The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-06-24
Truthful and Eloquent.

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| Truthful and Eloquent.
] The Columbia Phenir gives the follow
ling extract from the argument Of Colonel
/ WILLIAM M. SHANNON, ,,of Camden, before
Military Commission, on the trial of
Isaac Owens for murder. After present
ing the legal points involved, Col. Shan
non closed his argument as follows:
Gentlemen of the Commission, my duty
is done.z We are about to part to meet
no more, perhaps, in the walks of life.
| The alluring paths of public duty call
you onward, and, l sincerely trust, up,
wards to positions of increased honor and
usefulness.
| Tome, in middle life, withevery capaci-
ty, energy, vigor and strength with which
nature msyhave endowed me unimpaired,
the public duties of life are Shut book ;
for this have no word of complaint, no
sigh of regret, for thong the position may
|fbe humble, the duties and motives are
Thigh enough for my ambition, Dlt from
tsmy experience let me gather for you an
ALTERNATIVE, prophecy; which, from your
IIpositions, you may use for the benefit OF
-Four common country. Tell your brother
,Esoldiers to spread the banner of stars and
,Eissripes over us of the South in vengeful
wrath; saYto ,is, that those stars, whether
viewed as mere constellation Of glory,
| and placed there alike by Northern and
i Southern gallantry and heroism, or viewed
Eas representatives of great States, gather
Fed there alike by Northern and Southern
craftsmanship, are for you, while the stripes
are for us, and my mystical lore" prompts
me to say, "Rome had our grandeur and
our extent of empire when she oppressed
Eher borders and destroyed them," and l
point you 10 the fats Of the South, to
| Hungary, Poland, Ireland, St. Domingo.
But tell them to plant that banner deep
in the soil; let it's proud folds spread in
fsheltering love over us. Give us back our
share in its diadems of glory which our he
roes and our statesmen helped to swreathe
Recognize that the South. in the recent
war, fought not against that flag, but
against party, who, in their honest judg
ment, perverted the Government, and all
will yet be well.
The million deep scars which ruthless
war.has made, will heal again, and the sun
shall never set upon our empire. Why
should this not be? The sweet South
wind that-fans your cheeks, blows over
the spot where stood the headquarters OF
our common. foes-Cornwallis, .Rawdon
Tarleton. =. It. kisses the Violetss on the
grave of the noble Cantey,. who, on the
heights of Chapultepee, with the victorious
Palmetto flag and the star-spangled banner
floating over. him, gave his pure, young
life for our country. 1t waves the willow
over the graveof General John 3, Vile
pigue, who, in the winter of 1860 and
! 1851. from the far Northwest, wrote tc
me: GAS the sunset gun fred, | stood un,
der the stars and stripes, and, as the last
rays of the sun glanced upon its, glorious
n folds, turned away from 1T forever
1 VIII you wonder that my chin sank mourn
1 fully upon my breast, and that the tears
4 coursed down my cheeks as / bade fare
i well to:the flag / love 80 well?" Who
/ will believe, as his heroic form flashed at
j Shiloh, ever at. the head of his brigade, he
\ struck at that flag ?sa You may deem him
mistaken, you may deem him in error, but
j YOU cannot deem pure, immaculate spirit
i like his traitor. The soldier leaves such
epithets for the politician, whose fight
4 commences when the war is ovcr-wEose
i battle deeds are, words and whose battle
i flag is one interminable coil of red tape.
n The same wind passes on, and cools the
4 splred marble over Dickenson's heroic
! mould-he who, at Cherubusco's bloody
J field, under that banner, and with the
4 Palmetto flag in his hand, fell, "near the
\ flashing of the'gu 1t sighs over the
/ grave of DeKalb, the noble stranger who
gave his life for your liberty and mine. II
! 1rills bright chorus amid the heights Of
i Hobkirk, where Greene first set back the
!. tide of British conquest, never again to
/ flow over this land. Give US back those
memories and those treasures, and you
make patriots of us all again. Do these
seeming events cast their shadows before?'
4 Anticipating the event, looking forward
to the period when l may stand, patriot
citizen, under that flag, when l may be
about to pass away, leaving my descend
ants the heritage of freedom, may say
commencing this address with the intro
4 duction of one of Cicero's great orations
and concluding it with the conclusion OF
another. used, if my memory serves me
/ we'll, .by-the;great Webster, on Q memora-
\ bic occasion: "Dymg, I shall have but
two wishes-one, that | shall leave my
\ country free, the other, that every citizen
4 shall have we'll deserved of the Republic y
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