Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-10-12

Santee and fighting the enemy at EutaW, he
drove them into the narrow neck OF land be-
tween the Ashley and Cooper. Kings Noun
tain had recalled CORVALLIS from his victo-
rious march into North Carolina, and now
not an active British force was to be found
between Charleston and Virginia and Vir-
ginia was their only field for active operations !;
and after scourging and plundering the great
mother of States they fortified themselves at
Yorktown, little reckoning that the series OF re-
verses that had beguna at Kings Mountain would
their crowning elimination on the shore OF
the great sea, the very domain of the Briton
The army of Lafayette has been reinforced
from the fleet of Count DECREASE and advances
upon the British stronghold the fleet OF Ro-
chambeau has closed the bay to all escape :;
no relief can come. The army of CornWallls
sulrenders, and there is no longer British
force in America to prosecute the war. In
dependence is secured The wheels of war
have run their course Liberty has proclaim
ed the victory her children have won Desti-
ny has given to time a Republic of freemen
freemen then, freemen now, and freemen for
ever!
Glorious Kings Mountain A name that
is monument to the valor and patriotic vir-
tue of our people; name whose glory is the
heritage of every citizen of our Republic,
wherever the brave has a welcome and the
patriot is honored; in all climes where the
shrine Of liberty has its worshipers. There
let the epic verse sing and the eloquent tongues
tell of the heroes of Kings Mountain. But
here upon our beautiful land, adorned with all
great natures blessings, where heart and head
have the armament of heaven for their shield,
and are shackled by no power but their own
created laws; where the temple and the syna-
gogue, the kirk of the COvenanter and the chap
ell of the Cavalier and IIuguenot point their
spires to heaven in blended peaceful harmony; !;
here, where mighty Justice guards alike, with
watchful care, the threshold Of the cottage and
the gilded door of the palace; where the 4gls
of the law spreads protecting wing over the
head of the defenceless here of all the world
let the people be glad, and ever at the name OF
Kings Mountain and of the heroes that fought
and wrought so well, let there arise from
their hearts the incense of reverent homage.
The monument Of stone that has been erect
ed to their memory on the spot which their
blood has cOnsecrated to fame and given TO
immortality, speaks the high patriotic spirit
of people who have the virtue to cherish and
transmit to time the great deed OF their ances-
try; and it's inscriptions will tell the ages that
we knew how to do our duty to the heroic
dead and that the fires of patriotism that
had then burned so brightly survived the cen-
tury.
still a higher monument, and more enduring
than stone have the mighty political guardl-
ans of the young life of our Republic bullded
to the Men of the Revolution, whose arms
were her creation. ''The best government the
sun ever shone upon" is their reward-the i'm
pershable link that binds their memory with
remotest ages.
Still a higher duty than inscription on stone
deyolves upon every son and daughter OF the
Union the perpetuation of this government
according to the design of its trainers the
adherence to the cardinal principles of its
foundation as contained in it's constitution
and it's preservation from uncontrolled cen
tralized power-that whirlpool from whose gulf
a free government knows no resurrection.
Great is our heritage, and sacred our charge.
Let sleepless vigilance and the iron spirit
of patriotic devotion control the energies OF
every citizen in guiding the onward footsteps
of our Republic. Let broad, liberal and uni
versal education prepare our minds and those
of generations yet unborn to meet the great
political and economic problems OF the future;
those mighty issues which will spring from
the clashing of the elements of an ever-lncreas-
ing population composed of many races and
nationalities, with all their varying character
istics and gradations of blood, extending from
Russia's cold and rigid barrier OF the North to
icting interests of industries which will diff
fer as widely as the soil and climate OF the
various sections of our common country.
Let an all-pervading education ofthe masses
of the people dwarf into a weaklng the n.y.
dra-headed monster of Communism, by whose
all-levelng distinction, freedom is swallow
ed up in anarchy. Let the utilitarian fever OF
progress that is driving the age to an achieve
ment and enterprise unparalleled in the annals
Of man, gather energy. Let our vast resources
develop new wealth in all the industries, till
our fair America shall rise from her ocean
bed very Queen of Beauty, arrayed i'll all her
wealth of material greatness
And higher far upon the rock of the living
glory of our past, the glory which reckons as
its own the heroism with which an hundred
fields are dedicated to all time the glory that
speaks from the bright roll Of intellectual
lights that our country has given to the record
of the world the glory that has ever beamed
from the noble, lofty moral spirit of our peo-
pie, let us also develop the rich, hidden stores
of mind and character, that nobler, higher ex-
cellence wherein alone is true Individual great
ness, and wherein are the living elements OF
advancing civilization and of national power,
and whereby our government, under the Con-
stitution, will be perpetuated in its original
purity and strength, and stand all enduring
monument to the memory of the great dead,
the paladin of the liberties of the great unborn
The address elected enthusiastic applause,
and afterits conclusion, the speaker was the
recipient Of quite number of floral offerings
in token of woman's admiration for the elo-
quent tribute he had paid to the noble dead.
and the glorious past, and the impassloned
words in which he impressed upon his hearers
the duty of the present.
The band played ''Hail Columbia" after
which Col. Coward introduced Gen. Il. M.
Law, a former member of the faculty OF the
School. Gen. Law is a fine and ready speaker,
and for half an hour entertained his auditory
with an address happily conceived and we'll
rendered, the argument being contradiction
of the theory advanced by some that the peo-
pie of this day are degenerating from the
standard of patriotism characteristic OF the
days of 1776 and in mastery manner he
showed that SO far from such being the fact
the neil of this generation are worthy sons OF
worthy sires, no less devoted to principle and
duty than were the heroes of Valley Forge or
Kings Mountain. TO the worth of woman
and her constancy in the darkest hours of our
nations struggle, and equally conspicuous in
the gloom and desolation of the civil war, he
paid a glowing and eloquent tribute, and re-
ferring to the duties of the present, lie con-
cluded as follows
How are these great results to be perpet-
uated, and the future of the State secured
Only by the maintenance Of al honest, stable
government, wisely, economically and justly
administered. And when these things areim-