The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-06-27

Amongst many attractive incidents of the
Commencement exercises Of the Gainey
City Male and Female Seminary, just
closed the flag presentation took, from its
happy circumstances, conspicuous place.
The session Just ended was unusually
succc cssful, with its hundred true Spartans,
and is well marked in the long line Of pros
perity and faithful labor, by the attachment
10 the Institute of the full military curricu-
lum.
The latter consideration escaped not
womans soft eye, the need for har- !
mony's sake of n fitting banner for worthy
yeomaury. Enchautress of tho home and
of the heart, Us well as of the soul, the SOL
dier, and of liberty in all ages of the world,
her gentle hands scizci tho chance, ami for
Judge DDS e'Gs I2lar 5n9i', wISss nIrsGshi
si1ennd siIl0n necessarlSrttess @ Si rpllsSrtess Dcao keep
~. as only woman l,s.4ruG Can do.
her silk upon silkcu folds, the Invisible but
immortal ms piratiou Of "Excclsior III All
that Is virtuous, and noble, and brave Ill
freedoms field of honori an inspiration as
old as the magic tear of Clcopatras eye;
an inspiration as kindling of deeds Of glory
and of moral triumph in days of peace. as
was the farewell tcar-stain on tho warrior
sash she bound amid the bolts of war; an
inspiration that bravcly speaks the cheering
word, and in yielding the trembling starry
\ tear-drop upon loved ono leaving home,
N..sheds ~ sacred blood as Ger was poured
upon the Lost Causes field of glory"
This beautiful banner, peer of the bost III
felincss and in splcndor had on its one
Scnta. golden silk the device, cTt"S mi"i"
while on'sc is thousand shiclus
matchless artrbvcrsc of blue silk, by the
emblazoned in rstill of Miss Black, was
South Carolina nm, the Coat of Arms of
o"S2"c InraH-'Rcady tn TO- %'"m'S am. %r',
P.oPertlX,ii P.Hpl,ig, aha pendent its long and lam
n ing tassels, and historic perch. it is sober
Wtruth to say, that the most fasidious swcllcd
the universal acclaim of praise of tho fault
less art. and the golden splcndor of this
Banner.
Who, then, shall deliver so true a prize
What hands fttcst may take from such
authors of its being, and deliver to such
custodians Of its honor, this Banner Beaut-
full: Take from Carolina women and deli
yer to Carolina soldiers, such an ensign?
When IT was known that the Hon. &. G.
Culp was in Attendance upon the exercises,
the choice of the man to assume the high
commission, was really upon every tongue
The Hem. G. {. Cuip, of Union, the son of
revolutionary sircs--namc bound up in al
that gives on: country freedom, and South
Carolina her famc-yca: truly, SO worthy Il
son o! patriotic ancestry, adding tOthe spot
less integrity Of personal character, the
tervor Of his rschol ry cloqucnce, surely he
is the man.
In the presence of q urge concourse of
people, pupils and patrons. without notice
worth the name, the orator. yielding TO the
urg, mt invitation, delivered this banner in
an cXtemporancous address that may be in
sober truth pronounced an unwrit:cn classic.
Standing in sight Of Cowpons and Kings
Mountain, where the bloc | OF his ancestors
won our Independence, and the gentle,
christian hands of u departed sister, for tho
harmony of hist ory, were honored with the
office of woman honor to Carolinas proud
past, upon great day of commemoration of
her grand herocs-surcly the kindling
Imagination and the consccratiug glory OF
surroundings like these wero enough to
move the heart, and eXalt the strain of tho
selected ora'or.
The presentation speech Of G. c. Culp was
imprOmptu, but it was worthy his ,cholarly
fame; worthy the beautiful banner and the
occasion, and worthy his heroic ancestral
past doing honor at once to himself, the
occasion AMI old Union.
SPECTATOR.