The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 25, 1907, Page 4, Image 4
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UNION, S. C.. JAN. 25. 1907.
A number of new names went on
the Union Times mailing list this week.
Thanks, friends. We are very much
gratified that you have thus favored
us.
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The governor of Jamaica has a case
of big head and little heart. That's
why he was so quick to order the
American seamen to reembark. It is
gratifying to know that the narrow
bigotry manifested by this individual
is not the spirit of Lngland.
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We have recently corrected our
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label and see how you stand, li you
are behind, kindly favor us with a remittance.
We are striving to make
the best county weekly in South Carolina.
You can help us by sending your
subscription money.
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Several months ago we set about
making a high-class county newspaper.
We are very much gratified at the success
that has attended our efforts. We
sometimes feel that the thing has such
a "hump" on it that sitting in the sadtile
is hard work. But leti t "hump."
, We are planning many other improvements.
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?.? .. /-wimi r ???! 11*71 rrccir
a Northerner and a millionaire there
would have been no howl raised about
his attending a service of that negro
church in Augusta. He perhaps .ad
sincere, earnest desire to be helpful
to the negros, and was making observations
at close range. He has always
manifested a spirit of kindness
and helpfulness towards any and every
cause that appealed to his mind as being
worthy of help. And it must be
admitted that he shows a mind ready
to receive appeals without number.
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Some of the anti-dispensary papers
that were busy during the last cam
paign spreading the unfounded and
. silly report that the dispensary was
in a bankrupt condition are now frothing
at the mouth because the dispensary
has paid sixty-three thousand
dollars into the school fund and wiped
out its indebtedness to the schools.
This is a clear case of "damn if you
do" or "damn if you don't." We are
glad that the dispensary has paid the
school fund up in full. If people will
drink whiskey, we know of no better
purpose to put the money than to educate
their children.?Times Democrat.
The trouble is, Brother Sims, the
whole thing is an ugly business* That's
what's the matter. Whiskey selling and
whiskey drinking are evil things, and
it is no wonder ugly things are said
of both evils.
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Those who know The Times editors
will he slow to rh.irtre that thev nre
disposed to shut out free and frank
discussion, even when a correspondent
is out of line with our ideas and policies.
We are also slow to take issue
with our correspondents. We believe
in the free, full privilege of saying
what one feels should be said, provided,
always that it is said in the spirit of
kindness and courtesy.
We shall not attempt to say anything
upon the article contributed by Miss
E. A. Garner, except as it seems to
reflect upon Treasurer Bartles. We
do not know that it intentionally reflects
upon him, and it may be only
imaginary on our part. But we feel
sure the treasurer of the county has
nothing whatever to do with thr hiirh
taxes. How could he? His duties are
clerical. He carries heavy responsibilities
and receives about half as much
pay as a man carrying the same responsibilities
in private enterprises.
The fact is, no county officer, so far
as we are able to judge, gets the pay
that he should receive. The article
prepared by Treasurer Parties was
one prepared at our solicitation, and
for the readers of The Times. It is
full of information, and every citizen of
the county should read it.
Location of Confederate Monument. 1
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with pride and recall fond memories. ,
But our thoughts are then first to cen- j j
ter upon our dear departed loved ones, ,
who laid down in the bivouac of to-.
night, and were struck down in the j
battle of the morrow. ,
These are the memories which the
survivors of the army cherish nearest',
their hearts, and with which they go
back to their battle fields not as to ]
scenes of either triumph or disaster,
but as to holy ground on which brave |
comrades fell, but fell not in vain.
Those dead, those dashing dead, they |
have not died ip' vain. Not in vain, ,
my friends, their wondrous courage and ,
achievements, Not in vain their high->,
est virtue-ot magnificent fortitude; not',
in vain jffieir unbought and unpaid ser- \
vice in, (he field ; not in vain did the fa- |
ther? die unbounded, as their children ,
Iprfcd unpensioned; not in vain did they |
walk through the dark tragedy of war, ,
or do they now lie in the dull pantomine
of death. <
Their deeds were not in vain, be- >
cause we who survive shall teach our (
children and thus preserve an heroic \
race of men capable of such sacrifices (
as these men made, and equal to such
heroism as may serve "When lapsed ;
from virtue, to recall us to ourselves
and join us to the eternal God."
When we recall our small but peerless
army,?from its birth, through its
life of arduous toil and danger, to the
hour when its unstained sword dropped
from its exhausted hano, the words ]
of the English poet to the "Fallen Oak"
it seems are peculiarly applicable: I
"No. stiil 'tis thine, though fallen, im- 1
perial oak.
To teach this lesson to the wise and j
brave: I'
That 'tis far better, over-thrown and |'
broke.
In freedom's cause to sink into the '
grave, '
Than in submission to a tyrant's yoke. ?
Like the vile reed, to bow and be a ?
slave."
