| Show thomas smith grampke on disunion fanio IL t t r U j it i v the following eloquent plea for the U union n 1 0 delivered many years a ago k 0 by one of so south u carolinas most d distinguished asting unshed sons bons I 1 is I 1 e especially sp pertinent to the issue iss e now upon us would that the palmetto state had today to day within her borders many men as patriotic tri otic conscientious and wise as thomas smith grampke ke Tro rIi rif let us never forget rather let us remember with a religious awe that the union of these states is ind indispensable is p elsable to our literature as it is likewise li kewis to our national independence and civil liberties to our prosperity happiness and improvement if indeed we desire to behold a literature like that which has sculptured with such energy of expression which has pa painted I 1 anted so faithfully and vividly the crimes th the e vices the follies of ancient and modern europe if we desire that our land should f furnish ur for the orator and the novelist for the P painter ainger and the poet peerage age after age the wild and romantic scenery scenery of war the glittering 0 march of armies and the revelry of the camp tamp the shrieks and blasphemies blasphemy es and all the hor ro rs of the battlefield battle field th the e desolation of the harvest and the barnin burning cottage the storm the sack and the ruin 45 of cities if we desire to un unchain chain the ther furious passions of jealousy and nd selfishness of hatred revenge and ambition those lions that now sleep harmless in their den if we desire that the lake the river the ocean should blush with the blood of brothers that the wind should waft from the ad laird to the sea and from the sea to the land the roar and the smoke of battle that the very mountain tops should become a altars I 1 tars for the sacrifice of brothers if we desire that these and such as these the elements to an ble life extent of the literature of the old world should be the elements olour of our literature then but then only let us hurl frona frosa its proud pedestal the majestic statue of our union and scatter its fragments over all ah the land but if we ise covet for our country tb noblest iov lov lovli ii est purest literature as shall honor god and bless mankind then at ua us clin clina to the union n of these states with a patriotic love a scholars aeb ars s e enthusiasm enthus n th us i iam lam m and a christians Christi christl anas hope |
