Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-06
TO SOUTH CAROLINA's DEAD.
Monument Erected in Winchester To-
day to Fallen COnfederates.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
WINCHESTER, Va, June e.-This has
been a great day for Winchester and the
Shenandoah valley, and a significant occa-
sion in these days Of our reanited republic.
Today a monument was unveiled in Stone
wall Jackson cemetery to the memory Of
the dead from South Carolina who fell in
the fights in and around Winchester during
the civil war. Just adjoining the confeder-
ate cemetery is the national cemetery in
which lie the bodies of ex-Union soldiers
who were killed in the same fights. The
1l4th New York Regiment erected a beauti-
ful monument there to the dead of that reg
iment, and it was unveiled here in Win
chester last year. AT that time the mayor
and people and confederate camps of VIM
chester welcomed the New York men and
assisted them in their ceremonies. Today
1t was confederate monument unveiled
and the old Union people here and visitors
were Just as cordial and fraternal
The monument was unveiled by Miss
Margaret Trenholm, q granddaughter of
George A. Trenholm of South Carolina, ex
secretary of the confederate treasury in
President Davis cabinet.
Mr.. John G. Capers attorney of the De-
partment of Justice, Washington, DC, de-
livered an address, in which he reviewed
the causes which led UP 10 the struggle be
tween the states. He depored the fact that
thought ii wise to Veil the delicate truth,
and wished that the great instrument had
contained specific statements as to that
phase of state rights. Would that there
had been" he said "a clear undeniable
declaration definitely fixing our Union as a
linked chaln of states no one link of which
was stronger nor weaker than the other,
and that 1t was not rope of sand. We
would not then have had to reach a final
Interpretation of the Constitution al the
expense of so great treasure from the
hearts and homes of both sections of our
country"
Mr.. Capers' oration abounded in tributes
to the noble southern women and to the
courage and character of the eX-confederate
soldier. At the same time his Grafton was
pa trlotc 10 the core to our reunited coun-
try. In speaking of the results of the war
upon our national life he closed with the
statement that Judge Alex. C. Haskell of
South Carolina, battle-scarred veteran of
the civil war, had, in a recent address to his
old regiment in South Carolina, expressed,
old soldier though he was, what he believed
to be the opinion of the younger generation
as to the results of the war upon our ma
uonal life. when he said:
Thus by fighting to the end we did two
things: We commanded the respect of our
enemy and We're asked to come back into
the u}1on, and we unntentioually but alb
solutely forced the end of slavery. 1t needs
but glance to see the innumerable ills that
would have befallen us and this great con-
tinent had we succeeded in establishing the
southern confederacy. We would have be-
gun with two republics, composed of confed-
crate states, each state reserving, as estab-
lished by arms, the nalienable right to go
out at Its pleasure. Texas and the ives,
Mississippi and the Pacific, to begin with,
would have been Independent republics, and
In few years we would have been petty
republics defended by standing armies, and
perhaps numbers of them dependencies of
European powers. Republics with great
armies are not lands of liberty and soon
end in military rule Instead of being
members of one of those petty republics We
are the free and equal members of what is
today the most powerful people and the
least oppressive government ia the world"