The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1907-06-26

Go on, sons Of the South,
And beat upon the iron of the years
The deep impress Of your might.
Go on, sons Of the South,
And scroll upon the pages Of the earth
The peans of your triumphs.
Go on, sons Of the South,
Weaving garlands of truth, and with
a new song measure
Trample the kingdoms down.
Go on, sons of the South,
And rise like eagles to the cloud
aeries
Of your future glory.
Mr. R. I. Manning, in introducing
Gcv. Ansel, said that the new Court
House, typifed the progress and en-
terprise of Sumter county along all
lines, and demonstrates the enter
Prise, courage, faith and unselfish pa
trictism of our people as a whole and
Of those who had charge of the work
in particular This Court House has
created a new standard for court
houses and has set an example to all
Carolina. 1t will give our people a
higher conception of what court
house really stands for in our form
Ansel, the highest officer Of our State,
as one fitted by training, experience
and native ability to address the as
sembled people on this occasion.
GOV. ANSEL'S SPEECH
Gov. Ansel spoke as follows:
Most Worshipful Grand Master
brethren Of the Mystic Tie, Ladies
and Gentlemen: feel it an honor to
be present this morning. I felt it an
honor when I received an invitation
to be present and to say a few words
upon this auspieious occasion.
Masons are apt, in their minds, te
go back to the building Of King Solo.
mons Temple, as they sit this da!
and see this temple Of justice here
They will go back in their minds to
the days of operative Masonry, when
that temple was erected to law ano
to order They will go back in tfei1
minds to the day Of the building OF
King Solomon's Temple, when specu-
lative Masonry, that which we repre-
sent here today, had it's beginning
and had it's birth. That day, my
friends, when the Church and the
State were one, when that temple was
built without the sound Of hammer
where all the stone, fttingly Joined
together in the quarries, We're placed
in their position, when the corner
stone was laid in its position and
when at last the cap stone was placed
in it's position, thereby completing the
work.
In every day, my friends, and in
every country we find that law Of
some kind governs the people. Go
with me, if you please, today in the
jrngles Of Africa, and you will find
that there they have their laws; go
with me into the heart Of China and
you will find that there they have
their laws; go with me to Japan or
Turkey or any of the Oriental coun-
tries, and you will find that they have
their law there. Come with me now,
my friends, nearer to our home and
and you will find that they have their
laws there, and then come, if you
please, to this beloved country of
ours, this United States, and the
State of South Carolina, and you will
fnQ thdt we nave our law anu OiuSi
here. And we are here for the pur-
pose this day. my friends, of laying
the corner stone of this beautiful tenn
rle OF justice-this beautiful temple
erected 70 law and erected to order
The Church and the State Of these
days have been separated, and we, in
this great and free country of ours,
in a republican form of government,
where we can worship God under our
own vine and fig cree, we shape our
government, and complete the temple
Of justice with the cap stone of the
Goddess Of Justice, holding IN her
hands the scales of justice. In every
country and in every day, therefore,
law of some kind has been maintain
ed, and we are proud Of the day. my
friends, of the fact that we live in
this country Of the free and the brave,
and that we may erect temples for
law and for order, ana that our peo-
pie. great and small. old and young,