The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-07-22

OIL our 1r1endS the enemy 10 naV(
chosen the 21st of December, the ami
versary Of Bull Run, or the 13 of De
cember, the an1:-e-sary Of the battle
Of Fredericksburg, or the third Of May
the anniversary Of the battle of Chan.
cellorsville
There is hall of fame in Washing.
ton: I do not allude to the Pension
Building, although that is famous fol
the almost fabulous amount of money
directed to be paid to the devoted AMI
disinterested patriots who saved tho
Union"
The grand old State Of Virginia
where you comrades so often met the
foe, properly and patriotically agreed
to place statue Of the immortal Lee
in the hall Of fame in Washington. a
few mean and malevolent men protest
ed against having statue Of the re-
nowned leader of the Confederate fore
es placed there Gen. Burdett, 2
prominent Grand Army man, did no;
object to having statue Of Lee in the
National Hall Of Fame, but his re.
marks concerning the matter were de-
cidedly more reprehensible than if ne
had voiced the views Of the malcon-
tents, for he basely slandered the
memory of our pure and peerless lead
er by saying. II have never believed
that the heart of Lee was in the fight
on the side where he offered himself" /"
Corporal" Tanner, who has been feted
and feasted by Confederate Camps in
Virginia and elsewhere, said he could
not talk in opposition to the placing
Of the statue of Lee in the Hall Of
Fame, but that he deprecated the in
consistencv and the incongruity Of
putting under the dome Of the Capitol
the statue Of any man who did his
level best to destroy the Nation.
We have recently read Of the dedi-
cation of the beautiful and costly
statue to the Confederate dead at Ar
lington. Both Northerners and South
erners offered eloquent tributes to the
memory of our good and gallant COM
rades who died from wounds, or from
sickness. Strange to state not a word
was said by but one Of the gifted men
who represented the South On that oc-
casion about the scholarly and stec-
ling President Of the Confederate
States, Jefferson Davis. Was the omis-
sion Of his honored and revered name
unintentional, or was it because the
other able orators were aware OF the
fact that President Davis was disliked
at the North, and they did not desire
to displease the Northerners who We're
gracious and liberal enough to attend
the ceremonies at the lovely old home
Of Robert E. Lee? I am charitable
enough to believe that the distinguish
ed Southerners inadvertently failed to
include the name Of the first and only
President Of the Confederate States
in the grand chorus of commentator
which welled forth from their cultuc-
ed and classic lips. Jefferson Davis
was atthe birth and at the burial or
Southern liberty, and above his ner-
yeless breast under the sylvan shades
Of Hollywood Cemetery, rest the shat
tered shield and the stainless crest
of the Confederacy. The people among
whom he lived, that he so deeply loved
and grandly served, knew the nobility
of his nature and properly appreciated
the rectitude of his character. There
have been few men so cruelty and
cowardly maligned as was President
Davis. He was denounced as trail
tor, charged with being an accessory
to the assassination of President Lin
coin: confined in a damp dungeon,
manacled and tortured, yet never
brought to trial. 1t was fear not Ia
vor: statecraft, not sympathy which
prompted the Attorney General Of the
United States not to press charges
against President Davis.
am not concerned as to the fame
and renown of the defenders OF the
South, but I am anxious in regard to
the view generations to come shall
take Of the cause and the conquest OF
the Confederate States. The valor and
endurance, the famous feats and un-
SURPASSED, and unsurpassable achieve
ments of the men who wore the gray
are as firmly and lastingly set In the
chronicles Of the Nation, as are the
stars which gem the boundless blue O!
Heavens arch.
If lay particular stress on the i'm
portance Of conveying the lesson and
impressing it deeply upon the youth
of our treasured Southland. that their
fathers fought in defence Of principles
as pure and as precious as ever IT,
spired the breasts Of freemen, as ever
enriched Nation, glorifled cause, or
immortalized a people, it is because,
as has been forcibly said, THE per-
tiality of the historian is content to
follow the stream Of fortune and 10
praise the conqueror. The lofty les
sons deduced from the lives OF South
ern Statesmen should be taught the
youth of Carolina, who in some IN
stances are coming over text books
which mislead the mind and grossly
misrepresent the character of our peo-
pei in their struggle for constitutional
liberty.