The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-02-06

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The hour. 1t seems worth reprlnting.
1T is upon our large public square
open and unobstructed save by the
park in the centre. And the day Of
Waterloo is drawing to a close. This
square is thronSed, upon every foot:
with red-shirted free men--bold,
brave, manly, generous, good. We
know them well and love them well:
and they are just as we represent. Yes,
the Edegheld men whom our political
enemies have stiematized TO the
world as Sioux, hends, lawbreakers:
rufians, etc., ETC., are bold and brave
and manly and generous and good.
They will be free: and therein lies
their crime.
"They are filled with exultation
with elory-with unobserved, unre-
strained. tumultous JOY. The day has
come to their deliverance from the
most damnable and degrading yoke
that ever CALLED the necks of freedom!
Manv of them are mounted, the ma
ioritv are on foot. They yell, shrek,
they scream. they shout, they sing,
they pray: they embrace t:leir friends,
hail their comrades, they cheer Justify
for Hampton. for Tilden, for Butler,
for Gary! They charge to and fro
like rockets. They stream about IN
even-edding channels Of excitement.
They are wild, crazy, bouyant as the
bubbles upon the crested waves. And
why should they not be ? In the name
of God why should they not be?
IF they shoot the stars and strad-
die the meteors. and leap over the
moon. who could blame them?
But harl1! There is such stormy
outburst of enthusiasm. such raging
of the nations, and such a CO.
hesive pressing together OF
men and horses. as to be absolutely
fearful.
1.-THE red-shirts have discovered
General NJ. c. Butler, have torn him
from his horse. have elevated him
upon their shoulders and are bearing
him around the park in frenzy OF
pride and love. He struggles and
LAUGHS. and shouts and laughs and
shouts and struggles; and finally way
ing his hat on high and joining in the
songs. he submits INTERESTINGLY to NIL
sic. strong arms. and glory. And now
the earthquake breaks out at another
point. They have seized General Gary,
the old Bald Eagle. and are actual
" Haunting him to and fro in the at
mosphere as one would a banner. And
L. banner he was to them truly-a ban
ner leading them to victory and free
dom. And now they snatch the Hon.
George D. Tillman from his buggy and
appear to be rending him in twain.
And as they bear him aloft with his
Roman head, he looks like a sort >of
Jupiter. And now they elevate DIR.
Hugh Shaw, and Captain Scott AL
len, and John c. Sheppard and John
r. :Abney and Sheriff Castor. And
now they dart into our piazza and
snatching up our light form, shake us
on high as if we we're but a tassel, and
cry wildly three cheers for the :Ad-
vertiser. The scene is glorious! 1t IS
delightful! It is ennobhng! 1t is
worth having lived for!
"And now the twilight deepens into
night, and old transpariencle are
brought forth and lighted; and the
musicians rise up like the blades in
the spring; and there is a sound Of
revelry by night violins, and the
dance. They dance upon the naked
bosom of the Mother-Earth; they
dance upon the democratic platform
in the park, they dance in the Masonic
hall: indeed, they dance upon the very
, air? And they yell the while-that
veil. that Mackey so glorltied anu
Chamberlain so shrank from. And
lights wave and flicker at every cor
ner. And the tramp Of horses IS
heard for miles around. And brave
couriers come laundering In from all
n,,,. 1S ,,recincts. with the news that