The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-07-18
rAs Hon. James I; Orr.x xAd ..rhs Hayne
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NEWS: Judge Orr, in his recent inter.
view with your reporter, after. full no.
tace that all he uttered was intended for
Publication, has seen fit to single ont the
''Hasyne family" and represent it as, por
ercellence, family Of office holders. IF
there was no malice in this selection of
Judge Orr, land I cannot perceive why
tnere should be,) he is siugularly unfor-
tunate in his choice of the SOLITARY ex.
ample put forward to give point to his
apoiogetic argument in favor OF Grants
nepotism.
Judge Orr says: 1.-The Hayne family,
Tor instance, think, seldom had less
than Twelve or fifteen of its branches in
POSITIONS OF power and trust" Why.
the lat knight, immortalized by Shaks
peare, did not more egregiously multiply
the men in buckram," than does Judge
Orr the Hayne family in this astounding
announcement.
There were but two "brauches" of the
Aayne family under the old regime One
"branoh" were descendants of my grand.
father, Col. Isaac Hayne, hung by the
British, In 1881, rs rebel and secession
ist; the other, the descendants Of Abram
Hayne, who died about the same time in
y British prison -ship-he, too, like his
Kinsman, be!ng charged with disloyalty
ana treason by those who were then in
power These two were the only male
adult Haynes Of their day. For more
.nan quarter Of century after their
death, there was no Haynel in Office in
south Carolina; and during the ninety
odd years which have elapsed since the
death OF these two. the Haynes who
nave held office. State and Federal, all
toid. do not number fiftssu. Instead of
twelve or fifteen At all times in office. we
haze, s!! told, less than that number in
period OF ninety years.
The "Hayne family" have, at all
events, left room enough for Judge Orr.
That gentleman, though considerably
my lunior. has himself been q member
or the State Legislature, O member of
the United States Congress-, Speaker of
the House of Representatives of that
body, member of the Secession Conven-
tion, commissioner from seeded South
carolina to the government at Washing
ton, Confederate colonel OF the finest
regiment l ever saw, (which, however.
9e never led into battle,) Senator from
south Carolina to the Congress OF tho
Confederate States, delegate to the Ma.
tional Democratic Convention at Phila.
delphla, head centre of Andy Johnson's
Reconstruction Convention, first Go.
vernon under the constitution then
adopted. holding on by tolerance of
General Sickles after the anti-Johnson
Heoonstruction Act. helping in the for
nation OF the constitution now of force,
and now Judge under it,
am surprised that a gentleman go
various and so versatile-as the Germans
say, 80 many sided"-and successful in
every change-a man so elninently lpe
man as Judge Orr-should be rakinp
among fossils and dead mems bones. If
the "Hayne family" alluded to by Judge
Orr were ever power in the State, they
certainly are not 80 now, and it would
nave been kinder Of Judge Orr to have
let them alone. Though he may have
cut loose from all memories of the past,
1t affords no good excuse for ueedlessly
ana anprovokediy pitching into those
VINO nave only these memories left to
cherish. at all events. he should have
Deen sure he was right" before he
Judge Orr says that he is surfeited
with oiioe, and will never more submit
10 the lntiiction OF holding one. Iheard
MN say the same thing eleven years ago
10 the interesting regiment he then com
manded, and whose fate was soon after
80 melancholy. he told them that he
was more than satisfied with public
honors, and had outiioed ambition. His
only care. he said, was to do his dun to
them and to his country. Within six
months after this speech his regiment
WI 8 turned over to his brother law
Colonel Marshall, who. with all the field
officers and half the regiment were killed
IN virginia, and the next campaign ex
Colonel Orr lived to be Confederute
States Senator, Governor, Judge. sc.
and John Browns soul goes marching
on" His last card is, with the aid Of
Corbin, Bowen and President Grant.
to scourge the ey.changers from the
temple, and to send packing the thieves
whom he, Corbin. Bowen and Grant
helped to put in Office. In his work NAV
God speed him. I would help good
work though the devil bid, and there is
no telling whom the Lord may choose as
His instruments. I. w. HAYNE.
HE MCLAUGHLIN CAsE-THE Pr.
soNEE RELEASED. RE-ARRRsrEp AND
BA1LED. The case Of nj. MCLAUGHLIN.
the County Commissioners lodged in iaii
by order OF Judge Lee. of the Tn fer;or