Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-13

Suggestions as to How the Same are
to be Met-What the Lawyers May
Do in Behalf of the Public Service il
they Will Live Up to their oppor-
tunities.
The principal address in connection
with the dedication Of the York coun-
| ty courthouse today, was that OF the
Hon. Eugene B. Cary, Of Abbeville,
chief justice Of the supreme court of
South Carolina. This address conveys
message we'll worth the while OF
those who would improve existing
civic conditions. and the text Of it is
hereby presented in full:
Mr.. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Before proceeding to deliver the
| message which we have brought you
] today, we bespeak your permission to
make a few preliminary remarks.
When the Queen Of Sheba visited
King Solomon, she said, after listen
| ing to his words Of wisdom and seeing
the magnificent temple which he had
just erected: Behold, the half was
not told to me-" and, such is our con-
dition today, as we behold the new
Il dilu "hiSi thS pOo
pie of York county have wisely erect
ed.
When the kindly and most highly
appreciated invitation to address you
on this occasion was accepted, we were
uncertain what should be our sub
ject 1t occurred to us that we might
devote a considerable part Of our al
loted time in discussing the battle of
Kings Mountain, which, in its results,
was one Of the great battles Of the
world; but we found that there was
nothing to be added to che historical
| information, which had been given by
great writer's and eloquent orators on
several occasions, devoted to that sub
| ject.
1t then occurred to us that it would
| be we'll to give a sketch Of the MEM
bers of your bar, which has been
famous from it's earliest history, but
we remembered, at once, that we had
been forestalled by an eminent jurist,
who now adorns the supreme court Of
South Carolina, and is adding new
laurels to those which he had won, as
an able and conscientious circuit
judge.
When the distinguished orator from
Virginia, Hon. John w. Daniels, de-
livered the centennial address at
| Kings Mountain on the 7th Of Oc-
tober, 1880, he commenced his Grafton
with these words:
MY Countrymen: Upon this spot
one hundred years ago, this day, was
a great battle Of the people, fought
by the people alone.
There was not a bayonet; not a
cannon. There was no martial music.
There was no gilded banner. There
was no chaplain. There was no ambu-
lance or wagon. There was no general
officer. There was not single regular
soldier in the army Of victory There
were men here, and they did deed
for which all mankind should be
grateful, and which the ages will re-
member Before the battle. mothers,
Of sons, husbands and brothers, as
sisting in the last detail Of slender
preparation, in giving the farewell
kiss that would grow in the hearths.
and send the electric thrills along
their arms on the day Of battle"
There were men then, and we still
need those who are men, in solving
! the great social, economic and politi-
cal problems that are now confront
ing us.
Let 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 cannot
kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot
buy,
Men who have honor men who will
not lie;
Men VINO can stand before a dema-
gogue,
And damn his treacherous batteries
without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above
the fog,
In public duty and private think
ing"
The words uttered in regard to the
mothers, wives and daughters, who
assisted, in the battle of Kings Noun
tain cause us to digress for moment,
to mention another brave woman.
| When Preston S. Brooks introduced
a bill in congress for the pension of
one Of Edgefield's patriotic daugh-
ters, who had lost her husband and
her three sons in the Mexican war,
he narrated the fact, that three CEN
turies ago, when border feuds were
common, a maiden born on the shore
| Of Lake Constance, had gone to seek
| her fortune in Switzerland, and learn
ing by accident, in the family in which
she was 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
Rhine, and by her timely warning,
saved her birthplace and her people
from sack and slaughter
| An equestrian monument was erect
| ed in her honor, but her heroiSm
is to this day commemorated by a
memorial more touching. Each night
as the watchman goes his round, when
| the hour Of midnight arrives he calls
aloud the name Of her who, three
hundred years before, awoke the
sleeping inhabitants, and rescued them
from danger. The historian appro-
priately says that the fame and men,
ory Of that girl has given a tone and
spirit to the youth Of that little town,
which is worth. in it's defense, bat
talon Of armed men.
| Those who have read Ben Hur will
recall the mysterious manner in which
the three men from different parts of
the world met as if by Providence. 1t
has it's counterpart in the manner in
which the scattered men Of the wilder
ness met at Kings Mountain. 1t
seemed as if some masonry Of the
woods had given the watch word to
the dwellers-as if the lightnings had
conveyed to them the signs Of dis
tress from their brethren, and the
wings of the wind had borne them an
| answer
| When the flag of the Confederacy
was furled. Father Ryan in one of his
beautiful poems tells us that, "Out of
the gloom future brightness is born;
as after the night comes the sunrise
of morn"
Tradition tells US that out Of the
gloom which we have mentioned, fu-
ture brightness was born by reason
of the fact that the men Of York coun-
ty became the leaders of n myster-
ious organization. which caused many
of them to leave the state for the
time being, in order to avoid prOsecu-
tion under the Federal statutes, but
that this organization struck terror in
to the political leaders among the
negroes, and saved the state, eventu-
ally, from negro domination.
| When we behold the industrial
progress Of your county, and realize
the grand work which Winthrop col
lege is doing throughout the country