The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-05-14

pOlGOQ nave D66Q d SluuS!tl OI LIe "a ~
paigns Of Jackson" 1t was Lee who
told him after he was s2ot, You have
lost your left arm, but have lost my
right" To wnio. the sturdy, unselfish
warrior replied, Better a thousand
Jacksons should die than one Lee"
1t is doubtless idle to speculate upon
tie probabilities OF what might have
been, but had Jackson lived l firmly
believe that the flag which flies over
US today would have been different
flag.
And there were the two Johnsons
and Forrest. Stuart and Early, Hamp-
ton and Butler, Gary and others too
numerous to be named. have &leard
it said that it was thought expressed
BY Jc. w. Daniel that if great tidal
wave should sweep over this country
and wipe from the face of the earth
everything that We have except a copy
of the declaration of independence that
the future people w 0 should discover
this country would know that this had
been tae home Of free people. l be-
lieve that it is an equal truth that if
nothing of t e South should be left
except the names and the lives of its
leaders the future people of the world
would know tnat this had been tle
home of a great people.
The people after all were tie bull
wark of the Southern Confederacy. No
leaders could have risen to the pedes-
tails of fame without the support of
men of the type of the Confederate
private. A soldier of fortune and a
soldier OF despair was ne. Were l an
orator l could paint to you in vivid
words the merits of tie private soldier
of the Confederacy. know that since
the world began it has produced no
nobler figure than the figure Of the
private soldier of the Confederacy
fighting for mis- lone and his country.
Many there are who have answered the
long roll for tle last time. The rest
are bent with honorable age. Their
sun is slowly setting, but it is the
hope of the young South that they may
be spared to US for many years in
comfort and in peace, and when the
summons does come We know they
will go as men unafraid to die, and we
l-ope they will sleep the sleep of those
who deserve an undisturbed rest.
And the last and greatest of the
jewels of the South is its women. No
war has brought greater nardsnips
upon the homes Of tie people than did
the War Between the States, and still
no women could have borne these
nardslips more nobly than did the
women of the South. They worked
with willing hands to give all they
could to the fighting force of their
country. In pain and in sorrow tae
smile never left the lips Of this d2am-
pion of the South. Her work did not
end with Appomatox, but has contin-
ued throughout the Ihalf-century Of
peace, and tie obligation under which
the manhood of the South has been
put by the deeds and lives of these
noble women can never be measured
in words and can only be repaid by
lives of useful and honest endeavor.
Yes, my friends, We are conquered
nation. Our nation was born in war
and it died in war Just as England
bowed before the Norman conquerors
and just as France and Prussia and
Spain, and every great power, have at
times been oyerrun and conquered, so
were We conquered. But our captivity
was not prolonged. Tie soldier vino
crawled away from Appomatox went
home and went to work. In 1876 the
government of his fathers was re-
claimed from the black hordes which
had been forced upon helpless State.
In very truth the swords were beat
into plow shares and those who mad
performed deeds of valor were as
eager to do deeds of labor.
The waters of a thousand streams,
as they rushed from the mountains to
the sea were laarnessed and made to
turn the wheels of industry. The laws
of nature as they are written by the
hands of science have been applied
to the tillage Of the soil and our coun-
try once more blossoms under TIE
touch Of the falling rain and the snin-
ing sun.
A conquered nation? Yes! A nation
which has nothing Of its sovereignty
left but name and still nation