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g [' ? ?? ... Tr VOL. LV1I NO 4. UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRjDAY, JANUARY 25, 1907. $1.00 A YEAR. LULAIIUN OF CONF f Pillar Will be Raised in Main Square?Large Gatherii V. E. DePass, Esq., Mr. B. E. Artl Union and Union county gathered Saturday afternoon, January 19th, tc celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Robert E. Lee, and to mark the spot upon which the Confederate monument is to stand. The cite chosen is in the centre oi Main street at the intersection of Judgment street. The exercises were instructive and interesting, and everything passed off quietly except some misbehavior of a band of small boys who amused them4 selves by throwing small rocks at people. Usually there is not even the small boy offender in Union on such an occasion, and this bad behavior was perhaps occasioned by thoughtlessness rather than by a vicious spirit. 1 he procession was i>y of Police Long and a squad of policemen. The Union cornet band followed; then the Johnson Rifles, in command of Lieut. Walker, many old Confederate soldiers and about four or live hundred school children, accompanied by their teachers. The school children brough up the rear of the procession. The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. I). M. McLeod, of Grace Methodist church, tfer which the band played "Dixie." The hymn, a favorite with General Lee, "How firm a foundation," was sung by Unassembled multitude. The school children sang "Ronnie Blue Flag," after which Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, pastor First Presbyterian church, introduced \Y. W. Johnson, who had been requested by Mr. DePass to read his speech. Mr. DePass was suffering with a severe sore throat and, although he had crefully prepared the speech and was present in person, he was unable to deliver it. Following is the speech of Mr. DePass: My Friends:?Here on this spot a shaft will soon rise to commemorate the sublime heroism of the Confedcr-1 ate soldier. Here the truth will speak through bronze and granite to future generations. Here you young girls and boys will gather inspiration from the noble deeds of your fathers,?the men who wore the gray. Here per pctuated in marble will also stand a monument that will bear testimony , throughout the ages to the loyalty, zeal and unflagging devotion of the glorious women of the Southland: they have been too much overlooked; in them has been the inspiration of all that is good in the past, and the hope of all that is ennobling and uplifting in the future. The brief limits of this address will not permit tnc to spcafc of his youth, his early manhood, or his career prior to our struggle for liberty and independence. Those have been, and will continue to be, far better portrayed by others. I will content myself with the remark, that they constituted a worthy prelude to the exhibition, on a larger theatre, oi those wonderful talents and sublime virtues which have gained for him the admiration and esteem oi the civilized world. 1 1f.it t1i?? rocnttrroc ???w1 nommtti'ttt r\ f the Federal army greatly exceeded those of the Confederacy is admitted by even the reluctant historian of the North. In the Union army there were enlisted 404.000 foreigners, 186.017 negroes. making a total of foreigners and negroes of 680.017. If the United States had not enlisted a single white American citizen it> numbers would have exceeded the total enlistment of the Confederate army by S;.oi7. a larger number than Lee ever had at any one time. From the seceded States the Union army enlisted 317.714 men. These added to the foreign enlistment made 811,714. or 211.714 soldiers, besides negroes, in excess of the total enlistment during the four years oi the war. \<M t>> this the nepiro enlistment and von have .VJ/.731 more men than the Coniedt racy had. all told, from the hepinnintf to the end of the war. In other words, the Union army had as many soldiers as the Southern army, ami in addition thereto, J. 178.731 more Marvelous disparity in ninnhers! And when we consider the advantages they had 111 provisions, transportation, munitions, and all martial !... 1 ..... I MM H >, I I v. > I ? M y IH I U 111 V ?