The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-20
Judge Brawley's
 Eloquent Address
BY MARTIN V. CALVIN.

BY MARTIN V. CALVIN.
 have just read second time one of the most scholarly and eloquent ad- dresses my eyes have ever fallen upon. | I wish every Confederate Veteran, every woman and every youth in the South and in the Union. might read | it again and again.
 It is an address delivered at Chester, s C.. May 10, 1905, by his Honor, Will liam H. Brawley. Judge of the United States Court at Gharleston-,subject: 1 Our Civil War in Restrospect."
 I had the good fortune to buy at a newsstand Saturday evening a copy of the National Magazine for September, and herein found the address.
 marvellously timely deliverance was the laying of the corner stone of a monument to the Confederate Dead of 1 Chester.
 The address is timely for the reason that it goes out of the way of the cus- l tomary Confederate Memorial speech. It directs attention to many views of an epochal period that are rapidly 1 fading from the sight and the memory | of too large number of our people views that are being lost to our young people by reason of facts and events doctored by partisan writers of his | tory.
 The first words of the orator recites the epitaph. which Aeschylus. an exile dying in Sicily. wrote and which the monument erected to his memory: "Athenian Aeschylus, Euphorion's Son, This tomb at Gela holds, his race now run,
 His deeds the grove of Marathon could | tell,
 And many lone-haIred Median knows them we'll"
 l The great Athenian esteemed his ser vice to his country as a soldier of far 1 greater moment than the fame his sub | lime tragedies brought him, which lat- ter, in the elegant language of Judge Brawley, after more than 2000 years, remains to charm scholars of every land and have placed his name among
 Continuing, Judge BFawley said, | We will leave no words destined to immortality. but we have this in conn mon with. him, that when our race is run and the purple shadows rest upon us, whatever we may have achieved of fame or fortune will shrink to nothing ness. and we will feel as Aesohylus did, and our Proudest memory and last re- quest win be like his, that 1t shall be rseoiasd of us that we were soldiers of our country"
 every South carolinian, but every Southern soldier, could give a reason for the faith that was in him as to the righteousness of the Souths cause.
 
 suggest that, in addition to the facts stated by Judge Brawley was this potent fact that 1t was the rule. in every political campaign In every Southern State where candidates for the high offices of State. whether for ser vice at the State capital or at the na- tional capital, addressed the people
 Ss nnsr the S in 6 tRe day'--the nature of our general gov ernment; the relationship of the in- dividual States to that government; the rights of the several States in the, ter ritories, etc, etc, so that the humblest citizen in the State was as thoroughly informed as his more favored neighbor; South. lettered or unlettered, who did not understand in a general way the genius of a republican from of govern ment; so that there was not man South who did not fully comprehend the situation as to the territories and his rights therein if he should choose to become citizen of any of the terri tories.
 Judge Brawley quotes from Ban crofts history of the United States, published in 1857, to show how, ten years later, history was made to con- form to the changes supposed to have makes no no appeal to the sulgar imagi- nation which finds in success the only therefore fitting that on all proper occasions those who know even a iit- tie of the truth should give expression to 1t, that the motives which guided the conduct of those who have passed away should be unfolded."
 Referring to the suggestion times made that wiser statesmanship might have foreseen that the great pre- porderance of material force was on the other side, and have avoided the issue" Judge Brawley strongly urged the view that, ''ln the ordinary affairs counssls of wisdom and are to be fol- lowed, but there Is a time in the life of every individual and of every people when they must do what they think to be right, regardless of eonse- quences."
 AIluding again to the same class of suggestions. Judge Brawley eloquently voices the sentiments of the South in the ringing words of Demosthenes:
 T say that, if the event had been manifest to the whole world before hand. not even then ought Athens to have forsakep this cause, If Athens had any regard for her glory. or for her past, or for the ages to come"
 Continuing, Judge Brawlsy said;
 We were not people to surrender convictions or to barter them away. We had to fight for them, and. having lost, we accept loyalty the result of the sation in the richer. fuller national life which has opened to us."
 We of the South arc not called on | to blot out the memories either of our | giOres or of our disasters; on the cons traTy, as our troubles In the past were | largely due to misunderstanding or the motives and principles which in- | duenced conduct at that period of our history, anyone who can shed the | slightest ray of truth will best serve his country by doing so. for the more the, truth Is known. the more united
 Then foIiows a declaration which presently I shall note-it so foFetpIy 1 presents to the public view great | desideratum. This is real want-a want that can be supplied by hundreds of ready but idle pens at the Soutn. Hear the appeal of Judge brawley. The statesmen, and the great captains that led our own armies. have passed Into the realm of shadowsi the voices | that could speak with authority are l dumb forever. but 1t behoves every one | who had any part, however smait Ln | the great drama, to tell all that ne | knows, when by so doing ne may IT. | dicate the motives and memory 9i hIs dead comrades. To let the dead paSs by that it is meant that one shouio DC silent when to speak Is duty I heartily commend Judge BraWley splendid address to the stuqloas atteh tion of every Confederate NetSfan' arg arg particularly to every southe'h anu Northern boy and girl - ..
 Judge BFawley richly deserves me thanks of every patriotic man ana Wp- man in the Union, and the peeple sEe indebted to the National Magazine TOT giving publicity to his powefrui ana