The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-11
A Frank Explanation.

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for me to take notice of, and reply to
card which was published in your pa
per last week by Col. David W. Brails
ford. But since was instrumental ia
starting this movement several year
ago for the erection of q Confederate
Monument by the people of our County
and have worked for it, and am nov
working for it, along with a committee
of seven patriotic ladies and many 9th
ers who have undertaken the commend
able task, and who are, and have
right TO be offended by Col. Brailsford':
card: and further since I have been ap
preached by members of the loca
lodge who are also offended by Col
Brai!stord's eratuitous inslnuation:
against them, deem it proper to make
some reply to this card. I ask that the
card be republished in full, which i:
as follows:
Pamela. S. c., Jan. 20, 1914
MIR. Editor:-I have waited with pa
tience and propriety for some OF the
committee OF entertainment to explain
now could they having just laid the
Corner Stone of q monument to the
dead confederate heroes, ignore the
presence of a score of no less heroic
Soldiers Of the lost cause in the sumpC'
urous banquet served to the visiting
Masons by the local lodge. Your cor
respondent of The News and Courier,
emphasizes the entertainment OF the
Masons and their thanks, aud the 10
d;pnant. and outraged public clearly
inferS the veterans were not noticed
or :heir presence desired at this ban
quet If this be true, then the monu
ment while honorlng the dead furnish
es an occasion for insulting their living
comrades. The public would sugges'
that work upon the monument be Gis-
continued the same number OF years
it took to start viz forty-eight, by
which time though obstinate as to de
parting, they will all be sleeping be-
meath the Daises away from negiec
and slight.
D. W. BRAILSFORD.
Now in the first place this is move
ment to erect a Monument to the mem
ory of all the Confederate soldiers who
went to the front from Clarendon Coun
ty in defense of their country. Wher
the Monument is completed, and the
gallant Col. himself shall have passed
away, it will stand as a fitting marx
and tribute TO mis- services also, along
with these brave Confederates wht
have gone before and those who are
vet TO follow and pass over the river.
On the recent occasion Of the laylnE
OF the Cornerstone, which was done by
the grand master of the masonic order
the ceremonies were largely in charge
of the local lodge OF Masons, who in
vited many visiting Masons from thi
ard other counties. The part played
by the local lodge was at the reques
of this writer and the committee o
ladies who haye the work in hand. We
appreciate very much the services o
the Masons. We appreciate also tht
part that the local lodge, at, their OWL
expense, looked after and provided en-
tertainment for the visiting Masons
The ladies monument committee ha(
nothing to do with this,
There was no slight or lnsult intend
ed, or offered TO anybody. The lodge
was not expected to entertain anybody
but their visiting brethren.
The ladies monument committee dl'
not entertain anybody, and are unc- :.
no obligations to explain themselves te
Col. Brailsford's satisfaction. And be
sides this, Col. Brailsford did not ShoV
enough appreciation of the occasion Il
attend it, aud cannot see how ne wa
sighted. I have never heard any dis
gruntled or sore complaint from any
of the Confederate Veterans who wer
present, all OF whom seemed to enjo
the occasion, and it therefore woul
seem that Col. Brailsford himself alon
constitutes ''the indignant and outrage
public" that he speaks OF.
1t does not seem graceful TO me tina
Col. Brailsford. with the sarcasm
which he uses: should suggest that thu
monument should be discontinued TO
forty-eigho years, now is any such
suggestion entertained by 1.-The public
Col. BraiIsford is mistaken in feelin'
that he is "the public"
J. e. LESSEE.