Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-10-26
From the Ohio whIe.
ROBERT Y. HAYNg.

otates'null, whose name Is at the head Of
TINS article, though few men have lived and
dled IN TINS country, whose merits entitled
them TO richer tributes of national respect
Whose memories deserve stronger abi.
ding place in American hearts, than those
Of RoBERr Y. HAYNE. 1t is not proner.
perhaps, IN this place to surmse any rea-
sons why they should be withheld, by the
eading presses, whether it is owing to the
inpopularity of some Of his polictical opin-
lons, or whether, it is because his name
needs no eulogY, leave for others to deter
| nine. At the expense of some little re.
search, beg leave to submit to yourreaders..
the following brief sketch of Mr.. Haynes
career.
Robert Y. Hayne was the third son Of a
respectable planter. He was born near
Charleston, s. c.. on the 10th Nov. I79I..
His father was unable to afford him the ad-
vantages of Collegiate education; but he
sent him to a common Gra mmar School in,
the city OF Charleston, where he begun and
finished, his preparatory studies for the pro-
fesston of the Law. lie commenced the
study of his profession, at the age of severn
teen, in the office of Langdon Cheeves, nc
Charleston, and was admtted to an exami-
nation, some SIX months, de brRe esse, under
a rule of Court, that his certificate should
issue, when he had attained the age Of
twenty one. War broke out about this
time, and Mr.. Hayne took the field, as Lieu
tenant in the State Troops, under COM
mand of Col. VIM. Drayton.-His first eff
fort as an Orator, was made on the 4th Of
July 1879, on which occasion, he delivered
an address before the officers and soldiers
of the garrison, at Fort Moutre. He was
honorably discharged from the regiment,
shortly after, returned TO Charleston, recei-
we'd his certificate of admission to the bar,
and commenced the practice of his profess
sion. The election of Mr.. Cheeves to
Congress about this time, threw the burden
| of his business into the hands of Mr. Hayne.
At the age of twenty-five, Mr.. Hayne was
married, and in 1914, at the head of list
Of thirty -one candidates, he was elected to
the South Carolina Legislature, by the lar
gest number of votes ever given to an indi-
vidual in the city Of Charleston. After SER
wing five years as member Of the House,
at the age oftwenty- he was unani-
mously chosen Speaker of the body, and pre-
sided over its de'lber 1tlons, during the ses-
sion Of 1913. He left this house under the
appointment to the Attorney Generalship of
the Stale of South Carolina, co-incident
with which he was offered the appointment
of Attorney General of the United States,
for the District of South Carolina, by Pre-
sident Monroe, which he refused. Mr..
Hayne continued to hold the office of Attor-
ney General for the State, until December
r522, at which time, having arrived at an
age which would render him eligible, he
was chosen Senator to Congress, for six
years from the l4th of March, 1929, and on
the expiration Of fthis term, IN 1923. he waa
re elected to the same station, without OPP
position, for another period of six years.
He entered the Senate at the age of 81,
where he soon distinguished himself, among
the wise and the great as Statesman Of
liberal and comprehensive views---a ready
and powerful debater-an able and profound
politician. His celebrated speech on tho
Tariff, during the stormy session of 1924,
in which he torcbly and eloquentIy exposed
what he conceived TO be the ruins and i'm
polite tendency of the restrictive system,
was one ofhis first and most brilliant efforts.
Soon after this, he originated, and support
ed by many powerful speeches, a general
bankrupt law, which though it did not sue
ceed, was none the less needed. But ofall
his efforts, on the floor of the Senate, none
nave been more justly admired and applaud
ed, than his two great speeches OH Foot's
resolutions respecting the survey of the
Public Lands. A correspondent from WASH
ington writing of his last speech on that oc-
caslon, says, that it is "Cogent and mas
terly in its relsonng-keen and delicate in
its irony-pure, perspcuous and elevated
in its style, it exhibits profound know
Ledge of the true principles of our constitu-
ton and of the relative right and duties of
the Federal and State Governments ex-
poses the falacy and danger of the con-
structive doctrines, and has already done
much to bring the Federal Government
back to its original limits and intentions,
and to revive and rc-establish the principles
of Jeffarsonian Democracy. As an effort
Of intellect, it will rank among the highest
IN the annals of American eloquence, and
as a ia thful exposition of the true structure
and objects of the American confederacy,
it will be regarded as a text book by the
supporters of the sovereignty of the States,
in every section of the Union"
On the lth Of December, 1888, General
lIayne resigned his Office as Senator, to be
elected Governor of the State of South Ca
roIina. Scarcely had he delivered his in
augural address, before the Presidents Pro-
clamation OF Dec. 10th, of the same year
reached Columbia. Gov. Hayne issued a
counter Proclamation on the Goth OF the
same month, expressed in terms ofthe most
lofty and indignant defiance. The threaten
ed conflict between the Federal Govern
ment and the State of South Carolina, was
prevented by the passage by Congress, of
bill modifying the Tariff, and one design
ed to enforce the collection of the revenue
laws, which took place on the Cd of March,
1888. Gen. George McDufiie was elected
Governor to succeed Gen Hayhe, since
which time he had mingled out little in pub
lie life. He died of fever at Ashvile,
North Carolina, on the 9sd day of Septem-
Der, A. d. 1880, in the forty ninth year Of
his age.
Though dead, he still lives in his works
and in every thing great and noble in hu-
man nature. South Carolina may well be
proud him, as one her most distinguished
sons. The Nation America, may well
cherish his memory, as one who in volumes
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