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| lOuS struggle or her people.
Hear also the tribute of the great
American historian, Bancroft, Of
Massachusetts, to the conduct of the
people of South Carolina when prac-
tically abandoned by congress and its
army during the Revolution:
Left mainly to her own resources,
it was through the depths of wretch
edness that her sons were to bring
her back to her place in the repub-
lie, after suffering more and daring
more and achieving more than the
men of any other State"
The patriots who fought so much
and wrought so much were your an
cestors, fellow South Carolinians.
Doubtless the same blood that ran in
their veins runs in the veins of ma
jority of those here present. They
are now surrounded by legend and
by the luminous circle of immortal
fame. but they were plain men, the
greater part of them with less educa-
ton and less advantage in life than
the average man of us here today.
They were trained in no school of
the soldier. They differed little, If
at all. from the men who laid down
the plow here and took up the mus
ket half a century ago. They had
little, if anything, material to gain
by responding to the call to arms,
| but they went as our heroes who
wore the gray went, for the honor OF
their land and the maintenance of
their rights as they considered them.
With solemn pride We glory this
day in the valor and heroism OF
these, our forefathers, who did so
much to establish the liberties OF
America. We rejoice that. under the
banner of freedom they fought with
as high and noble courage as ever
men had and their fame we shall
commemorate for all the years to
come. Yet let us on this day like
wise give thanks to Almighty God
that the hope of Washington lis ac-
complished and that the United
States of America has maintained
Friendship with all nations, but al
liances with none" This is day
of jubilation, but it is also day of
thanksgiving that the flower of our
manhood is not being cut down upon
the terrible fields Of war and that
desolation, famine and ruin do not
stalk over our country. Let US IN
humility and gratitude thank the
God of nations that we live in a ma
ton of peace and that He guides into
the ways of peace the strong hand Of
the president of these United States.
one of the greatest presidents whom
1T hath pleased Almighty God to give
to the American people.
Of a truth, the dream of the great
son of Georgia. Henry Grady, seems
to be coming to pass: Il catch the
vision of the republic-its mighty
forces in balance and its unspeaka-
BILE glory falling on all its children
working out its mission under GOD S
approving eye, until the dark CONT
nents are opened and the highways
of earth are established and the shad-
ows lifted and the jargon of nations
stilled and the perpleXities of Babel
straightened-and under one Ian
guage. one liberty and one God. all
the nations of the world. hardening
TO the American drumbeat and grid
ing up their loins shall march amid
the breaking of the millennial dawn
into the paths of righteousness and
peace
Whatever the future may unrol!
for us. the sentiment of all South
Carolinians is that expressed BY Com
modore Decatur when he said: My
country, may she always be right
but nv country right or wrong"