Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-07-03
THE s. C. DAY GRAFTON
Eloquent Protrayal Of the Position
This State Has Occupied Since the
Foundation of the Government.

lulS StdgC adS SSSuPAoa S1aSS sAAs
Foundation Of the Government.
Norfolk, special.-Hon. Walter
Hazard, Of Georgetown was The ord
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.: Hazards address was largely
historical review Of the development
of this country from the landing OF
Columbus to the present day. Mr..
Hazard said in part:
In the inspiring presence of this
assemblage, 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
jestic rive the music of whose waters
today sounds in our ears, floats the
little island where the first perma-
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, OH whose shattered walls the
battle flag of Great Britain was furl-
cd 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 have
trod both the paths of peace and the
wine-press of woe, and draw from
her fair beauty, her proud dignity
and her glorious record, o fresh in
spiration for the duties and respon-
sibilities that rest upon US as cltl-
zens Of sister commonwealth.
1t has been wittily said that the
only difference between the Virgin
ia gentleman and the South Carolina
gentleman is that, when the former
salutes you, he bows wholly TO yon,
whereas the latter, returning the
courtesy, bows half to you and half
to himself. There is perhaps just q
grain of truth lurking in this piece
of pungent satire. For it cannot be
denied that there are few beings on
the earth, for whom the average
South Carolinian has q more exait-
ed regard than a typical son of his
native State, one "to the manner
born." Yet it is no less true that
there exists in the breast Of the cd:
ucated Virginian an exquisitely del
icate, but well defined, pride of lin-
cage, subtle appreciation Of the an
cient splendors of his ancestral halls
and acres, and a fine sense of the pre-
eminent virtues of his contempora-
ries within the pale Of the Old Do
.minion. Yet, since lie recognizes
with true g enerosity the claims Of
his South Carolina friends, we may
accept his bow. as an admission Of
the greatness of our own little State.
For to his ears too has come the fame
of our great men, Gadsden, Pinek-
ney, Rutledge and Middleton; Sum-
tery Marion, Moultrie and Horny;
Hcyard, Laurens, Calhoun and Nc
Dufie; Cheves, Harper and Ward
law; Hampton, Pickens and Butler,
Petigru and Hayne, Timrod and Le-
Conte, and a score Of other brilliant
names, eminent in war, diplomacy,
statecraft, law, literature and the.
ology, that illumine the pages OF
South Carolina s history, have en-
belished her fame with an imperisll-
able lustre.
Not FOR Self Praise.