The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-04-04

ing ODCS more al GSl SllSuLe VI q uullu
Of century. Oace again Wheeler
is in the saddle. his country,s Uni
form enfolds him. his couD5ry's battle
flag, the flag Of hi. youth, hoits over
him, and In bis mature years be is as
valorcus in it's defense, as reody to
die for it as be was in his young man
hood willing to die if need be in his
eff ,rt to pull it down.
Again nothing satisfes his soul but
the fore front and again he gets there.
The sulphurous smell Of battle is IN
his nost-ils now and in the exaltatior
Of his warlike soul time is sn7ihilat
ed, t':e third OF a century Is W1pso
out AID as he sees the enemy f7e he
cries out See the id yankees run !!
Give them hi boys ~ We took no
ffensa, my old Johnny R d friends
He was your Joe Wheeler IN the olo
days. He was ours and the Nations
at La Guasimas, San Juan Bill, n
the Philippines and he is ours in the
hall Of memory Of all time.
1'ae Uaion forces would hsV:
&C ciieved success, in my option,
eighteen months sooner THAI they did,
II it had not been fir tie women OF
the South. Why do I say this? Be
cause it is OF world wide knowledg,;
that men never carried cause forward
to the dread aroit1ament OF the
battlefield, who we're not inten 'el!
supported by the prayers and by th'
eHcrts of the gentler sex, as were you
men Of the South. Every no!heI's
sen OF you know thai it you dion'i
keep exact step to the music OF D xlt
and the BJpny blue flag, If you dlo
not tread the very front line Ct battle
when the contest was on, knew IT.
short that if you returned home II
aught but soldierly honor, that the
very fires CT He'll would not s"orch
and consume your unsh1iVsn souls as
you would be scorched and c:nsumec
by the scorn and c',ntenpt OF youE
womannood. TIE same condition OF
# irs, though not to such unapi-
ncus degree, existed rcrth OF Masob
and D.xon's line. Woen one sp:ak>
Of the women Of the war, be would
net if he wishes, and could not II be
would, draw a geographical line tina;
shall mark a division between women
on the N after OF supp IT Of the cause
for which their love1 ones batsle, 50
when speak OF the women OF the
war, can group in one mass the lo'-
ed ones Of your household and those
who are nearest and dearest to us
When we meet on our stated coca
sions OF Veteran assemblages, we fam
liarly group them under the desisns-
tion OF Girls and time and again I
have ssen the youth OF the present.
generation smile as they heard the
term u sd toward those whose hair IS
frosted, cheeks sunken and bro~s fur
roWed by the fiosr OF time. Go slow
ytuug man, be yvu Northern OF Souu11-
eln, give little thought to the fact
that when we thus des guate- them,
re are looking back through the
mists of forty years, and We think
Of them and see them once again a.
thsi. eyes beamed lovingly upon u5 In
che maj site splendor Of thei1 glcri
Gus youth. Bat as ycu are the
daughters Of VI ur mothers, you will
not mlSunderstand Us, in that while
re bow low to you, We bend to the
very feet OF those Of cur period, who
7ere and always will be to Us, the
Girls Of '61." God bless them.
One other thought directed to the
survivors, Of the great war, and [
have done. \ few OF Us, compare
lively speaking, have been permitted
b. Divine Providence L. live to see
the unparalleled advancement OF this
Milton. We have lived to realiz
Shat in our day and time We coulo
arrogate to ourselves all the bravery
of on. land for s ns Of ours have gons
as cnee1fully to battle aud stood as
steadily in the sheeted fame OF death
SO We ever did in or time. We have
LIVED to hear o1ce again the old time
Rebel Y5ll' and the ~ nkee HUI
.ah," but thank God, we have heard
it all down one line, ali under one
flag, Varmont answering to Georgia,
the Carolinas to Massachusetts,, New
York to Mississippi.
The fist vic:in Of the later war,
that splendid young Southern repre-
sentative, BeRleY, was laid in his
grave shrouded in the Nations uni-
form, beside his flther, who went
shrouded in Confederate gray. The
old flag has been rebapt;Zed since APP
pomattcx In the blood Of South and
North alike and that flag recognized
the world over as the fig CT one OF
the first powers Of all the earth.
peace hath her vic;o;ies no less
renowned than war" OFT q loted
but ever true, and before I take my
seat, wuuld impress upon comrades
al, that the1a is a call TO duty aud to
battle today, as forceful as any ever
heard or thought We heard in 1861.
It ccmas lot now from the throat OF
the g!isteni1 6 blgle. it comes not
through the roll OF the drum, OF the
shrill shrek CT the fife, but it comes,
nevertheless. 1t is Gail to higher
and purer life, to the exploitation IL
the civil affsi1s OF the Nation Of as
thorough self abnegation as was ever
exhibited when our comrades rushed
to death on the front line. I am not
so proud as I used to be to predict
the ur Questioned. existence OF this
&. public to the end Of time. Conf
dent I am that physical Iorce caD
never break 1t down. LIS weak point
is the possible domination OF m,ral
degradation through corruption.
Within the past twelve months 1e
have been brought face to face WITH
tie contemplation OF the mighty DOS
Sible difference between character
and reputation. We have seen the
Of many Of tnose who
stood In the front ranks Of our nation