The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-12-25

clarion blast the hearts of a struggling
people her Madison, who illuminated
with his wisdom the true principles Of
the American Constitution, and her
Marshall, who remains to this day, the
unapproached and unapproachable glory
of American Jurisprudence. The saga
city OF her statesmen in the national
councils, conducted the United States
on to career IF progress and pros.
perity unexampled i'll the records of
nations, and the splendid genius of her
soldiers in the field crowned with i'm.
mortal chaplets our military renown. 1t
was her Winfield Scott Andrew Jack
son and Zachary Taylor who from the
SHOWS OF Canada to the tropic SANDS of
Mexico, gaveto the world exhibitions
of tho superior martial skill and prowess
of our countrvmen to foreign enemies
which it had ever seen, it was the con-
summate craftsmanship and all.embrac.
ing patriotism of her Henry Clay which
three times saved the Union he loved so
well from the perils Of division and civil
war. These, the fathers of American
greatness were children of the sunny
South, Of the great and glorious mother.
at Whose breast they were nursed, on
whose lap they first stood erect, from
whose lips they first learned those les.
sons of patriotism, virtue and valor
which made their country great among
the nations, and their names immortal
among men.
Nor has the South contributed less to
the material than to the political and
military Importance of the nation. The
vast domain of the teering and produc
tive West was given by the South to
the American Union. tits no figure of
speech, but the literal truth. She has
been the mother not only Of statesmen,
but OF States, and those States the most
fertile, and destined TO be come the most
ropnlous and powerful American com.
mon.wealth The woudeIful variety
and extent of the peculiar productions
OF her own soil, of cotton, rice, tobacco
and naval stores have laid the founda.
tions of American commerce, and con-
tributed by far the greater part Of the
revenues OF the nation. Strip from
American progress and wealth the ele.
ments which the South has contributed,
and what would remain 2 What
would have been the Revolution with.
ont Washington? What its growth
and fortunes but for the gift of the
South to the United States Of the rich.
est portions OF its territory, and the
commercial, manufacturing and national
wealth derived from the products of
Southern agricultural Industry De.
prived Of those accessories to this great.
hess, the United States, if it so much as
existed, would be- a fourth or eth rate
power, without rank or respect among
the nations.
ALI this glory Of the South is past,
and now does the land sit desolate that
was once 80 radiant with benifcient
power? Stripped offour thousand mil
lions of property -\bereaved of f,hree hun.
dred thousand OF her children, shut out
from the Union which she did so much
to build up and enrich, she yet main.
tails composure and fortitu2e more
marvellous than her proudest achieve.
ments in the council and the field. De
spoiled of her earthly possessions, looking
back upon the most dismal blight that
ever came upon the fortunes of peo-
pie. looking forward to the gathering of
sonlbre clouds that threaten her utter
destruction. with earthquakes rnmbling
beneath Ter feet, and at her heart an
gnish and despair tuge;ng like wild
beasts, no quernlons complaint drops
from her lips. no frown Of indignation or
impa'ience disturbs her brow; there is
sadness Sid resignation, but not oae
object glance in her heroic eye.
"The Niobe Of nations there she stands.
Childless aud crownlcss. IN her voiceless woe
Au empty urn within her witherd hands, {,
Whose holy dust was seatter'd long ago.
The Scipio's tomb contains no ashes now,
The very sepulchres lilo tenantless
Of their heroic awellers dost thou ffow,