The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-06-11
a STRONG PLEA FOR PEAcs.
POURING OH ON THE TROUBLED
WATERS.

EoOhtNS Jill YIN THE GttoO OBLEl
| WATERS.
Clark Howell Urges Both Faction
In South Carolina 60 Quit Fightin
He Advises the Newspapers I
Lead the Way.
The following address of MIR. Clar
Howell, editor of the Atlanta Const
tuition, was delivered. at the recen
meeting Of the State Press Associs
tiOn In Sumter:
II am not unmindful, Mr.. Chair
man, that speak tonight TO the re
presentatiyes of q State which Is di
vided against itself probably to
greater degree than any other Stat
of the Union, and from the bitterness
of which division has developed con
tentiOn which has permeated ever,
condition OF life, and created falsl
god OF discomfort whose merciless de
crees have levied tribute and com
mand obeisance from every phase O
human endeavor.
1.-THE public official who has MOI
become involved is an exception; the
| merchant who has not been fired t.
say or do that which does not comporl
with the placid and charitable rule o
| peace is lonesome in his solitude; the
farmer who, in planting his cotton OF
his corn, has s0wn at the same time
the seeds Of angery may congratulate
himself on the evenness of his temper,
which makes him q rarity of mankind;
and, If reports which have reached
Georgia are correct, the demon of
Hate has even laid his uhholy hands
on the pulpit, buried itself in the er-
mine of the bench, and, not contented
with its malevolent inroads upon the
sanctified field of brotherly love, has
aimed it's blows at the ark of the cove
nant which enshrines the heart OF
woman. 1t would be most unnatural,
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 some
body for u condition which nobody ap-
proves. The outs are condemning
the 'ins,' and the ins' are retaliating
in kind households are divided, COM
munities are asunder, and over and
above 1t all Is the black cloud of strife
and disorder, which, catching the con-
Hicting emotions of factions and feuds,
echoes them back in din of turmoil
and peal OF lamentation.
g l claim the right to speak plainly
tonight because l speak as u 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 havenbleached,
in whose name their blood was spilled,
and on whose sacred affairs the life of
more than one was laid at time when
the unity of her people bespoke their
loyalty TO her flag. Not on the ears of
u stranger have the grating sounds OF
discOrd enanating from here fallen.
but rather on those of one who, being
more than a sympathizer, hears with
aching heart the breaking of the cords
Of peace and the dissonant murmurs
of personal contention.
Fellow South Carolinians, look to
the glorious past of your great State
and ask II it justifies the conditions eX-
listing today / shall be strictly i'm
personal and impartial in what L say.
for in u representative gathering Uf
journals of the several
sides-for | believe there are about
not do violence to the propriety of the
ment; but appealing to all, let me
carry you back to Cowpens, and TO
Camden, and to Hanging Rock,
where, under the Inspiration of the
intrepid boldness of South Carolina
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 Revolu-
tiopary army was done in the defense
of the homes of your ancestors,
against the combined forces of foreign
aggressors and native Tories-did
these heroes write their names in let
ters Of eternal life on the pages of the
history of your State, that in the turn
OF q century their deeds might be for
gotten and their examples be lost to
posterity? just across the way over
in GeOrgia--six counties bear the
names of these six patriots and there
they will ever stand as memorials to
men whose heroism is Respondent in
the shining pages of Cardinals glory,
and whose virtues should be ideal
types of the chivalry, the bravery and
the patriotism of Carolina manhood.
Go back with me beyond the period
which nodded these men of iron and
see, If from its earliest days the his
tory of South Carolina was written to
countenance civil contention and
breed the evil results of fratricidal
strife. 1t was Joseph Blake. the
brother OF the great English admiral,
who brought the dissenters to live
among these people, that they might
worship as they please; it was Car
dross who brought the Scotch Presby
terians to breathe the free air of this
cline, and it was to South Carolina
that the French Huguenots turned,
when, wearied and disheartened from
the religious intolerance OF a. bigoted
monarch, they answered the revoca-
tiOn Of the edict of Mates by planting
their feet on this soil to live In an at
mOsphere of peace, and worship in the
unmOlested,comfOrt Of,cOntentment and
serenity. 1t was on this shore, at
Georgetown, that the immortal La
Fayette first put his feet on American
soil, when he came to draw his sword
for American freedom, and, after the
lapse OF o century, as if to signify to
the world that South Carolina was
first In the new roll call OF patriots, 1t
was her sons who received the first
shot at Sumter and her sons who first
turned from their fields and their
homes to bare their bosoms to the con.
fiict Of the war of the Conferacy.
III the past has it's lessons for the
future, let us profit by IT. AS brave
as were our anoestors, let us be ! Fol
every shining star In the armament oil