The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-01-08
Brigade, Major-Genoral 9th Dlvision.

IVA O&N AoAOhhg
and o member Of Congress-"
Tucker never refused to carry out
the order but simply delayed III and in
a very short while, I WI 5:h, they
were discharged, having taken up the
march at Newberry, March 4th. He
could not have done otherwise, every
officer in the company supporting him,
and reaching home, he was elected
Brjgadier, then Major-General (one-
half the State) and after to Congress.
For fifty years the writer has heard
General Tucker spoken of by such men
as John Lanford, deceased, his neigh
Dor, and others, and never without the
highest respect for his noble qualities
and manhood.
Discipline must prevail but unless
the health Of the soldier is regarded, as
by soldiers like Hampton and Kershaw,
who were no "Carpet Knights, there
will be no men to light on the day of
battle except such scare-crows as
the men of Carter's Regiment met on
the march to Pocotaiigo.
IL the story of this brave and dis
tinguished son of Laurens should slim.
ulate the rising youth of our county to
noble effort and emulation, then we
have done well to ferret out the life of
the subject and put it before them.
Tucker may have been technically at
fault, but sometimes it is right to
disobey orders. A French detail
of five hundred men was made,
and a Colonel ordered to take a
certain point. The Colonel sug-
gested a reduction to a hundred.
Asked for his reason he said: call will
be killed, not a man will return, and a
hundred are enough to sacrifice" The
order was revoked.
1t must be kept in mind that in the
days of Tucker the high-road to posi-
tion n fame was the militia. After
the return of the regiment O'Neal be-
came a Captain and a against Tucker
for Major-General and was defeated.
He subsequently became Major-Gene
raj and Judge and Chief Justice.
, Thos. Wright, the Judge Advocate, be-
came Lieut-Governor. Capt. William
Irby the Adjutant, was the father
of the late LIEUT. Governor, James HI.
: Irby, and the grandfather of the late
Senator Irby and DR.. w. O. Irby OF
| this city. He must have been fifty
, years old when he took the field with
: Tucker.
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4 Most potent, grave and reverend
My very noble and approved good
masters"
The General Assembly convenes by
the constition, on Tuesday next. The
. organization is complete without pre-
!iminary ado. Lieut.. Governor, James
H. Tillman of Edgefeld, presides over
the Senate, and Mr. Stevenson OF Ches-
tertield, over the House. Committees
Will go at once to work. Child-labor
. may occasion, discussion, the revised
Code must be approved: Congressional
redistricting will be effected. Judges
are to be elected, but contests are on
. only In two Districts. Burke, of Char
lesion, and Dantzler, of Orangeburg,
8 contest for the Charleston District, and
Purdy and Frazier Of Sumter to sue
coed Judge Buchanan.
. IHE ADVERTISER will aim to keep
1 its readers we'll advised of the doings
: OF our Legislature and what they are
likely to do.
Senator McLauren opened a law office
atWashingtcn and somebody suggested
7 that he would leave the State. Not at
4 all; 1T Ia not uncommon for prominent
= lawyers who are Congressman to have
law offices at the Capitol. The Sena-
tor explains that he wants to keep his
d hand in as he may have to come back
!, to the law. 1t only shows THAT (like
{ Dame Gilpin) though on pleasure bent
he has a frugal mind"
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BY resolution Of the last session OF
The General Assembly, A~ttorney-Gen-
U eral Be1lenger was instructed to inves.
: tigate tho violation OF Tie Antitrust
Laws in the State and report his action
and result of his investigation to the
, Legislature. His report is printed,
on our desk, and ready for the General
: Assembly and evidences thorough and
intelligent industry on the part of the
Attorney General and his assistant,
Mr.. Gunter.
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4 congressman j. Il. J0nns0n sends US
= q package of Garden seed. If he rum
down here to his old home ebout April
s 10Th, we hope to thank him In luscious
q strawberries about the size OF - horse
apples.
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, We are indebted to Senator McLau
= rim for his speech in the Senate Dec
o 9th, 1901, the subject being o "questior
OF personal privilege"
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. Southern Christian Advocate.
= Rev, w. r. Richardson, elected b,
the recent Conference, in very grace
8 full words, assumed editorial cOntro
o of the paper.
If our Supreme Court decide oul
!. Jury laws unconstitutional, the Legis
t lature must amend them. "A decision
9 is daily looked for.
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How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. J..CHENEY s. Co., Props,
Toledo, O..
We, the undersigned, having knowr
+ r.. j. Cheney for the last 10 years, an6