Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-07-25
From the Charleston News.
JUDGE ORR AND THE "HAYNE FAMILY.''

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Judge Orr, in his recent interview with
your reporter, after full notice that all he ut
tered was intended for publication, has seen fit
to single out the "Hayne family" and repre-
sent it as par excellence, a family Of office hold
ers. If there was no malice in this selection
of Judge Orr (and cannot conceive why
there should beg he is singularly unfortunate
in his choice of the solitary example put for
ward to give point to his apologetic argument
in favor Of Grants nepotism.
Judge Orr says: "The Hayne family, for
instance, I think seldom had less than twelve
or fifteen of its branches in positions of power
and trust" Why, the fat knight, immortal
lied by Shakespeare, did not more egregiously
multiply the "men in buckram" than does
Judge Orr the Hayne family in this astound-
ing announcement.
There were but two "branches" Of the
Hayne family under the old regime. One
"branch" were descendants Of my grandfath.
er, Colonel Isaac Hayne, hung by the British
in 1881 as a rebel and secessionist the other,
the descendants of Abram Hayne, who died
about the same time in British prison ship.
He, too, like his kisman, being charged with
disloyalty and treason by those who were then
in power. These two were the only male
adult Haynes of their day. For more than
quarter Of century after their death, there
was no Hayne in Office in South Carolina
and during the ninety odd years which have
elapsed since the death of these two, the
Haynes who have held office, State and Fede-
raj, all told, do not number fifteen. Instead
oftwelve or fifteen at all timein office, we have,
all told, less than that number in period Of
ninety years.
The "Hayne family have, at all events,
left room enough for Judge Orr. That gen.
tleman, though considerably my junior, has
himself been a member of the State Legisla-
ture, a member of the United States Congress,
speaker of the House Of Representatives Of
that body, member Of the secession Conven-
ton, commissioner from seeded South Caro-
lima to the government at Washington, Confed-
crate Colonel of the finest regiment ever
saw, (Which, however, he never led into bat
tle,) Senator from South Carolina to the Con-
federate Congress, delegate to the National
Democratic Convention at Philadelphia, head
centre of Andy Johnson's Reconstruction Con-
vention, first Governor under the constitution
then adopted, holding on by tolerance of Gen.
eral Sickles after the anti-J Johnson Recon-
struction Act, helping in the formation Of the
Constitution now of force, and now judge
under it.
am surprised that gentleman so various
and so versatile-as the Germans say, so
"many sided"-and so successful in every
change-a man so eminently {, live man as
Judge Orr-should be raking among fossils
and dead mems bones If the ".lE-yne fami-
ly" alluded to by Judge Orr were e7er pow
er in the State, they certainly are not so now,
and it would have been kinder Of Judge Orr
to have let them alone. Though he may have
cut loose from all memories of the past, it af-
fords no excuse for needlessl ly and Improve
kedly pitching into those who have only these
memories left to cherish. At all events, he
should have been "sure he was right" before
he event ahead"
Judge Orr says that he is surfeited with Of
flee, and will never more submit to the intlic-
ton of holding one. I heard him say the
same thing eleven years ago to the interesting
regiment he then commanded, and whose fate
was soon after so melancholy. He told them
he was more than satisfied with public honors,
and had outlived ambition. His only care, he
said, was to do his duty to them and to his
country. Within six months after this speech
his regiment was turned over to his brother
in-law Col. Marshall, who, with all the field
officers, half the regiment were killed in Vir-
ginia, and the next campaign ex-Colonel Orr
lived to be. Confederate States Senator, Gov
ernor, Judge, &c., and "John Browns soul
goes marching on" His last cue is, with the
aid of Corbin, Bowen and President Grant, to
scourge the money changers from the Temple,
and to send packing the thieves whom he,
Corbin, Bowen and Grant helped to put in
office. In this work may God speed him. I
would help a good work through though the
devil bid, and there is no telling whom the
Lord may choose as His instruments:
I. w. HAYNE.