The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-07-21


tcrmcdiate stages, in field, forum
and council, to the beginning Of
the late war, contributed in large
measure to the splendid exhibition
of daring and sacrifice which char
actcrizcd the sons Of Carolina as
they trod that CORY pathway from
Sumter to -AppomattoS, while
the devotion and matchiess love
Of her people in the bright days
O: her national reuown, when her
heraldic legend, ",Semper anlmiS
opibusque parati," attested their
chivalry in every national tri-
umph, inspired them to bear with
patience and hopeful resignation
those dark days through which
they have passed of military ty-
rany, political mlsru4e and spoIla-
tive aggrandizement, and which
hung over them like pail Of
Egyptian darkness? Our history,
during those long, weary years OF
shameful corruption and outra-
geous degradation Of the fair name
of an ancient commonwealth by
the hordes of miscreants and hun
cry vultures who pretend to gov
ern her, seem now as we look back
upon them, like the horrible and
gastly nightmare Of q disordered
vision. Often were We tempted
to say, like the younger Pitt, as
he lay on his death-bed when the
news of the rout Of the Russian
and Austrian armies on the fatal
day at Austerlltz was told him, as
be cast his eye upon q map Of Eu-
rope hanging on his chamber wall.
"Fold up that map, for there is no
use for it for ten years to conc"
With US there seemed at one
time tO he not one decade alone,
but countless years of misrule and
ruin. But refusing to touch the
uncIean thing, Or bowing the knee
to the Political Baal, that held
high carnival over their desperate
fortunes, with only now and then
q bastard who forgot his duty or
lost his selt-respect, the sons Of
Carolina maintained their man
hood through them ali. Inspired
by the examples Of the past, hope
ful of the future, and cheered in
the darkest hour Of their tribuIa-
tion by the devoted women Of the
State, they struggled on until the
hour Of their deliverance drew
nigh, and then, with one heart
one purpose and one supreme eft:
fort, they rose in their majesty OF
outraged right and hurled from
power into the waves of oblivion
the miserable men whose Career
had not one redeoming v-rcue,
there to remain buried so deep
that no bubble shall ever rise to.
tell whore they sank. If suffering
disciplines and purifcs q people,
in ali conscience we ought to be
that people. For ten gears our
cup was full to overfowing OF
public and private trials and sor-
rows, and their repressiVe lnhu-
ences have told on the older gen
Grafton among US, as is too
plainly evidenced in their furrow-
ed checks and silvcred hair. The
war had it's trials and it's dangers,
but the excitement Of battle, the
flush of victory, or the hope OF
success, compensated in . great
degree for its hardships and Vlcis-
STUDIES, yet it was preferable in
many respects to the iDcaIculably
trying days Of our dark epoch.
Let every true man, however,
who has done his best, despite ad-
verse fortune, and though bound
in the chain Of circumstances;
which are the result OF misior-
lures Or miscalculations, console
himself with the reflection which
solaced the lass moments Of the
greatest seaman VINO ever trOd q
quarter deck, when, as he was dy-
ing, amid the shouts Of Trafalgar,
it was announced that the victory
was theirs, family murmured:
"Thank God: | have done my du-
ty." And though to thousands Of
this class Of our people thore may
be a struggle, without much hope
to the end yet to the younger
generations of redeemed Carolina
there is d fair field and grand
destiny. The manly efforts and
hopes Of our people were not mis-
p.accd, and virtue has had its re-
ward, time has vindicated the
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