Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-10-27
AND MUST roLLow AS NIGHT THE DAY. THOU oANsT


sightedness IL a common malady, but
the closer we get to things or they
get to us the clearer our Wow and
the less obscure our duty. Patriot.
ism must be faithful as we'll as for
vent; statesmanship must be wise at
we'll as fearless--not tho statesman-
ship which will command the ap.
plause of the hour, but the Judgment
of posterity. ~. i Il
"*he progress OF nation can
alone prevent degeneration. There
must be new life and purpose, OF
there will be weakness and decay.
There must be broadening of thought
as we'll as broadening Of trade. Ter
ritorial expansion is not alone al
ways necessary to national develop
ment. There must bo constant
movement toward higher and no.
bier civilization, a civilization that
shall make its conquests without re-
sort to war, and achieve it's greatest
victories pursuing the arts of peace.
In our present situation duty, and
duty alone, should prescribe tho
boundary of our responsibilities, the
scope of our undertakings.
"Tho final determination of our
purpose awaits tho action of the
eminent men who arc charged by tho
Executive with the making of the
treaty of peace and that of tho Son
ate of the United States, which, by
our Constitution, must ratify and
confirm it. We all hope and pray
that the confirmation of peace will
be as just and as humane as the con,
duct and consummation of the war.
When the work of the treaty makers
is done the work of the lawmakers
will begin.
"The one will settle the extent of
our responsibilities; the other must
provide the legislation to meet them.
The army and navy have nobly and
heroioally performed their parts.
May God give the Executive and
Congress wisdom to perform theirs" "
The men of the South who have
delivered addresses during the jubi-
lee have won golden opinions. The
speech Of Judge Speer, of Georgia,
at the opening meeting Tuesday was
n revelation to those who had never
heard him, and the address of
Clark Howell, of Atlanta, who re-
sponded to the sentiment, "Om
Reonited Country, North and
South" was in all respects equal to
that of the eloquent speaker from his
own State who had preceded him.
1t caught his audience, and caught
them hard.
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editor of tho Atlanta Constitution,
responded to tho sentiment, "Om
Reunited Country, North and
South--once cstrangcd by war, bit
again united under the Stars and
Stripes. Nothing less than war
could have demonstrated the real
strength and the intense loyalty of
the reunited people,"
He said
"Mr. Toastmaster and My Fellow
Countrymen In the mountains of
my State, in o county remote from
the quickening touch of commerce,
and railroads and tolcgraphs--so far
removed that tho sincerity of its
rugged people flows unpolluted from
the spring of nature-two vino Gov
cred mounds, nestled in the SOLEMN
silence of a country church yard,
suggest the text of my response to
the sentiment to Which I am to speak
to night. A serious text. Mr.. Toast
master, for an occasion like this, and
yet out of it there is life and peace
and hope and prosperity, for in the
solemn sacrifice of the voicoless
grave can the choicest lesson of the
Republic be learned, and the destiny
of its real mission be unfolded. So
bear with me while / lead you to the
rust.stained slab, which for third
Of a century since Chiokamauga-.
has been kissed by the sun as it
peeped over the Blue Ridge, melting
the sublimated tears with which tho
mourning night had bedewed the in
scription 'IIore lies a Confederate
soldier he died for his country
The September day that brought
the body of this moantain hero to
that home among the hills which
had smiled upon his infancy, been
gladdened by his youth and strength
500 REWARD 800.
Tho readers of this papor will be
pleased to learn that thoro is at loast ono