Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-07-29

follows: Col. A. Coward, chairman; W. T.
r. Bell, secretary; j. M. Ivy, treasurer; W.
Waddy Thomson, DR.. J. W. Tracy, I. W.
Garrett, I. D. Witherspoon, J. s. Brstton,
Col. VIM. Johnston, Geo. W. Chalk, R. P.
Waring, Rev. Robert Latham, DR.. A. P.
Campbell, j. B. Falls, w. J. Yates, E. Pat
terson, Col. j. P Thomas W. A. Mauney,
R. H. Garrett, DR.. B. F. Dixon, w. G..
WILDLY, W. J. Houston, (proxy), F. McGin-
mis-, (proxy), E. P. Howell, (proxy), and F.
Happer6eld.
The hasty action of the majority of the
committee in adopting the resolution Of Capt.
w. T. R. Bell, of Kings Mountain Station,
authorizing the committee on grounds ito Sc
lect some point ON the Airline Railroad, as
near as practicable to the battle ground, where
exclusive use of the grounds and privileges
can be procured, where the programme al
ready published shall be carried out except
the dedication of the monument on the 7th,
and review of the troops by Gen. Joe John
ston to be substituted for an illustration of the
plan of battle" is so at variance with the OBJ
ject originally contemplated, and so great
deviation from the programme originally
marked out, that the dissatisfaction caused
thereby is not matter of astonishment. At
the meeting held on the 25th of July, 1879,
it was formally
Resolred, That on the 7th of October, 1880,
there be centennial celebration of the battle
of Kings Mountain, held on the battle-ground.
In conformity to the sentiment of this res.
olution the States of North and South Caro-
lima made appropriations, and citizens in
South Carolina contributed for the object,
as they thought of celebrating an important
victory on the ground where the battle was
fought and the victory won. Acting upon
the same idea, we suppose, the ways and
means committee purchased 39s acres Of land,
including the battle-ground, which has been
paid for and title given, and also secured the
use and control Of the contiguous land for the
purposes of the celebration. After this &C.
ton, and at this late day, a change Of pro-
gramme, such as the resolution of Capt. Bell
effects, is not only ill.advised, but will tend to
subordinate the main object of the celebration
and lessen public interest in it.
As to the inaccessibility of the battle-ground,
it can be reached not only by roads from the
Air Line Railroad, but by good public roads
from Clover and Yorkville, on the Chester
and Lenoir Railroad. Without the advs a.
tage of the Airline Railroad, and with 10
railroad extending in that direction beyo d
Yorkville, the celebration in 1856 was 2 mag.
ni6cent success. 1t was as largely attended,
we doubt not, as will be the celebration next
October, and we then heard no complaint of
rough roads or inaccessibility of the grounds.
The celebration should take place on the
battle. ground or not at all. 1t is impractica-
BILE, not to say impossible, to make the cele-
bration success with the place of rendez-
vous several miles distant from the ground on
which the battle was fought.
That the exemplifcation of the battle is
to be dispensed with, will also be source of
disappointment to many. That fest sture alone
of the celebration would have attracted the
largest crowd that would have assembled du'
ring the four days of the celebration, and it
would have been the grandest part of the oc'
casion. Of course, it could not be properly
done anywhere else except on the ground
where it was fought; and by dispensing with
that feature, and having the celebration in
another locality the committee is giving the
public practical demonstration Of playing
Hamlet and leaving Hamlet out For the
success of the celebration, we hope the ill.ad.
vised action may yet be reconsidered before it
is too late.
[Snce the above was written and put in type,
but at too late an hour to withhold it from this
issue, we have received authoritative notice that
the committee on grounds has decided to carry
out the original purpose of having the celebration
on the battle-ground, and on Monday next will
commence the work Of putting the grounds in
order.]
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