The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-12-25

respectful to the yohng geiislemen.
He manifested no feeling or inter.
cot in tae compliment paid him.
The next day Mr.. Webster was in
vited to address the students in
the college chapel. The Judges
and lawyers attending the Court
OF Appeals, and tho ladies' and gen.
tle'nen Of Columbia were all in n at.
tendance. Governor Adams and
myself, as Trustees of the college.
were sent to escort Mr.. Webster
and Colonel Preston to the chanel
Before starting, Mr.. Webster took
q deep drink of brandy and water.
AS we were going over to the
chapel, some one remarked that
Webster ought to manifest more
feeling and cordially towards the
students than he had dono the
evening before. Colonel Preston
touched his own breast and said
~ am afraid Il, he is wanting. in
heart" The speech was again a
failure. / thought Colonel James
Farrow, tho student who address,.
cd him On the part of tho college,
made tho happier effort of the two.
During the whole of Webster's
stay in Columbia, l heard him but
once at all interest,d d and animal.
ed IN conversation or speaking,
and that was a: the table of Dr.
Glbbes. The large dinner party
given him by Governor johnson.
as Governor of the State, was a
very dull affair. Ho seemed de
termined not to be reused up in
conversation or speaking. But he
had been in Charleston the week
before, where he had been feasted
till lie was broken down. His
conversation, however, at DIR.
liant.
For several years in''thc latter
part OF his life, Colonel Preston
spent portion of the summer at
General Thompson's, in Green.
vile, where l saw great deal of
him, and received from him much
valuable instruction. He was in.
deed q most cordial, warm hearted
and genial man. His friends were
strongly attached to him, and few
public men in South Carolina had
more warm, personal friends till
his severance from Mr.. Calhoun
in politics. Great men will have
their differences, and will, occa.
sionally, display their little ieal-
ousies and ILL feelings like humber
mortals. / heard Colonel Preston
remark, a. his own table, soon af.
ter the death of Mr.. Calhoun, that
1t was the interposition of Provi.
dence for the good of the country
in taking off Mr.. Calhoun at that
time. He thought South Carolina
wonld then have peace and uuiet
once more. But in this be was
greatly mistaken. IA the result
showed. Had Mr.. Calhoun been
living at the commencement of
our sectional war, he might have
opposed it and stayed the at,cmp-
tel revolution.
Whilst in the Senate together,
Colonel Preston thought Mr.. Cal.
houn seemed to think that he
onght in all matters to iollow i'm.
plicitly in his lead. This entire
surrender Of his judgment to that
OF another was what Colonel Pres.
ton could not tolerate, and his
proud spirit rebelled against all
dictasion. | once heard Judge
Withers ray that Governor Miller
made the same complaint of Mr..
Calhoun whilst he was his col.
league in the Senate, and that this
compelled him to withdraw from
the Senate. Governor Hammond
ence made remark, that he had
much rather be Calhonn's success.
sor than his colleague in the Uni.
ted States Senate.
Colonel Preston was most amia.
BILE, courteous and always peacea.
bly, inclined, and vet lie had a
great many personal difficulties and
several fights in the Course of his
life. There was very amusing
one between him and Colonel
James O'Hanlon, in which they
were both very badly used up
Colonel O'Hanlon had written
some political squib against him
IN the days of Notification, and
the Colonel determind to resent it
at once and chastise O'IIanlon's
insolence. No one was present to
witness the trial OF their manhood.
but both carried off serious marks
OF the rencountre. In one Of his
public speeches, Colonel Preston
mentioned the Cunninghams and
McClurghs as tories OF the Revolu.
ton, which drew from CAPTAIN
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