The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-05-17

udlic sake. Amen.
'@'ccp, Soldier, Slccp,' WAS "oudcrcd
" the school children, and "Tcntiny
ON the Old Camp Ground' was led by
Rev. W. |. Hcrbcrt, with the choir in
lhc chorus.
Hon. j. Pope delivered the address
"i the afternoon, and waa Introduced
oy Hon. NJ. a. Carlisle in q few fitting
aud well chosen remarks. Mr.. Pope
spoke - follows:
| HON. Y. j. pOpE'S ADDRESS.
/ Com'a'es, ladies and Gcntlcmen:-
| Ihcrc are many days set apart TO com
| mcmoratc special occasions. Christ
| mas comes to Us once cach year and
there is no other day to be compared to
it. Thc fist OF January is another
)c%al holiday. Then there is the birth
day of the Father Of his Country, n
man who battlcd for seven long years
~ WIN freedom for Amcrica--thc BIRTH
| day Ct George Washington, Then
! there Is 4 daH-a }ngal holiday set apart
| to that ptcrlc-s chi"ftain, that Chris
| tihn gentleman, tiIat king Of men,
| Fnhlrt l.. Lee But the sad,cst and
| til" sweetest day which CarDlinn--
South CArol'M"- has set apart is the
lH,h Of May, the day on which we shall
dc honor to eur Confederate dead.
Ii is said that South Carolina pro.
pur"d the war. While not quite true,
IL IS true that she began the war, cnd
10 - q matter Of history thMt thc up.
ned hcr baunrrS through four lonp
h!onG" years. There vas no shrinking
from the ordcaI Of battle by her sons
nHd The g'ory OF I.vr soldiers during al
th'sc sad years crnnot thn forgotten.
NNu while this Is true OF Our old State
asa body. IL is especially true OF our
old Ncwbcrry County. She pa,c from
first IT, last quite two thou3auri soldiers
with voting population Of only about
fourteen hundred. She left upon the
ii"l" OF battle and In the hospitals over
five hundred OF her sons, dead for tho
ciHac, nd that cailsc their cDuntrv's
cause. can never be said of New
berry e TtH or Of the StatI that she
shrAnk from the duty she assumed, and
! can tell you now rs one who lived
through h--waS permitted to live through
--lEoac lonr yCArs that NcwLcrry Coun-
~ never bad Il dcscllnr.
Hut while al these things arc true the
SNuth'and meets annually to lay flowers
unUn the tonba Of her dead unon
their i0mHs, ladies' and gentlemen, but
rNnn IT," mounds tina. cover their
bodies. Ana ;or what did they die?
For what did they battle? hear some
one with an utter disregard for the
truth say, for negro slavery. Away
with such treason to the truth. They
fought for fHccdom. Thcy fought for
Southern Independence! 1t was be-
cnni" OF wrong piled upon wrong. cul-
mlnating as il did in John Browns
raid upon Virginia, when with pixies
and guns he sought to incitc scrvilc
"ody to attempt the lives OF the men
and women and children Of the O]d
Dnm1nlnn. When iustoud OF rising m
to drununcc such an outrage, when
y
maNhood asserting itself in rcbukc in !
the NNith, that Johu Browns soul went !
march!nE on to glory throughout the |
North and West, following rs it did |
upon tho election in 1850, il WAS seen
AT once that the war WAS inevitable.
Human endurance cou]U 20 no further,
we had borne our wrongs until for
hCarnncc ceased to bc virtue, The
appeal TO arms came. Now. ladies and |
Evntiemcn, does it not occur to Won
That there was motive, Il high motive,
noble motive, which incitcd men TO
become soldiers in the South: And
they did become soldiers, not kid glovcd
gentry, rs some one has said, but they
Came from all vocations in life. The
tarm"r carried his horses back to the
Stables, the clerk left the counter. the
lawyer his books, the banker his &C.
counts, the merchant all cTorts TO make
more money. The artisan of every
ca'lhE rushed to ar!ns, SO that there
WAS nothing bat general uprising of
the people to meet fairly and suuarcly
the issue. II is greatly to your credit
that she bad no divisions in her bor-
dcrs, no hircl;nS soldiers. All of her
sons wc,c consccratcd to the Coufed
crate catec. Oh, if The same tale could
have been told in Tennessee tapd Ken
tucky and NorJh Carolina, victory
would have bccu ours as surely a. YOU
and | live. Well, with what we had,
see what was accomplished by your sons.
your brothers, You: friends. your faith
ers. Just think Of it. In your own
State at Fort Sumter so terrible was
tie ann t at defended her that never
was Yankee able to put his foot upon
Fort Sumter until the State wus evacu.
atcd in 1866. For him the federal guns
and gunboats had no terror, and at
night the women Of Charleston scwed
up the bags to bo filed with sand to
save the old city. No wonder we love
our women.
Look now In Virginia, where so many