The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-29

buTHed and fuiHed: your thousands
Of once happy Homes were made de-
soiate and mournful by the rage and
wrath OF Sgmtcs and the cruelties OF
waF. The angel OF death had CROSSED
almost every household. More than
300,0e0 OF the flower of this land
were flling bloody graves; every
sighing breeze that swept over the
waste phases fren the, bloody grounds
Of the wiIderhessy- to the .smeuldcring
alnber3 OF the ruined Columbia ana
Atlanta. bore upon its wings the walls
OF weeping women!
This was at that time land filed
with griefs sharper than sword that
made them; il was country filled
with heartbroken. mothers, widows
and orphan children Our people sat
| diecdaFclate EPon the hetgmtlde graves
Of all that was sweetest and dearest
on earth, and there, in silence and
in tears. Expressed a sorrow too
mighty for the poverty If words. ItH
was at that time that these splendid
mothers and sisters cRmep again to
our rcscue, illustrating then, as she
does now, the highest type of self
sacrifice and patrfotism.' DO to the
sacred temples OF Worship all over this
land, and you wilI find her bent In
alteration there. Go TO the Sabbath
schools OF your hamfets and villages,
and you will hear her eaintiy voice
| there: SO 'toathe nattages of the poor
and needy and You will end her
precious gifts there; 20 to the dis
cumsolate and troubled and you will
| find her cheering smiles there; go TO
the altar OF liberty. and you will fiiId
her saeriffee there. See the babe in
the manager and it's honore6 mother
Is there: see him in the troubles of
| life, and she follows him there; see
| Him at the court OF Plate and her
| troubled heart is there ;iseer his tomb
| after he had left 1t in triumph, and
woman was the first there, and first
TO proclaim the glad tidings. Woman
is scarcely. ever wrong, my friends,
when she has an even chance with
reason. That she was with us in
that great struggle is doubly con-
| vincing tnat your cause was just.
She inspired new hsHe. and these
| niS, brave, hragns armed, SSromE5iii
veterans of hundred, battles saw. Il
did not become q brave people to
thus yield up their courage. q anil
| passively await the fihishing stroke
or ADVERSE fate. II WIS then, my
comrades, that you exclaimed "the
storm is passed and we srVive; as
long as life lasts we will not give up
the star OF hope, though oftentimes
obscured by the passing shadows"
When The GlOnds Roll lS.
1 You brushed away the tears of our
/ weeping women, and promised Them
a brighter day, when the shadows
should vanish and the clouds roll by.
l You have no cause to regret for the
/ part that you took in that gtreggle,
and mo stain attached to those who
conducted 1t. But IL is best for ALI
that the war was fought 10 a finish
that gave hnalisy to its result, and
came near extinguish the csnsbat3
ANTS therein. No drop5af blood from
FGrt Donaldson to- Appomattox and
/ Greensboro one IN the last
charge Was shed In vain! Peace with
honor must pa, its price. even though
that price should be life itseif, and it
is because the South paid. that price
with no miser's hand, that her sur
viying soldiers brought home with
them the conscieRceness OF duty
faithf> Iy performed. Fe
/ Defeat Doesn't Disgrace
\ Defeat always implies disaster, but
need not imply disgrace. 'Leonidas,
aid his thre hundred, have been reei-
oned az q sifted wheat of the heroes.
but the gallant men who fought and
fell in tho Confederate Army, and
those who fought and suffered and
lretarned, are as immortal as the in
yincible 10th legion Of roman history
or the victorious fronsfdes Of Crom.
well. In war no danger daunted
;, them, no force appalled, them. anu nc
defeat disfeartened them, and no suf
feftDg sulJdued them. Poland was
o.
Il iron hand OF Iespotisn, but freedom
1 did not die with Cosciusco Emmett
died upon the Scaffold, but his nami
I. Is enshrihed In the hearts, woven IN
the songs of ali tr,se Irishmen. Ties,
young people should be taught to re
member the historical fact that wheI
Jefferson Davis was fighting ant
bleeding under the stars and stripe
Ill at Molino de Reyi and Cerro Gordc
Il Abraham Lincoln was denouneing tn,
war with Mexico rs unconstitutiona
: when Jefferson Davis was leading tn,
:, gallant Mississippians.. in the blood,
+ charge OF Bueha Vista. the Northeri
: mnltitudes we're yet qpplaudInR til
4 ieloqaence OF the Statesman from Ohio
5 who had declared In the halls OF tn
: Congress OF the United States that tn
! Mexicaas should receive the AfReri
cans with bloody hands, and welcom
i them to hoapitabie graves
= Jefferson Davis was the hero o
r Buena Vita, and; Buena Vista mad
r General Taylor President Disfran
: lchised, and In chains, Jefferson Dayi
3 was ncbler than Caesar, with seIlaf
4 ttt hts heeIs. He created nation
!. he foil0wee It's bier; he wrote It's ep
D tEpf, and died the idol OF HIS people.
. But we rejoice today that time hR
i, t$melted the hostile guns and fEfle
/! the battle. flsgs; We rejoice. too, tha
& time has torn down the forts an
a leyeled the trenches on the blu0d
2 fields 6E glory: We are thankful {
4 iAn all-wfRe PFosidencs that TIME ilnt
d hdorned the ruined South. and robe
Il her fields IN richer harvest, and glide