The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-09-25
TEE SOUTH AND Mckinley.
The Grief Of this Section is Genuine
and Sincere.

It ig not remarkable thst from news
papers and citizens Of all classes in
every part of the south there have come
| and ere sill coming to many express
sioGs Of sorrow at his death ard of pro-
found appreciation Of his broad patriot.
Ism. Oat of this feeling which per-
7sdes the south has sprung the hearty
s2pro0asiop of the movement to build a
monument to the lsnepted president
in A:i .nts. In discussing this exhibi-
tion Of affection on the part of the peo.
pie Of the south for the late president
the New Orleans Picsyuae says truly:
lit is not mere transient senti.
ment galvanized into existence by the
SAD ana sudden fate which oVercsme
him; bus it IS the grief with which
Friendship aud affection accept the loss
of beloved obj:cs, joined to the seIss
| Of Indignation and ousrage at the afro
cious crime By which this less was in
fic.ed.
If it IS asked why the people Of the
south should haVs held in such regard
chi, magistrate Rho was northern
man and the standard bearer Of polit-
icsi party 10 which the people Of these
states have been constantly opposed,
the answer is not difficult. It was be-
cause that northern man loved the
south, and ussd his high Office IS much
as he could to heal It's wounds and
right the wrongs under which its people
had suffered.
1T vas through political sectional
ism thst the greatest wrongs and the
heaviest losses had been inflicted on
the people of these southern states,
AID 1t was under McKlnley'S admins
| trasioa that the chasm which had SO
long bsen open, like an impasssable
gulf Of hate, between the north and the
south, Ess most nearly closed, and it
was through his special exertions and
desire that this noble work of justice
and righteousness had been accomplish
ed"
Preiident Mckinley in many Of his
public addresses proclaimed his heart
felt desire that the people Of the south
and thoes of the north should be re-
united in heart and patriotic purpose,
as we'll as in name, and it is not going
too far to say that he did more than
any other man to accomplish this glori-
GUS result.
At the peace jubilee in Atlanta in Ds
osmber, 1898, his speech at the capitol
was not the only occasion on which
President Mckinley spoke sentiments
which sank deep into the hearts Of our
people.
70 s multitude gathered at EZposi-
tion park he uttered the patrio6lc and
clog lent words:
-Four years have gone since I last
saw the people Of Georgia in public as.
sem5ly. Much has happened in the in.
tervening tine. The nation has been
at war, not within its own shores, but
with foreign poWer-a war Waged,
nos for aggrsndlzsnent, but for our op.
pressed nsighbors, for freedom and
aueliorstion. It was short but deci-
siVe. 1t gave new honors to American
arms. It has brought new problems to
TIE republic, whose solution will tax
the genius Of our people. United We
| Will meet and solve Ehsm with honor
to ourselves and to the lasting benefit
Of all concerned. The war brought Us
togechel, It's settlement will keep Us
| together. Rsunitedl Glorious realizs-
.ion! Il expresses the thought OF my
| mind and the long deferred consumms-
slon or my hearts desire as l stand in
this presence. 1t inserprets the hearty
demonstration here witnessed, and is
the patriotic refrain Of all SECTIONS and
Of al lovers Of the republic.
''Reunits1-one country again and
enc couasry forever! Proclaim It from
the press and pulpit; teach 1t IN the
schools; write il across the skies! The
| world sees and feels it; it CHEEKS every
heart north sna south, AMI brightens
the life of every American home. Lat
nothing eyer strain 1t agalnl At peace
With all the world and with one an
other, What can stand in the pathway
Of our progress and prosperit7?"