The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-07-14

.Emrs house at York yesterday, Chief
.auxsse Gary made the following
.lSdress:
Nr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
Before proceeding to deliver the
sasssaee which we have brought you
:Ga-dzy, we bespeak your permission
.lss nrake a few preliminary remarks;
W.nen the Queen of Sheba visited
Wlpg Solomon she said, after listen
-ascs 10 his words of wisdom and see
aEsE the magnificent Temple which
Sc had gust erected: "Behold, the
Haff was not told to me-" and,
.yscn is our condition to-day as we
:s,essld the new and beautiful Temple
wAsrh the people of York county
.hxue wisely erected.
When the kindly and most highly
<HEYreciated invitation to address
yss on this OCCASION, was ~accepteo'
ws were uncertain what should be
a,r, subject. 1t occurred to US
=, Eh1s we might devote a considerable
ryzzA of our allotted time in dis
a:zsssng the battle of Kings Noun
-ssaa, which, in its results, was one
srzF the great battles of the world;
,b.t we found that there was moth
ZEE to be added to the historical in
s~rrzuation, which had been given
Esy great writer's and eloquent ora
suys on several occasions, devoted
w that subject. -.
1t then occurred to US, that it
wsrasd be we'll to give a sketch OF
the members of your Bar, which has
hesxR famous from its earliest his
tory, but we remembered, at once,
tsaat we mad been forestalled by an
eminent jurist, who now adorns the
s@apreme Court of South Carolina,
EEK rs adding new laurels to those
which he had won, as an able and
conscientious Circuit Judge.
When the distinguished orator
iTram Virginia, Hon. John w. Daniel,
xSeEvered the Centennial address at
XIng's Mountain, on the 7th OF
ssexober, 1880, he commenced his
~osation with these words:
my C~ountrymen: Upon this
.szot one hundred years ago, this
.et1x, was a great battle of the peo-
gle. fought by the people alone.
There was not a bayonet, not a
CANNON. There was no martial
mnSc. There was no gilded BAN
.cG. There was no chaplain.
There was no ambulance or wagon.
There was no general officer. There
zszS not a single regular soldier in
:ste Army of, Victory. There were
e.ue. here, and they did a deed for
sss2nrh all mankind should be CRATE
.E, and which the ages will remem-
a,ex Before the battle mothers,
WIVES, and sisters fingered by the
Ssasfes of sons, husbands and brothers,
listing in the last detail of slen-
sAE preparation, in giving the fare
vysM kiss that would grow in the
Eusnr&, and send electric thrills
zaIsng their arms on the day of bat
&c" There were mon then, and
I'VE sill need those who are men, in
.sRS.Sng the great social, economic
iEa6 political problems that are now
s~z.cxESronting us.
I#T us pray that:
"God give us men; a time like
this demands,
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of Office can
not Kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can
not buy;
Men who have honor, men who
Will not lie;
Men who can stand before a
demagogue,
And damn his treacherous fiat
teries without winking;
Fall men, s~un-crowned, who live
above the fog,
-GEn public duty and private think
ing"
The words uttered in regard to
I .shr mothers, wives and daughters,
VIII assisted in the battle of Kings
Agnntaan, cause US to digress for a
~Ez.arsnt, to mention another brave
%sLlnan.
When Preston S. Brooks intro
sfored "a bill in Congress, for the
ssnsion of one of E%dgeield's pa
EyaaSr daughters, who had lost her
&zESoand and her three sons in the
@eXlcan war, he narrated the fact,
<ssst three centuries ago, when bor-
sa@.. feuds were common, a maiden
laGEn on the shore of Lake Con-
Assance. had gone to seek her fortune
In Switzerland, and learning by
accident. in the family in which she
~@as residing, that an assault was
INTENDED upon her native village,
under the cover of night, she took
"a horse and swan the current of the
asEne, and by her timely warning,
-avsd her birthplace and her peo-
pie from sack and slaughter.
An equestrienne monument was
erected in ner honor, but her hero
iszn is to this day commemorated
by a memorial more touching. Each
night as the Waterman goes his
round. when the hour of midnight
arrives, he calls aloud the nam of
Der VINO, three hundred years be-
"xzpre, awoke the sleeping inhabi-
I -alhs, and rescued them from dam
s.,s, Tho historian pnropriota1