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EDGEFIELD, S. c., JULY 2, 1856.

of the times but it does not become me to al.
lude TO them now.
come next to an allegation which, if the
Senator were here, think he would not look
me in the face when repeat, and that is, his
insolent and untrue charge Of the " shameful
imbecility" of South Carolina during the war of
the Revolution in consequence of slavery. Sir,
ingratitude is the monster of vices, and when it
is associated with injustice, it ought to be con-
demned by the consuming indignation OF even
those who- may tomorrow be our adversaries.
What are the facts? The news of the battle of
Lexington was carried 10 Charleston by express
and the very day they @ceived the intelligence
the Liberty men, as they were called, broke
open the arsenals and distributed the arms. 1t
was but few days afterwards before Boston
sent vessel to South Carolina for bread and
wine. We sent them, think, $4,000 worth of
provisions, and seventy barrels of wine-the
Maine liquor law did not prevail in Boston at
that lime. [Laughter.] We gave them bread !;
and, answer for it, South Carolina has never
asked pay for her hospitality. She would never
brook The thought of asking pay for the bread
she poured out upon her unlrymen-country-
men they were, sir. Massachusetts, was with
out powder then, and We furnished her with it.
Here will say, lest forget it, that the bait
ties of Lexington and Bunker Hill in the Revo-
luton, regard as the battles of Marathon and
Salamis. They gave the Commonwealth Of
Massachusetts an Immortality for commencing
the glorious contest which has resulted in the
independence of these United States; and |
shall be the last man TO touch the laurel crown
which grows from the blood that enriched the
soil upon which those battles were fought. The
very powder that was used after the battle OF
Bunker Hill was furnished by South Carolina
Here is the entry, not only in the history OF
South Carolina, but in the history of Massachu-
sets In Ramsay's History Of the Rerolu-
ton in South Carolina, volume l, page 43,
you will find:
I" AT the time all these military preparations were
making, the whole quantity of powder in the pro-
vince did not exceed three thousand pounds. The
people not originally designing military opposltion
no care was taken to provide stores but now, re-
duced to the alternative Of fighting or submitting,
extraordinary methods were taken to obtain sup.
ply. The Inhabitants Of East Florida having never
joined in measures Of opposition to Great Britain,
the ports that province were open for the purposes
Of trade.
"Twelve persons, in which number were inclu
ded Captains Tempirere, Cochran, Statter, Tufts,
Joyncr, Mcssrs. Tebaut, Williamson and jenkins,
authorized by the Council Of Safety, sailed from
Charleston for that coast and by surprise, boarded
vessel near the bar of st. Augustine, though twelve
British grenaders of the 18th regiment were on
board. They took out fifteen thousand pounds of
powder, for which they gave bill Of exchange to
the captain and and, having secured safe retreat
to themselves, by spiking the guns Of the powder
vessel, they set sail for Carolina. APprehending
that they should be pursued they steered for Beau
fort. From that place they came by the inland
navigation, and delivered their prize to the Council
of Safety, whilst their pursuers were looking for
them at the bar of Charleston. This seasonable
supply enabled the people of South Carolina to
obligc their suffering brethren in Massachusetts,
who, though Immediately exposed to the British
army, were in great measure destitute of that ne
cessary article Of defense"
In a book published in Boston, entitled
Dealings with the Dead" find these entries:
"Our southern confederates are entitled to ciuility
because they are men and brethren; and they are
entitled 10 Kindness and courtesy from us Of Boston.
because we owe them debt Of gratitude. which it
would be shameful to forget Since we, Of the
North, have presumed to be undcrtaksrS upon this
occasion, let us do the thing dccenter Ell ornate
Besides our friends Of The South arc notoriuusy
testy and hot-headed they are, geographically,
children of the SUM- John Smiths description Of
the Massachusetts Indians, in 1914, Richmond edi-
tion, 9, 1874, is truly applicable TO the southern
people, gerry kind, Jut, in their fury, no less
valiant'
81 am no more inclined 10 uphold the South, in
the continued practice OF moral wrong, because they
gave us bread when we were hungry, as they Ger
tainy did, than was Sir Matthew Hale to decide
| .al.. tI,n CT
"June 24, It'll. Twenty-Eour days after the
port bill went into operation. a public meeting was
held at Charleston, South Carolina. The moving
spirits were the Trapicrs and the Eiots the Hor-
rrs and the Clarksons, the Gadsdens and the
Pinckncys of that day and resolutions were passed
full Of brotherly love and sympathy for the inhabi-
| tants of Boston,"
New York, August Is, t774. Saturday last
Captain Dckelson arrived here. and brought three
hundred and scventy-sx barrels Of rye from South
Carolina, to be sold, and proceeds remted to Bos-
ton present to the sufferers Il still larger cargo
is to be shipped for the like benevolent purpose"
"Lct the work of abolition 60 forward in a dig
nifed and decent spirit. Let us argue; and, so far
as we rightluIly may, let us egisate Let US bring
the whole worlds sympathy up to the work Of
emancipation. But let us not rrvic and vltuperate
those who are, to all ntenls and purposes, our
brethren as certainly as if they lived just over the
Roxbury line, instead OF Mason and DiXoMs. Such
harsh and unnlitigacd scOfng and abuse, as we too
often witness, are equally ungracous, unsenleman-
| ly, and ungratefu."
The Senator says that the southern States,
in consequence of slavery, betrayed during the
revolutionary war n shameful imbeci!ity." /
challenge him 10 the truth Of history. There
was not battle fought south of the Potomac
which was not fought by southren troops and
shareholders, even if you choose to exclude
Pennsylvania, which was at that time slave
holding State Muhlenberg's continental regi-
ment was always with them, and love to al.
ude TO it !; but not New England squad, COM
pany, or regiment ever passed the Potomac and
vet the Senator says that but for northern aid
tho southern States could not have sustained
themselves.
Sir, who fought The battle of Kings Noun
tain? 1t was not fought by anybody in pay.
Patriots fought it, but they never received a
dollar. That battle made an impression, perhaps,
the most remarkable of any during the war. 1t
turned the tide of events. Who fought the
battle of Cowpens? There was none in that
battle from the north of Maryland. Her CON-
mandcr, Howard, is perhaps in some respects,
the hero of that action. Colonel Washington,
commander of the cavalry, and Pickens, citizen
of South Carolina, and one of the heroes of the
revolutionary war; commanded the militia, and
they never shrank from their post. 1t has been
said of the South Carolina militia, during the
revolutionary war, that they were only raw