The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-03-13
CALLS MEETING ON MARCH 1S.
Col. j. j. Dalgan Announces Change
of Date for Meeting at General
Sumter School.

see by my call for a meeting at the
General Sumter school house, which
appeared In your issue Of the 9rd in.
stant, that ! wrote the invitation i'm .
mediately upon feeling the impulse to
do so, fearing that IL action were
postponed, would have
"The native hue Of resolution,
Sicklied Ger with the pale cast OF
thought,
And the enterprise of great pi:h
and moment
With this regard it's curren. turn
awry.
And lose the name of action"
Thus influenced by my respect for
Shakespeares usually sage counsel
and by my growth in the habits Of a
rural farmers life, patent to all my
acquaintances, which find proper ex-
preston in the couplet:
"A full 'fiedged farmer would rather
take beating
Than put on his good clothes to 60 to
meeting"
/ rushed precipitately into print to
shut the door against retreat and by
that precipitation fixed on a date in
conflict complete with a solemn SER
vice Of our Episcopal Church, which
would keep away from our proposed
meeting at the school house more
than half of those most interested in
having good work in our schools.
So here comes a change in the date
for the meeting from Friday the IL.
to Thursday the 18 instant, and the
hour. not in the afternoon, but In
the morning at IL o'clock
When we say 18th Of March up
here. it means something impressive,
for we have vivid recollections Of the
fine occasions the General Sumter
Memorial Academy, in it's life time,
used to work up on this date. as the
anniversary of Calhoun's birthday.
Never did the call for a celebration
Of this natal day Of Cardinals grand
est character, fall on deaf ears of un-
sympathetic hearts. Let us trust it
will not do so this time. For Mr..
Calhoun had no more devoted ad-
herent than the "Old Game Cock on
the Hills" as he was called by tho
nullifiers. But we must widen the
call for such a day as this. for tine
General Sumter Agricultural Society
had that day set apart for it's annIa;
meeting and this shall not be altered.
We certainly expect Hon. a X. San
dc-aF the PRECEDENT, to he hero 10 cali
this society TO order and his faithful
and competent secretary, MIR. Walter
Lenoir, with his book OF record In
hand to preserve the sayings aud do
ings OF the occasion for the instruc-
tion and inspiration OF those who are
to come into the work In our places
some day.
So In the morning of the 18th in
slant. the Agricultural and Horticul-
tnral Societies will meet to elect Of
ficers and attend to any other business
that may be presented for considera-
ton.
In the afternoon we shall attend
to school matters, that is education
matters In wide sense. not for Dis.
trict No. II exclusively. but for the
good Of all OF the schools Of the coun-
ty and set on foot a celebration Of
General Sumter's birthday anniver-
sary. August 18th, that will wake up
things far and wide. The idea of a
schoolhouse named for General Sum-
ter becoming n nursey for bats and
owls is far away from our thought
European war and no European war
1t (the wary would only stir that old
hero. were he here today, the more
profoundly to encounter and over
come difficulties that would appall
most people. Was it not said of him.
in very truth, that he was
Most master OF himself and least en-
numbered,
When Oermatched. entangled and
outnumbered
He was Of the nitOr in adversum
type Of man. The darker the hour,
the more brilliantly he shone. He
did not come very conspicuously to
the front in the Revolution, until the
State was deserted and left to the
mercy Of the British, then ne became
what CORVALLIS denominated him,
"Our (the British) greatest scourge
in this country"
All! Let us who live near his tomb
SO honored by the State and the ma
ton In the monument erected there.
not shamefully discredit ourselves in