Efforts to draw parallels between the \
great Lee and renowned commanders
of former times have always to my ,
mind been most unsatisfactory. Where,
shall we turn to find the peer of our
great and pure soldier and hero? Certainly
we shall not find one among the
I mythic heroes of Homer, nor -hall we
| find one among the Grecian command-!
ers of a later period, though in the de-I
! votion of the hero of Thermopylae,
and the daring of the victor of Marathon.
may be found similes tor like j
qualities in our hero. But there is too i
much of fable and the license of heroic
verse in the narrations of their deeds
to guarantee their reliability.
Alexander, who at the head of his
serried phalanxes encountered the effeminate
masses of Asia and scattered
tlietn like sheep before a ravening
wolf, and while sighing for new worlds
to conquer could not control himself,
but fell a miserable victim to his own
excesses. In the march of Hannibal,
the great Carthagenian patriot, over
the Alps, and his campaigns in Italy,
we might find a similarity to General
Lee's strategy, but the system of warfare
then, the implements of war and
lie Tl, wtucfT fiatf neTtfier Laggage norf
supply trains, but foraged on the country
through which they operated, make
such a vast difference that the parallel
ceases at the very beginning. Besides,
Carthage and Rome were then nearly
equal in power, and Hannibal was able
to receive reinforcements from Carthage
by sea, as the Carthagenians
were a great maritime people, and the
hostile neighbors to Rome readily furnished
him with allies, and auxiliaries.
Nor do we find in republican Rome
a parallel. Certainlv not in Julius CaeI
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I.IV siv.uv.n iti iv< Mii.tii Kl'lll'l ai*, |
who at the head of the legions of the'
"Mistress of the World" over-ran the j
countries of barbarians and then turned
his sword against the liberites of
his own country.
We shall search in vain for one
among ill the great generals of the
whole Roman empire, nor shall we
find one among the leaders of the barbaric
hordes which over-ran the teriitories
of the degenerate Romans; nor
in the dark ages; nor among the Crusaders,
who under the standard of the
cross committed such crimes against
religion and humanity; nor among the
great chieftians of the middle ages, to
advance whose ambitious projects the
nations of Europe were, by turns, torn
and ravaged.
Gustavus Adolphus might be no utir
worthy parallel of the great Lee, both
Iiii i 1^.1111 I- > lll> jllllllV OI I1IC ilUU tlllseltishness
of character, and the comparison
has not been inaptly drawn,
j but the career of the heroic king of
I Sweden was cut short by death in
j battle at so early a period and before,
; unlike Lee. he had stood the test of
, adversity, that material for completing
the parallel arv* wanting.
Marlborough has been compared to
our great chieftain, but owed his promotion
in the first place to the dishonor
of his family and the patronage of a
debauched favorite of the court. I
utterly repudiate the comparison. Besides,
Marlborough commanded the
armies of the greatest maritime power
in the world in alliance with the whole
oi Kurope, against France alone.
Shall we compare General Lee with
the great Napoleon, or hi- successful
antagonist, Wellington? True Napoleon
was a captain of most extraordinary
genius, but success was always necessary
to him. As long as victory
perched upon his standard he did wondrously
well, but could not endure defeat,
and the disastrous retreat from
Moscow, and the ignominious (light
from Waterloo, must always remain
j blots on his military escutcheon. Na
| poleon played a hold game for empire]
i and sell-aggrandizement, regardless of i
the lives, liberties or happiness of oth!
ers, but was ruined at the lir^t adverse
turn of the wheel of fortune. The
"Hundred Days" was the la-t desperate
effort of a ruined gambler.
Wellington was prudent and wise,
hut was at the head 01 the armies of
! the "Mistress of the seas," in alliance
: with all Europe, against Napoleon and
| his waning days, won his chief glory
i in a game against the desperate gambj
ler, whose last stake was up when he i
had all the odds on his side. The "Iron
Duke," though worshipped and overwhelmed
with honors and riches by
the British nation, is no parallel for
the great Confederate commander.
On this side of the water we may, in
some respects, contrast Lee with
j Washington, for in their great self
command, in their patriotism and in
their purity and unselfishness of character,
there was striking similarity, hut I
ihe military operations of General Lee |
were on so much grander a scale than
those of Washington and all things being
so essentially different, that there i
ceases to be any further points of com- \
parison between them. NTor need wie |
draw parallels between Lee and oijdead
heroes, Sidney Johnson and Jacket
son. The career of the former, wh<>se|
dawn gave such bright promise, was;
cut off so soon that we scarcely knew
him.
Whoever shall undertake to draw a
parallel between General Lee and h/s |
?reat lieutenant, Jackson, for the purpose
of depreciating the one or the
ither, cannot have formed the remot:st
conception of the true character of
cither of those illustrious men and
congenial Christian heroes. Let us be
thankful that we had two such cham-1
[lions, and that in their characters we
can furnish the world at large with1
the best assurance of the rightfulness j
if the principles for which we fought. {
Shall I compare Lee to General j
Srant, his successful antagonist? As;
veil compare the great pyramid which
rears its majestic proportions in the!
.alley of the Nile, to a pygmy perched
ipon the top of Mount Atlas.
