue " It was indeed in defeat, and with a heart brokeu by the misfortunes of his countrymen that Gen. Lee reached the highest pinnacle of his true greatness. When the war was over be was offered positions of great, emolument, if he would suffer his name to be useu i any commercial en? terprise, but firm as granite rock he stood agaiost all temptation, and de? voted the balance of his life, so short, to the education of the youth of his coun? try. As the moon often dispeis the clouds of a dark night and chines in placid beauty, so did the example of Robert E. Lee calm the storms in the popular heart, and made of Southern men hitherto so rash and deperatc, the ex? ponents of humility, of resignation and of peace. The great. Moltkc, who rose to eminence in 1870, and swept thc German eagles over prostrate France, had at his back thc allied Teutonic na? tions and thc splendid discipline of Prussian troops. His armies were so j numerous, so well appointed, so thor- j oughly armed and couipped and his rc- ? inforccmeats so tremendous in volume j thar he was enabled in the surrenders j ;it Mettz, Sedan and Pans io capture j more troops and inure; equipments for j war than Lee had ever commanded, j first anti last ?? is t-i?t ;mr purpose i? detract from thc merits of Von Moltkc, i bu! great a soldier as he was he had at bis sido bia Emperor, with plenitude of j power. He had Bismarck with ampli- j tude of brain. The Red Prince with ready haod, the Crown Priooe with a colo?sal army, aod a class of generals and staff officers without superiors on earth io their several lines of duty Opposed to bim was Bazaine, since adjudicated to be a traitor; McMahon, a good soldier, bet who rushed upon the German advance at Woerth before he had realized that there were soldiers before him, who would shoot at bis troops through spectacles He had the Emperor Napoleoo III, an effete mon? arch, who rushed ioto war with one of the strongest powers of Europe at the behest of his wife, and to save his tot? tering dynasty. Lives there a mao in Europe or America who for one momeot believes that if Lee had had Von Moltke's troops in perfect equipment, or Grant's legioos, fat and sleek, with all the munitions of war; lives there a mao, I say, who does not know in bis heart of hearts, that with such armies and such equipment Lee would have marched io triumph across the conti? nent? Let us not be, however, bliod to the censure or deaf to the cavils which have been heard as to our hero's generalship. It has been said that Lie was worsted at Sharpsburg, or Antie? tam, as it is sometimes called, aod de? feated at Gettysburg. Let us look to this charge with candor. It is a well koowo and recognized fact that just previous to the battle of Sharpsburg a copy of Geo. L?e's order, detailing the proposed movements of the army, which had been sent to Gen. D. fl. Hill for his guidance, fell by accident or treachery into the haods of Gen George B. McClellan, commanding the United States army. Any person of ordinary intelligence can estimate the immense advantage accruiog to Geo. McClellan from this unfortunate acci? dent, if accident it be. It enabled him to move by interior lines and counter-check Gen. Lee's combinations; it eoabled bim to force an engagement while Gen. Lee's great lieutenant. Jackson, was at Harper's Ferry, It is true that by forced marches Jackson came up, but his troops w*re worn and fatigued. Notwithstanding all this on the second day at Sbarpsburg Gen. Lee proposed to Jackson to move around the left flank of McClellan, (after crushing that flank with artillery fire,) Jackson and his chief of artillery differed with Lee, and deemed the position of McClellan to be so well supported by batteries that it would be unsafe to make the move. Who can tell what would have been the result had. Jackson adopted Lee's views, as he did afterward, i the Wilderness, and at Chancellors? ville ? Even after this bold move had been abandoned Lee stood in line all day and awaited an attack from McClellan, which did not come. A retreat followed, but it was not a defeat, and this notwithstanding the great pre? ponderance of McClellan's forces. At Gettysburg success attended the arms of the South on the first two days, and oo the third day Gen. Lee deter? mined to attack Gen Meade on Ceme? tery Ridge. That attack would in all human probability have sucoeded had it received from Gen. Longstreet that hearty support that Gen Lee bad a right to expect. Pickett's division was of Longstreet