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ADDRESS OF W BY Madam President, Fair Representatives of a Great Cause (United Daughters of the Confederacy), Ladies and Gentlemen: Just two sources furnish me courage to stand as spokesman for the City of Union as I face this preat audience tonipht, composed not only of the sturdiest of our citizens, but of the fairest flower of the womanhood of this preat State (which means the whole world). First: I am brinp you these words of preetinp and extendinp this token of welcome from hearts that in the very nature of thinps, could not be ? * W. ^ - 1 V, 1 x > 1 uuici man wmi in anu true arm nospitable. Union, for whom I speak, is not only the "Pearl of the Piedmont," not only can she justly claim her quota of the fairest daughters and sturdiest sons, but the very God of Nature has been lavish with his smiles; no country can boast a more salubrious climate, no purer water ever bubbled from the bosom of Mother Earth and the arts and graces that lend luster to the eye, scintillating power to mind and grace and beauty to body are cherished and preserved * her sons and daughters?not the least of these is the grace of hopitalitv, as old as our first inhabitant and warm enough to embrace every fair member of the United Daughter of the Confederacy. But more, I claim for those for whom 1 speak, for Union (In Union there is strength) so honored by your presence and your choice of our city as your convention home for 1!>10, that i c thr. irofiT democracy and the cradle of loyalty, patriotism, and the very cause that you so beautifully and nobly represent tonight?"The Confederacy." It has been worthily said of the immortal Washington, "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen"?all honor to the "Father of our Great Country," hut lest you forget, I am claiming for Union whose greeting I bring you and whose warmest welcome I lay at your feet that none have ever gone before her in loyalty, patriotism or service in I I Jlii L rBmmmmi CNIONtlK, Whore (ho Slato I . I). ('. tho hour of crisis or the country's need?first in 1K45, first in lXfi>0, first in 1H98, and first in 19H>?surely the sons and grandsons of the first and the fathers of tho last could not find it other than a triad privilege to open wide our hearts, our homes and the deeps of homage and welcome to the heroines who keep alive the fires of reverence, love and appreciation for the men and cause that gave the world the greatest baptism of blood and death and fire and the human race its noblest examples of heroism, devotion and sacrifice. Almost within a stone's throw of where your speaker stands tonight is what was once the famous Wallace House and here, when sore pressed, did Jefferson Davis, first and only President of the Confederacy, find welcome hospitality and refuge, when passing this way. As 1 think of this I am swayed by the spirit of Union's gallant sons, who helped to lend immortality to the Palmetto Regiment when the semi-savage hordes of Mexico in the days of '4.r> had to be taught N that civilization must rule supreme on this continent of America. Surely the men who wore the grey would rise up and condemn an unworthy son and the fast thinning lines of noble patriots would execrate me, as well as those equally heroic, if not as bitterly tested in the memorable brush with Spain, and your sons and grandsons and husbands who are today, in reponse to the same loyal, patriotic impulse. and in response to the call of our United Country's Greatest President, Wilson, even now enduring1 the rigors of the soldiers' life and saerifies on that same Southern frontier, where it would seem, though let us pray not, that the same semi-civilized people will have to he taught that life, liberty and the peaceful pursuit of happiness is guaranteed under the glorious Stars and Stripes. Yes, I feel that in spirit and person our heroes and martyrs of a glorious past and worthy present would rise up and condemn me, if as their spokesman and mouthpiece, \ did not hid you welcome and God-speed. Surely hy choice, by impulse and instinct the representatives of the departed Giles Jeter, Wallace, flames, Thomson, Young, Foster and Douglass, and of | elcome ; l. l. wagnon : ~~~ . 