The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-10-05

Sopl. SolileT DOuBlaS BarkSuale,
commanding Carolina Light Infantry.
distinguished for bravery on the field
OF battle. Killed at Cecond Manassas
while fighting gallantly
Capt. III. b. Griffith, disabled by'
wounds. battle of Wilderness, 1864.
ID, Nj. I'll. Langston, Company |, Third
South Carolina regiment Kershaw
brigade. died at the head of his com
pany at Gettysburg.
Capt. w. A. Williams commander
Company f, Third South Carolina
regiment died at the head of his com
pany at Chickamauga.
After reading this list of men who
honored glorious cause. Mr.. Cooper
concluded: Until it be possible 10
forget the sacrifices of the boys i'm
gray. that spot shall be sacredly
guarded and that monument shah be
sacredly and lovingly protected"
DIR. Lodges Address.
The speaker of the day was then
presented by Mr.. Featherstone ard a
warm welcome was given Dir. Lee
Davis Lodge. the president OF Lime
stVnr coll ge and a poet and orator
of distinction. DR.. Lodge began his
address by quoting from an old poem
that the death of mon is not the
death of the rights that ordered them
to the fray. This was then followed
with beautiful tribute to the women
who would perpetuate the memory of
the men who fought. This monu-
ment will stand, he said as Il witness
forever to the heroism of the men of
Laurens. as proof that you are wor-
thy OF being their sons and daughters:
as an incentive to civis righteousness
And 1T may be that i'm the future some
Darefooted urchin standing here and
getting his inspiration may go oln
and grow so tall i'm intellectual stature
and in achievement t:at his shadow
shall fall atwart this whole continent.
1t is well to build these memorials.
The real tomb of the Confederate
soldier is not yonder on the battle
field of Virginia. but in the hearts of
our people, and the real monument
is not this beautiful creation of stone,
but our love and devotion and we
should in our private life and our
public careers so emulate the vir-
tues of the Confederate soldier that
the civilized world may admire those
whom we have chosen as our models.
There Should BE Monuments.
Let there never be complaint that
the people are too poor to build monu-
ments. We can afford TO build them
The tall chimneys of the cotton mills
point skyward in exclamation of hap
piness, the mountains clap their hands
in thunder tones over the progress
OF the State and the good old State
of Hayne and Calhoun and of Hamp-
ton and those other great men will
never be too poor to build monuments
to the memory of the lost cause.
Confident in the thrilling future of
the material development of our state.
we man we'll afford these expressions
of love and esteem Let us never be
devotees of the dollar. but let us pre-
serve the spotless ideals of our South
THE new South" is simetimes used
in depreciation of the old South This
is wrong. There is no new South
What is new is not true, and the So
called new South must be true to the
traditions of the old or she will not
succeed. God grant that i'm this beau
tiful broad daylight of peace we may
look upon the face Of the South of
today and see there every feature and
every liniament and expression OF the
blessed old mother South whose blood
courses in the veins of the men who
died for the cause of right
BE True to the Past.
An effort is being made to make
us forget the old South They are
coming to our Southern educators and
congressman with their golden bribes
and want us to forget. But please
God we and Southern born. with
Southern ideals, in our hearts the love
of the past is yet too sincere and God
helping us, Southern we will die. Shall
u pe Iiue l1dl lne oOuIn small laIlcf
now. that she shall not be true to the
old ideals? No, never, BY those
battle rent banners carried on the
crest of the waves of red battle fields,
never. We shall meet the future as
gentlemen unafraid and be true to the
principles of the past
Every revolution in the old world
which tended toward popular liberty