Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-20
1Olia Cemetery, Charleston.


- Memorial Day at Magnolia Cemetery
Charleston, was observed on the 10th, in the
quiet, formal manner which for several years
past has characterized the annual ceremonies
in remembrance of the men who have been
slumbering in quiet graves for fifteen years
After brief address by Mr.. James G.
Holmes, chairman Of the committee of ar.
rangements, the following memorial ode, by
Mrs. Clara Dargan Mclean, was sung to the
air of "My Maryland the young ladies Of
the Confederate Home leading:
Ye are not dead, ye glorious souls!
Who fought and fell for Freedoms sake;
And though our hearts with anguish break,
Regret her solemn silence holds.
For here beneath this fragrant bloom,
The weary warrior rests his head
But Love beholds the faithful dead,
Transfgured over every tomb.
Rest, honored heroes! calmly sleep,
The end is gained, your work is done
We restless toll till set of sun-
Be our repose as soft and deep.
Well won the rest we'll won the fame!
Let this reflection hush our moan,
For on imperishable stone,
Honor snail carve each SdcTeu name!
An appropriate prayer was then offered by
Rev. G. R. Bracket, concluding ode was
sung, and the benediction pronounced by
Rev. w. B. Yates, after which the motionless
crowd became suddenly animated with life,
and scattered silently through the grounds
laden with the fragrant and beautiful assu-
RANGES that the occupant of no humble grave
was forgotten, or the life he gave for his coun-
try unappreciated by his countrymen and
countrywomen. When every soldiers grave
Had been decorated, the party dispersed about
the cemetery, many availing themselves of
the opportunity to place flowers above the
resting places of loved ones outside of the
soldiers lot. The day was observed general
ly throughout the South.
The Canvass for Governor.
- Under date of the 3rd instant, j. E.
Brown, President of the Carolina Democratic
Club of Newberry county, addressed note to
Gen. johnson Hagood, enclosing the follow
ing resolutions, adopted by the club:
Resolved, That we request Gen. johnson
Hagood to name some day within the next
two weeks, when it will be convenient for
him to attend and address mass meeting to
be assembled under the auspices Of the Caro-.
lima Democratic Club.
Resolved, That Gen. johnson Hagood be
the guest of this club during his stay in
Newberry.
To the note and the tenor of the resolutions,
Gen. Hagood replied as follows:
COLUMBIA, May 6, 1880.
J. E. Brown, Esq, President Of Carolina Dem
ocratic Club, NeObsrry, S. G.:
DEAR SIR-Your communication of Sd
instant is received, forwarding to me the in
vitation of your club to address mass meet
ing to be assembled under its auspices.
| beg very sincerely to acknowledge the
qualification afforded me by this evidence of
appreciation on the part of my fellow. citizens
of Newberry, and my sense OF the kind
terms in which you have been pleased to con-
vey it.
The issues of the approaching political
campaign are to US of the gravest consequence.
They involve the maintenance for the next
two years of the honest and economical ad.
ministration of State affairs which was inaug.
urated in 1875 by exertions previously un-
paraleled in our political history, and which
it will be difficult to repeat. They involve
also that which alone can place us beyond
the danger of relapse and Radical rule, and
at the same time give us release from the po-
litical strain under which we now labor. The
Democracy have got the State Government,
and they are going to keep it, but from the
peculiar position of South Carolina she is Ii.
able to be battlefield between the two
National parties in every Presidential elec-
ton so long as the Republicans are in power
in Washin gton. We need repose and rest.
Four years, if no more, of National DEM
ocratic rule will give US this and afford our
people time to become thoroughly harmonized
and solidi6ed under the broad banner of
equal rights for all and good government
for the whole. Politics will not then be- as
it is now with US, matter of State life, and
our people can, in greater degree, turn their
energies to material progress, while popula-
ton and capital from abroad will, in conf
dence, seek to share in developing the abound
ing resources of our favored cline
In view of the magnitude of the interests
at stake, l feel that no risk should be run
which prudence can avoid, and that if ever
there was time when personal aspirations
should be subordinated to the general good,
it is pre.eminently so with us now. The
united energies and harmonious action of all