1 the living Farr, Greer, Long, Hunter, ! Norman, McNally, Young and Walker, 1 Hollingsvrorth and Ashford, can say 1 to you, Daughters of the Confederacy, 1 who may be the mothers, wives and sweethearts of the boys on the border 1 today, in all reverence, but sincerely, i as you are among us as our guests, < "Ask and you shall receive, knock and 1 it shall be opened to you, seek and i you shall find." And our only regret < and deepest disappointment shall be i to fail to impress you that it is our 1 sincere desire, that you shall, in fact, 1 as well as sentinment, be "queens of t all you survey." < Second: I am firmly convinced that no cause is worthy to live and be f preserved in the history of mankind 5 that has not contributed to the happi- 1 ness and betterment ot the human . family in some service or sacrifice, J or preserved for the use and guidance of the race, traditions and his- * tory that will safeguard and perpetuate ideals that uplift and inspire our own best service and loyalty in the * hours of crisis and human affairs. Surely then for your own sake, I ^ can welcome you with a warm heart and justly claim your presence as a r source of inspiration. Even partisan | judges and historians in the light of ] the years and the impregnable rock 1 of "Statesrights" which our forefathers wrote into the constitution and c partisan interpretations have never ^ been able to efface, have come to < recognize and reluctantly admit the ^ justice and righteousness of the cause , for which our heroes of the Con fed- ^ eracy fought; for let me pause long c enough to refute forever and in lan- . guage never to be forgotten, that only j the ignorant or prejudiced would say j, that the "South fought for the preser- j vation of slavery," slavery was but s an incident; the right of secession, ^ now recognized as guaranteed under j the constitution was the inspiration, ^ that gave to the world's gallery of H .immortal heroes such men as Jack- % son and IJee, Stuart and Beaureguard f ajpd Johnston and Hampton ,and im- ^ bued the heroes of the grey with that j spirit that all the millions of men and t ?. . 31 ; vSlHBi * ^ v ill SCHOOL. Convention Held Its Meetings. j inexhaustible stores of munitions could never conquer; but finally starved into submission, that spirit, that all fair-minded judges must admire and honor through the years to come and makes you noble daughters of noble fathers, glad to be known to } the world as "Daughters of the Con- , federacy." With my heart aglow with the same s fires that lifted Lee to immortality; \ that kept the face of our fathers to the enemy, even when hungry, half t starved and poorly clad and barefooted, with no shelter from winter's blasts and icy snows, I stand here to | tell you that I believe there coubl have been no Confederacy, that there ^ could have been no "Scroll of Honor" j, written in tho lilnrwl rif bravest heroes, there would have been | no heroes to reverence, no memories j. to cherish and no altar fires to keep burning hail it not been for the "women of the Confederacy." They were the source of inspiration, they are they who stood as did the Spartan mother when the news of the death $ of her sons was brought to her and said, "Would to God I had a thousand sons to give for Sparta." They are the heroines who gave to all generations to come the spirit of sacrifice, ^ courage and devotion that would have . made any Southern man who gave less than his all on the altar of his country service, a poultroon and coward. Gently reared and brought up upon the breath of chivalry, left alone, unprotected, unaided and undefended from a menace worse than death, who faced hunger, privation, hardship and the meanest toil, that their dependents might survive and that their fathers. _ husbands and sons might defend the . right of secession, which in that crisis | meant the ri^ht to live. In all the annals of the world's history, no greater contribution has been iriven to inspire devotion, no greater inspiration has been offered to inspire sacrifice, no army of patriots has ever been followed with more righteous prayers?than our own mothers and wives of the Confederacy gave to our hero fathers who wore the prey. . Since the last preat battle of ballots was fought and the smoke of the world's greatest political conflict has r rolled away, leaving for another four 3 fears the destiny and welfare of the greatest nation and peoples on God's >arth in the hands of that peerless statesman and Southern gentleman, iVoodrow Wilson, a great daily newspaper headed an editorial, "Women Save Democratic Party." When I read :here that Wilson's election was made possible by the majorities given to Democracy in those States where wonen had been given the ballot, my leart swelled with the thought once nore, once more, woman in the hour >f her country's need, has given her pest and that best, I verily believe, nsures to this country under his lead;rship, its rightful place as the nightiest evangel of the "Prince of Peace," when the nations of the earth ie exhausted, bleeding and dying in he throes of the mightiest conflict >f all the ages. When the jewels of immortality are i?