The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-07-17

ths single State yet did $500 whg soldiers exhaust her
Rhode Island the smallest State IN the conederacy only
one-hfth of the nueber Of Connecticut only onehaf
She did not she could not defend herself aganst her
own tories and IL hardly exsggerAon 70 add that
s barsdP hsr soil than she sent from Il every scene u
strife fou Lexington 70 Yorktown" (. s,..-..,
i affirm that there not single New England COM
any In South Carolina throughout the revolutionary war
ahrm that there was not single soldier from Massa-
chussts In South Carolina throughout the whole progress
| OF lhat conflict Let us appeal TO history.
| When Charleston was first assaied In June, l77G,
though Charles Lee sent 10 take command of her de-
fences he brought troops The battle OF Fort Mouie
was fought and won by Gen. Moure and Col Thompson
with only the native militia of South Carolina From be-
hind slender breaswoik, hastily constructed Gen. Moul-
tre shattered British feet and with FIVE six hundred
miia COL Thompson drove back two thousand British
feynlaf q ,... r. us.a. d. ..r
When Lincoln was sent to take command what was the
order given TO him BY Congress Il was ITO take com
mand OF all their forces to the southwark (Ramsay)
What constituted the regular army Of Gen. Gates when he
moved on Camden Fourteen hundred continental troops
consisting OF the Delaware and Maryland lines (John-
sons Greene) With these were militia from Virginia and
North Carolina The remains of this army constituted the
nucleus Of that Of Gen. Greene for which he received
most of which Virginia and Maryland recruits and
egonary corps also, from Virginia, commanded by Gen.
Lawson ... .2 ... h..
Sit these all the continental troops which were in
South Carolina throughout the revolutionary Thirty
bloody battles were fought upon her soil but they
fought by southern men, Sir in the darkest hours Of the
arches OF our sky, her partisan leaders, in swamp fast
nesses and on mountain top kept the fires of ndepen
denee brightly burning In the widest storm Of that
struggle the Palmetto ship of State held with
querabe hmness, TO its path of revolution, beaconed
tight onward by the eternal of resistance and liberty
While British fleets darkened her coasts and British arm
les ravaged her soil while marauding tories and Indian
bands wrapped her in flames and drenched her in blood
there sprung up all over her that brilliant of partisan
warriors who have been surpassed in the history OF
human warfare. From her native militia there sprang up
Marion and SUMTER Pckens and Lacy and Cleveland and
Adar, and Davic and Hampton and Mayhem and Thomas
and Baon and Roebuck aud host OF Others whose deeds
rival even Che legends of Spartan daring and Roman
prowess Sir for four years South Carolina the the
atre OF conflict for both the American and British armies
and from her wasted SOIL and through the labor of her
slave population was sustenance provided for both the
contendng parties repeat the declaration that not
single private soldier from Massachusetts, in South
Carolina throughout the whole revolutionary The
thirty battles within her limits were fought by southern
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Mr. Sabine also says:
"South Carolina with a northern army to assist her
could not, or would not, preserve her own capital"
Sir have already said that there not New Eng
land company in South Carolina at period of the
and pronounce the above statement 10 be fraud and
falsehoud.
What are the facts of the case Three times during the
Charleston assailed. What was the conduct Of
the Caroinans during the first assault Ramsay says:
In South Carolina particularly, every exerton bad been
made TO put the province and especially its capital in
spectacle posture Of defence"
when it first attacked, alarm guns fired and
Ramsay says:
"rhs militia of the country very generally obeyed the
summons OF President Ruedgs and repaired In great mum
The capital was defended and the British beaten
off, pholiy by South CdrOnidns, in of the most
culinary battles of the war; This was one defence of the
capital
"Another occasion followed when Gen. Lincoln withdraw
ing all the regular troops into Georgia. left its Souh
Carona) whole eaboard open, and its capital city liable to
coup main Of Gen. Provost What then the
OF the Caronians We find Aoulte rushing the rescue
with hundred militia from quarter and Governor
Pull axith hndv af do
for the object from another quarter Of the interior
while Lincoln, with similar speed, was marching from
second time were the British baed in their attempts
third attack made and II succeeded; but under
what crcumsances2 General Ashe, with the Georgia
connentas and fifteen hundred North Carolina militia,
had defeated and dispersed by General Preyost
this disastrous event had been followed by the still
disastrous assault upon Savannah in which the combined
forces Of Eaing and Lincoln defeated with great
lossa loss falling heavily upon the Carolina troops who
alone succeeded in planting their standard upon the
mys works-a barren but an honorable achievement
(Simms In addition 10 this enieeblement OF forces
the smallpox ragged in Charleston Science has not yet
dsarmed this enemy Of Of Its terrors and then IL
smote CONSERVATION into the hearts Of men than
now The Indians too in the upper portions Of the State
uneasy and restless and showed signs OF approach
ing outbreak The mountaineer, who left his home for
the defence Of the capital felt that the warcry OF the savage
and the shrieks Of his buchercd family might companion
him bis soldier pilgrimage But then there was
lack Of patriotism courage In the defence OF Charles
ton.
In February $780, Charleston was a third time ap-
preached The force with which the city invested
consisted Of about twelve thousand disciplined troops and
feet Of fifty sail Of vessels Of all classes ranging
from the soopofwar to the ship-of-the-line. Mcintosh
says
on the 18th Of April all the general officers we're called
the s Of the garrisonthe provisions
Stores ARTILLERY, &c t the little hopes he had Of succor
consequence and the opinion OF the engineers respect
ing our they only 6eld works
lines and could hold out but few days more With every
he could Of the numbers strength of
enemy &C. he compelled to take up the idea Of
ating the city, &c.
The writer says
"on the 10Th April the council adjourned in the evening
General Lncons quarters when Colonel Barney repre-
senng inuciency OF fortihcatons, W they were
worthy being called o) the mprobabity OF holding out
many longer and the impraccabty OF making
Offering terms honorable capitalization first Tho lieuten
governor, with four of his council (Mesrs Ferguson
uson Cattle, and DIR. Ramsay,) coming in little after
used the council very rudey the lieutenant governor de-
militia willing live upon rice alone, rather than give
the and that even the old women
the enemys shot that they trav
elled the without fear dread"
Gen. Moulre was the only general officer who objected
10 capitulaon lie in The service Of South Caro-
lima Gervas says the Of capitustion, "occa
stoned great discomfort well among the regulars as NH
ta who wish defend the place TO the last extremity
in high spirits and resolved 70 offer 10 receive
only half rations day IL necessary Gen. Moultrie on
the 2Sth Of April says As as Gen. DUporail Ia
French ocer into garrison and looked at the
able aud that the British might have taken the town ten
days ago" Gen. Moure also says that when the Brit
sh the number OF they astonshed, and
said had made gallant defence Col Rochfort said
Sir you have made gallant defence Charleston was de-
Tended by Eve thousand troops and Of these than if
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