CORNELIA. I do not kneel to you. Hear me, ye Gods! GRACCHUS. Noble mother! Forgive me that I have so often spurned Your wiser councils. Now the ghosts of them, To show me all my folly, and my sin. (Disengages himself gently from Licinia, who falls fainting into Cornelia's arms.) And for this poor heart-broken thing, Receive her, mother, as the legacy Of all the love I bear you. (Exit with friends.) CORNELIA. What means my niggard eyes that they do leave (Pauses thoughtfully.) THE DEATH OF GRACCHUS From Act V, Scene VII. GRACCHUS. Here I must stop. Exhaustion seizes me. Receive me, a self-offered sacrifice To ward your vengeance from unhappy Rome. Methinks ye heed my prayer. I see ye now. Your blood-shot eyes gaze on me with a look Inexorable and yet half in pity. Your serpent hair towards me hissing seems Officiating priest, my brow I bind With cedar wreaths, for my own sacrifice, And wait the blow that to your vengeance gives me. PHILOCRATES. Never. (Enter Opimius with troops, Lucullus, Septimulieus, etc.) OPIMIUS. There stands the traitor. Down with him! Ye pause, ye rabble crew, as though ye saw SOLDIER. Methinks it is. I would not dare to touch him for my life. SECOND SOLDIER. Nor I. The thought would haunt me to my grave. LUCULLUS. Then take thy death from me. (Philocrates throws himself in the way, receives the blow, and at the same strikes Lucullus. Both fall.) He's killed me. Oh! to die by a slave's hand! GRACCHUS (looking at Philocrates.) And thou art gone, my last true friend, before me. (Septimulieus creeps behind Gracchus and stabs him.) 'Tis done! I thank ye, Gods! (Dies.) SEPTIMULIEUS. The gold is mine! OPIMIUS. Villain! it is. EDWARD MCCRADY [1833-1903] EDWA ALEXANDER S. SALLEY, JR. DWARD McCRADY, LL.D., D.C.L., son of the Honorable Edward McCrady (1802-1892) and Louisa Rebecca (Lane) McCrady, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, April 8, 1833. He received his preparatory training at the school of Samuel Burns in his native city, and was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1853. After reading law in his father's office he was admitted to the Bar in May, 1855, and immediately entered upon the practice of law with his father. He took an active interest in the militia and in May, 1854, was elected major of a rifle battalion. The next year he wrote several articles on the necessity of militia reform. This led to his appointment on a commission, created under a resolution of the General Assembly in 1859, to examine the militia system of the State. In 1860 he resigned his commission as major of the rifle battalion and accepted the captaincy of a company of guards. His active service in the State military establishment began with the taking of Castle Pinckney in the harbor of Charleston, December 27, 1860, and ended with the surrender of Fort Sumter, April 13, 1861. He then entered the service of the Confederate States, June 27, 1861, as captain of the Irish Volunteers, of Charleston, the first company to volunteer for the war. He was at once ordered to Virginia, and his company was attached to the First (Gregg's) Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers. He was promoted Major December 14, 1861, and Lieutenant-colonel June 27, 1862. When the great battles around Richmond began soon after, Colonel McCrady was sick in bed in that city, but determined to join his command in the field, and so expressed himself to his physician, who positively refused to give his permission, assuring him that he could be of no use in the lines, and predicting death as the penalty of the attempt. Nevertheless, although too weak to ride on horseback, he hired a carriage and had himself driven to the lines, joining his brigade just as the battle of Cold Harbor began, and reporting to General Gregg for duty. As he was unable to walk, General Gregg ordered him to serve on his staff, so that he might remain mounted. In this manner he shared the fortunes of his brigade during the action, rendering valuable services, but fainting three times upon the field. After the battle he was taken back to his sick-bed in Richmond, to linger for weeks with typhoid fever. On July 30, 1862, although scarcely recovered and still very feeble, he rejoined his regiment and commanded it at the battle of Cedar Run and at Second Manassas, where he was severely wounded in the head. Narrowly escaping death from this wound, he missed the Maryland campaign, but rejoined his command after its return to Virginia, during the affair at Snicker's Gap. He was present for duty at the battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, and rendered good service in assisting in the repulse of the Federal attack on Gregg's brigade, in which General Gregg was killed. On January 27, 1863, while in camp on Morse's Neck, he was seriously injured by a falling tree and rendered unfit for further field duty. Rejoining his command several times, only to find himself physically disabled, he saw his last actual engagement at Mine Run in December, 1863; and in March, 1864, he was transferred to the command of the camp of instruction at Madison, Florida, where he served until April, 1865. While on his way to join the Army of Northern Virginia he heard of General Lee's surrender, and surrendered himself on May 5, 1865. On February 24, 1863, Colonel McCrady was married at Chester, South Carolina, to Mary Fraser Davie, daughter of Major Allen J. Davie, an officer of the War of 1812, and granddaughter of Major William R. Davie, a famous leader of North Carolina militia in the Revolution and subsequently a general in the United States Army, Minister to France, and Governor of North Carolina. In October, 1865, McCrady resumed the practice of law in co-partnership with his father in Charleston. In 1867 he organized the Survivors' Association of Charleston, and two years later accepted its presidency. He was also chairman of the executive committee of the State Association in 1869, and commenced the work of recovering and collecting historical materials of the war between the United States and the Confederate States. His report of 1870 forms the basis of all the information we now have of the troops of South Carolina in the Confederate service. In 1880 he was elected a member of the General Assembly, and was returned by successive reëlections till 1888. During his incumbency he introduced and carried through that body an act to establish a Bureau of Confederate War Records, a bill to prevent dueling, a bill perfecting the railroad laws of the State, and the famous “Eight Box Ballot Law," the first step toward an educational qualification for voters. In 1882 he was appointed Major-general of the State Militia, and had much to do with bringing the militia of the coast region to a high degree of efficiency. His legal services in connec |