The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-15
s BRoTEEBs ONE AND ALL.
Governor Richardson's Telling Speech at
the Dinner Of the New York Southern

The New York 1fai1 and E.rpress OF
Monday prints the various eloquent
speeches delivered last week at the din
ner given by the Southern Society to
Vice President Morton and the Govern
orsd several States,whq we're: in: New
York. ,Confnenting thereon, the Hall
and Express says:
southern men and Northern men
alike will agree in saying that the
speeches of these Governors and OF the
gifted Henry ". Grady were remarkable
DISPLAYS OF the development of born and
trained orators under the stimulus OF an
occasion when a continental, UnSec-
rional, bipartisan patriotism pervaded
the verv atmosphere of this centennial
consecrated town and gave to ou: visit
ing Governors from the South splendid
opportunity for showing the noblest and
best there was in them. Again we con
| graduate the South on the bearing, the
ELOQUENT talk, the patriotic sentiments
Of the Governors, who won the hearts OF
our people, and in turn opened their
hearts in fraternally patriotic express
sionS.''
Governor Richardson spoke as fol-
lows
| Mr.. President, my friends of the New
York Southern Society, and also my
fellow citizens of New York and our
sister States, who are present tonight:
The lateness of the hour reminds me
of the impoSsibllity Of my responding to
your sentiments by any long remarks
npon an occasion like this; but at the
same time, as my friend has SAID, IN a
State that is to me as my mother, ana
when nv mothers name is mentioned,
from nv earliest boyhood and totterlng
steps, have been taught always to do
nv duty to her, and never upon any oc-
casion, in peace or in war, to be untrue
to the responsibility that may be cast
upon me.
Ny friends, we of South Carolina, as
you know, have always been PROUD
people, and thank God for 1t. we are
proud yet We are proud, not. my
friends, of great prosperity, for we have
it not; we are not proud, my friends, OF
great amassed wealth, because that IS
mot ourse nor are we peculiarly proud
fef honors. have been cast upon US,
+ for they have not been; but there is one
thing we can say, and I must say that
for the State that l have the dlstln-
suished honor to represent upon this
crandest event in American history,
that never upon any occasion N the MS
tory of this country has that State fal-
4 tered IN its discharge Of what she has
I believed to be her duty. Loud ap-
plause.
We may have been wrong, God alone
knows; and it wauld seem to us just now
as if His decision had pronounced us
so: but. nv friends, be that as it may,
and be the. subsequent verdict of history
/ upon our cause and our conduct what 1t
may, we at least have this conscious
ness, and God knows it, that all our acts
and the acts of the State from its earll-
est history, as every one knows who has
studied American history, have been an
unceasing and unwavering defense OF
! human rights and constitutional govern
ment. And see some citizens or Mas
sachusetts here Can they not remem-
Der when the tea was cast overheard IN
Boston harbor, how the people or Caro-
lima responded to that patriotic act:
Were these things forgotten? Fer wnat
cause had Carolina to complain OF the
! mother country She had none. Can
! they forget that when the people laid
down their lives. their property and
their sacred honors in the scale; can the
people of her sister States-can MaSSa-
chusetts, New York, Vermont, New
Hampshire and Connecticut, aud all the
other glorious and lovely sisters, forget
that when Sir Peter Parker's feet at
tempted to enter the city of Charleston
to overthrow the American government,
| American lands and American country,
that it was the well-known palmetto logs,
and behind them the stout hearts of
Moultrie and Jasper and his Carolinians
fought it and sent it back like Spanish
Armada from the British shores. [Ap-
plause. My friends, in the darkest his
tory of the Revolution, when New York
had been surrendered, when Washing
ston was at Valley Forge, can you, my fel-
I low-citizeLs and elloT-countrymen from
Massachusetts, and Maine, forget that
even in that dark and darkest hour, that
the war cry was heard in Carolina, IN
Charleston, that citSthat has. been in
British hands, there: was freedom, and
/ when the gallant Northern men and
! Greene and the Southern army had
swept from the battles of Eutaw, Cow
I pens and Kings Mountain, and made
landmarks in American history, and on
Carolina, and joined with Washington
and helped to achieve the surrender of
] Yorktown Great. God, all this forgot
ten2 Is that not written. and will 1t not
stand so that it can never perish, and
engraven on stone that can never perish.
Then, again, follow out the history of
that gallant State. Forgive NE, friends,
Iif Iremind you Carclinians here, and
Southerners, and fellow countrymen of
the other States, can it still be forgotten,
has it been erased, that never in all the
subsequent history, except probably the
comparatively insignificant war OF 1912,
that whel4 the American flag was raised
it was necessary to send an army to the
very mountain Businesses of the land of
Montezuma, can it be forgotten that the
first American flag that was planted and
fastened there was done By a palmetto
| raoimenf and sor of Carolina!