Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1861-01-18
An old Comparison between
S'TH CAROLINA & NEW ENGLAND
MADE BY sotTH CAROLINIiNs.

MADE Bi sol I'll CAROLINIiNs.
/ Gen. FRANCIS MARION was perhaps the
most sensible and truly distinguished man
the State Of South Carolina has produced.
He was the Washington of the South dur
( ing the Revolutionary War, and afterward
an Influential Legislator and Planter. His
Memoir-dictated by his brother Csrolin-
MIA, Gen. PETER Horny, and written by
Rev NJ. l.. WEEMs-is one of the most
singular and attractive in the libraries Of
our country, Probably no book is more
admired by the young, than Weems' MT-
ion From that work, We extract the fol-
lowing vivid portraits Of the mass of the
poor ~hite people of the CarOliDas, during
the Revolutionary war.
Colonel TH,rcHER ,one Of the noblesiWhiss
of Norm Carolina. congratulated Us that We
mad come If WELL" on passing through a
diSafected resIon.l II hose people SAID he,
ARE mere Huuen.ots-a set ol uuenlIghieued.
IA l>erable Torres, who know nothing of the
grounds OF the War-nojbInS OF the hts aud
blessings we are coniendIng for, nor of the
corrupuons and cIuelurs OF Inc British min
IStry-aud are therefore lIsI as ready TO fall
INTO thelr destructive Jaws, "a young cal-birds
are To fail into the mouth OF d Iatlie-snake."
page 9O)
lu reply to the wonder expressed BY the
brave foreigner, Baron DEkALB, that ''aii
the South Caroiuiaus are running TO take
Bri,i-h projections" Gen. MAEIoNIepiied:
Why. sir, the people Of Carolina form but
two ciasses-lhe r,ch and the poor. The poor
are generally very poor, because, not beng
necessary 10 the rich, who have slaves TO do
their work, they get employment from
them. Beng thus unsupported by the rich,
lhey continue poor and .yw spirIed. They
seldom get money, and indeed what hI,le
ihey get Is iald Out IN brandy TO raise their
.pin,> and not on books and newspapers 10
get Information. Hence, they know nothing
OF the comparative blessings of their own
cOunirv. nor Of The great dangers which
,Grea en- 1t, and therefore care nothing about
Ii.-AS to the other class, the rich, Ihey are
generally very rich, and consequently afraid
. 20 SIR. unl,ss a :air chance iier, lest the
BrIu.h should burn their houses and fur
uinre ami CARY uif their negroes and stock.
Bot permit Us 10 assure you. SIR that, though
thus kept under 10y fear, they still MORALLY
hate the Brush, aud Viii, | am confident, the
momenl they see an army %, friends al heir
door, fy 10 their standard, Ike a generous
racr 10 The sound uI The hurn that call, them
to the chase Of The wOli" page a.
! But these fond hopes Of Marion were
most cruelty Disappointed:
On page Ill. the narrator says of South
Carolina, a sad shift indeed, " hen not one
IA q thousand II her caihfren ,cH rise 10
f6ke her part, but on The contrary, are madiy
taking part with the enemy against her"
Page rs: "The BRUSH had completely
uvrrrun south tarulIna-lheIT headquarters
at Charleston. victorious army at Camden,
strong garTIsunS al Gsorgsf0,Cn and Jon'sb0r
, uugh. with swarms OF fhi,uish and GI0odg-
n.yid,d Tories filling up all bs'Dsen, aud the
spiril> Of the poor " hIss 50 completely cow
ed that they were fairly knocked under To The
civil and military yoke OF the BRUSH" Page
lis: Except those uncunquerable spirits.
Marion and Sumter. with few others of the
same heroic stamp, who kept The field, Caro-
lima was no better than British prornce."
1t was reserved for the Rh9de Island
General, Nathaniel Greene, aided by those
Neu England soldiers "whose bones viii.
ten every battle field from Maine to Geor-
gia," gradually to enable the few Wings
in the Carolnas to beat back the British
and Tories to the seaboard, and finally to
extirpa'e them as an open foe. but, We
fear, their rirus has remained TO this day.
The most impressive and comprehen-
sive line of argument advanced against the
faults of Carolina, We copy entire-it be-
iDg Chap. XXXI. Of this entertaining work.
Tue reader will remember that the senti-
ments are those Of MARION, native aud
long-life resident Of South Carolina, ex-
pressed long after the Revolutionary War,
in cool and calm moments, and recorded
By Horny, another Carolinan-botb, en-
thusiastic lovers (not enemies) Of their ua-
tive State, and whose testimony is there
fore of much more weight on that account.
Read the chapter, and then compare South
Carolina when under Tory influence, with
the same State under her present night
mare Of ignorance and tyrapnical misrule.
TEE AtTH9RS LAST VISIT TO MlEION.
/ often went 10 see Marion. Our evenings
were passed as might have been expected
between two old friends, who had spent their
beuer days together IN scenes of honorable
enterprise aud danger. On the night OF the
last WISH ever made him, observing that the
clock was gong for len, | asked him If il
were not ear his hour oi resli
~ no. SAID he, I'VE must not talk of bed