The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1910-05-13
MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS
of Dr.. James Mcintosh,
NeHberry, s. C., May 10, 1910.

Dr.. Mcintosh was introduced in a
few appropriate words by Major Jas.
F. j. Caldwell.
DR.. Mcintosh spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Comrades, Daughters OF the Con-
f%ederacy, Sons Of Veterans, Ladies
and Gentlemen: As l look owe this
audience, composed OF thes who in tie
latter part Of the last century bore
the brunt Of the Civil War, and who
well know and understood what they
fought for, and also lnose Of tho
present generation, who have heard
time and again this subject discuss
ed. and then upon those u children
Of tender years, I realize how diff
cult it will be to speak Interestingly
and engage your attention for any
length Of time, upon a subject worthy
OF the best orator of the age, Of one
who could command your closest at
tention, and I can only ask you to
make allowances for one who deeply
feels his inability to present this
subject as it might be done. But in
the name Of the veterans here as
4sembIed, and in the name Of those
dead heroes whose bravery, patriot
ism. and death we are here to COM
1emorate, let me thank you for your
presence. 1t is with the highest graf
ifcation that every veteran here pres
Aent looks around upon this assem-
blage. It warns our hearts and
makes US feel that our children and
our friends are ready still to honor
the cause for which we fought. And
we feel as we look into your faces
that we are leaving the legacy Of a
glorious honored past in the hands
of those who will ever be proud to
know that their fathers wore the
grey, and bore the starry cross to
victory on many a hard-fought bat
tleield.
If I can impress upon the mind and
memory Of one single listener in
this house a clearer impression as to
I the cause of. the Civil War, then 1
will feel thai this hour has not been
spent in vain.
Ny aim shall be to make a simple,
plain statement Of the conditions ex-
listing prior to 1860, that will. show
that the South was forced to fight,
not only for her rights and 1iber-
ties, her homes and freside, but for
ahe protection and safety of her wo-
men and children.
= E stand not here to apologize for
the war, to make any excuse for the
action of our State, n for the course
of the South. What the South asks,
and what every Confederate wishes
is that the true condition as it ex-
listed in 1860 be understood, and that
history, freed from local and section
al influences, shall give an Impartial
account of the causes Of the war, Tor
then the South will be justified and
all forced to agree that there was no
other course to pursue but to do as
the South did, secede from the Un-
ion.
And as I look into the faces OF
these younger men and boys, l 1eel
that there is not a man or boy within
the walls of this building who, II ne
had been living in the sixties OF the
last century, would not have been
fighting to the death with his oro1n-
>ers and comrades.
There were three causes tha1
brought on the Civil War, each n OF
them differing entirely from the etn-
ers. each one becoming a dominant
Of discord and danger at d1f-
-ferent periods OF time in the life or
the nation, but so indissolubly have
they been interviewer into the very
existence of the nation that even the
Civil War could not remove tne"'
and they now, as ever, stand out as
q menace to the republican form on
government. These three
are:
/. The principle of States rights.
2. The tariff.
8. The negro.
The question of States rights came
near preventing the union OF the
thirteen original States into the Unit
ed States Of America.
The ratification of the constitution
of the United States by the States OF
New York and Rhode Island and
Virginia reserved in plain language
the right to secede, as, viz, the pow
ers of government may be reassum-
L. h, ,oonTo when il shall be-