The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-09-05
FROM AN EARLY HOUR IN THE

FROM AN EARLY HOUR IN THE
MORNING
they came, pouring in every conceivable
shape, in vehicles of every description,
horseback and afoot. Where mothers
had infants too young to be left at home
they brought them along. Come they
would, infants or no infants.
The ceremonies took place at the
monument. A stand for the speakers,
the officers of the association and distin.
guished guests was erected under paVil-
ion in front of the monument. Seats
were prepared for fifteen hundred, the
committee of arrangements never dream.
ing that the attendance would swell to
four times this number. But outside the
area of the seats the interested thousands
stood for hours in the pouring rays of the
sun. There was not a murmur save in
applause during the delivery of
THE ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
The Ladies Memorial association were
represented by Mr.. Thornton, a young
gentleman of talent and address. He
introduced Rev. DR.. Davis, an old con.
federate chaplain, who opened the pro.
ceedings with an appropriate prayer.
Then Mr.. Meredith, a prominent young
lawyer of the county, and member
of the State Senate, delivered the monu-
ment in brief but happy and eloquent
address.
To this address the orator of the occa-
sion, Hon. John W. Daniel, the brilliant
United States Senator from Virginia,
responded. 1t would be impossible with
: in the limits of this report to reproduce
the touching and telling and thrilling
points OF this really able and eloquent
oration. The theme of the oration was
first, the real cause of the war between
the States; secondly, the characteristics
of the military leaders on the confederate
side, and thirdly, the sublime and supe-
rior attitude in history of
TIE CONFEDERATE pRIvATEs.
Senator Daniel was the aid to Jubal
Early, and lost a leg at the second Ma.
nassas. He insisted to day that the north
misconstrued the motives of the South in
bringing on the war. The northern idea
that southern politicians and leaders fred
the southern heart and precipitated the
war, he discarded and secuted. 1t was
the abolitionists-the fear that abolition
doctrines would imperil the safety of per-
son and property, and subvert the social
pyramid and place it on its apex, that
united the south in resistance to what it
conceived to be the aggression of the
north. He enumerated the confederate
chieftains, and complimented them, but
before and above them and above all the
heroes of history, he put the confederate
private. Without commission to tickle
his pride. without command to engage
his attention, without pay to fill his
purse, without provisions in bis haver.
sack, but with a loyal heart and bright
musket he bounded forward in the line
of duty and patriotic endeavor. The
highest example we have from our com.
manders is from Jackson and Lee. The
one, when wounded, displayed serene
resignation to the divine will. The
other passed unscathed through that
higher ordeal of self.abnegation and self
denial in the years that were allotted
him after the war.
"Let u.s." said the speaker, in moving
oratory, "emulate these sublime models,
the example set us by General Lee, and
that of resignation to the divine will, but
greater still is the need of the private
soldier. His magnanimity is fitly typi6ed
in the monument recently erected to the
confederate dead at Alexandria. 1t is
the figure of a confederate soldier resign.
ed to bis inevitable fate, with folded arms
and downcast look, and saying in his at.
titude as intelligently as in words, "Thy
will be done.''
"BoD LEES" son.
After Senator Daniel was through,
General w. FL. T. Lee, congressman
from this district, was called on. He
made a brief, appropriate speech. 1t was
the remark of many that he is getting
more and more like his illustrious
father, the chieftain of the confederate
cause. 5
General William Payne, the first cap
tain of the famous black. horse company,
responded most happily to clamorous calls
from the vast audience.
This day will be memorable in the an.
nails of the confederate soldiers in all this
region. They will hand down the tradi.
tion of it to their children and their chill.
dren's children.-Ahanta Constitution.