The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-22
THE CITY BY THE SEA.

THE CITY BY THE SEA.
HOW THE COLUMBIA EXCURSI0NlSTS En-
JOYED THEMSELVES YESTERDAY.
dwelling Of the Monument to the Me-
mory of the Dead German Soldiers VINO
Served in the Confederate Army-Ghe
Baseball Game Between Charleston and
Columbia Teams Weather.
CHARLESTON, May 15.--iSpecial to The
Register. A very considerable number
of Columbians spent to-day in the CITY
by the Sea. and from all accounts had a
very pleasant time. a special matinee
was given in their honor at the Grand
Opera House this afternoon at which
''Olivette" was rendered. Several hun
dred of the excurSionistS attended, While
others went up to the park to see the
game of ball. The weather was simply
delightful. There was a drop in the
temperature from 90 to So, an agreeable
change from the recent hot wave. The
party left here tonight in good health
and spirits.
THE GERMAN MONUMENT
The great event of to-day, however,
was the unveiling of the monument to
the memory of the dead soldiers of the
four German companies which left
Charleston to serve in the Confederate
army. The monument is in Bethany
Cemetery, the German burying ground.
1t is of Columbia granite, with bronze
tablets and surmounted by statue in
bronze of the late General John a.
Wagener, who is represented as can
noneer in the uniform of the German
Artillery. with sponge staff in hand,
watching the flight of the shot that
has Just been fired. Among
the distinguished visitors present weie
Selatv-Ha1Tlpton, who delivered the
memorial Grafton, Governor Richardson
and Captain Bachman, who was an
officer in one of the four German COM
panies. The ceremonies were very sim
pie, consisting of the oration by Senator
Hau,pton, short address by Speaker
James Simons, prayer by the venerable
DR.. Muller and music. The German
Artillery was organized in 1912 and re-
organized in 1876 by Captain F. ".
Wagner 1t is the largest military or
ganization to-day in South Carolina,
having membership of over 200, two
batteries of steel parrot rifles, COM
pletc infantry equipment, a pioneer
corps and band of forty pieces.
In his address Senator Hampton said:
"We regard our dead as martyrs, and
God forbid that any of their living COM
radeS, their descendants to the remotest
asGS, should -lrand- them as traitors.
Words, my friends, are not merely
empty sounds in the domains of history.
They are things, potent factors, not only
in shaping events, but in placing these
events in a true light before the world,
anG We should never acknowledge that
We were rebels or traitors. That ques-
ton is to be decided BY the verdict of
impartial history and that of posterity,
and we may well be satisfied to commit
our cause and our conduct to those
august tribunals.
LET me not be understood as discuss
ing the merits of the great conflict which
arraved one section of the country
against the other; which wrought such
widespread devastation, and which cost
so much in treasure and the loss OF so
many precious lives. The questions
which brought about that unhappy war
have been settled, and he is no true
patriot who would strive to kindle the
fires of sectional hate or reopen wounds
which the kind hand of time
has healed. No higher duty can
inspire the heart of every pa
triot than, that which impels
him to devote all his energies Of mind
and body to make this country worthy
of the admiration and respect of the
world. a fit home for all time to come of
American freemen. This duty devolves
on US of the South as urgently as upon
any other citizens of this broad land:
for whatever may have been the issues,
which brought about the civil war;~ We
must remember that>~now, all
North, South,SEssf and West
have but one country and Constitution,
to-lleeotn to leott>no of which our allegiance is due.
But while we of the South recognize this
fact fully, it does not follow that we should
refuse to do honor to the memory of our
dead comrades. The men who met Us
in battle would teel a just con-
tempt for us we're we base
enough to forget those who gave
their lives for the cause which they and
we believed in our inmost hearts to be
Just and right. We should, indeed, be
time-se1ving cravens if we allowed the
memory of these men, of their untimely
death, to pass forever from our hearts,
or if we should fail to leave enduring
monuments to them as evidences of our
love and our gratitude.
''We can do nothing to show a CRATE
full peoples gratitude to our surviving
veterans. Poor, old, MANNED, broken in
hear. as in fortune, they are forced to
fight life's hard battle unaided. We have
no overflowing treasury from which to
pension the brave soldiers who gave
their all freely to their State. All was
staked on the issue and all was lost.
u have no words of censure for the
liberality of the North in granting pen
sions to her soldiers. The feeling that
prompts this course is natural, proper
and generous, and on all occasions my
sllpport has been freely given in the