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them, and like them must succumb t,

tor, and from it deduce such reflections,
as will enhance our happiness in the
drama Of life. Let us tread the walks
Of peace, and be ,mdistulbcd save for our
impotence to fifty discharge those tlu-
ties, which court not the "sceptre of an
hour" but earn their immortellcs of viii. :
pered regrettings he is no more:
cease then nor order, imperfection name:
Our proper bliss, depends on whatwe blame
Know thy own point, this kind, this due de-
gree
Ofblindncss, weakness, Heaven bcstows on thee,
Submit in this, or any other sphere
Secure to be rs blessed as thou can'st bear,
Safein the hand ofone disposing power,
Or in the natal, or the morning hour,
All nature is but art unknown to thee
al chance, direction, which thou can'st not see,
All disccrd, harmony, not understood
All partial evil, universal good,
And spite pride, in crring reasons spite,
One truth is clear, whatever is, is right"
In conclusion my friends, permit nc to
add, that upon each of us there dcvolvcs
q duty to be discharged. Let us not with
stoical indifference, attach no Importance
to the claims of Tomorrow. True, "lifc
is but n brief candle, walking shadow
a poor player, that struts, and frets his
hour upon the stage" yet in the role Of
life there are duties involved, which if fitly
rendered here haye reward hereafter.
You are here today, the representatives
ola cause that accepts no comprqmise with
fal school if side eby side, at Manassas and
Shiloh, you met The serricd ranks of an
enemy, to repei tbs i INVASION OF yonr
homes and principles, and there were
actuated by duty, then with equal mag
nanimity are you expected to resist the
march of political schemes, which if ac-
cepted, will brand the records of your
ancestral past as Il lie, and tastcn a stig-
ma above the laurelled graves of your
brethren. Havc our kindred fallen in
vain; haze your own proud deeds been
wasted upon a barren cause; have the
prayers of the daughters of the
South, gone heavcnward like the mean
ingless wall of the wind No; no; the
suppression of truth is not its extinction,
the trampling Of principle to the dust of
dcrison, is not its overthrow. Truth is
immutable, and like the diamond, though
crushed to atoms, each fragment is g gem
that flashes back the purity of its origin.
The ban OF disfranchisement may be cur
portion, greater evils, and heavier claims
may await us, these we cannot avert.
No love of country may animate, to boast
q proud citizenship, the battle for liberty
has hcen fought, and lost; the battle for
nobier issues is the duty of to-day. We
have no part in the history of South
Carolina under its present regime, we are
aliens and strangers among horde, who
dcsccrate her soil. No stain can pollute
the white vcstments of her former glory,
and the usurpers will assume in vain the
regal covering to disguise their hidcous-
ness. Before us are fields of other du-
ties. Let us with sacred affection pre-
serve the memory of our patriot dead.
Let us with charity have care for .heir
widows, and orphans, and let us dcvclap
the material, and intellectual resources
at our command, that We may the more
fully appreciate the immunity we claim
from things we justly loathc.
We arc just entering the portals Of
another year, its early gush of light is too
young for promise, save in hope, rug
ged and hidden journey is before US, and
the goal Of happiness. All; who shall
reach it. Already upon the shores Of
time are stranded wrecks of fortune and
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