The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-09-14

Commissioner, now retired to private
life in his 81st year; NJ. c. Butler,
who went from captain to major gen.
eral of cavalry in the Confederate
States Army, and elected three times
United States Senator, and is now
Major General of the United States
Volunteers, and member of the Gu
ban Peace Commission; T. L. Rosser,
Brigadier General Confederate States
Army and now Brigadier General Of
the United States Volunteers; Fitz-
hugh Lee, Major General Confederate
States Army, elected Governor Of Vir-
ginia, United States Consul to Cuba
and now Major General United States
Volunteers.
Gen. Phil Sheridan, United States
Army, is dead; Gen. Custer was kill
ed by the Indians in 1876; Gen. Alger
is now Secretary Of War of the United
States; Gen. Coppinger was twice
elected Governor Of Michigan and now
Major General United States Volun-
teers; Maj. Merritt is now Major
General United States Volunteers at
Manila.
In the language Of John L. Nc
Laurin "We can thank God that we
are now united people and that our
house is no longer divided against
itself.
"From the rock-bound coast Of
Maine to Paci6c's Golden Gate; from
Superior's crystal waters to the ever
green shores Of the Mexican sea,
brothers are we all, proud Of the Stars
and Stripes, whether we come from
the rising or the setting sun, from the
bleak prairies Of the Dakotas or the
sunny slopes Of the Carolinas, content
to rest beneath its folds from the
dawning of the morning when the
earth is wrapped in gray into the
eventide when the skies have donned
the blue"
Mr.. VIM. L. Loyal, one Of Virgin
ginia most gifted sons, in presenting
a portrait of Gen. NJ. G. Butler to the
R. E. Lee camp at Richmond, October
S, 1897, said this Of him when he was
a colonel on the 9th of June, the day
he lost his leg: Gone Of the most
dashing figures seen that day was Col.
NJ. C. Butler at the head Of his regi-
ment,- the Second South Carolina
Cavalry. Twenty-seven years Of age,
moulded like an Apollo, with face
as sweet; and handsome as that Of any
god Of old, he sat on his horse like a
typical South Carolina cavalier; gen.
tie as any fawn when comrades were
assembled in social converse, fierce as
a veteran grenadier when the foe was
| to be met face to face \ +
But he lost with his leg none Of that
unconquerable dash and spirit that
made him very paladin in the cav
alry CORPS of the army of Northern
Virginia. Returning to his command
as quickly as his wound would permit,
he was at once made Brigadier Gen
eral Of cavalry, and from that time to
the end of the war his plume always
showed in the lead where the calm
judgment Of soldier was needed or
the dash Of knight ready to face any
odds was called for.
In the exciting days of 1876 Judge
Jno E. Bacon introduced Gen. Butler
to an Edgefeld audience as the young
hero of Trevillian. In his speech at
Orangeburg, April 12, 1892; Gen. But
ler concluded with these words: 'And
now my countrymen, before these
ceremonies are brought to conclu-
sion, let me implore you by all our
sacrifices of the past, the grave prob
lens of the present and the hopes OF
the future, to keep pure and unde6led
the fountains from which the stream
and flow of our liberties emanated.
Stand fast to the doctrine of home
rule, local self-government, domestic
order and tranquility and enlightened
progress. We did not lose or forfeit
these in the arbitrament Of war. We
did lose slavery by force Of arms, but
by a determined, united, yet conserva-
tive and humane course Of conduct we
may convert that loss into blessing
for our children and for those who
come after us. Let us Danish resent
ments from our hearts, if any remain,
discharge our whole duty to the coun-
try and turn our faces to the future,
stopping now and again to place a
flower of affectionate remembrance on
the tombs of our heroic dead:
President Mckinley deserves the
we'll done Of the American people for