The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-06-05

C. W. Birchmore, Wateree Messen-
ger.
7. G. Robinson, Pickens Journal.
NJ. Stackhouse. Marion Star.
n. G. Osteen, Sumter Waterman
and Southron
Hubert G. Osteen, Sumter Daily
Item.
Rev. John Kershaw, Sumter Diocese.
F. Melchers, Charleston Zeitung.
John A. Moroso, News and Courier.
J. NJ. Knight, Sumter Herald.
E. H. Aull, Newberry Herald and
News.
G. G. Langston, Anderson 1ntelh-
gencer.
G. H. Prince.
Wigfal Cheatham, Edgefeld Chron'
icle.,
G. J. Luhn, Seaside Thoughts.
J. E. Britt, Mccormick Times.
Louis Appelt, Manning Times:
Otis Brabham, Bamberg Herald.
L. G. Branyon, Honea Path Chron-
icle.
President Aull delivered an excellent
address. but the feature of the meeting
was the address OF Hon. Clark Howell, |,
of Atlanta. The following is ms
speech in full:
II am not unmindful, Mr.. chair
man, that I speak tonight to the repre-
sentatives of the press Of state which
is divided against itself probably to a
greater degree than any other state OF
the union, and from the bitterness OF
which division has developeda conten-
ton which has permeatad every condl-
ton of life, and created false god OF
discomfort whose merciless DEGREES
have levied tribute and commanded
obeisance from every phase OF human
endeavor.
1.-THE public official who has not be-
come involved is an exception; the
merchant who has not been fired to
say or do that which does not comport
with the placid and charitable rule OF
peace, is lonesome in his solitude; the
farmer who, in planting his cotton or
his corn, has not sown at the same
time the seeds of anger may congratu-
late himself on the evenness of his
temper. which makes him rarity OF
mankind; and, if reports which have
reached Georgia are correct, the de-
mon of Hate has even laid his unholy
hands on the pulpit, buried itself IN
the ermine of the bench, and, not con
tented with its nalevolent lnroads
upon the sanctifed field of brotherly
love, has aimed its blows at the ark
of the convenant which enshrines
the heart of woman. It would be
most unnatural if, in this carousal OF
ill-temper and bad blood, growing
out of political issues, the press Of the
state was not affected by the ruling
passion to blame somebody fora condi-
ton which nobody approves. The
outs are condemning the 'ins, and
the 'ins' are retaliating IN kind ;
households are divided, communities
are asunder, and over and above it all
is the black cloud of strife and disor-
der, which, catching the conflicting
emotions of factions and feuds, echoes
them back in a din of turmoil and a
peal of lamentation.
II claim the right to speak plainly
tonight because l speak as native.
Midway between Allendale and the
Savannah river, in old Barnwell, did
my eyes first greet the light of life's
day, and though my lot has been cast
in the sister state, which stretches
hands across the Savannah, ] have
ever been proud of the state of my
birth-the state which, for generations,
has kept my maternal ancestors
under whose sod their bones have
oleached. in whose name their blood
was spilled, and on whose sacred al
tars the life of more than one was laid
at a time when the unity of her peo-
pie. bespoke their loyalty to her flag.
Not on the ears of stranger have the
grating sounds of discord emanating
from here fallen, but rather on those
of one who, being more than SYM
pathizer, hears with aching heart the
breaking of the cords of peace and the
dissonant murmurs of personal con-
tention.
Fellow South Carolinans, look to
the glorious past Of your great state
and ask if it iustifes the condition ex-
isting today, l shall be strictly imper-
:sonal and impartial in what l say, for
in representative gathering of distin-
guished journalists of the several sides
for I believe there are about six ele-
ments in the field now-I would not
do violence to the propriety of the oc-
casion by making offensive alignment
but, appealing to all, letme carry you
back to Cowpens, and to Camden, and
to Hanging Rock, where, under the
inspiration of the intrepid boldness OF
South Carolina chivalry, Andrew
Jackson first began his career as an
American soldier and patriot. Did
Pickens and Sumter and Marion-all
noble sons of your noble state-and
Lee and Greene, whose most brilliant
service in the revolutionary army
was done in the defense of the homes
of your ancestors. against the com.
bined forces of foreign aggessors and
pative tories-did these heroes write
their names in letters of eternal life on
the pages Of the history Of your state,
that in the turn of century thelI
deeds might be forgotten and their ex-
amples be lost to posteritv. Just across
the way-over in Georgia-siN coun-
ties bear thenames of these six patriots
and there they will ever stand as
memorials to men whose heroism is
resplendent in the shining pages OF
Cardinals glory, and whose virtues
should be ideal types of the chivalry,
the bravery and the patriotism ol
Carolina manhood Go back with