Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-06-10
CADEGs
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 10.
poarnAIr OF CHE OPPOSITION.
No. III.
M'DUFFIE.

Among the most ardent, inveterate, and violent
opposers of the Administration, Mr.. GEORGE
NDurFiE of South Carolina sustains a prominent
standing, and by his friends is looked up to as the
the Hercules Of the opposition. The course pur-
sued by him during the last session OF Congress has
.llly illustrated his claims to this distinction, and
the benefits he may derive from it, will be his only
reward. But whether those, under whose auspices
he has figured in the political tournaments of the
faction to which he belongs, will, (afer they have
used him to their satisfaction and hearts content,
and effected their purposes, if their corrupt designs
are completely ever honor him with their conf
dence, i. q problem not easily solved, and one well
worth the attention Of the gladiator of South-Car-
DINA. His labors are certainly worth something
to his partisans, as they are unremitting, and are
worth more 10 the administration us they fall HARM
lessly to the ground; and if they effect any thing,
they 90 to increase its popularity.
The early history Of Mr.. M'DUFFIE is exceed
inyly dark AMI obscure. II is said that he is the son Of
poo- parents, originally from some part of the state
of Connectic II; and we have been informed, but
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tleman under consideration. was himself born in the
land of esteady habits" Be this however a. it may,
it is CERT ain that Mr.. M'DUFFIE had, in his youth
full days, to encounter and contend with many per-
~plexities, and was compelled to acquire the lesser
ruoiments of an English education, by laborious
study, afer the ordinary labors Of the day were sus-
pended and that in those hours when the more sf-
fluent lull themselves into the forgetfulness ofre-
pose, on beds OF down, he, by the CLEAN of the mid
night taper, solved the ,ntricacies Of his vernacular
language, and the depths oflesrning
Unaided and unprotected, without prospects and
without hopes, he found himself at a period OF life.
when most young men begin to advance toward,
the goal Of their ambition, tied down to the duh
pursuits OF mercantile employment, and his genius
~ thering Neneath the oppressive load Of inherited
misfortune.. He was not insensible that his tall
ents, if brought before the public, would command
applause, and gain for him that fame for which he
painted b I how to introduce himself to the notice
Of he multitude, was a difficulty he knew not how
TO conquer. Fortunately, however, for him a
GENT ernan distinguished for hi. legal attainments,
A. well as for the interest he took in the culture OF
native genius, discovered MIR. M'DUFFIE in this I'M
pleasant situation; and finding that his mind was Of
no ordinary cast, he advised him to throw aside the
Waste Bo * AMI Leger, for the cumbrous volumes Of
the authors Of legal science. The proposition was
readily accepted by Mr.. M'DurFIE, and under the
protection Of hi. kind patron, who had undertaken
to draw him from the depths Of ob.curity which
c!ouded hi. pro.pect..he commenced the study ofthe
law, and after a little period, began its practice. In
his practice he was unusually successful, and he had
the satisfaction of finding himself on the great high
way to prefermept, ere he had been three years at
the bar of the tribunal. Of South Carolina; and the
vsy opened for him to attain the bonors which the
people are ever ready to bestow upon the %virtuou'
and deserving.
Hi. popularity was now so well established that,
a, the instance Of his friends, and the suggestions Of
hi. own feelings, he suffered his name to be placed
before the public, for the Office which he now