The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1861-01-10
SOUTH CAROLINA TORYISM.


The New York Tribune is resurrec;ing
the details OF the dsgraceful transactions
of the South Carolinians in the Revolu
tionary War, by which the leading men
OF that province evinced their own cow
ardice, their luke -warmness and even
hatred OF their country's cause, and Grip
pied the movements of the Northern
Generals who would have saved them
from degradation. In 1880, in the month
of April, Gen. Lincoln of Massachusetts.
who commanded the American forces at
Charleston, was summoned to surrender
by Sir Henry Clinton, the British General.
This he refus ed to do. On the Sth May,
another summons from Sir Henry bro't
from Lincoln an offer Of terms, which
was rejected; but the militia and citizens
took the matter in hand, and, only three
days a'terward, Gen. Lincoln thus ad-
dressed Gen. Clinton:
To his Excellency Sir Henry Clinton:
"Sir: The same motives of humanity
which inclined you 10 propose articles of
capitulatIon to this garrison, induced ME
to offer those had the honor of sending
you on the 9th instant. They tten ap
peared to me such as might proffer, and
you receive, with honor to both parties
Your exceptions 10 them, as they princi-
pally concerned the militia and citizens,
then conceived were such as could not be
concurred with; but a recent application
from these people, wherein they express
a willingness to comply with them. and
wish on my part to lessen. as much as
may be. the distress of war to individuals,
lead me now to offer you my acceptance
of them.
have the honor to be, &c,
B. LINCOLN.
CHARLESTON, May $780,
By the terms of the surrender, the
Continental troops were prisoners Of war,
''but "those people" were prisoners on
parole.
So far as hostile occupation merely is
concerned, it may be said that Charleston
stood as did New York and Boston; hut
neither Gage nor Clinton could have writ
ten from either place, after one month S
experience, such. letter as this. Sir
Henry Clinton, writing to Lord George
Germaire, one of his Majesty's principeI
Secretaries Of State, from Head Quar-.
ters, Charleston, South Carolina, June. 4
$780," says:
"With the greatest pleasure, 1 further
report to youi lordship. that the inbabi
tants from every quarter repair 10 the de
tachments of the army, and to this gar
rison, to declare their allegiance to the
king, and to offer their service in arms in
support of his government, In many in
stances, they have brought prisoners theil
former oppressors or leaders; and | may
in South Carolina who are not our prison
ers or are in arms with u.s.
On the 9th of June, 1880, over tive
: hundred citizens of Charleston, many o
them the lineal ancestors Of the very mer
: who are now clustering about Northern
tyranny and federal oppression, signed :
Humble Address," in which they i'm
plored Sir Henry Clinton and Admira
Arbuthnot to consider them no longer a
prisoners on parole, but to readmit then
to the character and condition Of British
subjects, and uttered these dastardly sen
; timents:
Although the right Of taxing America
in Parliament, excited considerable fer
ments in the minds of the People of thi
Province, yet it may, with religious ad
herence to truth, be affirmed, that they
did not entertain the most distant though
of dissolving the union which so happil,
subsisted between them and their paren
country: and when, in the progress o
the fatal controversy, the doctrine of In
dependence, which originated in the NOR
D Northern Colonies, made its appearance
, among US, our nature revolted at the
idea, and we looked back with tn,
most painful regret on those convul
sions that gave existence to a power o
= subverting Constitution, for which W.
&, always had, and ever shall retain, th
: most profound veneration, and substitu
y ting in its stead rank Democracy which
however carefully digested in theory, o.
) being in practice, has exhibited sys
e tenn of tyrannic domination only to b
n found among the uncivilized parts G
e mankind, OF in the history of the dark an
barbarous ages of antiquity.
When Baron de Kalb met General Ma
rion, during the Revolution, he ezpresse
his amazement that $50 many South Can
olinians were running to take British pro
lection" Marion's explanation of tn
source of Toryism then, will answer yer
well to account for Secession and its al
tendant buster to-day. 1t was:
:. "The people of Carolina form two clas:
es-tbe rich and the poor. The poor al
> very poor; the rich who have slaves t
y do all the work, give them no employ
: ment. Unsupported by the rich. the.
h continue poor and low spirited. The lii
- tie they get is laid out in randy-not i
" books and newspapers: hence they kno'
m Al IL a.,