Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-10-28
THE LEoPARD's SPOTS NOT
OVERDRAWN.

declare that 1t Is not, while It may be
tinctured a little with fiction, but
even that is based upon solid facts.
kead, II you please, history writ
ten by Dr.. Leland, OF Greenwood, S.
e., called IA Voice from South Caro-
lima, This book was written in
about the year 1872. Then you will
agree that the "Leopard's Spots" is
a true story.
Rest on, embalmed and sainted
dead,
Dear as the blood ye gave;
No impious footsteps here shall tread
The herbage of your grave;
NOR shall your glory be forgot
While fame her record keeps,
Or honor points the hallowed spot
Where valor proudly sleeps"
This Is one Of the verses on a
beautiful monument VIC looked upoi
with fearful reverence while walking
through Rosemont cemetery, at New
berry, Such acts as the murder of
Crozier are some of the things that
keep man from forgetting the war.
Does history record any nohler
sacrifice? Damon was the friend Of
Pythias, but this man Bowers was a
stranger to Crozier. Much more of
this pathetic story Is recorded In the
Annals of Newberry." Crozier yield
ed up his life that another might not
suffer. The memory of that day Is
OF tragedy never to be forgotten, :.
The war had ended, and the soldiers
OF the disbanded Confederate army
and paroled prisoners were passing
through South Carolina to their
homes In the West. Among them
was Calvin CroZier, a Texan, who
arrived Mt Nauhnrr, ~,
7th, 1865, and was dela8ed there
over night. He had some ladies un-
der his care, AMI, as hotel accommo-
cations were very meager, they de-
cided 1t would be best to pass the
night in the car on which they had
travelled. Late In the night some ne
gro soldiers, under the command of
Col. Trowbridge, who had arrived at
Newberry that day, entered the car
where Crozier and the ladies under
his care were quietly reposing, and
made themselves very offensive to
the ladies'. Crozier requested them
to leave, but they refused to do so,
and difficulty ensued. In the scuf-
fie which followed one of the negroes
was slightly cut by CroZier with his
X life. The regiment to which they
belonged was encamped in a grave
yard near the depot, and very soon
after the difficulty occurred number
of them appeared at the depot bent
on reyenging the one who had been
dealt with by CroZier. In their mad
ness they seized Jacob s. Bowers,
who was then General Superintend-
ent Of the Columbia and Greenville
Railroad, and were about to lynch
him. When Crozier learned what
they were about, without moments
hesitation, he presented himself and
told them that he had wounded the
negro soldier. He was at once tied
and taken to the camp mentioned
above, and was shot to death by the
hends. His body was thrown In a
shallow grave, and they danced in
ghoulish glee upon his new-made
grave. The officers of the negro reg
iment, principally white, were ap-
pealed to in behalf of Crozier, but in
vain. Trowbridge, the colonel of this
regiment, declared that he took upon
himself all the responsibility of the
act.
Prince Rivens, a negro officer, wish
Ing to save the life Of Crozier, went
to him and begged him to deny the
fact that he cut the negro, but he
refused. Seldom indeed do we find
such heroic self-sacrifice as Is en-
DoNASu VI hoOlC lcAhu. Tie
might have gone free to his far West
ern home had he permitted an inno-
cent man to suffer. How fondly he
may have dreamed of his arrival at
his Texas home, Galveston, and the
greeting of loved ones there! He
gave 1t all up and laid down his life
that another might live.
No ignoble spirit could have acted
as he did, and where he now sleeps
, must be holy ground. His body re-
manned there where 1t was buried by
the negro soldiers until 1891, when
the people Of Newberry had his re-
mains buried in Rosemont cemetery,
and erected an enduring monument
to his memory. In erecting this mon
ument they have honored themselves.
These are stubborn facts known to
this writer, and are in keeping with
the "Leopard's Spots" Every South
ern boy (and girl as well) should
read book written by DR.. Leland,
Of Greenwood, called a "Voice from
South Carolina" and the "Loopard's s
Spots" They will then learn what
the Southern people endured for ten
Ayears after the war, until they all
F1ose up as one man in 1875, with the
immortal Hampton as their standard
bearer, and threw off the iron heel
Of despotism.
AS we have stated before, the
Southern people are the product of a
nation which could not wear a yoke.
The Anglo-Saxon was born to gov
ern, to be free, to create, to build a
social and political structure, mighty
and iiasteTfui. :. Russoi, Wright.
Walhalla, S. G..
A jewelers. Experience.