-% V*/\ /lo?? f nci v\i in uiv uaj ui una) attuum surely none shall scintillate with more adiance or splendor than the power hat shall have been potent in assuagng the fires of hate and passion, that lave stopped and stemmed the tides >f blood that have poured so brually on a thousand battlefields, that ihall be bathed in the grateful tears ind prayers of millions and millions if wives and mothers and widows who ire today enduring what you endured or the Confederacy. The greatest tragedy of this age ind this great people is, its tendency o forget, many a heart has gone sient and broken to the grave, many a ife has been embittered and impovirished because of service, devotion ir sacrifice which has been cheerfully fiven; has been forgotten and 'Daughters of the Confederacy," you lave deserved the "well done" of all ight-thinking men, you have earned he undying devotion of the thin line if grey still on this side of the river; rou have won an exalted pedestal in he hearts of all worthy sons by keeping the altar fires burning, you lave crowned the brow with a deierved halo, of many an unnoted hero, ou have sifted the records and given he world and to generations yet un>orn an untarnished record of heroism, lacrifice and devotion, for all of which ve rise up and call you "blessed." So or what you are, for your unmeasured and unmeasurable contributions or the most sacred history and ideals hat you have preserved and taught he world to cherish; in the language >f an unknown author and with nc ipology for such changes as I have nade, I again bid you thrice welcome ind say: 'What makes a city great and strong? Mot architecture's graceful strength; Mot factories' extended length 3ut (wo)men who see the civic wrong \nd give their lives to make it right \nd turn its darkness into light. ? ' .1 US. ANNA CALHOUN ANCKUM, >f Camden, S. C., the daughter of he late .John Calhoun and his wife, iarah Norwood Calhoun, was horn in Abbeville. She married Wm. Ancrum f Camden in 1877, and since that ime has made her home in that city. A member of the John 1). Kennedy hapter, and for many years she has >een identified with U. 1). C. work, rraciously lending her ready and Aunt pen to the cause so near her icart. A brilliant conversationalist, vith a magnetic presence And pleases personality, Mrs. Ancrum never ails to charm all who come in touch vith her. MONEY TO LEND on FARM LANDS 1300 to $10,000?Twenty years time. See J NO. K. HAMBLIN Lawyer Office 2nd door East of Postoffice. f. Dr Virml P HaurLinc * 11 a" " IIUlfAHW DENTIST OFFICE OVER MUTUAL I Tn;nn O p DRY (.OODS COMPANY LJI1IUI1, O. V^. DR. R. R. POPE DENTIST Office Over Tinsley's New Jewelry Store PIIONF 43 QUICK LOANS. Money to loan upon county or citj eal estate. Loan may be had for froir ?ne to twenty years. !9-tf Barron & Barron. / t t [ ! ! S * I . c Nati< ( r I Insti the Phe made. For < be a cause, our Marked these Fundai 1. In teg: 2. Hard 3. Accoi 4. Court 5. Liber; 6. Safeb 7. Intelli 8. Stron 9. Ampl 10. Appr< 11. Expei 12. Frien These are some of th< TV. 1 1 1 1 x- - s xiicy liaveneipeu CO J I and strongest Banks determined not only well. We crave a co: ! Our Savings Departn We have long preach waste it. A good sa1 and a great friend to Citizens I CAPITA STATE. COT R. P. MORGAN, Presid r I ? y litizens onal B; )f Union tution prides it nominal Recoi every effect tf Among the Re Success you mental Facts: * rity, Our Foundation Work by the Management nmodations For All :esy to the Public ality With Customers V for Depositors Igent Oversight g Reserve e Capital relation of the Business Given rt Advice to Customers dship Won by Our Policy 3 stones we have builded i make us what we are, on in the country. From th to solicit your business, b ntinuation of your liberal lent pays liberal interest led that wise people sa\ vings account is a great ei man. Open a savings acc National L AND SURPLUS $140. fNTY AND CITY DEPOf ent C. C. S. 4 H . / ! ink self upon rd it has lere must asons for will find i I ^ ' ? > ! Us nto our success, e of the safest e beginning we l-l "f 4- 14- n r< Ut IU 111U111 It (Id patronage :: :: , to Depositors. re money; fools lemy of worry, ount with us :: Bank 000 sITORY ANDERS, Cashier I V :V/i ' "L ' y^M",