The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-11-09
NISHES LEADERS
IN PEACE MOVEMENT
South Carolinians Have Long Taken Promi-
nent Part as Opponents of War-School
III Darlington First to Ally Its Work
With Peace Program In
terest in Washington Arma-
nent Conference
If icIIN

ssssH III lcUN-
lille the eyes of the world will
5 turned towards Washington
ENDvesnber { when the disarma-
1ient conference is being held,
sSSouth Garolnians have special rea-
ssisx 70 be interested in that history
king event, for a small private
ool IN this state holds the proud
q bee OF being the first school in
Z he world TO ally is work with the
s73Isseaf peace movement that is now
sseeping over the naS.ons.
Yke holding of this conference in
askiugton provides opportunity
HE bringmg 30 public attention
me of the work of South Caro-
81 as an earnest Of the work she
to accomplish in helping the adj
neement Of The great cause from
line forth
his school to which reference
naade was located in Darlington,
M undertook to have exercises
s<{z<kt4{E<zk3S0uSSy W. LII : G11OSSs iS1o at
Hague May Is, 1899, and hav-
calculated the difference in
lime at The Hague and at Darling
t6n the exercises at Darlington be-
8an at the same time as, those at
Tle Hague, the school rising and
are the song OF jubilee,
Let sc ECHO Ger the sea,
LET It sound from shore to shore,
Jesus reigns foreyermore.
md songs and reading were con-
Hed touching the blessings Of
peace for two hours.
aong Iae readings were those
elating directly to the meeting and
1enabership Of the conference at
Es7e Hague, was Tinrod's Prayer
Szox Peace, and his Why May Not
s{s0ve ard Life Be One? Whittiers
Barclay OF tU5rly. Longfellow's Ar
1aI at Springfield; ? DR.. Wagland's
sznoraIty Of War Whitney's.
le CAL for Peace Tennyson's
81 c7den Year, and extracts from
ks1ey Hall. Attention was
zsszes TO the pictures on the walls
hose; who now are enlisted, and
hose who, In the years gone by,
]SBefea to give the world the
Ssee Tor which Christ died
The@P Peace Advocate OF Bos-
which is the organ of the
eaca Societysof America, and in
peace organ OF England. called
Ee;5eord established by Richard
<>abden, notice was taken OF the
that South Carolina was lead
id the peaee-werk. The editor
of The Advocate, commenting
This fact was in the following
xSoTas John j. Dargan of
zartsyiIie, G.. was the only ac-
seaited delegate from the south
{ he peace congress at Boston.
Sxsr1olzs3y enough, too, he was the
delegate from any association
teaehers from. anywhere. He.
sent to the congress by the
SState Teachers, association of.
South Carolina
Dargan recalled the inter
esting fact that on the very day
fduay A, 1845) that Charles Sumner.
xelvered his oration on The True
randeur Of Nations, in Boston,
ss3afaes Patigru, probably the
Hbiest lawyer that South Carolina
ever produced, delivered an Grafton
"a Charleston on The True Glory
America. in which he empha-
xszed the triumphs OF peace and
s3xzenpunced war as the reign Of vio-
ence and the scourge Of the hu-
race Still earlier. in 1888,
Hugh Legare of South Carolina,
chairman OF the committee on
$4preign affairs, in the report on
he petition from the New York
eaee society, declared that peace
the hope Of liberty, peace con-
Hecrated as the standing funda-
HaentaI policy Of the world. And
Jeln c. Calhoun, in his speech in
The United States senate, in 1876,
0a he Oregon boundary question
sadd 81 am in principle opposed to
:s,Mar and in favor of peace, because
regard peace as a positive good
4zad war as positive evil . I
app0se war not simply on patriotic
kr0und Of citizen, locking to the
freedom and prosperity of his own
countTy, Bat on still broader
SYrNftfsS7S aS a friend of inprova
{ Rfent civilization and progress
It is gratifying to see so large
and Influential a body as the State
Teachers association of South
carolina awakening to the import
ance OF the peace movement and
citing with pride, the enlightened
s Sentiments on. this question of some
sof their eminent statesmen of the
stcentury.
Concord, the European peace or
gan published in London, had
heading, From Far Carolina
sgned g.. III. p" which proceeds
:tp say:
One of the many interesting
persenalities at the Boston con-
gress, Of whom I was not able to
sBrite at the time, was Mr.. John
ADargan OF South Carolina, the only
delegate from the entire south or
from any American teachers as
Hociation. Mr.. Dargan is vice pres
|ident Of the South Carolina Teach
,HB association and president of