corps, and tho future historion will, in all reasonable proba? bility, conclude that if Longstreet had accompanied the obarge in person and supported it with his whole corps and bh whole heart the result of Gettys? burg might have been different. We have thus endeavored to show that the American soldier and Christian gen? tleman, whose birthday we this day commemorate, was as pure a mao and as noble a character as history portrays. We now propose to show what others thought of our knight The moroing Chronicle, of Halifax Nova Scotia, in October 14, 1870, contained a most beautiful tribute to Gen. Lee, from which we extract the following : ''Ah, Sir Lauocelot," he said, "thou art head of all Christian knights." "And now, I ''are say," said Sir Ector, "thcu, Sir Lauocelot, there thou liest, that thou wert never matched of earthly knight's hand, and thou wert the courtliest knight that ever bore shield, and thou wert the kindliest man that ever stroke with sword, and thou wert the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights, and thou wert the meekest man, the gentlest, that ever ate in hail with ladies, and thou wert the sternest knight to mortal foe that, ever put spear in rest." (The Mort D'Arthur of Sir Tomas Mallory:) "With reverence and regret, (continued the Morning Chronicle,) "wc repeat. Sir Ector's words for the great Sir Liuncelot, and apply them to thc man whe died yes? terday-the noblest knight of our gen? eration, in the life of Robert. Edward Lee there was no reproach of man or womao. His decdrt were dimmed by co wrong dune or duty unfulfilled. There was t:o stain upon his honor, no unrighteous blood upon his hands. He was indeed a good knight, noble of heart and strong of purpose, and both a soldier and a gentleman The age that knew bim-if nor the agc of chivalry - will vet he remarkable for having produced in bim a mao as chiv? alric as any that lives in history. Only nine years ago he was colonel of cavalry in the Coi ted States army, and yester? day hj? died, the greatest soidier in the Napier, McMahon and Von Moltke. and that America has also Sheridan, Sher? man and Longstreet, but all these men and their fellow soldiers lack the grandeur which was inherent io Lee. In every particular be possessed tbe requisites of a true soldier ; be was brave; his whole military record and his Iifeloog scoro of danger alike bear testimony to bia bravery." mm > . ? mm A Remarkable Criminal. NEW ORLEANS LA, Jan. 19 -John Johnson, the Legro who butchered the Colton family of five persons nearTick faw, Tangipahoa Parish, in September last, and who has ever since been con? fined in the parish prison in this city, was taken to Amite City this morning to stand bis trial. Johnson is ooe of the most remarka? ble prisoners who was ever confined in the parish prison. He speaks of his crime as if it was an every-day occur? rence, and, while he does oot realize the enormity of bis offence, he knows that be will be unceremoniously hanged for what be bas done. He is a fair type of the country negro. He is 18 years of age, of a low order of intelligence,and and very black. It bas been expected that ha would be lynched the moment be was taken to Tangipahoa Parish. A special from Amite City to the Daily States says : John Johnson, io charge of a deputy sheriff, arrived here safe and well on the 9.10 a. m. train. There was no demonstration on the trip here, though at several stations crowds were waiting to see him. A large crowd awaited him here. Fie was rushed off to the court house, where be was arraigned. Three lawyeas were appointed to defend him He pleaded not guilty to the five indictments for murder. The case wa3 assigned for Friday. He will remain here until tried. He implicates a white mao. State Press Association. The executive committee of the State Preps Association met here to-night. It was decided that the aooual meeting would be held in Newberry on May 25, at 8 p. m. This is the hour of the first meeting. It is proposed to be in ses sion until Thursday or Friday night. An invitation was received from the Harris Lithia Springs Company to accept the hospitalities of Harris Spriog aod to attend a banquet there. This will be on Thursday or Friday. An invitation was received by the en? tire Association to visit tbe Tennes? see Centennial 'Exposition duriog the month of May. Other invitations came from the Chamber of Commerce, tbs Governor of Tennessee, the mayor of Nashville, the city council, the board of public works and the Press Club to attend the celebration. These invita? tions were accepted, and the .Associa? tion will go from Newberry to Nash? ville in a special car The exact route has not yet been selected. The Hon. