The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-02-14
OUR NOBLE DEAD.
A Monument to Be Erected to
Their Memory.
AT cHlcAMAUGA PARK.
At Least the State Senate 30
Voted on Thursday Night
bv a Good Majority.

for the erection OF monuments On the
battlefield Of Chickamauga to the ra!or
and heroism Of South Carolina soldiers
was reached on the calendar Of the Sen
ate Thursday and Senator Archer
moved to indefinitely postpone. Sen
ator Barnwcll asked for reasons for this
motion and Senator Archer proceeded
to state his position He was opposed
TO all such appropriations. 1t w'u5o
heneft nobody but the contractor. ~
view of the numerous appropriations,
he opposed the spending OF money ior
Stone or marble to DC placed at Chlcka-
mauga. Stone or brass did rot impress
valor or greatness. We read OF these
deeds on the impcrishablc pages OF
history.
Senator Barnwell said no better way
Of showing South Carclinas apprecia-
ton of her soldiers could befound than
to erect this monument on the bloody
field of Chickamauga. The northern
States who once viewed those men as
traitors now look upon them as brothers
who fought in defense OF the!r homes.
The State IS now in better condition TOR
some reason and while we may not be
able to put up suitable monument, ID
few years she will be able to do so.
He hoped that while other States are
putting up monuments, South Carolina
would show that she recolleots her
dead.
Senator Henderson explained the
origin of the plan to have monuments
placed on the battle6elds to mark the
spots where the soldiers from each
State fell. The bill had passed the
house without voice in protest and 1t
is for the senate to say whether the
monument shall be erected He might
prefer the monument at Manassas or
Gettysburg but the United States has
made Chickamaugs natioual park and
in the general spirit of amity over the
country the States are putting up monu-
ments to their troops. Pointing to
Gen. Kershaw's protrait on the wall, he
paid beautiful tribute to that general
who led the South Carolina troops at
Chickamagua and closed BY saying that
the monument would be worth more
than 6ormitories at Winthrop.
Senator Suddath said he was on the
battlefield of Chickamsuga and was led
by that gallant old general, poiatlng to
Gen. KershaW's portrait. But he op.
posed the bill and begged that the old
soldiers now living be not neglected for
the dead.
Senator Sarrats said if any State
erected monument to her soldiers it
should be South Carolina, being first to
seceGe. South Carolina could not DO
a better thing than erect this monu-
ment to the men who fought for cause
he believed was just. Ne!er so long as
as VIC live will We forget the soldiers,
living or dead Notwithstanding the
opposition of the two good old soldiers
on this floor, the monument should be
erected. 1t ought to cost three or four
times as much.
Senator Ilderton said he had been in
the legislature since 1891 and had heard
over and over that ''we are too poor
until he did not believe word Of It.
South Carolina is able to meet her de-
mands financially or otherwise. Ten
thousand dollars is not enough. He
would favor double that amount. 1t
would be monument not only to the
soldiers who fell on that field but to all
of South Carolina's soldiers. He hoped
the bill would pass without further
objection.
Senator Connor told Of an incident
regarding the proposal to erect uonu-
rnent to an English general who fell at
Eutaw Springs to which the British
government replied that there were not
enough stones in the world to mark the
spot where British officers fell on the
heroic field Of battle. He thought this
applicable to this case. He too was s
Confederate soldier, but did not favor
erecting the monument.
Senator Ragsdale said that ordinarily
the opposition of the Confederate sol
6iers on the floor should settle the mat
ter, but he thought they were mistsk
en-. While they owe much to the livirg
they owe something to their dead COM
ra6es. We are 100 apt to take utll-
itarian view Of all matters. The bill
did not seek to make an iuvidious' dis
tinction between Chickamauga and
other battleields. Some day perhaps
South Carolina can mark all Of them.
Ten thousand dollars is paltry sum
when it is remembered for what it is
asAl3. Men have ever builded monu
ments u the courage Of their COM
ra6es.
Senator Mauldin said as an old SOL
der he had listened to the discussion
with modification. Ten thousand dol
lars is fritted away by the general as
sembly in useless discussion and idle
talk and yet it could haggle about this
paltry appropriation. The debate
should stop and the senators express
themselves by their votes.
Senator G. ". Brown had not
thought it would be necessary to dis
cuss this subject. He told of the pub
lie monument to Grant in Colorado.
and asked if we should hesitate to
erect monument to those who fell on
Chickanaugs. He spoke of the &C
ceptance of the Darlington Guards
flag which was to be preserved as a
memorial Of the men who fought for a
Jest cause. The histories and monu-
ments Of today must be the inspiration
OF tomorrow.
Senator Barnwell arose to call atten-
tion to the fact that the State had done
al it could for the relics of the Confed
eracy. The very first legislature after
the war, when all vas 6esolaJion and
poverty, had provided for limbs for those
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