The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-07-15
TIE HON. JAMES L. ORR And "THE
HAYNE FAMILY"
Reply from the Hon. I. w. Hayne.

A Reply from the Hon. L. w. Hayhe'
ToTaE EDITOR OF THE NEWS.
Judge Orr In his recent Interview with your
reporter, after full notice that all he uttered
was intended for publication, has seen ft to
single out the 'Hayne family" and represent
il az, par excellence, a family of o5ice-holders.
If there was no malice In this selection OF
Judge Orr land cannot conceive why there
should be) he ls slngularlg unfortunate in his
choice OF the solitary example put forward to
give point to his apologetic argument in favor
of Grants nepotism.
Judge Orr says: "The Hayne family, for
instance, think seldom had less than twelve
or fifteen of Its branches in positions OF power
and trust" Why the fat knight, immortallzed
by Shakespeare, did not more egregiously
multiply the "mea In buckram" than does
Judge Orr the Hayne family in this astounding
announcement.
There were buC two ''branches" Of the
Hayne family under the old regime. One
tsbranch" were descendants of my grand
father, Colonel Isaac Hayne, hung by the Brit
ish in l76l as q rebel and secessl0nist; the
other, the descendants of Abram Hayne, who
died about the same time iu British prison
ship He, too, like his kinsmRn, being charged
with disloyalty and treason by those who were
thea in power. These two were the only male
adult Haynes of their day. For more than
quarter of a century after their death, there
was no Hayne In Office In South Carolina, and
during the ninety odd years which have elaps-
ed since the death of these two, the haynes
who have held Office, State and Federal, all
told. do not number fifteen. Instead OF Twelve
or fifteen at all times In Office, we have, all
told, less than that number In period OF nine
ty years. ,o..
room enough for Judge Orr. That gentleman,
though considerably my junicr. has hlmself
been a member Of the State Legislature, a
member of the United States Congress, speak
er of the House of Representatives OF that
body, member of the Secession Convention,
commissioner from seeded South Carolina 10
the government at Washington, Confederate
colonel of the finest regiment | ever saw,
(which, however, he never led Into battle }
senator from South Carolina to the Congress
of the Confederate States, delegate to the
National Democratic Convention at Phiadel-
phia, bead centre of Andy Johnston's Recon-
struction Convention, first governor under the
constitution then adopted, holding on. by
tolerance Of General Sickles after the anti
Johnston reconstruction act. helring, In the
formation of the constitution now OF force,
and now Judge under.it.
am surprised that gentleman 30 various
and 80 versatile-as the Germans say, 80
Vmany sIdedn-and successful in every
chance-a man 80 emineptly liUe man as
Judge Orr-should be raking among fossils and
dead mems bones. II the "Hayne family"
alluded to by Judge Orr were ever power In
the State, they certainly are not 80 now, and
it would have been kinder Of Judge Orr to
have let them alone. Though 'e may have
cut loose from all memories OF the past, 1t
affords no good excuse for needlessly and
unprovokedly pitching into those who have
only these memories left to cherish. Atrall
events, he should have been "sure ne was
right" before ne "went ahead"
Judge Orr says that he Is surfelted with
office, aud will never more submit to the
inflIction Of holding one. heard him say the
same thing eleven years ago to the interest
ing regiment he then commanded, and whose
fate was soon after 80 melancholy. he told
them that he was more than satisfied with
public honors, and had outllued dm0at.on.
His only care, he said, was to do his auty to
them and to his couptry. Within six months
after this speech his regiment was turned
over to his brother-in-laW, Colonel Marshall,
who, with all the field officers, half the regl-
ment we're killed in Virginia, and the next
campaign ex-Colonel Orr lived 10 be Conted-
crate States senator, governor, Judge, &C..
and ''John Browns soul goes marching on
His last career is, with the aid OF CorblD,
Bowen and President Grant, to sc0urge the
money-changers irem the Temple, ard 10
send packing the thieves whom he Corbin,
Bowen and Grant helped to put In office. In
this work may God speed him. would help q
good work though the devil bid, and there Is
no telling whom the Lord may choose as His
Instruments. l. W. HAYNE.