The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-23

severe thrashing, but that on this VS.
it Judge Brown had reimbursed Bob
for the days work and injustice with
interest compounded during the III
tervening forty-nilIe Years.
Judge Brown, who is very stately
in his manner, then came forward
and in voice full Of pathos said:
II am not going to address you now.
I could scarcely trust my tongue TO
speak. This is a sacred spot to me.
Around it clusters sweet and hallow-
ed memories. Over there in the old
chapel my father, my good father,
used to stand when he talked to the
college boys, read the Bible to them,
and prayed.
"Fifty years ago last month he
came here at the invitation of your
people to take place in the faculty
of this then a young and struggling
institution. He, my mother, and
their children, spent two happy years
among you.
"Like the man Mr.. Hensel has de-
scribed to you my father came here
to stay. He came here to live. the
rest Of the days Of his life trying to
do good among you. He came here
to be one of your people, and in the
end to be buried among you. But the
war cloud settled over the South and
reluctantly he left this community
reluctantly he left this college-and
went back to the people from whom
he came and continued in his work
Of doing good until his strong right
hand became helpless at his side and
his tongue refused to pray. With
the deepest love and affection he had
hoped to come again here and revisit
this State.
"Forty-eight years ago I left and
ever since I reached manhood eSpe-
cially have I longed to come back
and-here I am.
"I came here on Saturday. I look
ed around for the old town as used
to know it and it was gone, and the
only old land marks that I knew are
the old court house in the square,
which 7 hope will never be demolish-
ed. and the old iail is still serving its
purpose the same now as then.
"The town has grown wonderful
lv. Of not more than 1900 then you
have HOW 8G00..
II have also looked around for the
old friends, the old companions Of
my father and mother. I found but
two or three. All the rest Of them are
in the dwelling places Of the silent.
And when I lookad around for those
who were boys with me nearly all Of
them are gone. William Fair. Joe
Hunter, and Osborne Sehumpert are
all of them whom I could find that [
knew.
"The object of greatest interest is
this college. I remember it when it
was young, the days Of its beginning,
and I remember-saw-what John
Bachman planted. I remember see
| ing it watered by my father and his
good coworkerS, and [ remember it a
little plant and come back to see it a
great healthy tree, under whose
healthy branches You young men and
women have opportunities that you
may not now know, but let me en-
phasize what has been so logically
and forcibly said by my brother, the
opportunities Of the small college are
the opportunities for a thorough edu-
cation, and I regret that you may not
know these opportunities now, but |
hope you may know before it will be
too late, for after awhile when you
60 out into the world and look around
you will find the men who are the
best equipped by education whether
for business or professional life, the
vast majority have come from the
small college, with which God has
blessed the land from one end to the
other. I have two little boys, learn
ing now to read and write. If l am
spared to see them grown up and old
enough to - to college thcy Will
not 90 to the big college or the ami
versity, and I do not say this in dis
paragement or with intention to DIS
parage the work Of these great lnStj-
tutions, but they will 60 to Il college
like this, | hope they MAY 60 10
what is the Newberry college of
Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania col
lege. Where their grandsire gradual
ed, my good father, and whe e l
graduated.