The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-12
HONOR PAID SGUTH'S
OWN GLORIOUS SONS
ENTIRE cITYJOINED SUNDAY
IN EXERCISES
MIR. MANNING SPOKE
Following Music and Address,
Women and Children Deco
rated Graves Of Heroes
MIR. MANNING SPOKE


when the sons OF Confederate sons and
the daughters of Confederate daught-
ers join hands for paying honor to the
heroes who were the gray, so did An
derson celebrate Memorial day last
Sunday. Ii is a day of all the year for
many OF Anderson's older people and
they have passed the inspiration on
down TO the younger generation and
now In any part OF the South will be
found band OF people on Memorial
day, paying tribute and honor 10 the
glorious heroes who were the gray.
The exercises were held in Ander-
son Sunday at the court house aud the
auditorium was packed with the
South's own native sons and her beGu
tiful women. The Hon. Rdchard l..
Manning of Sumter was tho speaker
and every word he uttered was heard
I by the enormous crowd. Mr.. Manning
made what may be properly termed n
splendid address. 1t was o gem Of its
knd and aP such 10 given to Intelli-
gencer readers.
Following lie q syuepsis- of Mr..
Manning's address:
THE statement that slavery was
inc uau5e ui tho war ss.i0G5;a;iiaa ss..ii0G5;a;iaa &c: &.
permitted to pass unchallenge6," said
Mr.. Manning. 1T 10 true that the
fate OF slavery was, settled finally aud
forever by the result OF the war, ana
that the question intensified tne BIT
terqess Of the war. and iniet.ted a NOR
ii and semi-reltgious sentiment into it.
THE strongest character istic OF
the Anglo-Saxol Is his intense instinct
of local self government. It was this
instinct that divided the English Of
che Angles and the Saxons into q
heptarchy--it was the instinct of lo-
cal government which aecured Magma
E3harta from the Plantagenets, and
which estabfished the Btu of Rights
IN the time OF the Stliaffs.
mo where R.mong men had this tide
risen so high as among the colonies
after the war, and 1t took time and pa.
tient effort for the thirteen ipdepen-
dent states, whose Independence has
been acknowledged by Great Britain,
20 settle by compromise their focal
lealousies so far as TO form union
among themselves. s.sjias ta,f .4
g'heFe Ave Causes. Il
eft was to maintain this right, to
preserve this form of government and
20 save the Constitution, that brought
the war.
0Tss. s.s=e sc = ss:s..sc:. he. saee..
individuals, between sections between
nations, declared the speaker.
Let us look calmly after the con-
ditions which prevailed ut t9e end OF
the eighteenth century and during the
iiTst aalf SI the ninetsen1ss'' saya .a MT MT
Mannlns. When the union was FORM
ga ners WAS no d'tfegsnee oF opinton
about slavery, nor was teere any alRf.. alf.
ference OF opinion in the Jealousy and
aacredneas with which the rights o.
the states wore neid.
tsxerE one OF the original thirteen
states was slave state. TIE Cen
stitallon alleRed a slave holder one
vote Tor himself and thrss-tlfths OF a.
vote fqF each OF his adult slaYes--re-
e9sniEing these SLAVES net as men,
whoae right OF lttes liberty, and the
pursuit OF hapntnsss ARgle Saxon Ipen Ippan
were TO respect, nor We're the dn9lapsi
regarded as haYiag these riehtR. nor
aven rights to the soil which bRa be-
lopgeh TO tkam and their ancesters
Tor generations. So the declaration of
independence Of three million Anglo
Saxons carried with Ii the right to-
ensiaRe seven hnndred thepRapa black
men, and to diap0sseHB one. bundled;
and Atty thousand red men.
appesltaan 70 slREe Exada.
But befare lSg0. there was strong
oppqsition TO the elaYe trade in the.
South. IN 1850 the legislature of Yis-,
Rinin prohihited the Importation of
slaves. In 1877 In the Federal Con-,
vention, New England voted with
Georgia and South Garalina for, she
proionsRtipn of slave trade Sor twen-.
ty yaars agsinst the sturdy apaasitfenI
of Virginia.
IN his Genius Of BEtveTERl ERaaRci-
patton" Lundy says there Wera fn.
United states, With 1895 lTpIabss.a. al
these 106 with 5,160 or flgs nIsfha AZ