The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-04-17
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Death Las .cialme(t%:lnu seaiee TIC HoioT'a
nanle, Of james kirkeassI,aMlding, who died at
Tarrytcw.i, New Yosl thursday, i'll his
tlslsty:first year. 5e;S
Nc quote from the ssNssseh of the Journal Of
Mr. Panlding Was sbornon the 22d Of August,
l779, at Pleasant Valley, Dutchcss county, in
this State. lie was descended flom one OF the
early settlers of Ulster county, whose nanic
was SO yariously,t written upon the records at
tic time Of tic struggle for supremacy between
lhc Dutch ;ind English languages, as TO leave
his extraction in doubt pauldins' IS father, al
the time of the Revolutionary war, resided in
West:hcster county, ebetwecn,the lines and
10 save his family annoyance from the tory
Gov boys" temporarily removed to DAtclless
comfy. 1lc tooksa deep interest i'll his conr-
trrts caEsc,ana Ills rfortunc: was. sacrificed IN
cffo,ts III her ,behalf., All the school education
tic, son was able to acquire was under the III
s!rlction Of a village-nastcr, in Westehestcr
the family having returned to their former
abode after the termination of. the war. The
private studies Of Pauding, however, laid the
foundation Of a successful literary career; and
lcforeshe was eighteen years Of age, we Gud
UllueIHc jOIIlL Will
whose brether William had married Pauld-
ins's sistcrAof @Salmagund,' a publication
which ut once secured for Inn Il very favorable
position asa satrical and humorous writer
About the commencement Of our second war
with Great Britain, he wrote the "Diverting
History OF John Bull and Brother Jonathan )"
and the hext year the "Lay of the Last Fiddle" !"
n parody on Scolt's-"Lay efthc Last Minstrel"
\ publication of a. different character, "Thc
United States and England" brought him to
the iioticcSof Eresident Madison, and undoubt
cdly led to the COMMENCEMENT 0f his political
career. for be was soon after appointed Sccrc-
tar7 of the Board OF Navy Commissioners, and
this syas the opening at IL subsequent period to
another appointment, that Of Navy Agent at
New York These Offices were unsolicited, as
indeed were all the public positions lie ever
held, and do not seem TO lave in any degree
checked his literary aspirations. In 1915 he
published his Letters from the South by a
Northern Man" His principal poem, "I'he
Backwoodsman," appeared i'll 1910, and show
ed that he was not destitute Of the "vision and
the faculty divine" 81
So far he had not entered the field which
he was principally to cultivate but he soon
gave to the public his first rcgulartalc, entitled
sold Times in the New World" Works Of
this character followed in quick succession d'l-
ring tile next twelve or fifteen years, the prin-
cipal of which were "Mcrry Tales of the Three
Wise Men of Gotham" New Pilgrims Pro
grcss," Tales of the Good Woman" "Book of
St. Nicholas" "Dutchman's Fircside,' and
"Wcstward IIo." For each of-thc last two he
received from the publisher $500 on the de-
livery of the manuscript, n large sam at the
time. lie now turned front works Of fiction
and prepared the Life Of Washington" work
designed for the young, which became very
popular and met large sale, 5000 copies be-
ING ordered for the phblic schools.
For some years the attention of Mr. PauId
ing had been directed to the evils OF the anti
slavery excitement and to the unjust structures
Of Britislicditors and writers on the position
of this country. He was impcllcdby patriotic
impulse to turn aside from the usual walks Of
literature, and, in 1886, he gave to the world
his views in work entitled Slavery in the
United States" The principle underlying his
argument is, that no beneficial consequences to
any class of mankind Or TO the whole race,
could ccun!crhalarcc tho evils that would re