The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1872-07-31
The Hon. james b. Orr and "Thc l[aync
Family"

TO the Editor Of Charleston News
Judge Orr, in his recent interview
with your reporter, after full notice
that all he uttered was intended for
publication, has seen fit to single out
the "llaync family" and represent it
as, par crcellencc, a family of Office.
hoiIcrs. If there was no malice in
this selection of Judge Orr, (and |
cannot perceive why there should be,)
lie is singularly unfortunate in his
choice of the solitary example put for
ward to give to his apologctic argu"
ment in favor of Grants neootism.
Judge Orr says: "The Haync
family, for instance, | think, seldom
had less than twelve or fifteen of it,
branches in positions Of power and
trust" Why, the fat knight, i'm
mortalized by Shakespeare, did not
more egregiously multiply the "mcn
in buckram," that docs Judge Orr the
IIaync family in this astounding an~
nounccmcnt.
There were but two "branches'' Of
the Uaync family under the old
reg inc. One sbranch' were Dc seem
dants Of my grandfather, Col. Isaac
uayne, hing BY the British, in 1881,
as a rebel and sccessionist the other,
the defendants of Abram lIaync, who
died about the same time in British
prison ship.-he, too, like his kins-
man, being charged with disloyalty
and treason hy those who were thea
in power. These two were tho only
male adult Haynes of their day. For
more than quarter of century af-
ter their death, there was no Ilaync,
in Office in South Carolina and dur
ing the nincty-odd years which have
elapsed since the death Of these two,
the Haynes who have held Office,
State an1 Federal, all told, do not
number fiftcen. Instead Of twelve or
fifteen at all times in Office, we have,
all told, loss than that number in a
period Of ninety years.
"The "IIayne family" have, at all
events, left room enough for Judge
Orr. That gentleman, though con.
siderably. my junior, has himself been
II member OF the United States Con-
gre:s, Speaker Of the House ot Repre-.
sentativcs of that body, member of the
Secession Convention, commissioner
from seeded South Carolina to the
government at Washing IN, Con-
federatc colonel of the finest regiment
/ ever saw, (Which, however, lie never
led into battle,) Senator from South
Carolina to tht" Congress of the Con.
fcdcratc States, delegate to the Ma.
tional Democratic Convention at
Philadelphia, head centre of Andy
Johnson's Reconstruction Convention,
first Governor under the constitution
then adopted, holding on by tolerance
Of General Sicklcs after the anti-John.
son Reconstruction Act, helping in the
formation OF the constitution now Of
force, and now a Judge under it.
I am surprised that a gentleman so
various and 50 versatile-as the Ger
mans say, so "many sided"- and sue
c,ssful in every change--a man so
cminentlya live man rs Judge Orr
Should be rakipg among fossils and
dead mems bones. IF tho "Hayne
family" alluded to by Judge Orr we're
ever power in tho State, they GER
tainly 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 affords no good excuse
for needlessly and unprovokodly pitch
ing into th,se who have only these
memories left to cherish. At all
events, he should have been "surc he
was right" before he went ahead.
Judge Orr says he is surfeited with
Office, and will never more submit to
the inniction of holding one. + heard
him say tho same thing eleven years
ago to tho the interesting regiment he
then commanded, and whose fate was
soon after so melancholy. Ho told
them that he was more than satisfied
with public honors, and had outlived
ambition. His only care, ho 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, Colonel
Marshall, who, with all the field off
GERS and half the regiment were killed
in Virginia, and tho next campaign
cx-Coloncl Orr lived to be Confcd.
erato States Senator, Governor
Judge, &c., and "John Browns soul
goes marching on" His last card is
with the aid of Corbin, Bowen and
President Grant, to scourge the none
changers from tho temple, and to send
packing tho thieves whom he, Corbin
Bowen and Grant hclped to put II
Office. In his work may God speet
him. [ would help good worl
though tho devil bid, and thore is nj
telling whom the Lord may choose o
Hi, instruments. I. W. UAYNE.
q Mosby has changed again. II