The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-05-30

and California, which was 2U,UoU
square miles more than the original
thirteen States contained. 1t was
the prowess of a Southern soldier,
George Rogers Clark, that secured
to the United States all that terrific
nv Northwest of the Ohio river, ont
of which the States of Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis
consin and part of Minnesota, were
afterwards formed. The policy
that secured this territory is the pol
icy that has done more than any
other to build up the Union, and
for this policy We are indebted to the
wisdom and patriotism of the South
ern States of Maryland and Virgin
la; to Maryland for proposing and
urging it. and to Virginia for acced-
ing to it,(fcr that territory belonged
to her, and In giving it to the Uni
ted States for the sake of the Union
Ia gift from the South to the North, J
Virginia furnished the crowning
proof of her devotion to the Union
and showed that she was worthy to
be called "the Mother of States "
1t is to Southern men that our ma
ton is indebted for blazing the way
for civilization in the vast region
beyond the Mississippi and the
Rocky Mountains Merlwether Lew.
is and William Clark-the most ia
nous explorers and adventurers in
America-vere the first white men
who ever crossed the American con-
tinent. Writing of them, Noah
Brooks, the historian, says: "Peace-
full farms and noble cities, towns
and villages, thrilling with the hum
of modern industry and activity are
spread over the vast spaces through
which these explorers threaded their
tollsome trail amid incredible priva-
tions and hardships, showing the
way Westward across the boundless
continent which is ours. Let the
names of these two men long be held
IN grateful honor by the American
people"
The supreme court of the United
States, which is the sheet anchor of
the government, has been presided
over by Southern men for nearly
two-thirds of the period of its ex.
istence, and their decisions consti-
tute by far the wisest, purest and
most luminous pages of the record
of that august tribunal. The first
shot in the second war of the United
States with England was fired by
Southern man, and the most distln-
guished soldiers of that war were
Southern men. The most complete
and overwhelming defeat that any
English army has ever experienced.
was inflicted by Southern troops,
commanded by Andrew Jackson, a
Southern man; and the man who
performed what Admiral Nelson
called "the most daring act of the
age" and who received the thanks
of all Europe for overthrowing the
Barbary powers and putting an end
to their inhuman cruelties, was
Stephen Decatur, Southern man.
The most distinguished soldiers in
the war with Mexico, as IN all the
wars in which they have ever en-
gagged, were the men from the South,
and strange as it may seem. it was
Lieut.. James B Lockwood, with his
thermometer 40 degrees below zero,
who planted the "Star-Spangled
Banner nearer the North Pole
than any other mortal had ever done,
thus wrestling from England an
honor she had held for three hun.
dred years.
The first public or circulating
library in America was in the South,
and a Southern State was the first to
secure religious liberty by organic
law. The first Sunday-school in
America was in the South. at Sa-