The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-12-25
THE DEATH OF DAVIS.
BILLARP WRITES OF THE LEAD.
Err OF THE CONFEDERACY.

;s BILL ARP WRITES OF THE LEAD
;. Err OF THE CONFEDERACY.
D What Daniel " ebs,er Said OF J ohm Z. Cal
houn. Could With Propriety be Snid o
Davis.
i Old Father Time is wonderful doc
t tor. It is real comfort to the South
to read the kind words of the North
. ern press touching the death of Jetfer-
! son Davis. My faith is that the spirit
Of the illustrious dead is reading them
too, and is comforted How sweet and
tender are the benedictions upon the
dead. This is right, and it is Christi
anity: for when man has gone before
his Maker it becomes all earthly judi
ges to be silent ifthey connot be gen.
erous. Glow would we be if He, who
is the top Of judgment, should but
judge US as we are?" The New York
Sun dsres to say: There is now no
one revile and there are many to hon
or and respect his memory. Re has
outlived sectional enmity and personal
Getracticn."
Is tnat so? I wish that I could be-
lieve it. The Sun says: MANY years
of peace have been required to con-
vince the men who fought and suffered
for the Union that Jefferson Davis was
entirely sincere and was powerfully
fortified by teaching and example, and
tbe ill-starred president of the South
ern Confederacy did but carry to their
conclusion the doctrines formulated
by John c. Calhoun and avowed by
such representatives of New Eng
land as Timothy Pickering and Josiah
Quincy"
Yes, and ne might have named scores
Of other Northern men who were of
the same States right faith, and then
include the Hartford convention which
made the first secession from the un-
ion. New England never produced a
nobler, grander man than Quincy, and
he was in all respects the faith and
principles of Calhoun and Davis Young
men of the South, listen for moment
to what the great Webster said about
Mr. Calhoun:
He had the indispensable basis of
all high character, and that was un
spotted Integrity and uninpeached
honor. There was nothing grovelling |
or low or meanly sels6sh that came
near the head or the heart of Mr. CAL
houn. Whether his political opinions
were right or wrong, they will descend
to posterity under the sanction of a
great name. He is now an historical
character. We shall indulge in it as
grateful recollection thatwe have lived
in his age-tha. we have been his con,
temporarieS-that we hiv seen him
heard him, known him-we shall de-
light to speak of him to those who are
rising up to fill our places. And when
one after another we shall go to our
graves We shall carry with US g deep
sense of his honor and integrity-the
purity of his private life and of his e4,
alted patriotism. Isn't that splendid,
and yet every word If it fits Jefferson
Davis. You might substitute his name
for Mr. Calhoun with the utmost pro-
priety, and Webster weuld be it if he
were here. Daniel Webster had no
prejudices, and his great regret was
that his people had not conquered
theirs. How we all do love and honor
a great man-a pure man-men ike
Webster and Clay and Calhoun and
Jefferson Davis. 1t used to be a trium-
virate, but another. name has now to be
added and Mr.. Davis will go down in
to history as the peer of those h'sto-
ric names He wa~ their equal in every
thing that makes men a statesman
and patriot. He was their superior
in one thing, for he was great SOL
dier, and ilust, ated his patriotism on
the field as in the forum.
iPapa, what did Mr.. Davis do that
makes everybody talk about him so?"
'My boy, l will tell you in a few
words. The North and the South had
been quarrelling for fifty years about
the negroes and the tariff, and the
rights of the States. At last they con-
cluded to fight it out and Jefferson
Davis was chosen as our leader. He
did not seek tue place, tcr he was
modest man, but we made nlm take it.
He believed that the States were
greater than the government at Wash
ington, for the States created that
government as their agent. But the
government at Washington soon be-
came very bold and powerful and be-
gan to control the States. 1t was a
question whether the dog should wag
the tail or the tail wag the dog. Mr..
Calhoun and MIR. Davis and most all OF
us down South were for the rights OF
the states, but the people up North |
thought the government at Washing
ton was bigger thing and ought to
control an so the quarrelling went on
for years and years and at last 1t broke
out in war. We left the union and
wanted to 90 back where we were be-
fore We went into the union, but they
whipped Is and so we are in the union
still. 1t was much like little children
who gather together to play and
me of them get mad and say, Pm
going to takeup things and go home
you don't play fair and I shan tpiay
with you any more Then the others
get mad, too, AID say: we do play
fair and you shan's 60 home and so
they take mold of them and keep them
and make them stay whether they
wish to or not. And so the States had
to give it up and now the tail is wag-
ging the dog"
The Ohio river is before me while |
write. This is a part of Mason's and
Dixon's line that l never saw until
Yesterday and I wondered how river
could make such a difference in peo
pie. do your people in Maysville
mix and mingle with those across the
river at Aberdeen" said l. No, sir;
not at all. They never have and they
DON'T iRa and