> IIUM ; 11 I I I I more aina/m^ At the tirst battle, <>f Manassas, the enemie's forces were completely routed ; then Mr. Lincoln perceived that while the moral effect of treating the war as one raised for the suppression of a rebellion, was of service in uniting the different political parties in the North and of giving the prestige of legitimacy to his government, yet, that in truth the North under the name of the "United States had entered upon a war of conquest, and he forthwith began to prepare for it on a scale adequate to the emergency. More than half a million of men were called to arms and a navy was speedily launched strong enough to perform the great task committed to it, of blockading the Southern coast from the capes of Virginia to the mouth of the Rio Grande. Vast armies gathered along our frontier, and powerful iron-clads EDERATE MONUMENT Street Opposite Court House ig to Witness Ceremony. Orator of the Day. lur Marks Site. ( l swarmed in our rivers and along our j J , coasts, so that every part of the South! was exposed to invasion. It was manifestly impossible for the Confederate i ' government to attempt, with any hope ( of SUCCeSS, to OOOOSe thin ?roc? at every point that might be assailed. The undisputed control of the water, , and the extensive coasts and great navigable rivers of the South, enabled the , Federal government to threaten so many points at once that to oppose the enemy everywhere would require a ruinous dispersion of the Confederate forces. Kentucky and a greater part of Tennessee were quickly over-run. Missis- , sippi was practically lost. New Orleans fell into the hands of the enemy. General Johnson was obliged to retreat from Northern Virginia, but by con ccntration of our forces upon some vulnerable part of the Federal frontier we kept the enemy from assailing oth- I1 er exposed localities. The position of " the city ot w?.?n,j j);ira. tl mount importance attaciieu ^,|r h Lincoln and his advisers to its safety",]" afforded such an opportunity to the Confederate commander. The safety of the Federal capital was regarded I as the prime consideration and absolutely essential to a successful prose-1 cution of the war. It is seriously i doubted if Washington was ever in | actual danger, but the enemy's tear I and sensitiveness on this point was I i such as to compel them to concentrate their forces in defense of this city, causing them to abandon some parts of our country which we were1 not strong enough to protect. I ? s will be found a marked feature of the! operations of the army of Northern I ; Virginia, the command of General Lee. j It will be remembered that he resort-, j ed to this plan and compelled the army | . i .wLv-niiaii to withdraw from the ! James, after it had been dislodged | from its position on the Chiekahominy. Accordingly our forces were thoroughly concentrated, which resulted in the formation of the powerful army of Northern Virginia. This concentration on our part, and the danger with which Washington was supposed to be menaced, brought about the results anticipated by i u.cKiiciii ? army was brought to reinforce Pope. [Troops were taken from Carolina and West Virginia to aid in defending the I Federal capital, and it became evident ! that the Confederate army could not render more efficient service and afford more complete protection to the [country than by arousing the apprehensions (if the authorities at Washington for the safety of that city. It is clear therefore that in that case the whole southern border oi tin United States, including the city of Washington, would have been relieved of serious apprehension and the troops occupied in providing against an expected invasion on our part [would have been disposable for aggresj sive movements against us. After our troops in the West had fallen back so far from the Northern (border as to interpose between them ! and the States beyond Ohio an extensive district of country, practically in I possession of the enemy, the Confeder . a to government had a much greater I | force at it* command for use in the j field* than would have heen the case had it been required to guard its long Southern border. Time will not permit me to point out all the advantages resulting from the tenure of Northern Virginia by the Confederacy, but I have said enough to indicate to my thoughtful and retlecting audience that the great struggle of nearly four years, which was almost incessantly waged for the post session of this region, involved consequences to the Confederacy of far greater importance than the mere lo->s of territory, o- of the recruits ami supplies it derived loin Northern Virginia. lint while the presence of our army in Northern Virginia was of advantage in many ways, some of which I have suggested, it was apparent that to enable that army to accomplish its object it needed all the strength the Confederacy could give it. It was near the Northern border, in 1 the presence continually of tile most' j powerful of all the Union armies, and | constantly exposed to the attack of | superior numbers. It is unnecessary I for me to point out to those who took part in tile defense of Richmond the | manifold and fatal disadvantages they [struggled so bravely to overcome. I . c< have said enough to show the difticul-lw ti* -. that beset that defense, and yet j ft jail these difficulties were added tojii (the duties, cares and labors