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta, was select? ed as orator for the annual meeting. An interesting programme was ar? ranged, and many valuable papers will be read, among them essays by Editors Apppelt, Garlington and E.. R. Hemp bill. Newberry proposes to make the meeting of the editors enjoy? able and memorabie. There were pres? ent at the meeting M. B. McSweeney, President E. H. Aull, Secretary C C Langston, the Rev. Sidi H Brown, R. R. Hemphill, Louis Appelt, H. G. Osteen and Joho S. Reynolds. The matter of a programme for the trip will be arranged by Secretary Langs ston and President Aull.-Columbia cor. News aud Courier, Jan 14. A Popular Man in Tennessee. NASHVILLE, Tenn. January 21. To day Robert L. Taylor was inau guiated Governor of Tennessee for the third time. The inaugural cere? monies took place in the hall of the House of Representatiues, beginning at ll o'clock and ending a few min? utes after noon. The hall and galleries were crowd e,d- The seats on the floor of the House were occupied by the mem? bers of both branches of the General Atsembly and their friends, while the galleries were thrown open to the general public. The band from the i Tennessee Industrial School was in ; the gallery at the left of the Speak- j er's stand, and the band from the; Tennessee School for the Blind was : in the gallery on the right Books in cheap editions, prices not dupli a ted io Slimier. H. G. Osteen & Co. Commendation of Gov. Ellerbe. . Gen. M. C. Butler Considers , Him Honest and Patriotic and Predicts Peace and Prosperity. To the State. WASHINGTON, D. C , Jan. 20.-I cannot resist the impulse to say a word of commendation of the inau? gural address of Governor EMerbe. It is most excelent in style and the tone and temper and matter of it is above criticism. Of course I do not agree with him in his endorsement of the dispensary. That institution is, in my opinion, radically and fundamentally wrong in principle, and indefensible in prac? tice, but Governor Ellerbe discusses it with the fairness and frankness of patriotic conviction and therefore will command the respect and confi? dence of those who do not agree with him The address of Governor Ellerbe is in most refreshing contrast with the screeds that have been fulminated by his immediate predecessors, and the good people of the State are certainly to be congratulated on the improve? ment in their chief executive officer, and the harbinger of a decent, digni? fied administration, which the recent . inauguration promises. M He ought to have the cordial suoH port of all good citizens, and I trus^ will receive it. Taxation has been increased without, as it seems to me, compensative benefits commensurate with the increase. Public offices have been multiplied beyond the number needful for good administra? tion, and sources of revenue have been recklessly impaired that might have been fostered and secured, but we have assurances now that the State government will address itself, patriotically, to bringing about hon? est reforms where evils are discov? ered, instead of fomenting discord and inviting antagonisms among the people. I predict for Governor, Eilerbe a prosperous, peaceful, honest admin? istration, for I know him to be a straight forward, honest and capable man. M. 0. Butler. DES MOINES, IA , Jan 21-The German Savings bank, the second largest bank in the city in point of deposits, closed its doors this morn- J ing shortly before ll o'clock The bank owed depositors at its last re? port on the 6th instant, ?554,158, and :ts assets were $661,940. The failure was a great surprise. LONDON, Jan 21.-The Globe pub? lishes a dispatch from Bombay, sent out by a news agency, which says that three shocks of earthquake oc? curred on the island of Kihm in the Persian gulf on Jan. 15, destroying thousands of houses and killing 2,500 persons. A majority of the House of Rep? resentatives has decided that Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, shall retain his seat. Fifty three republicans voted with the democat8. The schooner Nahum Chapin, from Baltimore to Boston with coal, was lost within 300 yards, of shore near Quogue,Long Island, yesterday morn? ing. The entire crew and one wo? man and child were drowned. 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