Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-07-28
AND 1T MUST FOLLOW NIGHT THE DAY THOU oANsT



through white taxation in Southern
schools, furnish tho South's answer
as to the first. To tho second: 10y
atty to perpetual union of tho
States and to the honor and glory of
the republic---the South has been
continually answering since the close
of our civil war; and she is answer
ing to-day by the presence and
prowoss Of her heroic sons at the
front in tho war with Spain. Her
Lee, her Wheeler, her Bagloy, her
Blue, hel lobson and her thousands
of volunteers who sprang to arms ut
their country's call, arc answering
from their camps from the Philip
pines and from tho junglos Of Cuba.
You, my Confederate comrades,
would be there if tho country needed
you. Many of you assembled here
would have been there but for i'm
paired health and failing strength.
But our sons and granlsons arc there.
With our prayers and blessings
they are enlisted in this war for
high and holy purposes. Among
the great ends to be attained in this
conflict with Spain, the freedom of
oppressed islands in both oceans, tho
wider influence of America in the
councils of the nation, tho increased
respect for her power on land and
sea, there is still another achievement
TO be attained, no less glorious and
far reaching: namely, the oblitora-
tion of all traces of distrust among
ourselves and the complete and too
long delayed unitication Of the
American people, which shall be
called i'll question no moro forever.
The Grafton of the day was deliv-
cred by Gen. Charles e. Hooker, of
Mississippi. Gen. Hooker was intro
duced by Gen. Gordon. lie said
that when the surrender was made
the Confederate soldiers separated
with arms in their hands. lie said
it was a capitulation, the Confede-
rates being allowed to depart in
peace, unmolcstod 50 long as they
observed their parole.
"Thcro is not one Confederate but
has kept the torms of his capitula-
tion," said the speaker.
Referring to the Surrender at APP
pomattoX, Gen. Hooker stated that
some of the Federal officers desired
to fire salute in honor of the vic
tory. Everything was in readiness
for the salute, when Gen. Grant,
learning of it, said
"Stop that firing. We have no
great victory to be proud of, for we
have been four years capturing these
5000 men who have laid down their
arms"
Gen. Hooker was one of the conn
sci appointed by the State of Missis-
sippi to defend Jefferson Davis when
he was charged with treason. lie
! spoke feelingly of the way in which
the President of the Confectionery,
with supreme abncgation, took upon
himself the sins of all his people,
Only one reason, said the General,
could be assigned for the failure to
try President Davis. His prosecutors
knew he was not guilty. They knew
his allegiance was first due to his
State, and, as loyal citizen of Mis-
sissippi, when she seeded, it was his
duty to cspouse her cause.
In commenting on the fact that
the South's representatives were TAX.
ing a prominent part in the war
With Spain, he took occasion to at
test to the bravery and gallantry of
Gen. Wheeler.
"They may beat him for Congress
in Alabama," said tho speaker.
'They'll never do it," shouted q
score of voices from the audience.
"Thcy may beat for Congress in
Alabama" continued the speaker,
"but we will erect a magnificent
monument to him."
Gcn. Hooker referred, in the course
of his remarks, to the fact that at
the graves of the Confederates in tho
national cemetery at Arlington were
headstones bearing the inscription,
"Rcbcl." lie told of n visit to tho
cemetery with some ladies, who said
1t was an outrage that such a thing
should be.
"lt is emincntly proper" said the
General to them, "that these poor
boys who wore the ragged Confcdc-
rate coat Of gray, should be buried
here on the ground which belonged
to tho second greatest rebel I'll is
country has ever produced, Robert
E. Lee, George Washington being
the first. Yes, they were rebols-
robc1lca nrainat what fhov bol;ouo1