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revolutionary war. Obligng historians and a
meated each Other into this conviction. The
only difficulty is to drug Truth, so that she
shall Slumbrr forever. Let us appeal TO facts.
In Charleston, Nov Is, l77S.a public meeting
resolved TO seize the tea in Charleston harbor
and they did seize it and prevent its sale.
The citizens of Boston threw the len over
board into Boston harbor af crwards; but they
disguised themselves as Indians and did the act
in the darkness of night. The citizens Of Char
lest on had already done similar act in daylight,
and in the eye of the sun. Were their different
modes of action in this matter indicative of i
difference in the character of the two people?
Since then, secret party, organised IN mystery,
and plotting under "cavernous archwavs," has
ruled Massachusclts-but in South Carolina it
found no resting spnt.
In l7G5 Colonel John Ashe and COL Waddel,
of North Carolina, with band of brave com-
patriots, seized Il British soop. uf-war with stamp
paper on board. and carried the stamp paper in
triumph 10 Wilmington. They publicly burnt
il; then forced the royal governor to yield up
the stamp master FIR that colony TO them, and
compelled him to take an oath not to execute
his Office Here WAS an act OF heroism and
magnanimity greater than that of the Boston
tea party or the battle of Bunker Hill.
At T.. arlolte on The Goth May, IT'S, the
Mecklenburg declaration of Independence was
made. This WAS the prototype Of the Declara-
lion of Independence of l77G. The first victory
in the revolution was won ut Alonrc's Creek,
North Carolina. on the 9Th February, l776.
Well MAY the Old North State, her head pillow
I'd upon her laurels, sleep s"undiy. Soundly
she has slept-so soundly that Massachusetts
has filcled from her the honor Of her earliest
achievements.
Into James river, too, did the gallant sons Of
Virginia throw British stamp paper. These acts
have heen celebrated in no oraIions, and EN-.
Lalmcd in nc poem; but the lea party Of Bos-
ton is
"Pealed and chimcd ON every tongue of fame.
Those who performed most Of the rchirv-
me!ts Of the revolution have not written lis
history.
Now, sir, will proceed with The charges
agains. South Carolina. Mr.. Sabine says:
'.'rhc whole number of regulars enlisted for
the continental service froui the beginning 10
The close of the struggle WAS 23l $50; Of tlleor,
| have once remarked, G7,907 were from Mas
s:,cIuse,ts; and may now add that every
State south Of Pennsylvania provided bui So
49S-S4l4 less than This single State Yet dd
$500 wing soldiers exhaust her resources Ol
men! Could she furnish only 752 more than
Rhode Island. the smallest Stale ii! the cnnird-
eracy: only unc-fifth uf The number of Cu"nec-
iicut; only one-half as many lis New Hump
shire, then an almost unbrokrn wilderness! SHE
did nu,;Sshes couid not, defend
her own tories: and it is hardly al eXlggcra
lon to add thai more wings vi New E"@and
We're sent to hrr aid, and new lie buried in i!er
suil. than s!ie sent from il tr every sceI:c oi
strife from Lexington 10 Yorktown"
affirm that there was not IL single New Eng
land company in South CayuIiua lhruugIul lhr
revolutionary war. affirm thai there wIs rul
Carniiim throughput the whole progress OF thai
conflict. let Us appeal TO history.
When Charleston was first :is>;iilpd, in Jane.
l77G, though Charles Lee wls sent to take COM
rillnd of her deiruces, he brought no lrcnps
The battle OF Fort Moulric was fought asd
won by Cen. Mourie and COL Thompson, with
only ll!e native militia of 'ulh Caruia. From
behind 4 slender breastwork, hastily consruc.
ted, Grurral Moutrie shattered Il Bril>i! fleet.
aud with five OR six hundred militia Col. Th"lIp-
son drove back TWO thousand British regulars.
Whun Lincoln WAS sent 10 10 lake command.
what was The order given to him by Congress:
1t was "to take command of all their forces lu
the southwark" (Ram,ay,l What constituted
the regular army Of Gen. Gates when he moved
10 Camden? Fourteen hundred continental
troops, consisting Of The Delaware and Maryland |
lines (JoIll,son's Gre me-. With these were
militia from \irgiuia and North Carolina. The
remains of this army constituted the nucleus OF
that ut Gen. Greene, for which he received no
renforcenenls Of regulars, except the legion of
Col. Lee, most Of which Were Virginia aud
Maryland recruits, and Il lcg!onary corps, also,
from Virginia, commanded by General Lawson.
Sir, these are al the continental troops which
W ere in South Carolina throughout the revolu.
tvnary war. Thirty bloody battles were fough:
upn her soil, but they were all fought by south
ern men. Sir, in the darkest hours of the Rcvo
luton, when the cloud Of defeat hung from all
the arches of our sky, her partisan leaders, in
swamp businesses and Oh mountain top, kept
the fires of Independence brightly burning. In
The widest storm uf that struggle, the Palmetto
ship rf State WAS held, with uuconquerable firm
ncss, 10 lis path of revolution, beaconed righl
onward by the eternal. stars of resistance and
liberty. While British fleets darkcned her coasts,
and British armies ravaged her soil while ma
raudlng tories and Indian balds wrapped her in
i,IllrS and dreicird her in blvud there sprung
up all over her ;iiat brilliant race Vt PARTISAN
warrior, who have nr,cr been surpassed in the
history oil human warfare. From her native
militia there spraug up Marion and Sumter.
l'ickcns ani Lacy and Cleveland and Adair, and
Darie aud Hampton and Mayhem aud Tnumas,
aud Brallun and Ruebuck, and host Of others,
whose deeds rival even the legends Of Spartan
daring aud Roman pru%ess. Sir. for four years
south Carolina WAS The theatre of conflict for
both the American and British armies, and from
her wasted soil, and through the labor Of her
slave population, was su. tenance provided for
both The conlcnling par;ie-. repeat the de-
clamlion that Iot sirg!e private soldier from
Massachusetts was in South Carolina through
"ut the whole Revolutionary war. The thirty
battles within her limits were fought by South-
ern men.
Mr.. Sabine also says:
.Souih Carolina, with northern army to
assist her, could not, or would not, preserve her
own capital"
Sir, have already said that there was not 4
New England company in South Carolina at
any period of the war, and pronounce the
above statement 10 be IL fraud and fasehood.
What are The facts of lie case? Three times
during the war was Charleston assailed What
WAS the conduct of the Carulinians during the
lirst assault? Ramsay says:
In South Carolina, particularly, every exrr-
ton had been made to put the province, and es
peclaIIy lis capital, in II respectable posture of
dcicrre"