The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-05-10
(By Jno. K. Aul1.)

the SOuLn pays t44puI1 w 'Ao ~
swerving courage, the unfalterlng
patriotism and the enduring loyalty
Of her sons who in the dark days
from 81 to '65 offered their lives a
. willing sacrifice for her and for the
principles for which she stood, and
( who, battling against overWhelmlns
odds. but inspired by the justice OF
their cause, handed down to posterl'
ty a. heritage the most glorious ever
bestowed upon any land or any peo-
\ ple. It is a day of memories-ot SAD
memories, it is true, but of memories
furnished not by the slightest sus'
, picion of a stain, and of memories
in which vain regrets hold not nor
have ever held a place.
Forty-fve years have passed since
in the settling gloom Of Appomattox
which spread over and covered the
Southland, like a pail, the Stars and
Bars were furled. Beneath its folds
thousands of the sons of the South
had gladly died, their life blood hal
lowing the soil of countless fields OF
carnage from Manassas to the sur
render. With love of it softenlng
the CLEAN of battle which lighted his
eyes, the gallant Albert Sidney John
son fell at Shiloh, and with an un-
yielding faith that some day the prin-
ciples for which it hoated would be
triumphant, Stonewall Jackson was
stricken at Charlottesville. It in
spired the world-famed charge ol
Pickett at Gettysburg, where the
hgrey ranks 'beat themselves crimson
hgajQst Cemetery Ridge" and On the
before the heroism, unsurpassed
Dent or. modern times, Of Ker-
men before Little Round Top
with artillery which moved
y rank and file of the already
yhinned Southern troops even
Fripened grain falls before the
not only on the field of bat
where the tumult and the shout
- and the roll of the drums and
strains of Dixie, set the air a-pul-
be-, and the thunder and the fierce
Eare of artillery and of thousands
f rifles mingled with the SHARP
commands of officers, was it an in
spiration, but in the privations of the
camp, where oftimes hunger stalk
ed, and in the long and weary
marches, where there was no tocsin
.of battle to cause the blood to tingle
this flag, the emblem of the homes
rom which came the men who car,
ried it literally into the jaws o1
death, soothed and sustained and en-
|couraged in hardships which, borne
without murmur, proved higher
courage than was ever displayed on
neld of battle.
Nor was this the hardest ,>art IL
kthat great struggle. At home there
were the mothers and the wives ant
he sisters, who did what their hands
Hknto do to relieve the sorrow ant
- ing, and who watched ane
~ prayed. Theirs it was
most \om had been reared II
comfort pany in luxury, tt
shoulder his .rx responsibility t"n;nd y,n,s: a.
through which the nation ever pass
ed, and while. laboring under th'
most heart-reAaing anxiety-for th'
fathers and t husbands and tht
brothers were at the front, and eacf
day brought tidings which in tn
hearts of some Of those noble Wo
men ended, suspense and planted
y sorrow from which there was NJ
surcease until the dawn of brlghte
day oyer and beyond the vale o
tears.
History tells the "story of thu
glory of the men who wore the grey.
History, however, can not tell, for
J is not given to mortal pen to picture
tie sufferings and the heart-ache
which were beneath the surface-al
borne willingly for love Of home an
STATE and country. AS the rays o
the sun, falling upon some grea
ST ream, send forth a reflection whic:
dazzles the eye, but penetrates no
the depths below, so the relation o
Southern valor on the field of battle
while it quickens the pulse and com
mands the admiration of the world
Dgoes not into that even deeper cour