The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1906-01-26
ON LEES BIRTHDAY.
"A Prince Of KindIineSS and Courtesy"
"A Symbol Of Desperate ValOr.--
Liberty and Free Speech.

oJmuVi vi D0Sp0iuC0 VulUl--
Liberty and Free Speech.
To the Editor of The Sunday
News:-It is perhaps excusable
on the birthday of Robert E.
Lee to make an addition to the
pleadings in the great case of
freedom of speech against sup
preston. A lawsuit smacks of
strife and conflict. Thus those
who plead, J even in freedoms
cause, are all too apt to fall into
offence, and vex the spirit of
Their hearers with bitterness and
gall. Hence naturally arises the
inquiry how it comes that strife
Isl so strangely connected with
agreement, discord with har-
mony, peace with war, and life
with death itself? How comes
it that Lee, very prince of
kindliness and courtesy, should
stand also as the symbol of des-
perate valor, unmoved, i'm
movable, in the rudest shock of
war and death? How comes it
that the Confederate dead who
sleep sweetly in their humble
graves remain to us fM ever
more the living type Of w,.at is
holy and perfect in the ideals IF
,, lude of perfect rI1ast str,o~o.
| horn of anarchy. Cosmos SIP
/ dues chaos. Light browns the
, darkness, and liberty and love
itself proceed out of war, ever
) az Minerva came lightly, com
!. plete and perfect, from the hea'
l. of Jove. :,,xo,
II az a gift that may be bestoWe'
- = rather than as a reward to b
t, Justly earned. South Carollnlan
ought to avoid this error. seem
w that they are next of kin, an
n lawful heirs of the teachings
Calhoun. "It follows, from whs
has been stated, that it is gre'
and dangerous error to suppos
that all people are equally e
titled to liberty. 1t is a reWa
al to be earned, not a blessing TO-
of pratuitously lavished on all all
ID "a reward reserved for the
re, telligent, the patriotic, the v
tuous and deserving-and no
az boon to be bestowed on peol
ter too ignorant, degraded and v
the ious to be capable either OF ;
hat nreciating or of enjoying,
ion Nor is it any disparagemIent
be liberty that such is, and ou,
do to be. the case. On the contra
nor its greatest praise, it's proud
hey distinction is, that an all.W
and Providence has reserved 1t
" is the noblest and highest rev
low! for the development OF our ia
ties, moral and intellectual.
reward more appropriate
liberty could not be conferre'
on is the deserving; nor punlshl
ooul- inflicted on the undeservlng J
d in lust than to be subject to Law
vhich and despotic rule"
v it's So wonderful is the natur
yyhich liberty that it would seem
,e ef- one man cannot become
have without making at the
' out time all other men free,
.ested exactly in proportion as an
,is or man strives for freedom l
ip fee freedom of every other ma
mem noted, even as every, part
profits matter ATTRACTS anu illia' l'
of the every other particle OF ma
reason the cohesive equilibrium
cannot gravity. To strive for II
in the in little things is to es
y busi- liberty In greats thlhgs:
AS we alize freedom, o4 .speecn Nv.
roceeds to move far towards cf
poultry freedom. The struggle
ed that last as long as tlme. -
vet the of free speech versus sup
the de- is apt to be continuing
Gustavus M. Pine