The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-11-20

Where the blades of the grave grass qniver.
Asleep are the ranks OF the dead
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day.
Under the one the blue;
Under the other the gray.
Those in the robings of Glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
Ali with battle blood CORY,
II the dust of eternity meet
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day;
Under the laurel the blue,
Uuder the willow the gray.
So with an equal: splendor,
The morning rays fall.
With touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day.
Broidered with gold the blue:
Mellowed with gold the gray.
So when the summer calleth
On forest and deld of grain,
With an equal murmer fulleth
The cooling drip of the rain;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Wet with the rain the blue,
Wet with the rain the gray.
These verses fttingly present the
sentiment of our Country in refer
ence to the dead. The poet who will
crystallize in verse the same senti-
ment in respect to the living will
strike responsive chord in the Am
erican heart Indeed the history of
our Country in this respects without
parallel. Never before have peo,
pie so lately divided in hostile array,
been so quickly reunited. The gen.
erosity OF the North in this respect
stands forth unrivalled, as the only
instance of victory without ven
geance, and defeat without degreda-
ton" The assassination of Lincoln
was calmity to the South, because
! it intensified the bitterness more
than the war itself, but even then the
South escaped lightly compared to
other conquered nations. The re-
cords OF other nations are full OF
wholesale massacres and prescriptions
of the conquered, of coniscation Of
property, and the execution of the
Leaders of an unsuccessful revolu-
ton. Had this been INDUCED in af-
ter our war, two CENTRES would not
lave restored the harmony that now
exists.
In England the Puritans and Cav.
alters, and Jacobites and followers Of
Hanover, never joined hands in har-
mony.
The scafolds and prescriptions Of
the restoration we're offset later by
those which followed the bloody field
of Culloden. It was only after sew
eral generations had passed away
that Great Britain ceased to be torn
by party hatred and insurrection.
We are satisfied with the result of the
war, and former deadly foes meet in
friendship. But even to this day
what Irishman can tamely accept the
position into which England forced
his country? What Polish patriot
has ever acknowledged, even after
sixty years, that Russian conquest
was best for his people? We all now
admit that it was best to have pre-
served the Union intact, and the time
has come, when, without bitterness,
the very actors in the Great Drama
can discuss the events of the war.
In this connection, for the sake Of
the truth and the young people that
are present, I desire briefly to allude
to the real motive of the war, so far
as man was concerned, 1t has be-
come the fashion in some parts of the
North to make it appear that the war
was begun and fought upon the high
moral ground of freeing the slaves,
and we of the South too readily yield
to this assumption. This is not true.
The Emancipation Proclamation Of
Mr.. lincoln was war measure and
an aftertbought: the real cause of the
war lay deeper and was of more
commercial character. After the
Revolutionary war was over, and the
new government commenced to run,
political parties were formed on Sec
tional lines, based upon the different
industrial system of the respective
sections.
The South agricultural with slave
labor; the North manufacturing and
commercial with free labor. The
North wanted bounties for ber ships:
the South opposed this. The North
wanted a Government Bank: the South
opposed it. The North wanted pro-
lection for her manufactures; the
South opposed this. Wealth through
a protective tariff, was insidiously
drained from the South into the
North. In 1928, Benton, of Mis-
souri,, in a speech in the Senate said:
wealth has fed from the South, and
settled in the regions north of the
Potomac, and this in face of the fact
that the South in four staples alone
has exported since the revolution
eight hundred million dollars, and
the North comparatively nothing.
Virginia, the two Carolinas and
Georgia may be said to defray three
fourths of the annua! expense of
supporting the Federal Government,
and Of this great sum annually furn-
ished by them, nothing or next to
nothing is returned in the shape of
governmental expenditure. The ex-
penditure flows in an opposite direc-
ton: it flows Northward in one un-
interrupted and perennial stream.
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