The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-07-07
\ HISTORIC HORN.
Y. .ic Colonel u. [. sloan has Sounded on
Several important Occasions.


Which Colonel u. (. Sloan has Sounded OF
Several important Occasions.
Colonel D. U. Sloan, OF the National
has historic horn and on being asked
the story connected with it furnished the
following sketch:
You ask me for a history of the horn
blew as the cars brought Jefferson Davis
into the Gate City Of the South.
We'll, to begin, this horn has been in
my possession a quarter of century.
Notice these small perforations through
the shell. Sec how the worms have
eaten it. Yet it retains it's original mel
low tone. This horn was presented to
me by a man who never saw or heard of
me in his life; by man / never saw OF
heard of till after his death. His name
was kirkpatrick. It came about in this
way. The gentleman lived near Charles
ton, S. c., had been great hunter, was
on his deathbed, and said to Strohecker,
of Charleston, who was sitting by his
side: "Strohecker, there hangs a horn; I
prize it very highly on account of its
superior tone; I feel that I shall never
be able to sound it again; the delights of
the chase is all over with me; Stroheck-
er, take that horn and give it to some
good hunter for me and tell him I be-
queathcd it to him as dying gift. F"
Strohecker promised, and thus became
the favored one, and trust, ifdeparted
spirits have cognizancc of what we do
here below, that the soul of kirkpatrick is
satisfied with his legatee. I have winded
this horn in many a hunt on the Blue
Ridge mountains with that patriot, the
best of men, Wade Hampton, with AGck
Haskell, the Taylors, Calhouns and 9TH
ers of South Cardinals noblest sons. I
made the seacoast welllin ring with this
horn on that memorable evening of Sc
cession in Charleston. sounded it on
:ttlantas hills for Democratic victory
and Grover Cleveland, and made it re-
sound with lusty blasts on the triumphal
entry into the city of Atlanta Of our old
Confederate captain.
I was q sece ssionist ir the war, a South
Carolina rebel, but am ,.nder reconstruc-
ton now. / do not feel that I COM
mittcd treason against the general gov
ernment. Ii so, our fathers did the same
in the Revolution; the same causes ex-
listed, but an inscrutable Providence gave
success to the one and defeat to the oth-
er. God doeth all things well.
[ am q Union man now, and should
Massachusetts, or South Carolina secede,
I would help whip them back.
The lost cause is dead and buried now.
I revere its ashes, and love. the grand old
chicftlin who Will soon follow it to that
bourne from whence no traveller returns
I honor him because he never finched or
faultcrcd from what he believed to be
llis duty; l honor him because he was
ever staunch and true to his trust. But
we feel that we are again back in the
house Of our fathers, and are here to
stay; We feel that the great banner with
its stars are our stars, its stripes our
stripes; once more we can place our
hands upon our hearts and say for the
star-spangled banner: 'tLong, long may
it wave" etc. Henceforth, its foes are
our foes, its friends our friends.
Jefferson Davis is no longer its foe. It
was not that he loved the great fedora
ton less, but that he loved the principles
Of the Confedcracy more. Yes, 1 love
and honor this dying hero, but God for
bid that in SO doing should cast
shade Of iishonor or disrespect on my
count1y's flag. feel as if, by the grand
est impulse of my nature, could grasp
and bear aloft in my right hand my
corntrys colors, and with my left hand
put into an honorable grave the loved
form of Jefferson Davis, who soon must
so. entertain no feelings of animosity
toward our Northern brethren, once our
foes. I look down upon them with
pride. They are a great people, a most
wonderful people. Let us together build
up an American government so grand,
50 good that the heavens may smile upon
us. and the whole world gaz upon it in
astonishment.
But this horn-T hope to blow it again
in 1855 for Grover Cleveland, or some
other Democratic President, and if de-
feat shall be our fate, l will hang itupon
the willows for another day. Once be-
fore then, however, I will take it down
and blow strain for Governor John B.
Gordon, name of irresistible love to
every son Of South Carolina and every
boy who wore the gray. D. U. SLOAN.