The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-06-11

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to- the press, and it is to you, fello
journalists---to you, fellow South Car,
linians, that come in this spirit.
II TO the man who holds tactic
above State my words will fall upon ur
willing ears, but to the patriotic pres
that to which am invited to addres
my remarks, in response to the sent
ment given me by your chairman
approach the subject with ,contidenc
that my words will not be- misunder
stood, nor my motive misconstrued.
ITO the factiOnist / say-'A plagu
upon both your houses! You hav
more TO live for than the mere triumph
OF personal ends. You have charg
to keep, and you must keep 1t in
manner that will honor the past ant
glorify the present. Let the pres
start The strain and sing the anthem
of peace until the populace will take
up the chorus and echo the melody tt
the farthest corners of the earth. L
you are as successful at peace as you
have been in strife, the world viii
resound with your good deeds, anG
instead OF outsiders commenting upor
the stereotyped and misfit phrase tha,
'hell's broke loose i'm South Carolina,
universal praise, will be sung that,
here in this State, first in so many
things, the advance guard OF the
millennium has come to keep company
with the historic tradition Of the first
shot on Sumter.
"Glorify the State ana make peace
with the union The war has been
over thirty yours. and the flag OF the
union belongs as much to South Caro-.
lima as it does to Massachusetts.
Instead of fighting among ourselves
let us devote the same energy and
make practical illustrations of the
parable of the bundle of fagots, by
getting together and fighting the other
fellow.
"There is world of meaning in the
term, tho other fellow as here used.
He is a gaunt, determined, icopG.
elastic enemy who cares not for the
sacred traditions of the republic, and
whose chief occupation is the destruc-
tion of the ideals which prompted our
forefathers to establish government
of the people and for tho people of this
country, and not for any other country.
This enemy walks like Il stalking horse
over the hallowed traditions of the
past and makes merry music as he
skaters the inspired sentiments around
which our national glory was built. [
refer to that weather-heaten relic of
the past who choked the struggling
republic in its infancy, but who him
self was choked out of existence as
soon as the young nation was big
enough to stand alone-the Tory. He
departed with the last century, and by
some strange mishap he has come to
taunt the dying years of this one but
by the grace OF God and the patriotic
resistance of the American people, we
will do with him as our revolutionary
did at the close of the last
century, and we will, like they did,
enter the new century with a clean bill
OF health, as far as Toryism is con-
cerned.
1.-The modern Tory is more insidious
than his prototype of old. He ia more
cautious, but no less dangerous. Ii he
are different, but oppor-
tunity would clothe him with the
same habiliments of his ancestors.
He sneers at the doctrines which,
the usage of time and good
have become part of our fixed
public policy, and tells us that Jefferson
was a demagOgue and that Monroe's
bold contention that America belongs
to Americans is out of date, and that
it must yield to the theory of interna-
tional commerce'-an'insidi pr eteXt
which ia being used in many directions
as Trojan horse to turn the Greeks
into the walls of our independence and
to surrender the control of our affairs
to foreign shylocks. He views with
equanimity the construc
tiOn of massive Notifications on the
Gordon of English possessions COM
the gateways of the oceans
around us; receives with stolid indif-
h.,
of the lowering of the stars and stripes
from the flagstaff OF the public build
ing of Hawaii, and when all America
has centered it's hope and its desire for
the construction OF a waterway across
Nicaragua, to be under our control, he
salutes the raising OF the union jack
at Corinta, and sulks at the protest
that 1T must come down or the United
States will know the reason why.
"If any people OF this country ought
to know the Tory, it is those Of South
Carolina, for here he hourishcd and
festered in the days of his early glory.
Do you recall Tarleton? Itwas he who,
reinforced by the Tories, marched his
cavalry over the Americans on the
Waxhaw, and while negotiations for
surrender were pending massacred the
whole company; and in the words
OF history, for this atrocious deed
CORVALLIS commended him to the
special favor OF tho British parliament
There are Tarletons negotiating for
terms of surrender today, and there
are Tories helping him, and woe be to
the HOPELESS and helpless participants
when the modern Tarleton and his tory
brigade, in possession of the weapons
of defense, charge our national pros
pcrity and lock again the bonds Which
were stricken from our limbs by tho
insane idea OF our revolutionary
ancestors that this country could take
care of itself without the consent OF
England or any other nation on the
face of the earth.
''It was Patrick Henry who said in
his inspired and impassioned plen for
independence 'Wo are three mil
lions, one-fitth fig hting men, who are
bold and vigorous, and we call no man
master. 1t is the modern Tory who
says: We arc seventy millions, with
inexhaustinle resources, with the
greatest country on which Gods sun
every shown, with mothers who have
taught us what it is to be loyal and
fathers what it is to be brave, and yet
British gold has made cowards OF
us ALL
I'VE are Of right, and we ought to
be, Independent. When the mcrciless
hand of war had turned the plowsharcs
OF the south into swords, laid waste its
fields and checked the annual response
Of the soil to the touch of the husband