The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1907-08-14

stsHfiNI lel girls VI CIle ouiludy SCHOOL
Ass through and With Sergeant Cald-
~well with Ben Coley carrying the flag of
the 3rd. S. G. Regt., in the lead, march
through and put flowers upon the
g,<,r1S7as of the 1S Confederate dead and
a on thclgraves of two soldiers of this
= neighborhood, Hiram Culbertson and
Josiah Burton who had served in the
Seminole war.
From this solemn scene, the survivors
and Sunday school children marched to
the lemonade stand, where free lemon
ade and ice cream were set up. |,
Repairing TO the stand the rolls Of
companies were called. There is al
ways sadness about this. 1t rarely
happens that one or more comrades from
each of these companies, that answered
roll-call last year, is not reported as
dead.
"a lessening line each lessening year,
Each lessening year more dear"
Then II. II. Watkins ESQ.,, of Ander-
son, the specially invited orator of the
day, was introduced. In anticipation
of him our expectation had been raised
and we were not disappointed. Space
utterly forbids proper notice of his
effort. He was born and raised in this
neighborhood and his reference in open
to the Scenes and memories and
tombs of this his old home was full OF elo-
quence and pathos. Then his handling
of the times and story of the Confeder-
acy was able and eloquent.
His elaboration Of the legal justifca-
tion of the South in it's withdrawal
from the Union was full of instruction.
His argument was replete with citations
from history and with the story of
" Northern aggression and bad faith in
the matter of the rendition of fugitive
slaves, and their reckless disregard for
e obligations assumed BY each of tie
states in the adoption of the constitution
and formation of the federal Union.
He showed that in all the early days
of the Republic, the right of secession
was recognized in all sections of the
country, and cited the action of the
famous Hartford Convention. with
many other instances, to prove that it
was the North and not the South, that
first set the pace in asserting that
right, and citing the case of one North
ern State that did, many long years
before 1860, withdraw and remain out
of the Union for four years.
At the close of this speech q most
bounteous dinner was served and ev-
erybody got plenty to eat.
In the afternoon, Miss Nance of the
South Carolina Educational Department
made an addreagupon rural schools that
ought to be raheated to every man and
woman in tbs Country who feels the
least bit ofmtaTest in the education of
their own,, Or their neighbor's children
or in the salvation of this country.
1t is difficult, to see how any man "a
woman could,n do it) could hear Miss
Nance and 60 away, and drawing him
self up in zhis shell, oppose a 2, or 4
mill tax, and fail or refuse to then &c
- down in his pocket to supplement that,
to build up the country schools; to save
us from the calamity Of poor teacher
and to furnish some means to builc
some school houses in place Of some OF
these unsightly old barns now in use.
Too much can't be said in praise Of
the good people around and about ole
Quaker.
These reunions will be held there Sc
long as soldier survives, and ther
when the last one has gone, those ioya
people like Tom Burts and the goot
women and girls that trained that Sun
day school will, each year on some day
set apart for the purpose repair to tn
old cemetery and put flowers on th'
graves of the martyred dead.
o. G.. T.