The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-03-31

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obsequies. No one but the lnhnlte
Cod. VINO knows everything, knows
the ten .thouSandGh par. OF the length
and breadth aad depth aad height Of
the anguish osthe northern and south
ero hsttIcGel0s. Why did these f.
hers leave their children and go to
the front, and why did these young
men. postponiNg the marriage day,
START OFT into the probabilities Of never
ccnirg back? For the country they;
died. Life for lie. Blood for blood.
Substitution
But we need not so SO far. What
is that uonumen. n Greenwood. 1t
is 10 the doctors who who fell ia the
southern epidem;cs. Why go: We're
there rot enough sick to be attended
in these northern latitudes? Oh, yes!
But tie doctor puts few medical;
books IN his valis9 and some vials Of;
medicine and leaves his patients here
ii the hands Of other physicians and.
takes the rail train. Before he gets to;
the infected regions ne passes crowded.
rail trains, regular and extra, taking:
the flying snd afrighted populations,
He arrives n city over whlcha grea9
horror is brooding. He goes from:
couch to couch, feeling of the pulse:
snd studying symptoms and preScrlo-
ing day after day, night after night,
until fellow physician says: Dec;
tor, you. mad better go home and rest.
You look miserable" But ne cannot
rest while so many are suffering. On
and on, until some morning finds hin3
in deliriuu, IL which he talks OF
home, and then rises and says he must
90 and look after those patients. He
IS told to lie down, but ne fights bis at
ten6ants until he falls back and is
weaker and weaker and dies for peoF
pie with whom he had no kin6shiA
and far away from his own family
and is hastily put sway in stransers 5
tomb. ard only the fifth part OF 8
newspaper line tells US OF his sacrifice,
bis name just mentioned among hyS
Yet he has touched the farthest height
Of sublimity IN that three weeks q
humanitarian service. He goesstraight
as an arrow to the bosom of him whp
said, ''I was sick, and ye visited me-:
Life for life. Blood for blood. Sub
stitution.
In the legal profession I see the
same principle Of self sacrifice. la
1915 William Freeman, psuperlzs4o
and idiotic negro, was ST Auburn, N.
Y, on trial for murder.
He had slain the entire Van Nest
family. The foaming wrath OF the
community could be kept off him
| only by armed constableS. VINO
would volunteer to be his counseiG
No attorney wanted to sacrifice ms
popularity BY such sn ungrateful.
task. Ali were silent, save one, a
young lawyer with feeble voice, that
could hardly be heard outside the bar,
pale and thin and awkward. 1t was
Willism H. Seward, who saw that the
prisoner was idiotic and irresponsible
and ought 10 be put in an asylum
rather than put to death, the heroic
counsel uttering these beautiful words:
~ speak now in the hearing OF a
people who have preiudged the pri-
soner and condemned me for pleading
i in his behalf. He is a convict, a pau
Der. legro, without intellect, sease
or E notion. Ay child, with an aztec.
/ tiorote smile, disarus my careworn
| fsce CT its frov7n whenever crcsS my
threshold. The beggar in the street
obliges ma to give because be says,
God bless your as I pass. Ny cog
caresses me with fcndness if I will but
smile on him. Ny horse recognizes
me when I fl his manger. What re-
ward, what gratitude, what sympathy
and affection can I expect here?
There the prisoner sits. Look at him.
Look at the assemolage around you.
Listen to their Ill suppressed censures
au3 tav:r excited feats and tell me
where among my neighbors or my fe!-
| low men, where, even in his heart, l
can expect to ind sentiment, q
thought, MOTTO say Of reward or OF
acknowledgment, or even Of recognl.
| ton! Gentlemen, you may think OF
this evidence what you please, bring
in what verdict you can, but assever-
ate before heaven and you that to the
best of my knowledge and belief, the
prisoner at the bar does not at this
moment know why it is that my sha-
| dow falls on you instead of his own. "
| The gallows got its victim, but the
post mortem examination OF the poor
creature showed to all the surgeons
and to all the world that the public
was wrong, that William B. Seward
was right, and that hard, stony step
| Of obloouy in the Auburn courtroom
was the first step,,of the stairs OF fame
up whicn he went TO the top, or to
within one step Of the top, that last
denied him through the treachery of
American politics. Nothing sublimer
was ever seen in an American court
room than William e. Seward, with
out reward, standing between the
| fury of the populace and the losth-
some imbecile. Substitution!
In the realm OF fine arts there was
SIS remarkable an instance. = bril-
liant but hypercriticised painter, Jo-
| selh William Turner, was met by a
volley of abuse from all the art gal
leries OF Europe. His paintings, which
have since won the applause OF all
civilized nations-'.The Fifth Plague
| Of Egypt" Fishermen on a Lee
| Shore In Squally Weather" >" calais
| Pier" ''The Sun Rising Through
MIST and s'Dido Building Carthage"
were then targets for critics to shoot
at. In defense Of this outrageously
abused man, young author OF q
| years, Just one year out of college,
came forth with lis pen and wrote the
| ablest and most femous essays on art
that the world ever saw, or ever will
see-John Ruskin's Modern Paint
ers." For II years this author fought
the battles Of the maltreated artist, and
after, in poverty and broken hearted.
ness the painter had died, and the
public tried to undo their cruelties
toward him BY giving him big fu-
neral and h1riol in ST P3u1's cafhe-