The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-05-28

try's flag until it's faded coIors
IAppOmatox and Greensboro, where it
went down amid flood of tears
forever,
Do our people in this day of an
xiety to earn the mighty dollar ever
stop 10 consider the condition of this
| country at the end OF that struggle?
Your fields. were laid waste; your
wealth consumed. your cities battered.
burned and ruined; your thousands
OF once happy homes were made de-
Golatc and mournful by the rage and
wrath of armies and the cruelties of
war. The Angel OF death had crossed
almost every household. More than
100000 OF the flower OF this land
were filling bloody graves; every
signing breeze that swept over the
waste places. from the bloody grounds
of the wilderness. to the smouldcring
embcrB Of the ruined Columbia and
Atlanta, bore upon its wings the walls
OF weeping women!
This was at that time n land filled
| with gyisfs sharper than sword that
madC them; II was country filled
with hcartbr0ken. mothers, widows
and orphan children. Our people sat
diEcOne"late upon the newmade graves
OF all that was sweetest and dearest
On garth, and there, in silence and
in tears, expressed sorrow too
mighty for the poverty OF words. II
was Mt that time that these splendid
mothers and sisterg came again to
our rcgcue, illustrating then. as she
does now. the highest type of self
sacrifice and patriotism. Go to the
sacred temples of worship all over this
land. and you will find her bent in
alteration there. Go to the Sabbath
schools OF your hamlets and villages
and you will hear her saintly voice
there; go to tho cottages of the poor
and needy. and you will flDdf her
precious gifts there; so to the dis
cpnsolate and troubled and you will
find her cheering smiles there; go to
the altar OF liberty, and you will find
hcr sacrifice there. See the babe In
the manager and its honored mother
is there; see him in the troubles OF
life, and she follows him there; see
him at the court of Pilatc and her
troubled heart is there; see his tomb
after he had left il in, triumph. and
woman was the first there, and first
to proclaim the glad tidings. Woman
is ccarcely ever wrong, my friends,
when she has All even chance with
reason. That che was with us in
that great struggle is doubly con-
vincing that your cause was Just.
She inspired new hope, and these
big, brave, brawny armed. bronzed
veterans of a hundred battles saw it
did not become brave people to
thus yield up their courage, anil
passively await the dinishing stroke
OF adverse fate. 1t was then, my
hot lot
storm is passed and we sryiye; as
long as lie lasts we will not give up
the sta- .1f hope. though oftentimes
ohscurpd by the passing shadows"
WsaR The Clouds Roll by.
You brushed away tho tears OF our
weepiDS women, and promised them
a brighter day. when the shadows
should vanish and the clouds roll by.
You have no cause to regret for the
part that you took In lthat struggle,
and no stain attached to those who
conducted it.. But 1t is beet for all
that the war was fought to a finish
that gave finaiity to Its result, and
came ndar extinguishing the combat
ants therein. No drop of blood from
Fort Donaldson to Appomattox and
Greensboro-not one in the last
charge was shed in vain! Peace with
honor must pay It's price, even though
that price should be life itself, and 1t
is bocarss the. South paid that price
with no mtser's hand, that her sur
viying soldlers brought home With
them me conscienceness of duty
faithfully performed. s&
nesaat Doesn't Disgrace
Defoat always implies disaster. but
need not imply disgrace Leonidas,
and his thre hundred. have been reek-