The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-06-08
HEALING TIE SCARS OF WAR

nnent ofthe Decoration Day Orators.
To the Editor Of The State:
l wish I could reproduce In every
paper in the South utterances and sen
timents made public here Decoration
day. Surely the north. has awakened
to the fact that the war is over and
the south entitled to credit for the
part it took in that great struggle. l
must say I was agreeably surprised
no such conciliatory showing has ever
before been made. The good people
south began the good work when they
at Florence, S. c. for the first time
decorated the graves Of the northern
soldiers buried there. AS one very pro.
ninent speaker said here, They for
ever banished our anger, when they
garlarded the graves OF our dead.
President Mckinley followed with
his memorable speech: The American
soldier has never been defeated except
by an American soldier. Hereafter let
US remember on these occasions both
the men who wore the blue and the
men who wore the gray"
The occasion this year seems to have
been the climax for fraternalism and
on all sides the kindest things were
given utterance to. Your correspon-
dent attended some Of the ceremonies,
which, by the way, are big ones up
here he went expecting to hear un-
pleasant filings at the Confederacy,
but, to the contrary. Robert E. Lee,
Stonewall Jackson, Joseph Wheeler,
NJ. G. Butler were all alluded TO by
name and in the highest terms. So
surprised was the writer that he has
through the press here expressed his
agreeable surprise and in doing so told
these people that they were On the
right track at last, and suggested that
now they curb OF control the few Of
the press and pulpit-all that remain
who occasionally give utterance to
uncalled for, unfair, untrue state
ments.
I know the south will read with
both interest and pleasure the news
that the north has about ceased its
abuse, that an entirely different feel
ing from the past prevails, espially
when they can be assured Of this by one
from the south who not only watched
and listened to these sentiments but
weighed them well as they were utter
ed, and could see they were sincere.
Rev. DR.. Charles Edward Locke,
who oficiated at the Mckinley funer-
al, and who made himself famous by
some very patriotic utterances on that
occasion, is now the pastor OF the lead
ing Methodist CHURCH in Greater New
York. DR.. Locke is one Of the speakers
alluded to that I felt like applauding
frequently during the delivery Of his
address. With few very slight chang
es DR.. Locke's address would have been
as fitting on the 10th Of May south as
here on the 30th. The doctor needs
enlightening On the authenticity OF
"Uncle Toms Cabin" and will be.
The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
tits said, regretted writing that exag-
gerated story and said had she foreseen
the stir and wide publicity she never
would have permitted it's being put in
print; yet there are these up here who
have never heard Of this and naturally
look on that work as authority and
use it as reference Of the real, true
condition south the black man was in.
It was the sale Of the negro girl at
auction by Henry Ward Beecher, from
bis pulpit one Sunday morning, to de-
monstrate conditions prevailing south,
that did more to fire the north and
bring On the war than all the news
paper articles written and speeches
made. Beecher was brother Of Mrs.
Stowe and together with Lyman
Beecher, these three persons forced
the war. Otherwise the commercial in
terests that stood it off so long would
have continued powerful and control.
led, conceding demands the south
made from time to time. Not that
these business interests loved the
south but they loved their pocket
books.
Be all this as it may, sensible view
is at last being taken and by people OF
weight and if they hold out as they
give promise to it means much for both
sections towards true reconciliation.
H. w. FinlaySon.
676 Broadway, New York City.
The Privilege Tax.
The privilege tax receipts up to
June this year are $40, 0,3S0.6O, or over
10 per cent. greater than they were up
to the same time last year, which IN
dicates a heavier cotton crop. The
tax so far this year amounts to Sl0l,-