Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-12-15
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Barnwell Rhett OF South Carolina, (for
so the F, F,'s down there all pronounoe)
argues ones self unknown. His origi-
nal name was plain Robert Barnwell
but for adequate considerations, the
cognomen Rbett was appended, thereby
giving the whole slightly classical
look, like EM. Tullius Cicero" or &c.
julius Caesar" With less than tenth
part OF the talent, but more than hun
dred times the enduring brass of
Hayne and Calhoun, he has affected to
follow in the footsteps of those badly
eminent nullifers. AS specimen Of the
unequal steps in which he has followed
his fathers, we may mention that some
years ago, he had son in Cambridge
College who had reached the last term
of his senior year, and strange as it
may appear, had distinguished himself
for good scholarship and good conduct,
Something, we do not remember what,
happened to be said or done, either in
the college or the neighborhood, which
R. Barnwel Rhett thought best to be
displeased about, and so ne ordered his
son TO leave, and come home instanter.
No entreaties or disclaimers, either of
the faculty or the son were of any avail.
In consideration however of the good
record of the son, his name was permit
ted TO appear with the graduating class,
and he was honored with a degree Not
only does R. Barnwell Rhett affect great
ness while he practices littIeness, but
also, while engaged in the practice of
deviltry, he makes tgreat pretensions to
sanctity After having to the extent of
his poor ability labored in the cause of
nulli1cation for thirty years, when at
length South Carolina had really sece-
ded he is represented TO have put on
the airs of old Simeon, and expressed
his readiness to ascend.
Since the memorable epoch OF 1850,
very little has been heard of r. Barn
well Rhett, till quite recently, we find
he has turned up IN the legislature of
his darling and afflicted South Carroll
MIA" He has recently introduced into
that august or ghostly body a series of
resolutions declaring that South Caro-
lima is determined to hight out the war
that the sovereign states are not amen
able TO the confederate government for
their existence, and that any attempted
consumption of state officers on the part
of JEFF Davis, calculated to disturb the
operations of the state governments, are
fiagrant usurpations, to which the states
should not submit that any interfe-
renee with the press is unconstitutional
that the taxation projects of the rebel
president are, like the old tariff laws,
unconstitutional palpably, deliberate
ly, dangerously and lastly and ire
pressibly, that the institution of Afri-
can slavery is under the exclusive juris-
diction of sovereign states, and any law
passed by Congress to emancipate a
slave in any state, or to appropriate
money from the treasury of the states to
buy and emancipate slaves, is unconsti-
tutional and void.
Now this is what we may call Nullid-
cation nullifed. r. Barnwell Rhett
could not stand it any longer, AS we
learn from Esop that q scratching, NOUS
Ing cat could never become gentle and
afectionate spouse, and from the inspir-
ed prophet, that the leopard cannot
change his spots, so, from these resolu-
tions, we learn that the Incorrigible,
whose surname is Rhett, cannot be
cured Of his constitutional niger and
notification.
He and his brother confederates in
South Carolina and Georgia are getting
themselves entangled in a knotty snarl
which they cannot unravel, and which
they will have to cut with their trusty
swords. Let them cut and be hanged.