The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-12
WORDS OF DANIEL WEBSTER.

when you and | recall the forty
four years that have passed since Sa-
lem Church, and congratulate our
selves as all patriots do upon the
wonderful changes that time has
wrought in public sentiment, North
and South, it is but natural that we
should recur to the words of Daniel
Webster, at the dedication of the
monument on Bunker Hill: Heaven
has bounteously heightened out your
lives that you might, behold this
glorious day That sentence has
thrilled the hearts Of generation af-
ter generation, but to me the simple
words Inscribed by your regiment on
the monument to their heroic dead
at Salem Church are more eloquent
than any uttered by the immortal
orator at Bunker Hill. Webster was
addressing the survivors Of one ar
my, the American army Of the Rev
olution; your monument speaks to
all the survivors Of the two great ar
mics that fought against each other
in the civil war. 1t is a fitting last
word in the lessons Of that great
war. 1t is plain now that it was not
lust Of power that nerved the hearts
of Jerseymen at Salem church, and
also that it was not any wicked de-
sire to destroy American liberties
that prompted Alabamians to do bat
tie that day. Both armies were fight
ing for American institutions as they
understood them. Since the smoke
of battle has lifted, all this, in the
sunlight Of peace, has become clear,
and the tablets on your monument
at Salem church now remind the sur
vivors Of both armies that it is among
the choicest Of heavens bounties
that their lives have been heightened
out until they behold the glorious
day in which American liberties are
safer than ever before, for disunion
is not longer thinkable: the people
Of the United States are more united
today than they ever have been at
any time since the gun was dlscharg
ed at Lexington, the sound of which
echoed around the world.
FIRST TO DEDICATE TABLET.
1.-The brave soldiers Of the Twenty
third New Jersey are not the first,
either Federal or Confederate, that
have done honor to those who were
their opponents in the Civil war.
Manv on orator. thank God. both
Northern and Southern, has delight
ed his audience by patriotic senti-
ments along this line But, so far
as know, the gallant regiment
which you had the honor to command
at Salem church is the first to in
scribe upon an enduring monument
erected to the memory of its own
dead so noble a special tribute to
those who were it's antagonists in the
particular field marked by the mon
urnent.
s'In conclusion, permit me person
ally to testify, as well may, to the
superb courage of the gallant boys
whom you so nobly led in that bloody
battle at Salem church.
Exercising the hope that at some
time n he future I may have the
qualification of meeting you in per-
son, | am, il, with the sincerest ad-
n1iration aliu respect, yours very
truly,
HILARY A. HERBERT,
Last Colonel Eighth Ala. Vols.''
GEN. GRUBB's REPLY.
The response was as follows:
s'Edgewater Park, May q, 1907.
"Col. the Hon. Hilary A. Herbert,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Colonel Herbert: 1t has
surely fallen to the lot of but very
few men in this world ever to have
received from brave and gallant
foeman forty-four years after a bat
tie such a splendid letter as have
the honor to acknowledge from you
and moreover, to have received it
unawares from one who, after the
war was over, served reunited
country in one Of its highest Offices