The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-09


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The South Carolina Fighters.
If one were to form his opinions of the bellieer.
ent nature of people in Souih Carolina from what
the orators of secession say, he would be precipi-
tated head or tail foremost, as the case might be.
into the conviction that South Carolina is not only
the most d0gmatcal but also the most puena cio,is
State, nation, empire, confederacy, of ancient or
OF modern times. According to such irresistible
authorities as Rhett, Seabrook, Means, and the
like, every dear little baby that is born in Carolina
has bump OF combativeness flanking each side of
its darling head as big hens egg. These
bumps, or something in fhem lead to the most in.
teres'ing results. The first thing nufier in EN-
bryo does, on getting his eyes open in this world
is TO seize the dark huZzy that is to nurse him by
the Hat end OF the nose. and give it tweak which
assures her that she holds a genuine hero in her
arms. Al the age Of four weeks, the little son of
thunder has matured his fighting qualities that
he thinks it a rich pastme knock his nurse
across the room by wedirected and we'll applied
blow from his miniature fist As he grows older
and gets into breeches, he amuses himself by up
setting all the darkies that happen to come in his
way. He goes 10 school, and then he perfects his
education by be oming remarkably expert in that
most important and manly of all sciences, namely
the science of pugtsm. Nothing is more common
than to see couple Of young men, not yet escaped
from the bondage Of roundabouts, strip themseves
in the road, and just for fun, make few passes
each other. On these beautiful occasions, it al.
ways happens that both of the charming youths
whack away at each other until the claret streams
delightfully."- from each nostril, and then, covered
with dust and blood, they declare that as blood
has been drawn il is a drawn battle, and adjourn
to resume the sport next day or next week.
The last finishing stroke having been given to
his education, the youthful secessionis is ready for
suit OF broadcloth and beard to suit Having
achieved much. he asnras tn tba In 20 n
OF pair OF pistols, with which he practices
fused outlines of men drawn in chalk on barn doors.
He then, with pistols all ready, mounts his horse,
and, with his heels garnshed with stirrups, proceeds
to stir up the neigl lborhood by exrrtion of his
Dragging propensities. He soon encounters a chap
of like intentions and fight is soon arranged. If
he is so fortunate as to have leg or an arm per-
orated, his fortune is made, and by way of honor,
| he is dubbed Major by majority of his neigh.
bors, or admitted to the title Of General by general
consent.
He is now ready for the rostrum, and addresses
| his fellow citizens at all the crossroads in the
county. II he has the consti tutonal qualifications
OF member Of the Legislature, that is to say, is
twenty one years old, owns plantation of few
hundred acres and at least ten negroes, believes
| South Carolina to be whole continent, and her
people equal to all the of mankind he is pretty
to be developed into candidate for the Legis.
lature with pretty good chance Of election.
Having served term in the State House at Co.
lumba, he is regarded of the great living
orators of the State, and holds himself ready for
any contingency. He is put in command of the
militia, and reads the lives OF julius Cpsar Han
niba Alexander. and Scipio Aricanus, and feels as
martial thunder-cloud His hair brises up
like clustering bay nets, his heart beats like a
drum, the snap of his thumb and finger is like the
| crack of rifle, he sneezes like swivel, and wher
| he purges his se, there is a succession OF suci
sounds as come from trumpet slightly afflicte
| with asthma.
IL He is full of fight He longs for a field and
foe. His only chance is to get up fight with II
, United States, and he turns his attention to Il
grand subject OF ag tation He becomes as indii
te-,aHir with a coal Of fire upon its bacl
whenever he talks of the wrongs which all tn
world is continually striving to pile up on Sout
| Carolina. He takes his ground firmly and aver
| himself for disunion now and forever.
| All the newspapers speak of him as a sort O.
| union of Demosthenes and Hannibal; as an incom.
parable orator, and soldier with abilities superior
to any af the worlds desolators He reads the life
of Marion, and learns from Horny and Weems all
about the hercuean achievements of his State du-
ring the revolution. Hencetorth his speeches take
historical turn, and he descants both luxuriously
and luxuriantly on the incaculable services rem.
dered by South Carolina to the cause of Indepen-
dence.
1t is excessively true that during the revolution
poor South Carolina was full of fight For long
while the fight was desperate between her own
sons, her wings and tories. AT length the tide
of fortune turned against the whiss and toryism
trlumphed. The imperial bird of Jove lost its TO-
vlality and flew in dismal flight from the colony
patriots were declared guilty of treason and were
hung on trees-and the colony was cowed by John
Bull, and succumbed.
While things were in this interesting pass il
happened that slab sided Yankee from Rhode
Island. Quaker general. named Greene, marched
INTO South Carolina at the head of few Yankee
regiments on foot He drove the British awav.
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South Carolina to rise up from her prostrate con.
dlllon This is the bitterest reminiscence in her
history Her heroic sons never recur to it. They
talk rapturously of Marion and Moutrie, and
Sumter and the rest of the good fighting men, but
make 1t point of conscience to efer to the
Yankee invasion under Greene which relieved the
colony of British thraldom and tory nsoence
Governor Seabrook does not, as we see, brook the
idea that the State which he has ruled ever
was indebted to Yankees for emancipation from
tyranny. Governor Means declares that no such
means were ever used to extricate South Carolina
from the clutch of the tories and the hOof of Bull
and Rhett retches up his breakfast whenever he
remembers that to such wretches his beliieerent
Stale was once indebted for salvation. The fact
that Greene and his men relieved South Carolina
OF red coat tories has been thoroughly and right
fully ignored by public sentiment in that fighting
coDfederacy.
Now, that South Carolina is getting ready TO
fight the Union, We who live outside of that won.
derful State may console ourselves by rejecting
that as the grandaddies of the present bellieerent
generation were not invincible, we NAV possibly,
in the event of a fight, escape such a doom as
Alaric, Attila, Tamerlane, and such barbarian
conquerors visited on the people whose countries
they overran. As during the revolutionary war
the tories got the upper hand in the State SO they
are now also in the ascendancy. As toryism was
scattered to the winds during that contest, we NAV
disianlly hope that such fate may overwhelm the
present toryism with which the State is SO ram.
pant Louisville tKy) Journal.
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