The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-07-10

Monday Morning, July 1e, 1865,
Hon. ALFRED HuoxR This old gentle.
man. who so long held the position !, Of
D0at yuootor haro 20 nom 1;vinD m roS:on,

oOut 8nu Ee-6PPOiuIeuU ny every succeeding
President until the fatal act of secession.
lie never sent in his resignation, but his
ofico wss taken possession of by the Rebel
Government. and in Difference to the wishes
Of the citizens and his friends generally, he
con tinued to serve up to the vacnation of
the city. He is in his ninety fifth year.
We copy the preceding paragraph from
the letter Of o Charleston correspondent in
the New York Herald That recSlessn eos
of assertion which so markedly distin-
guishes all the writers for this journal,
was never more etrikingly displayed than
in some of the alleged facts in the above
paragraph. We beg to correct, while we
utterly deny. the assertion that Mr.. Hu ger
has ever received, or is receiving, ra-
tions, or any other aims, from the United
States, or anySOther charities. He is mo-
doubt, like most of our people, greatly
reduced In resources and straightened in
the means of life; but he is not the man to
seek for or to accept charity, while his
mind and body retain any of their accus
toned vigor, and, hardly, should these
these fail; provided his soul shall retain its
consciousness. He will prefer to struggle
On, with all the burdens of family-all the
precious cares of wife and children
struggle on feebly, perhaps, but still hope
fully. and with perfect faith in God-with-
out appealing to any power or entreating
succor at any hand. The old man may be
feeble, but the ancient spirit of his youth
and family still survives in his bosom, and
his pride is sustained by energies which
do not depend upon mere bone and mus.
Gle. We correct another error in the
statement of this correspondent. Mr..
Hueer is not in his ninety fifth year. To
reach his real age. you must deduct some
twenty years from this number. He is
now in his seventy seventh year-a noble
and venerable gentleman, still erect. and
with his fine face glowing and his words
full of spirit freely flowing. with every
emotion of pride and thought, feeling and
character, as warm and vigorous as when
be stood erect in his youthful prime. We
had the honor to know Mr.. Huger, nearly
forty years ago, when We both stood
<ongo s'atervatlo-in the ranks of the Union
party; by which we both suffered losses.
We have known him ever since as a con-
s'stent Union man-opposed to the peril
Ing, by any cause of action, of that Union
for which his fathers bled. He belonged,
as did all his ancestors, to the family creed
of Washington. He was a Federalist.
when that word had very different sig.
nihcation from the present. Then it was
the understood intermediate between the
monarchy and the democracy, regarding
equally the ''Divine rights" of the one and
the other, as alike dangerous to the
Liberties of the people. Times have
changed. and old definitions change with
them. The ancient landmarks are all
gone, and the grand but too subtle princi-
pies which conceived plan by which all
tendencies to centralism-the sole secret of
danger to all nfederacies-might be.pre.
vented, are now all obliterated MI. Huger
was born before the Constitution of the
United States. He has survived it. We
DO not envy him the reflections of his old
age, when he looks back upon the political
memories of his youth. We are happy to
report to his old friends elsewhere. that,
though sore, wounded and suffering, his
spirit is still unbroken, his mind is still
firm and elastic, his conversation still
liquid, copious, flowing and animated; he
Is still the old man eloquent, when warmed
and excited by re-survey of those days,
which he and we shall never know again
We make this record today, that tie
pride OF his children may not, in future