The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-06-12

| ooiuieT NO MusC look at these things
as they were and as we understood
them in 1851.
The North placed in round nun.
bsrs, all told, 100000 soldiers in
the field. The largest and best
equipped and best disciplined army
of modern times, perhaps the world
had never seen such an army. This
army wss omposcd in part of the
/ fsYex,c 5e North, and all Europe
waS 81 draw upon for soldiers,
moneys their sinews of war.
The South had only 100000 soldiers,
ne ships ors arms, no money and no
friends. But We continued that un-
equal contest for four long years un-
der countless disadvantages and de-
privations.
There were no distinct classes in
the South, al white men were free
and equal. In that grand army of
the South the farmer, the planter,
the mechanic, the merchant, the
lawyer, the doctor, the minister,
the church, member, rich and poor
stood eide BY side upon terms of per-
feet equalisy-one in line, one in
friendship and one in a common
causc-home rule and State rights.
The boy of 1G stood shoulder to
shoulder with tho man of 60, and
the boy was required to perform the
duties and assume the responsibilities
of the man. If those of our COM
rades who rest in their graves could
rise and come forth as they appeared
upon tho battlefield you would be
amazed at the great number of boys
between the ages of II and 20 years
who made up that grand army.
The brave never die in vain. The
courage of the South had much to do
with the preservation of local self
government and the individual rights
of man. Happy must be the souls
of our departed comrades who died
for what has been called the '.Lost
Cause" when they look down upon
us and see that, by wisdom, courage,
patience, endurance and devotion to
Law and order, we gained the victory
and tosknov That the whole civilized
world gts,. ,.simore honor and praise to
the vanquished than to the victors.
But we can't take the time here to
discuss the origin Of the great Civil
War and trace it to it's final close.
This we leave for the historian to do
in his own time and way.
The occasion which brings US
together today and to which we have
looked forward with much interest
claims our immediate attention.
We are making history. Future
generations will point with pride to
this day when their fathers and
mothers 3S years after the close of
one of the bloodiest wars of history.
when all passion had subsidized, all
animosit;es had been buried and all
sections of our common country were
at peace with each other as brothers
had paid this tribute of affection to
the memory of their brave country
men. A generation has passed and
this is the work of another genera.
tion-the corner stone of which is
love-love for the living and honor
for the dead.
A few of US are the time worn
survivors of that bloody struggle,
many, many more arc born of heroes
who dared to die for it. We feel
ourselves welded heart to heart and
by the chain of illustrious deeds and
memories that can never fade.
Glorious heritage and you are worthy
of it.
Daughters, you are the living
"out-put"-the precious and polished
gems from the fiery orucible of war
and adversely.
The ages which roll on in the
future will but brighten the pages of
history which bears the record of the
civil and military leadership of that
imperishable conflict.
The boasted glory of ancient
Rome and Greece and the more
modern times tell of no blood bought
fields like ours.
The heroic valor of Scotland's
Robert of Bannockburn pales before
that Of our peerless Commander in
chief Robert Z. Lee. The solid
square of the Corsican's 5 "Old Guard"
on the fatal field of Waterloo stood