The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1856-07-02
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broke open the arsenas and distributed
the arms. 1t was but few DAYS after
wards before Boston sent vessel to South
Carolina Cor bread and wine. We sent
them, L think, So, 500 worth Of provisions,
and seventy barrels of wine-the Maine
liquor law did not prevail in Boston at
that time. Laughter. We gave them
bread; and, answer for it, South Caro-.
lima has never asked pay for her hospital
ny. She would never brook the thought
OF asking pay for the bread she poured
out upon her countrymen countrvmcn
they were, sir. Massachusetts was with
out powder then, and we furnished her
with it. Here | will say, lest forget it,
that the battles Of Lexington and Bunker
li'II IN the Revolution, regard rs the
battles OF Marathon and Salamis. They
! gave the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
an immortality for commencing the clo
rlous contest wnIcs has resulted in the in.
dependence Of these United States; and
shall be the last man TO touch the lau,cl
crown which grows from the blood that
enriched the soil upon which those battles
were fought. The very powder that WAS
used after the !attle Of Bunker Iii. WAS
furnished by South Carolina. Here is
the entry, not onI Y in the history of South
Carolina, but in the history of Ma>sachu
sets. In liamsay's History of the R.vo.
luton i'll South Carolina, volume |, p;.po
43, YOU Will find:
:" At the time all these military prepa
rations were making, the whole quantity
OF powder in the province did not exceed
three thousand pounGs. The people not
originally designing military opposition
no care was taken to provide stores Lu,
now, reduced to the alternative Of fighting
or submitting, extraordinary methods
were taken to obtain supply. The in.
hahitants of East Florida having never
joined IN measures of opposition to Great
britain, the ports of that province were
open Tor the purposes Of trade.
! Twelve persons. in which number were
included Captains Temrircrc Cochran,
Tufts, Joyncr, Mcssrc. Tcbant, William.
son and jenkins, authorized by the Coun
Gil of Safety, sailed from Charleston for
that coast, and, Ly surprise, boarded a
vessel near the bar OF s.. Augustine.
though twelve British GrcMaliers Of the
l4th regiment were on board. They took
out fifteen thousand pounds of powder, for
which they gave n bill OF exchange TO the
captain; and, having secured safe re-
treat to themselves, 10y spiking the guns
OF the powder vessel, they set sail for Car.
olina. Apprehcnding that they should
he pursued, they stecrcl for Beaufort
From that place they came hy The inland
navigation, and delivered their prize to
the Council of Safety, whilst their pursu.
ers were looking for them at the bar of
Charleston. This seascnaLle supply cna-
bled the people of South Carolina to ohiec
their suffering brethren in Massachusetts,
who, though Immediately exposed to the
Bn,tsh army, were in great mcasu re
destitute OF that necessary article 0: de-
fence"
In book published in Boston, entitled
Dealings with the Dead" find these
entries:
"Oar Southern eonfcdcralcs are cnti.
tied to civililJ, because tlicy are men and
brethren; and they are entitled to kind.
ness and courtesy from us of Boston. be-
cause We owe item debt OF gratitude
which it would be shameful TO forget
Since We, OF the North, have presumed to
he undertakers uDon This occasion, let lis
do the thlng DE CNNTER TT oRNATE.'-
! Besides, our fric DDS Of the South are no
tonousIy tcsiy and hot headed; they are,
| geographically, children Of the Sun. John
Smiths description of the Massachusetts
| Indians, in 1914, Richmond edition, 9,
1913, is truly applicable tn the southern
people: very kind, but, in their fury, no
! less valiant
Il am no more inclined to uphold the
! south, III the continued practice Of n NOR
al wrong, because they gave lis bread
When We were hungry, as they certainly
did, than was SIR Mathew Hale to decide
tavGraGly tor the sni'or who sent him the
June %, I774.-Twenty.four DAYS
after the port bill went into operation, n
public meeting was held at Charleston,
South Carolina. The moving spirits we've
the Trapicrs and the Eiiotls, the IIorri~s
and the Clarksons, the Gadslens and the
Pnckneys, OF that day; and resolutions
were passed full Of brotherIy love and
sympathy for tie Inhabitants of Boston"
+ n
"NEw YoaK, August Is, ITI4.-Sat.
urday last Captain Dickersou arrived here,
and brought three hundred and seventy.
six barrels Of rye from South Carolina, to
bc sol', and proceeds RENTED to Boston,
present 10 the sufferers; still lsggcr
cargo Is 20 be shipped for the Ike beneyo
lent purpose"
Let the work OF abolition go forward
in dignifed and decent spirit. Let II,
argue; and, so Ear as we rigufuily may,
let us legisiatc. Let us bling the whole
worlds sympathy up TO the work or
emancipation. But let us not reviIe and
vituperate those who are, TO all in,cn,s
and purposes, our brethren, as certainly
as h they lived just over the Roxbury
line, instead OF Msson and Dixou's. Such
harsh end uumitigated scofIing and abuse.
as we too often witncss, arc equally uncra
clous, unsentlemanly and ungrntcfuI."