The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-12-14

~ 'lo cause OF his client. He gave upon
ms , saeatil-b bed a striking illustration of his
deyoti9n. lie was told that, he must newt
aoiya ole IN twenty-four hours. Even under
these circumstances, he remembered the in
terests OF his client. He said that that was
the : last day allowedto him by the practice
Tor fling cross-interrogatories in a certain
examination, and he sent a messenger IN
the adverse counsel. asking for thirty dav,
to be allowed for fling them. It was cheer.
fully granted, and a;verbaI answer returned.
But SO calm and so cautious was he, that no
sent request that the counsel's assent shouId
! be seneto him in writing. He knew that IN
twenty-topr hours he would be dead !; that
in tile midst of the epidemic no life was
certain; that the lawyer who gave the YER.
bal assent, and the messenger who bore il,
might also die, and when the case came on
Tor trial, there would be no evidence of tbe
fact. What noble instance of devotion
to lawyers dutydid he give! The history
OF the bar furnishes no parallel.
Lis practice was worth twenty thousand
dollars year, and he left a vast fortune
made by his practice.
The President and Cashier of the Bank
OF Montgomery also died of the epidemic,
besides many others of our best citizens.
This year the fever originated here. For
this reason it was denied to be yellow fever,
The homGpathist physicians stoutly MAIN
tanned the denial, and I had newspaper
d'sputati"n with one Of them on the sub
iect. By-the-by, homeopathy fourishes
here, and myself am n qualified convert to-
IFS system. like its infnitessimal doses.
its mild and pleasant remedies and when
| am to die, if I die in bed, let homnpathv
sit by my bedside. - Even tho allopathic
physicians have been obliged to adopt its
practice in part.
But what Of politics! We'll, am
member of the American party, vulearly
called Know Nohings. I joined it over a
year ago. Know Nothing is the name by
which outsiders call us, but it is strictly
true that we never gave ourselves that name.
In fact We had no name at all, and we would
have none. That was one of our secrets.
But now, having chosen to have name.
VIC call ours the American party. You
know the general fact that our party was
beaten in the August elections. We con-
tested only four Of the Congressional dis
trcts, and won two of them. Next, year
we will fight the battle over again, under
better promises, and 1 believe we will carry
the State. Ours is now the strongest sin
gle party in the State, and even in all the
Southern States. We have been beaten.
not by Wings or Democrats, lnt by fusion.
OF both. with Catholics and foreigners
thrown in to make up the hideous medley.
The American party in this State numbers
thlrty-threc thousand, the Democratic party
thirty thousand, and the Wing party ten
thousand. Give US fair field, and the VIC
tory is ours. Massachusetts, "the cradle Of
liberty" is ours; the imperial State of New
York IS ours, and our victorious banners
wave over Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas,
and even over the blue waters of the Pa
citic that wash the shores Of California;
Newspapers and stump speakers have ut
tered their clegies over the death of ""Sam."
"lle issnot dead, but sleepetl,." lie is a
young Hercules, and even in his cradle will
strangle tbe4scrpent that Python sent to
destroy tl,em.s Nothing In the book of fate
Is more certain, than that sce aviN elect the
ncrt President, or deteat,an election. Put
that in italics, aud remcmberit. Our party
will! meet in Convention at Cincinnati next
February; will nominate a sound national
candidate orIresident, who can carry New
York.s Seward will be sin$ the field as the
candidate. of the black republicans and
then what will the Southern antics do =
They must either accept our candidate, or
vote for Seward, or run a,candidate of their
own. or not vote at all. Will they vote fol
orr candidate, or Sewatdif If they run a
third candidate, the election will then be-.
traDsterred to Congress- and the choice ;wlls
still be betWesn onrs candidate and. Seward.
In any evcnh we have the game in. otirti;
hands, Don't believe those ssilly fellows.
who tell; ;you s4Sa,n'' ;is dead. f'isamoro;
foolish Tran AN IDIOTS 5iale, and more falsa
thauF Fa syrens song: Dead indeed I when.
in seven sStates our sserried ranks have rout-
cdsat the. first charge, the, 5conglemarated :
n,asssssof Wing, and Democrat; Papist,
Foreigner and Hcssian; when our ! shout 81 J,
triumph, swelling from the golden cate .ofs
tue Pacific, is echoed back from tie rranites !.
hills Of Massachusetts,. ~ ~ D,
@The American party is. Tue only one that
can saye$the South and ths Union ria
Democratic party cannot unite the South ;;EE
it cannot carry New York /; and III cannot
possibly elect the Presideut.St Ifs thes South Z
will. unite on the Amerieani Is toff5s bv: :tEa
vote Of New York alone which s. q, ouis b.,
twelve thousand votes, we. cafisleot .a Preai.e .
den. and majority ii both houses &c Con-
gress. ~ s. ~. sss.
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