New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-11
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| opinion We fully asree-thst Il ~ss "terse sud
clsssicr--that its eloluence was "genuine .
| Upon the lest point there car be TO doubt The
| description Of South Carolua-Sf ''the solemn
{" music Of the wind in Der pine forests. the glory
{" Of the sunlight or her brosd marshes the glow of
the great ocean rs il clasps her beautiful coasts'-
i sweety collegiate. and suggestive OF Junior EG-
| EDITIONS. We are glad also TO b. confirmed IN
suspicion which We have Iorg harbored. Mr..
Trescot tells US: Mere thsn once has the calm
selfrespect Of old Csrclins breeding been csrica
" tured by the consequential usolence Of vulgar
| a. imitation" This Is sonorous and sensible. This
must. we think, have been private and covert hit
at Mr.. Richard Yeadon. II mas also have been ill.,
tended for a snub at the shades Of the departed
Uncle Butler and Nephew Brooks. And Mr..
| Treseott ssys, with affecting candor, /" Forced.
"perhsps by circumstances, 10 thnk Of ourselves
&" more than was profitable, We have learned TO talk
" Of ourselves more than WAS needful." This, too,
| sveTy true.
| But we should like 70 ask Mr Trescott to give
US the names of the public Of South Carolina
no Go not tumble into this vulgar error-who are
| not perpetually talking Of themselves or OF their
constitueucies-wto are not forever nsolently hsp-
| ping palmetto branch in our faces-who sre not
continually assuming that they are much, and all
other men litte-who do not, whether the debate
be- of tariff or territory, Of affairs abroad or Of
affairs at home, treat to the fuleugth portraits
/ of Sumter and Marion, and hint that if it had not
| been for the South Carolina militia-which mostly
ran away ard went over to the regulsrs-we should
| all have been British Colonies today The truth
| IT, that with persistent fertile, and wonderful
| ingenuity, wherever South Carolina man goes he
manages 10 talk Of South Carolina. Everywhere
in lyceums, at college commandments, at agrcul-
tural bsnquets, at horse shows-he brings in his
beloved State, fond parents introduce their chill
drcn after dinner to bore and annoy desperate
company, which is expected 10 praise them. This
may be Whist Mr. Prescott calls " the consequential
" insoence Of vulgar imitatiOn'-but if this be the
imitation" We should Ike to inquire what the
original must be. IL does not seem to be chsrac-
teristic Of any particular class Of South Carolina
white men 1t was to be observed in Mr. Calhoun
quite as clearly as in Mr.. Richard ieadon; although
in one il was the egotsm Of an able man, and IN
the other It is the egotism of an ass. Mr.. Trescot
recommends bis hearers to " Love their land with
love far brought, From out the storied past
That is what We complain of. All the eulo-
gsts Of South Carolina speak of her glories
in the imperfect perfect, pluperlcct lenses some
times perhaps 10 the future, but ne7er definitely
ard regardless Of rhetoric, in the present. Here Is
Mr.. Trescott himself who wanders back to the
Seventeenth Century and comes homo again smell
ing of mold ard with the dust of ages upon bis gar
ments-and all this journey is made to prove that
South Carolina has history and that Massachu-
sets has none. The genealogical tree OF most
Welsh families has its roots in the bowels OF Adam
Mr.. Trescott is more modest in tracing the hstor
cal aptecedents of South Carolina. After little
skirmishing with the days of Queen Elizabeth and
Raleigh and Gilbert, and that pure and noble
gentleman Sir Richard GreDyillc," he informs
US that the establishment of the South Carolina
colony had nothing whatever to do with those times
or personages leaving US to wonder why the deuce
he had them all in-for be Immediately adds: " 1t
was not until Charles H. had returned that our
'.settlement was commenced at all" "The peO-
pie Of South Carolina were Whigs-old-fashio
English Wings" In short Mr.. TrescOtt would
have us believe that South Carolina had half
Puritan origin; and We do not intend here to ex
pess more than our surprise that his audience did
not lynch him for the assertion ncontinently. But
he took care to draw nice distinction which
probably saved his bones. He intimated-though
where be got biz authority is more than we know
that the English Wing Of the time OF Charles ii.
and James H. was much more conservative aud
altogether more presentable creature than the
Wig of the days Of Cromwell. That he WAS
different we admit He did not cut cd his
kings head, for his king had saved il by running
away. He did not fight the kings troops for the
king had left no troops to fight. He established
monarchy instead Of protectorate, but il was
monarchy tempered by constitutional provisions
which the protectorate wss not. The nation had
seen the folly of the execution of Charles, and had
lite stomach for repeating the experiment; but it
would have cut OF the heads Of ten kings and it
would have fought fifty pitched battles, before it
would have again submitted to the usurpations Of
james 1t did its work according to the circum-
stances of the times-but be- must be of very en-
thu.iastic nature who suppOses, if there had been
no Naseby, no regiclde, and no Commonwealth
that James would have been unseated, or that
William would have marched TO London without
shadow Of opposition. If hr. Trescott pleases to
assert that the settlers of Csrolina were bastard
sort of Whgs who felt little safer upon this side
OF the water than upon the other. We shall not DIS
pute him. lie tells Us himself that one Of his
gentleman" settlers in l67l ." received nine lashes
for stealing turkey cock" and We have no
doubt tbst other cocks were stolen and that other