of the ar- tl my of Northern Virginia. The most ii marked influence, however, which the ii situation of Richmond and the ncccssi ty of providing for it-. defense, ex- tl erted upon the conduct of the war in I Virginia, is seen in its connection with a 'the expedition of the army beyond the e i Potomac. To explain: The great ad- ti I vantage the enemy would have in be- s seiging Richmond were so apparent c that it was a saying of General Lee's tl that "Richmond was never so safe as h when its defenders were absent." His il meaning was that the safety of Rich- i tl mond was dependent upon our ability In to employ the enemy at a distance and C prevent its near approach to the city, p Such was the policy adopted by him S and which secured the comparative f; safety of Richmond from the time the C army moved northward in 1862, to 11 the time when worn out with more than ii two years of exhausting war it was forced to retire within the entrench- ji nient of Richmond before the gre and ever-increasing adversary. But was only by acting upon the apprehe sions of the enemy that such a rest could be obtained with the limits force under General Lee's comman Accordingly when by the second ba tie of Manassas he had driven tl united forces of Pope and McClella with all the reinforcements that h; been added to them, back upon tl defenses of Washington, it became ne essary for General Lee to decide ho tic could prevent them from sending .1 expedition by water against Ricl iiond, and thus necessitate the witl lrawal of the army from Nortliet Virginia to defnd the city. To ha\ lone this wouhl have been practical! :o give up thea dvantage we had gaine lit he campaign from Richmond t Vf*nassas. Under these circumstance here was but one course for Gener; -ee to pursue, if he would save Ricl nond from the peril which he kne' vould attend its investment by th rcmendous army of the enemy. H mist give occupation to that arm] nd such occupation that would compi he early concentration of its force: }y this means General Lee believe hat he might induce the enemy t withdraw troops from other parts c lie Confederacy and thus obtain ad itioiial reinforcements for himself. These results, however, required tha e should continue to threaten Wash igton and the Northern States, am liis he could not do effectually utiles e could put his army near Washing "* ' *? the same time where i f ? ? -7? ram C ' :.' S sjm DESIGN OF MONUMENT V >uld be maintained and supported. I as for these reasons, as we lean 'oni the report oi General Lee's lirs ivasion oi Maryland, that lie crossei le Potomac, and for like reasons h lvaded Maryland and Pennsylvatii 1 1Kb;?. Time will not permit me to trac le campaigns of the army beyond th 'otomac, interesting, and I may adc ml imperfectly understood, as th vents of those campaigns are often mes, subjecting General Lee to th cverest criticism of those who did no umprehend the great master mind <i liis mighty military strategist, but ave accomplished my present purpos 1 have succeeded in explaining tha lie situation at Richmond was inti lately connected with the designs c ieneral Lee, in undertaking those ex editions, and that the battles c iharpsbnrg and Gettysburg wer'e i act but a part of the plan in whic ieneral Lee sought to defend Ricli aond, and thereby maintain his arm n Northern Virginia. It is not impossible that had the ot ective point of the Federal army i at Virginia been less exposed and les it accessible the Confederate army migh n- hi.vo gained advantages that woul lit have] enabled it to assume the offens ed ive in fact as well as in appearancs d. But it is more probable that in such ai it- event the Confederate governmen le would have availed itself of an oppor n,: tunity to reinforce its armies in th id South and West, rather than engage ii le the invasion of the North, c- ; That General Lee had the inelina w tion to pursue this policy is demon in strated by the detachment of two di i- visions of Longstreet's corps to re i- inforce General Bragg, at a time whet n u was thought that General Lee woul< e I not require his whole force in Virgin lyiia. ' I*i fact, I may mention that whili d an |army lay on the Rapidan in thi o j winter of 1864 and 1864, it was in con is : toitipTStWm <0 have General Lee him ?1 I self to take command of the army it 1- Georgia. The great and abiding con w hdence of General Lee in the belie that Richmond could not be success' 0 fully defended except by keeping at 1 i'< distance was illustrated to the last. *1 The close oi three years of bloody war found )' * diminished forces strugd ginig with tresh and ever-increasing ? J numbers, and yet so strong was Gen 'f eral Lee's conviction of the necessity I of preventing the enemy from forming j the siege of Richmond that he did not t hesitate to reduce his strength