Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-06-02
The Famous Editor Delivers an Address
at Camp Bradley. ....H

1t seems to mo to be too rcyengeful
to be quito worthy. l do uot forget
the circumstances to which it owes
its origin. The scenes of that awful
tragedy under tho shadow of MORO
Castle arc 'yot before my eyes. I can
sec, as | close them, tho faces of our
murdered sailors and tho ghastlincss
Of death upon them. But also see
the myriads of starving men, women
and children ruthlessly sacrificed to
feed tho lust and to fill the pockets
ofprofcssional plundcrcrs masquerade
ing in Cuba as Spanish officers and
gcntlcmons
THE BARBARIAN OF SPhiN.
"Behind them see three centuries
of wanton pillagc, of frightful cor
ruption, Of cruelty unsurpassed in hu-
man annals. The time was long ago
come for some great power to stretch
fourth its hand, to interpose its au-
thority to say to the world, "This
barbarism shall proceed no further"
What power except that of the
United States was to do this ? Cuba
is our next door ncighbur. Time
out of mind these atrocitl, have
been pcrpctrated before our eyes.
Whilst Spain has required us to
spend millions of money policing our
coasts against the flibusters she has
shown herself unable, or unwilling,
in our protection, TO police one Of her
own harbors. Was this to go on
forever? You yourselves are the
answer to tho question.
"You are going to fight battle
wagcd by man for man. You are
going therefore in the name of that
Christian who died for men. You
are going to fight battle for tho
glory of God and your native land.
You arc going, therefore, under a
flag, which, the symbol at once of
freedom and humanity, and having
Gods blessing upon it, has never yet
known defeat. Look to it that you
carry yourselves rs soldiers equally
of the Cross and of the flag.
emo man can be a good soldier
who is not at heart good man.
Sclf-posscssion in the presence of
danger is the trucst courage, and he
is the bravest soldier who keeps his
head, who knows perfectly the right
thing TO do, and who does it, when,
frightened ont of his boots, his legs
would fain carry him away. 1t is
the sense of duty which will make
you men; duty to the flag above
you duty to constituted authority {;
duty to country and honor, and to
those dear ones at home who will
follow you with ever fearful but with
ever Frightening eyes.
TIL, Is a JUST WAR.
81 believe in this war. | believe
with ali my mind and all my soul,
if ever therewas justified war it is
this. Though it should rob me of
lives that are dcarcr to me than my
own life, shall believe it conserved
in holy spirit, sanctiticd by heaven
and directed toward the advance
mcnt and the enlargement of
benign civilization.
"In these warlikc spcctaclcs every
where manifested it has already
united us az nothing else could have
unitcd-cmancipating both sections
Of the Union from the mistaken i'm
preston that we ever were or ever
could be anything else than one pco-
pie. In the brilliant achievement of
that typical Green mountain boy on
the other side Of the globe, it has
already exploited us as a naval power
and, as you yourselves shall show, it
will presently demonstrate us as a
military power, before whose legions
the enemies of liberty and humanity
will do well to look before they leap.
Surely these were communications
"cTo"tiy TO bu wished. They are
worth all tho war has cost or will
cost us. I know what war means.
"Obcdiencc, submission, ;s the first
and, perhaps, the hardest Of the sol
dicr's duties. If officers sccIn capri
cious and tyrannical, do yolr duty.
It will come round all right. If tho
powers that be seem partisan or
unfair, do your duty. Tho end will
justify you. BE sure that, in the
long run, the man who does his duty
passes beyond tho reach of wrong,
for, as there is God who saith, Ven-
goance is mino, | will repay so the
people, whose voice is tho voice of
God, who will visit upon those that