The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-09-10

tumu't RI war and the luin nl = more dis
aStruuS peace hr llhnred steadily and
valiantlv, ani death Found him, us he said
it should, "with harness on his buck" Z
have known him when stretched upon
bed o: sickness, to be abosiously employed
in the preparation Of case and on one
occasion, knew him to struggle ont of
bed, travel hundred miles in the most in
clement weather, and then, though b.:ely
able to stand! upon his feet, engage in one
Of the most delicate and difficult trials I
ever witnessed. But the intricacy and
seriousness of the case seemed TO warm him
into new life. IIc followed the mass of
testimony from first to last, he Ca auglt
every point Of his able opponents seven
hour argument, aid in his own reply of Two
Two hours length, construed the evidence,
uniolded the great principles of law in.
vo!Vcd, and fortified every foot of ground
with the decisions Of the masters Of Equity,
| both in England and in America. And
this vas cause in which, from to first to
last, he positively refused TO accept even a
| contingent fee.
Col. Fairs political career requires but
brief description at my hands. He was
Democrat Of the true Jefferson and Calhoun
school-a friend of the Union so long as his
State had her rights in it, but giving his first
allegiance TO his State. He was not q sepa-
rate -State-action man in 1850 and 1851 !;
but nc was SeceSsionist iu 1860, and Us q
delegate from this District he signed the
Ordinance of Secession After the war, his
course, although not quite successful, was as
wise one as seemed possible uuder the
circumstances. He was the great conserYa-
tor OF the County-prcServing as far as posi-
BILE the ancient tone Of our society, protecting
US as much as one could from the aggressonS
OF our adversarics, yet preventing undue
violence on the part Of Il well nigh desperate
class. In these efforts he was nobly con-
! spicuous in the Reform Movement in 1870,
and the Presidential campaign in 1879. And
believe state but the naked truth when
say, that although his conduct was not uni
Yersal!y appreciated, it commanded the af-
tectIon and confidence of his own party, and
Wrung reluctant tribute even from those
whose incendiary Schemes he bafRed.
We should be chary Of the epithet, but l
think, upon q review Of his life, We may
safely say he was good man. lie was i
| phianthropist in the noblcst sense OF the
term. Hc was kind and amiable, he was
j ust and generous, he was honest and true.
No man but the evil doer d ced fear him, for
while he was
Lofty and sour to them that loved him
| not,
"To those men that sought him" be was
sweet as summer"
We loved and honored him while he lived
how shall VIC adequately express our grief
at his loss:
90, good grey head which all men knew,
! 20. voice from which their omcns all men
drew,
go. iron nerve to true occasion true,
go, fallen at length that tower of strength
(Which stood foursquare to all the winds
that blcw!'
do not say that OR loss is irreparable-
| DO not say that, even in our generation, we
Shall not look npon his like again for surely
| he who Of the Stone, .i5 able to raise un chill
dren unto Abraham, Can, of the noble mate
rial in this people, rear us another equal to
| him We here lament. But, for the present,
must say, that we are in some sense on
orphaned commuuity-bcraaved of our head
and leader, and knowing not if his mantle
shall descend Oh any one of US.
Let me have great matter Of consolation,
| even in these first hours Of our afiiction; and
our predominant feeling should be one of
! thanks.
For his sake VIC should be thankful, that
he enjoyed so long and happy life, that he
| acquired honor and the affection OF his peo.
pie, that he enjoyed all the pleasures Of
| friendship and those Of domestic life, and
that he had the felicity-enouSh to make his
| lonely death-bed place Of comfort and re-
poSe-thc ineXprcsSible felicity of knowing,
| in his last hours, that he hud served his
| family and his friends, that he had served
his country, that he had hefriended the poor,
the friendcSS, the widow and the orphan!
Aud for ourselves we should be thankful,
that we for so long period enjoyed his SER
vices and his society. and that now, and
hcnceforth, although his visible, mortal form
| is taken from us, we have his example be-
fore us. to guide, admonish. 20 strengthen
and to comfort US all the days of our life!