still - further, in ordtr to aim one last blow j ! at the Federal capital, in the hope that si he would thus cause General Grant to - send part of his army to its defense. t, 1 have thus imperfectly endeavored ' \ ^ j fBh'i Mre. i "iBiP TO BE UNVEILED MAY 1 O. J t t" present to you in a general way the i difficulties under which General Lee's t | army had t<? struggle, and 1 think I d have made myself understood, that e you will he able to form a better idea a :of the extent and magnitude of it.services than could be derived from a e description of its various battles. C| With the burden of Richmond's I.'weakness on one arm, with the othet e | it dealt those ponderous blows undei i-1 which the gigantic power of the Fed e | eral government shook to its founda >t tion, and caused the whole world tc d look on with wonder and amazement I These are reflections which add new (* intomct t/\ lio .r.? - - ? ' "* ll ties and our marches. They give unit> i- and consistency to a narrative that i: commonly regarded as made of de " tached and independent events. Bu time passes upon me and I cannot pur n sue this subject further, h When the imperishable names o '* Cold Harbor, Manassas, Fredricks y burg, Chicamauga and Petersburg an mentioned they cause the cheek to glov n (Continued on Page Four.) < f L. v J SPICY NEWS FROM d ' Battle Over Dispensary j Scheduled on Lien La J Doomed?Represe to Vote for (Our Columbia Correspondent.) i Columbia, Jan. 24.?(Special) ? 1 does not seem likely that the decisi " battle over the dispensary will be b ? gnu until next week. Both sides a - waiting on the report of the new di - pensary investigating committee. Th 1 it is now expected will be ready I f Friday, according to a statement t< - day a member of the committee tna< 1 to the correspondent of The Time The principal bills of each side, th . of the dispensary people seeking a pi ; j rification scheme along the lines of tl Tillman-Ravsor-Manning bill of la; year, and the Carey-Cothran local o] tion county dispensary bill, have bol been printed and are ready to be eallc ' up on a moment's notice. But Satu I day will be an off day, both housi | having selected this day to visit Cl?I son college, and as the committee r< port will not be in before Friday, ther will be no time for action this week. A subject of special interest to th readers of The Times is the probabl action of the legislature this year o (the lien law. It is impossible at thi 'stage of the game to foretell what wi be done. Bills to repeal the law en tirely, and bills to make importan amendments, are pending in both hous es, each branch having gone up on th subject to back away again in the torn | of motions to adjourn debate. It i evident that there will be the usua warm contest in both houses. Tin factions seem equally confident of vie tory. The fate of the bucket-shop nuisanci may be decided in the senate this week Judging from the number of bills be ing urged on the subject, it seem: i:i...i.. o? ? nun some sort ot change wil I. made. reached in either house tifl next week Some bill along this line will likeh get closer to ratification than any havt yet done, but it does not seem likeh that compulsory education will be en acted into law this session. Perhaps the most important negativi legislation of the session so far ha been the putting to death of the Pros joint resolution calling for an inter session commission to investigate th railroads and report by bill and recom mendation and testimony. The resolv ' ing words were striKen out by a vot j of 65 to 4S. It looked as ii this hi j would forestall action sought in othc ( pending bills. An important piece of positive legi? I lation of interest to your readers wa I the passing by the house of Mr. Waif i er's bill to allow 50 cents a day t jurors serving in magistrates' courl j in criminal cases. Desperate effoi j was made to kill the bill on thir reading, first by a motion to recon j mit and then by a motion to cnmmi a roll call being demanded in eac case. A feature of the house session th week was "the statement of reasons Representative Coke D. Mann gave u not voting to confirm the election < j Senator Tillman. He sent up hi> wri ; ten reasons to the speaker's desk ; I i? >lh >ws: "I wish to state my reasons for n< ! voting for the Hon. Benj. R. Tillnui t<> succeed himself in the United Stat< senate. "First. He made a wanton and in : licious attack upon the ministry < j South Carolina, charging them with 1> ing in league with the ex-barkeepe of the State, with Col. James A. Iloj the standard-bearer of the prohibitio i>ts, to defeat and destroy the dispe , j sary law in South Carolina. This 1 ; j knew was false and an outrage < j c< >mnv >n decency. "Second, before I could vote f [ him I would have to know how mu I money he returned to Hubbell in r bates allowed the State. I contend th II as governor he was handling the mo .' ey of the State and had no right . return it to the liquor house, any mo - than the present board has the rig ' to appropriate such money to tin ' own use." On motion of Representative Ric r ards the "reasons" were promptly a ' by a large vote stricken from t ( records. Senator Smith Flays Rum Shop. j The subject of abolishing the Sts . dispensary, as provided for in the r< e olution introduced in the senate sc v eral days ago by Mr. W. S. Smith, Hampton, came up yesterday as a s| ?