The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-04-23

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thah the amount which thestatehas lost
byshim in this transaction. He has, mo
doubt, had accomplices in it, andIit will
be the best atonement he can make to
the plundered people of the State, to
bring these scuomplices In for their share
Of the punishment and disgrace which
have overtaken himself
TIE LEXINGTON CENTRNNIAL---Gov.
Chamberlain was present OF the I.exing-
ton Centennial, and to the toast .'The
State lof. South Carolina, /" ETC., responded
as follows:
To stand upon the spot where our fa-
theirs gave the last test of their devotion
70 civil freedom, is high and sacred
privilege. If our hearts respond to the
highest influences which human example
and endeavor can afford; if personal
gratitude for blessings secured; If honor
tor self-forgetting, single-eyed fidelity to
duty il 40 sense of the far-reaching,
limitless consequences which are some
times Wrapped up in the actions of few
men; if any or all of these considerations
have power to affect us, this place and
Ihio uhy Ill ust Cull up tue CeuuereSC anu
proudest emotions. Such emotions are
words The full Inspiration OF This oc-
casion must be felt in the heart The
lips cannot utter it. confess, there
fore, that am 10th to attempt to add to
the tribute of words which this occasion
has already called forth. The outward
scenes which were presented here 100
years ago; the sequence of causes and
events which led up to that supreme hour
which Witnessed the opening in blood of
this great chapter of American history;
something. too, of the physical and
moral lineaments Of the actors in those
scenes; the vast results already attained,
and the boundless future still waiting
these heve been presented before us with
all the power which eloquence and poetry
can lend. What remains except that we
and sentiment and principles which this
day has taught us. and again take our
places in the ranks of that great army
which on all days and on all fields must
still carry forward the unending warfare
of freedom against oppression, of justice
against twrong, of human progress against
all efforts to circumscribe the thoughts
QE fetter the actions of men except by the
eternal hws Of ksstrnth itself?
g EcoIa first Of all as a deyout pill
grim at this shrine Of freedom I come
to refresh myself for coming duties by
calling up in vivid recollection the images
of that night of alarm, that morn
ing of blood. the undaunted courage,
the pure ,siEnplicity, the high and reso-
Lutte daring, which will forever embalm
the name OF Lexington among the most
priceless memories and inspirations of
hnnQr hSof0rx P,,k T =
another character and for another pur-
pose. Iscome to bring to this past of
patriotism the greetings of the descend
ants of colony which. from tho hour
when Samuel Adams, speaking in the
name of the town of Boston to its repre-
sentatives, bade them, eUse your endea-
vors that the weight off the other North
American colonies may be added to that
of this province, that by united applica-
ton all may happily obtain redress" till
the long struggle was crowned with final
success, never faltered in her devotion
to the cause ON whose first battle field we
now stand.
On the 3Oth of May. 1764, Virginia,
under the impulse of Patrick Henry's
eloquence, declared that "the people of
ence to any laws designed to impose
taxation upon them other than the laws
OF their own General Assembly," On
the 9th of June, 1764, tho Legislature of
Massachusetts, on the advice of James
Otis, suggested the calling of an Ameri-
can Congress, to be composed of dele.
gates from each Of the thirteen colonies
On the 25th of June, 1854, the suggestion
of Massachusetts was debated in the As
sembly of South Carolina by the then
yo1thfpa and eloquent John Rutledge,
and adopted under the leadership of the
intrepid and sagacious Christopher
Cad dsden. Thus Virginia sounded the
alarm; Massachusetts proposed the
Union; South Ca1olina responded with
the pledge of her utmost support.
From 1764 to 1774, throughout the
whole of the first epoch of the American
revolution, while events were Fastening
forward toward the final struggle Of
arms, South Carolina responded with
earnest and unhesitating fidelity to the
call of Massachusetts. The aggressions
of Great Britain were hardly felt by her.
Her commercial relations were almost
wholly with England, but her proud and
unconquerable spirit drew her to the
side of her sister colonies "Don't nav