The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1901-07-11
By Senator McLauril, Delivered at
Sp2rtan5urg.
AMfRICA'S PAST AND FUTURE
Reviewed In the Presence of a Large
and Attentive Audience-HowI Inde.
poEdence Day Was Observed.

street grove before an audience esti.
mated at from l. 900 to 1900. The meet
ting was orderly. quiet and undemon-
strative. The Senator was given a
respectful and attentive hearing and
addressed his audience in his chraac
teristic and degnitied manner, and
made an appropriate speech Tor the oc:
casion. In the audience was goodly
number OF the cultured &nl refnel
ladies of Spartan0urg and of the in.
telligent young lady teachers Of the
State summer school in session here.
Col. John B. Cleveland introduced
the speaker of the day in a neat and
becoming speech. He referred to the
recent condition of the Democratic
party and the need Of is being alive
to new issues and alluded to the pro.
gresSive Democracy" as the presen;
necessity.
The Senator in his address took up
the various issues Of the day and dis.
cusscd them in & clear. concise al !
spirited wa. though his effort wa
no: of the pass Cnate. vinictive, Vlo-
lent type. Ii was on high plane aal
contained no personal abuse of any
one.
After reCourting the principal point
in history from tine to tine OF the es.
tabIishment CT the republic. and also
referring TO the grea. progress made
by this country alcng various lines.
Senator McLaIrin entered into dis
Cussion Of the question OF expansion,
and among cth2r things said:
ll.- II G.
ent opportunities and fulfill all OF our
national obligations. no one can specu-
late too romantically about our future
as a nation. For one to have looked
forward at the founding OF Rome, and
predicted al the glories Of the Roman
empire whe2 in the zenith Of its splen-
dors. he would have been hailed as q
dreamer and his prophecies as fairy
tales. Fer one to have stood on the
barren shores of Britain when Caesar
landed there with his legions and por-
trayed in story the glorious future OF
the British empire. he would have
been Knocked as prophet with dis
tempered Imagination. So If one stand
ing on the great eminence OF time. the
beginning of the goth century, should
predict the future glory Of the Amer
lean republic, it would be only story
half written or a picture dimly paint
cd with all the splendors of colorlng
left out. | do not believe that any
mind can have even the falntest con-
ception of what our nation will be and
will accomplish in the coming cen:
turies. if we are true to ourselves and
our heaven appointed destiny. When
we look backward to the 4th or July,
1776, and see 13 colonies struggling
with the most powerful government on
the earth for independence. and con-
slider the great odds against us, anu
contrast our condition then and now.
we can scarcely credit the evidence OF
our cwn experience.
The promised land, flowing VITA
milk and honey, was the encourage
ment held out to the Israelites in the!-
desolate wauderines in the wilder
ness. Without this they would have
faltered and fallen by the wayside and
never accomplished the divine purpose
of their dcliverance from Egyptian
bondage.
LAS a nation we have reached a
crisis equally as important as that
which confronted the lsraelites, aau
the announcement offered us is the
world as our promised land. where
We are to plant the seeds Of freedom
and Christianity and labor to fructity
and enrich them until they shall grow
I'D and the nations shall lie down n
peace under Their shade. The same
power which brought the wanderers al
last out OF the wilderness IS sustain
ing lis. and il we are true TO duty ana
destiny it will bring us into the prom
ised land of our hopes and rewards
The great events in the future OF
orr republic can be predicted. with
some degree of certainty. Oae CT III =
pre.eminent events Will be union CT
the English -speakingg rae. in when
Anglo-SaXon ideas OF liberty anu
Christian civilization VII be oma
predominant. and finally control the
politics. the policies AID the commerce
OF the world. There TI1y not be any
political alliance between the re-u2l
can United States and monarcA.cal
G-e.s Britain. but there will be unity
Of Durpcse wlich will link them TO-
gether in the bonds OF a common inte--
est and race afiiliatiol. With sucA
combination of resources and power,
it will be possible to disseminate
throughout the earth tbs spirit of lib
erty now permeating the entire Ang 0.
Saxon race. In time the prophecy OF
the last century that Europe would be-
come republican or Cossack VIII nc
fulfilled. The Eastern question CT TO-
day is the beginning of the fiaal s:rug-
gle. With a union of the English.
speaking people the despotism OF
2rss,e viii he DESTROYED and all the