-g I THE STATE CAPITAL Will Begin Next Week?Fight w?Bucket Shop Nuisance intative Mann Refuses Senator Tillman. cial order and the author addressed the senate for 20 minutes in support of ve its adoption. For the first time this session every re member was in his seat. Senator lS_ Smith has been termed the "unknown quantity" in tlie upper branch of the general assembly, as he was elected o_ without committing himself in the je' least on the liquor question. His reiC marks yesterdav, however, leave no at doubt as to his position on the <|uestion tJ_|of the disposition of the present sysu. 1 tem of handling the liquor business in I South Carolina. ; He declared that the people oi the ^ State had expressed themselves in no uncertain terms on this question and r_ it behooved the general assembly to i carry out their wishes, and without .delay. To make use of a quotation, _ I" the dispensary was born in sin and "* i brought tip in iniquity." and he did | not believe it is possible to purify a \ thing that is absolutely rotten. t. If representations arc true, he arn grued, to say the least, the institution s is not properly managed today, and II it the directors have not been guilty jot wrong-doing they have certainly exercised very poor business judgment. I lu-y have laid in an enormous supply 'of liquors when it has been expected 1 for some months that the dispensary would go out of existence at this sesS 11 stoti of the legislature. t j Sufficient evidence of wrong-doing and mismanagement had been produced. yet no prosecutions have been commenced. Those who are alleged to have received thousands of dollars illegally go free. There has been sufficient investigation of this institution I already and he thought it time that thv^wslators were taking some ac.jiyheve the situation. . declared that iT all the "stint" itt Tnc ' ' South Carolina dispensary were emptied into the Congarec river the ' chemicals would not be washed out I when it got down to the seacoast. He could not understand why the senators and members of the house want to * keep putting this mater off. If they * carry out the wishes of the people the dispensary will be abolished, and forthL i with. The members should come out and not continually attempt to delay the execution oi the people's wishes. The senator from }Tewherry, said Mr. Smith, had been playing hide arte? I >eek with him. resorting to all kinds of ; parliamentary tactics to prevent consideration <>f his resolution. lie is tired of this and wanted the 111 iter j threshed out and done with. He would rather have his resolution defeated than to have it sidetracked, and warned rt I ^ j the senators that he did not want any ^ j more dallying. He declared that the : dispensary foilks arc a treacherous jM crowd. They do not stick to their I friends, even. Take for instance the . senator from Newberry: He had bled ..and died for the dispensary almost, I and what did they do for him! (Here . the president informed Mr. Suitih that >{ { I he was out ot order and he dropped I that line of criticism.) i> u Honor Roll Central School. m i ..-s F*ir>t A. ? Elizabeth Smith, Myr tic Smith, Cornelia 1 aimer, Lillian a-1 W hisonant, Louis Gilliam, Sidney j Howell, Hale I'ewley, Frank Parks, .Marie Walling. Irirst I!.?Thehna Hart, Lillian Malone, Anthony Rice, Victor \rtliur, Lconia Maytield, Louise Whisonant, Llizaheth Garner, Frances Sartor, Cain-lie Wood, John I'owell, Mabel Laws' >n. Second.?Aggie Love, Aline Williams, Lummic Ctidd, Ruth Mix, Ruth i Gaulr, William Wallace, Fred Wallace. Third.? Lcmmie Petty. Fourth. ? Charley Purcell, Russel Sexton, Lamplcy Whisonant, Nell Pewley, Grace Carpenter, Victor Mayfield, Gertrude Ray. Fifth.?Ailcan Sumner, Nida High, Ethel Cooksey, Clarice Tinslcv. Thorn I as Corn, Robert Hamilton, Clyde Hamt's, Harrold James, Letha Parker, Sam Williford. It- Sixth.? May Charles, Van Charles, nd Holton Askew, Kathleen James, An . na Sanders, Eva Howell, Vera MurH rat, Olivette Smith, Sam High, W arren Arthur, Pauline Spillcrs. Seventh.? Bessie Alverson, Effie Alverson, Myrtle Cranford, Annie Tinslte ley, Ruth W'ilburn. ?s* Eighth. ? Kelly Ledbetter, Curtis ,v. Sanders, Hillard Thomas, Altalee Bewof ,<?yNinth.?Edith Smith, Theo. Young, ,e* J. D. Arthur.