Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-10-27


ened by his manhood, was an ever
memorable one with the sorrowint
concourso of friends and neighbour
| who followed his shot-riddled bod,
to the grave, and of that number n,
man gainsaid the honor of his death
lacked full loyalty to the flag TO
which he fought, or doubted th'
justice of tho cause for which he
gave his life. /.
"Thirty-fve years have passed
another war has called its roll o
martyrs; again the old bell tolls from
tho crude, latticed tower Of the sol
tlement church another great pour
ing of sympathetic humanity, and
this time tho body of a son, wrapped
in the Stars and Stripes, is lowered
to its everlasting rest beside that o.
the father who sleeps in the Stars
and Bars. .'...,
"There were those there who
stood by the grave of tho Confede.
rate hero years before, and the chill.
dren of those were there, and oi
those present no one gainsaid the
honor of the death of this
hero of El Caney, and mono
were there but loved, as
patriots alone can love, the
glorious flag that enshrines tho peo.
pie of a common country as it en-.
shrouds the form that will sleep for.
ever in it's blessed folds. And or
this tomb will be written: Here lies
the son of a Confederate soldier: he
died for his country
"And so it is that between the
making of these two graves human
hands and human hearts have
reached solution of the vexed prob.
lem that has baf1led human will and
human thought for three decades
Sturdy sons of the South have said
to their brothers of the North that
the people of tho South had long
since accepted the arbitrament OF
tile sword, to which they had
appealed. And, likewise, the
oftrepeatod message has come back
from tho North that peace and good
will reigned, and that the wounds
of civil dissension were but as scared
memories.
"Good fellowship was waited on
the wings of commerce and develop.
ment from those who had worn the
blue to those who had worn the
grey. Nor were these messages de.
livcred in vain, for they served tc
pave tho way for tho complete and
absolute elimination of the line o1
sectional differences by the only
process by which such result wat
possible. The sentiment of a great
majority of the people of the Soutl
was rightly spoken in the message o
the immortal Hill, and tho burning
eloqucnco of Henry Grady-botf
3eorgians-the record of whose
blessed work for the restoration O.
peace between the sections becomes
a national heritage. and yet there
were still those among us who be-
lieycd your course was polite, but
insincere, and those among you who
assumed that our professed attitude
was sentimental and unreal
"Bitterness had departed, anG
sectional hate was no moro, but
there were those who feared, oven il
they did not believe, that between
the great sections of our greater gov.
ernment there was not tbs perfect
faith that made tho American Revo.
luton successful possibility; that
there was want of the trust that
crystalized our States into the origi.
nal Union; that there was lack oi
the love that bound in unassailablt
strength the united sisterhood oil
States that withstood the shock ot
civil war. 1t is true this doubt
existed to greater degree abroad
than at home. But to-day tho mist
of uncertainty has been swept away
by the sunlight of events, and there
where doubt obscured before, stands
N bold relief, commanding the admi.
'ation Of the whole world, the most
glorious type of unitod strength and
sentiment and loyalty known to the
history of nations.
"Out Of the chaos of that civil wa,
had risen now nation, mighty ir
the vastneBs of it's limitless resources
tho realities within ita rcach: s"rpass SIS
ing the dreams Of fiction and eolips
ing the fancy of fablc--a new nation
yet rosy in the flesh, and with the
CLEAN of morning in it's eyes. Nc
one questioned that commercial an(
geographical union had been effected
SO had Rome reunited it's falterinf