No, my friends, it is in vain to seek
invwhere for a parallel to the great
Lee. Our beloved chief stands like
some lofty column which rears its hetd
among the highest in grandeur. Simple
and sublime, he needs ji?- fcorfowed
lustre,?grand and glorious, like the
last mountain in the deluge, "unapproachable
forever!"
How well our great hero performed
bis part in the mighty drama the j
ivorld knows by heart. 1 he glories of I
!iis achievements have been immortalzed
in song and story. Emblazoned
11 letters of living light is the name of;
lie idol of the Southland. Robert E. j
Lee. Described as "A foe without J
late, a friend without treachery, a sol-1
lier without cruelty, and a victim with-1
vur murmuring," he was a public |
officer without vices, a private citizen
without wrong, a neighbor without reproach.
a Christian without hypocrisy, j
:i man without guilt.
He was a Caesar without his ambition,
Frederick without his tyranny,!
Napoleon without hi> selfishness, and
Washington without his reward. He
was as obedient to authority as a king./""
He was as gentle as a woman, in lite,!
pure; modest as a virgin in thought.'
watchful as a Roman vestal, subtnissive
to law as Socrates, grand in battle
as Achilles.
Ideal soldier. stainless gentleman,
cold must be the heart that thrills not j
at the sound of that magic name. Whepi ,
the time came for this great man tjb
decide where his services must be elf-j
listed, we see him struggling with the!
mighty problem. On the one side wis
all the seductive allurements of position,
power and profit. Within his!
grasp were all the full realizations of
a soldier's fondest dreams, all the glittering
prospects of a warrior's ambitious
hopes, but spurning position for
principle, power for patriotism, the
great chieitan moved by that grand
precept of his pen, that "duty is the
suhhmcst word in our language."
linked his destiny with the ConfedertWua#
^esV?' I wnl'go i^n^p'etg^e^sViaffij
be my people, thy God shall be my
God."
The world has had its heroes, who '
in the moment of victory dazzled the '
eyes of their countrymen by the gen- 1
ins oi their actions and the glories of
their triumphs, but were I asked the 1
sublimest moment of jjiis idol of the;!
South, 1 would answer, not when lie
marched triumphantly at the head oil
battle, not when the star of the Confed-j
eracy was in the ascendant, not when j
amid the -houts of victory he rode re-1
splendant at the head of his conquer-1
ing heroes,, but I would take you to'
that historic spot at Appomattox, j
where the old torn and tattered Hag j
was furled, where all the bright hopes j
oi his grand band of followers vanish-,
ed, and with his great heart throbbing
and bleeding for his stricken South-;
land, with broken voice and the tears ;
| streaming down his noble brow, he addresses
the shattered fragments of a
lost cause. Mighty in victory, but
mightier still in defeat. Ah, my countrvmcn
?in*ti oc T ....
born to die."
"These shall resist the empire of de-;
cay,
When time is o'er and worlds have
passed away;
Cold in the dust the perished heart may j
lie,
But that which warmed it once can
never die."
Mr. B. F. Arthur, president of the
People's Bank, a gentleman who has
from the first starting of the enterprise
been one of its most liberal supporters,
was selected by the ladies to
mark the spot. This Mr. Arthur did in
an appropriate way. His speech,
though brief, was to the point and
was as follows:
Veterans, Fellow Citizens, Ladies and
School Children:
Today we are gathered here to break
dirt for the foundation of the Confederate
monument, the work of love and
loyalty of the noble women of Union
county, through the Daughters of William
Wallace Chapter. It is with the
| greatest pride that this high honor falls
It is Fxternal and it
That is the story to!
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upon me, as the first contributor to
this glorious cause. This is indeed an
eventful day in the history of old Union
Court-House, as our beautiful little
city was formerly called, and under
the very shadow of this old historic
hill my ancestors, who were most patriotic,
lived and died, and within a
stone's throw of this very spot that
we mark today my father, who was
the clerk of the convention when
South Carolina resolved to secede
from the "Union," and the late Judge
\Ym. Wallace, for whom this Chapter
is named, practiced law together, and
it is naturally, therefore, a source of
special gratification to me that 1 should
have the privilege of moving the first
dirt for the foundation of this monument
to be erected to the memory of
the brave heroes of this beautiful
Southland, the history of whose struggles
and hardships this shaft will commemorate
forever, and I repeat the
words of that great chieftian. Robt. E.
Lee, whose iooth birthday we so appropriately
observe today with these
exercises: "God bless our women."
The patriotic hymn, "America," was
sung by the school children. The band
played the "Empire State March," ^fier
which Rev. Dr. Wardlaw pronounced
the benediction, and the gathering dispersed.
Every Hour of the Day.
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Palmetto Drug Co., the reliable druggists
of Union, S. C., are having calls
for "HINDIPO," the new Nerve Tonic
and Vitalizer. Cures Nervous Debility.
Insomnia, Restores Lost Vitality,
that they are selling under a positive
guarantee.
Its merits are becoming the talk of
the town atid everybody wants to try
it, and why not? It costs nothing if
it dont' do you good?not one cent.
They don't want your money if it
does not benefit you, and will cheerfully
refund the money. Try it today.
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Id by thousands of testiumonia
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