The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-02

""to ana avowed his own RESPONSE
bility fcv the sdeed---thus refusing to
accept safety from allowing a
stranger to receive the violence in
tended for himself. He was hurried,
in the night time, to the bivouao of
the regiment; was not allowed com
munication with any citizen; was
condemned to die without even the
form of trial and was shot to death
about day light the following morn.
ing and his body mutilated.
"Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead,
Dear as the blood you gave,
NO lmplon" otstep here shall tread
/ The herbt of your grave.
"Nor shall your glory be forgot
| While Fame her record keeps,
Or honor points the hallowed spot
/ Where valor proudly sleeps
VI saw a citizen of Newberry, who
helped to recover the body of this
brave man and lay it away in Il dc.
cent grave, and he told me that that
night the negro soldiers were heard
commanding the man to dig his own
grave, but he stoutly refused to do
80 Some loving heart has yearned
for the return of this brave, noble
man, and waited his coming until
the heart grew sick and the eyes
were blinded with weeping, and
passed away with ears still strained
to catch the sound of his home
ward comingW
The war Of secession ended nearly
forty years ago. and we are to have
forever one country and one flag.
Perhaps this ls the best. Perhaps it
10 beat that the South did not sue
oeed in her undertaking to found a
new nation; we cannot tell.
We deprecate anything like waving
the bloody shirt or keeping alive the
strife between the sections, but at
the same time there are some things
that the people Of the South should
not ever forget or ever forgive
The armies of the South met the
armies Of the North on the fields of
battle, and we're defeated. Then
our soldiers surrendered their arms
aud, pledging themselves to recog
nize tho sovereignty of the United
States government and to become
loyal citizens in the future, they re-.
turned to their desolate homes and
shattered fortunes to begin life anew.
But the North could not be generous
| to defeated foe, and there was es
tablished in every Southern State
I a government of ignorant negroes,
released but day from slavery, aud
their power was enforced and upheld
by the bayonets of negro troops
Outrages equally as horrible al the
murder of Crozier at Newberry oc
CURED all over the South. 1t was
General Sherman, we believe, who
said that "wur is hell" but the suf
terings and humiliations heaped
upon the South for few Years fol
lowing 1865 we're an hundred times
worse than any war.
All these things happened many
years ago, and time is doing much
to heal the wounds of the South.
Bnt these things should not br for
gotten. There il no need % treas
ure "n'ment, but these brutal
crimes should not be forgotten b,
those who lived aud suffered through
them, and the young mt now row
ing in the South should be mad. ac
quainted with them
We believe it our dn'y to publish
these things occasionally. We ia
lieve tho story of this dark chapter
In tho South's history will make our
young men have newer aud deeper
sympathy aud love for their native
State, and q greater pride in the
land of their birth, aud in doing 80
it will make them better and wortl,ier