The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-07-04
THE S. C. DAY GRAFTON
Eloquent Protrayal Of the Position
This State Has Occupied Since the
Foundation Of the Government.

OF Georgetown was the ora
tor for South Carolina day at the
jamestown exposition. Mr.. Hazard
was selected for this signal honor by
the South Carolina commission, and
right well did he acquit himself.
Mr. Hazard = address was largely
historical review of the development
of this country from the landing ot
Columbus To the present day. Mr.
Hazard said III part:
In the inspiring presence of this
assenblage, composed 50 largely ~
representatives Of two of the most
famous of the original 13 colonies,
one feels an acute consciousness If
fact that he Is standing On hallow-
ed ground-ground made sacred by
the tolls and the sufferings, the blood
and the tears. the joys and the sor-
rows of ten generations of American
freemen. Only a few miles to the
westward, on the bosom of the ma
lestic rive the music Of whose waters
today sounds Ia our ears, floats the
little island where the first perrna-
nent English settlement on this con-
tinent was established, and to which
the civil and political principles de-
veloped by the Anglo-Saxon through
centuries of struggle and of growth
were transplanted, there to blossom
anew for the healing of the nations.
Not far to the north lies the city
whose name will be forever linked
in the annals of history with the
closing chapter of the Revolutionary
war, on whose shattered walls the
battle flag of Great Britain was furl-
ed in final defeat And less than =
hundred and fifty miles hence, as the
eye gazes toward the mountains bath
ed in the tender puppies Of distance,
lies the tranquil Appomattox, where
the flowers of hope that blossome,l
at the cradle of the Southern Con-
federacy dropped their faded petals
over its untimely grave; where the
greatest soldier in all the tide of
time sheathed at last his stainless
sword and the thin gray line which
had followed its flashing splendor
through the smoke and carnage of
battle melted away forever from the
vision of men.
South Cardinals Work.
And so we of the Palmetto State,
entering within the hospitable gates
Of the Old Dominion and bringing
here our treasures of art and science
our products of loom and mine and
forest and field, to enhance the at
fractions of her great ter-centennial
exposition, lay our tribute Of praise
and affection at her feet, that hNe
trod both the paths of peace and Me
wine-press of woe, and draw from
her fair beauty, her proud dignity
and her glorious record, a fresh In
spiration for the duties and respon-
sibilities that rest upon us as citi-
Zens Of a sister commonwealth.
1t has been wittily said that the
only difference between the Virgin.
| la gentleman and the South Caroline
gentleman is that, when the former
salutes you, he bows wholly to you
| whereas the latter, returning t!iS
courtesy, bows half to you and halt
to himself There is perhaps just ;
grain of truth lurking in this piece
of pungent satire. For it cannot bt
denied that there are few beings o.
| the earth, for whom the average
South Carolinian has q more exait
ed regard than typical son of his
native State. one ''tO the manner
BORN Yet it is no less true th"r
there exists i'll the breast of the cd
ucated Virginian an exquisitely del
icate, but we'll defined, pride of liu
cage, a subtle appreciation Of the an
| cient splendors of his ancestral hall:
| and acres, and fine sense OF the pre-
| eminent virtues of his contempora
ries within the pale Of the Old Do
ninion. Yet, since he recognize:
with true enerosity the claims 0.
his South Carolina friends, we may
| accept his bow as an admission o.
the greatness of our own little State
| For to his ears too has come the fame
Of our great men, Gadsden, Plnck
ncy, Rutledge and Middleton; Sum
ter. Marion, Moultrie and Horny
Hevard, Laurens, Calhoun and Nc
Duf1ie: Cheves, Harper and Ward
law; Hampton, Pickens and Butley
Petigru and Hayne, Timrod and lie
Conte. and a score of other hcIlllat
names, eminent in war, diplomacy
statecraft, law, literature and the
ology, that illumine the pages o
South Cardinals history, have EN-
belished her fame with an impelish
able lUstre.
| 10. for Self Praise.
But we have not come here toda,
intent upon Standardization. Ther
:s solemnity of meaning III an oe
nceion like this that Ill comport
18th vein assertions of our own su
rni;ority or with boastful picture
n what we have accomplished. Til
eSson suggested by these exercise
: the duty Of introspection, and tn
privilege which it affords is that
inspiration for higher and noble
endeavor in the field of social, po
litical and industrial activity.
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