The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-07-04
OHNTIoR ON S. C. DIV
Eloquent Portrayal Of II.
This State Has Occupied siDaa !
! Foundation Of the GOvsr~

0P0-don W.,
Hazard, Of Georgetown was II"
tor for South Carolina dav
Jamestown exposition Mr.
was selected for this signal hoy
the South Carolina eommission
right well did he aequit hinsa1s
Mr.: Hazards address was Ia,os,
historical review of the deyeIoo~'
OF this country from the lapd;n~
Columbus to the present dav,
Hazard said in part:
In the inspiring presence Of
assemblage, composed 30 larosIn ~s
representative two of the
famous of the original Is cStoJa
n feels an acute consciousps~
fact that he is standing on h. Z
ed ground-ground made saersS
the tolls and the suferings, the No%.,
and the tears, the joys and the ~
rows of ten generations of AmaI"@
freemen. Only a few miles tn -
westward, on the bosom of the ~
Jestlc rive the music of whose wot.'
today sounds in our ears, floats ~
little island where the first narn .S
'nent English settlement on this -"
tlnent was established, and. to vh;rs
the civil and political principles 4.
velopcd by the Anglo-Saxon throne
centuries of struggle and of grow3I
were transplanted, there to bIossom
for the healing of the nation.
Not far to the north lies the cifv
name will be forever linked
IN the annals of history with tba
closing chapter of the R~evolutionsm
war, on whose shattered walls ths
battle flag of Great Britain was fnTl:
ed In final defeat. And less than !,
hundred and fifty miles hence. as the
eye gazes toward the mountains bst,.
ed In the tender puppies of distance.
lies the tranquil Appomattox, where
the flowers Of hope that blossomel
the cradle of the Southern Con.
rederacy dropped their faded petals
over its Hntlmely grave; where the
greatest soldier In all the tide Of
lime sheathed at last his stainless
sword and the thin gray line which
lad followed its flashing spIendor
through the smoke and carnage of
'attle melted away forever from the
,ision of men.
South Cardinals work
And so we of the Palmetto State.
ntering within the hospitabIe gates
T the Old Dominion and bringing
ere our treasures of art and science
products of loom and mine and
crest and field, to enhance the at
FACTIONS of her great ter-centennial
xposition, lay our tribute of praise
affection at her feet, that have
rod both the paths of peace and the
me-press of woe, and draw from
er fair beauty, her proud dignity
nd her glorious record, a fresh in
olration for the duties and respon-
.bllltles that rest upon us as citi-
ems of a sister commonwealth.
1t has been wittily said that the
1ly difference between the Virgin
gentleman and the South Carolina.
Is that, when the former
.lutes you, he bows wholly to you,
the latter, returning the,
urtesy, bows half to you and half
3 himself. There is perhaps just a
ain of truth lurking In this piece
pungent satire. For it cannot be-
MED that there are few beings on
g. earth, for whom the average
nth Carolinian has a more exaIt-
regard than a typical son of his.
tive State, one "to the manner
Yet it is no less true that
re exists IN the@breast of the cd
lted Virginian an exquisitely del
tie, but well defined, pride of lin
re, a subtle appreciation Of the an
Mt splendors of his ancestral halls
! acres, and a fine sense Of the pre-
lnent virtues Of his contempora-
) within the pale of the Old Do
non. Yet, since he recognizes
q true g ~enerosity the claims Of
South Carolina friends, we NAV
ept Jms bow as an admission of
greatness of our own little State.
to his ears too has come the fame
our great men, Gadsden, Pinck-
/, Rutledge and Middleton; Sum
=, Marion, Moultrie and Horny;
Iard,5 Lanrens, Calhoun and Nc
lie; Cheves, Harper and Ward
; Hampton, Pickens and Butler
CRU and Hayne, Timrod and Le-
tie, and a score of other brilliant
teso eminent in war, diplomacy,
ecraft, law, literature and the
y, that .illumine the pages Of
Cardinals history, have en-
he'd her fame with an imperish-
lustre.t 4
Not For Self Praise.
1T we have not come here, today
1t upon self-glorifcation There
solemnity Of meaning In an &C.
IN like this that i'll comports
vain assertions of our W su-
or with boastful pictures
hat we have accomplished. The
suggested by these exercises
duty of introspection, and the
lege which it affords is that if