The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-03-31

This Monument
PerpetuateS the memory
Of Those Who,
True to the IIstincts Of their Birth,
Faith to the Teachings of their
Fathers,
Constant In their L We for the State,
Died in the Performance of their Duty,
Who
Have Gloritied a Fallen Cause
By the Simple Manhood Of their Lives,
the Patient Endurance Of Suffering,
and the Htroism Of Death,
and who,
In the Dark Hours of imprisonment,
In the Hopelessness Of the Hospital,
In the Short, Sharp Agory OF the Field,
Found Support al d Consolation
in the Belief
that at Home they would not be For.
g.ttsn.
SOUTH SIDE.
Let the Stranger.
Who May in Future Times
Read this Inscription,
Recognize that these were Men A.,
w nom Power Gould Not Corrupt
Whom Death Could not Terrify,
Whom Defeat Could not Dlshonor,
and let their Virtues Plead
for just Judgment
OF the Cause in which they Perished
Let the South Carolinian
Of Another Generation
Remember
That the State Taught Them
How to Live and How to DIE,
And that from II r Broken Fortunes
She has Preserved FIR Her Children
the Priceless Treas u e of the Memo.
rieS,
Teaching al wfo May Claim
The same Birtnlight
that Truth, Q u.aee and Patriotism
Endurc Forever.
1t Is not generally known, but Mr..
TTeicotJ prepared an inscription for a
third face Of the monument, but thsre
was not rom for it. This cp!taph was
as follows:
Those for whom they died
In criDe on This Marble
The solemn record OF their sacrifice
The perpetual gratitude OF the State
they served
The Undyiog affection of these
Wnose lives
The separation OF death
Has shadoWed With an Everlasting
Sorrow
Scattered over the battle fields OF the
south
Buried In Remote and Alien Graves
Dying UnsCothed BY the touch
OF familiar and household hands,
Their names are craven here
To recall
To their Children and Kinsmen
How worbhily they lived
How NoDly they died
And In what tender reverence
Their memory survives
In the first two or three years fol-
lowing the surrender Of Gen. Lee, the
people OF the south were face to face
with extreme poverty. Even then the
women Of Columbia purposed to start
the movement for the erection OF this
monument. But 1t was not until Nov.
4, 1869, that the formal beginning was
made In the chapel or Washington
Street church. An address was deliver
ed by Gen Wade Hampton and Il pray.
or offered by r V. VIM Martin, whose
son Is said to have b zen the first SOL
dier OF the southern cause To Yield his
lie. The women Of Richland county
at this meeting projected an organic
alton and sent Call TO the women OF
the other coun ties In the State to joiu
them in the erection OF a suitable
monument.
There were many difficulties In the
way or getting a suitable site for the
monument. The ctrpet, baggers from
the north and the renegades and ex
slav, Of this state who were In charge
or The State government could not be
appealed to for site on the Stal
capitol grounds. In August, 1862
the aliens who composed the city gov
ernment exacted OF the commission
5000 for small spot Of earth on Ar
senal Hill overlooking Sidney park.
The granite for the foundation was
contributed by Judge Jno. S. Greer
from his quarry on the Congarce river
aid work was commenced on Arsena
Hill. But tile wOrkmen soon diSCove. :.
ed That there was quickSand near th,
surface and the spot was utterly untl,
for the weight OF the monument. The
association in its dismay at havinl
spent frutlessly money obtained
through the m Jst trying efforts wa!
cheered by The cffer Of anoLNer site
The crest Of the lii at the entranc.
to E mwood emetery. At cost o
approximately 5000 the base was re
moved from Arsenal hill TO the hill IL
front OF the cemetery, not conspic
uous place to be sure, but ths best it,
available.