The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-20

OF tine case aud the proof on which they
rest.
Tia LAST DAYS OF T1MRoD. a
correspondent Of the Charleston Ne,os,
writes as follows, under date Of Colum-
bia, s.. O., March Is, 1873: j.,
Mr.. Paul FL. Hayne having chosen to
appropriate to himself aud consider ex-
amples Of "perverso taste and feeling"
some remarks of mine, made in q late
communication to the Boston Daily Ad-
uerf;sc', and Tspubii5hed iii your CO.
lumns, deem some explanations due
him and due myself. In reading Mr..
Haynes memorial sketch of Timrod, I
was greatly struck and delighted with
the exquisite taste and deI;osoJ which
pervaded it from fret to last, and the
unfortunate article which has so wound
ed MIR. Haynes sensibility was written
with no thought OF his share in having
produced "the impression widely prova.
lent at the North that Timrod was ne.
elected by his own people,"
1t seemed to me the whole Southern
people must be psrtaking of the indig-
nation I felt that the Northern press
could not even applaud our dead poet
without traducing our ruined people,
My article was, therefore, simply an en-.
deavor to defend my injured country
from the aapersions which we're being
cast upon her. AS Mr. Hayne has seen
st, however, to bring this unpleasant
subject again before the public, T must
be allowed to enter my protest against
it's being asserted that Timrod "was ne.
elected by hie own people," BY refer-
ence to tho letter in the Boston paper, it
will be seen that, on the occasion re-
ferred to, on which Gen. Hampton made
Timrod's necessities known to my father,
state 'the snow was falling heavily" !"
The letter aisu makes me state ''it was
early in the fall of 1867" This, it must
easily be perceived, is an error either in
writing or printing, Il have no copy of
the manuscript,) for even tho poetical
Imagination of Mr.. Paul II. Huyne could
scarcely conceive snow falling heavily in
the latitude of Columbia, s. c., s'a few
weeks previous to October" Not sup
posing was to he subjected to SO scorch-
ing criticism, confess trusted entire
~ to my memory in preparing the hasti-
ly-written article for the Boston Adoer-
tiser, and iii not, as should have done,
consult the references at my command.
find, by examining q carefully kept
| record Of those dark days. alike illustra-
tive OF mans inhumanity and Gods
mercy, that the interview mentioned
took place on the Goth December, 1866.
nearly one year previous to the date of
Mr. Timrod's death. During this time I
assert that if he was in want it was in
spite of the watchfui care of constant
and ready friends, including his tender
and faithful physician.
That before this period he may have
been in great need, is mournfully true
who was not in great need in burnt Co.
lumbia, during these sad years of desola-
! tion and famine? Indeed, there were
| few feeble women and tender children
who did not know absolute want.
With the piteons tale OF Columbia's
fate so widely known, it is strange, and
even hard, that she should be taunted
with her inability to surround the dying
poet. her adopted son, with all the minis.
trations Of wealth and ease, but what
she could do che did.
regret very much that my effort to
rid my country of somo part of the
odium thrown upon her, should huye
forced me to again bring this painful
theme before the public. SO much as I
have written I believe just and neces-
sary. bnt promise yon J. shall not be
tempted to continue the discussion.
BOILER EXPLOSION brief telegram
was received in this city yesterday, by
Messrs. Steinmeyer & Stokes, from
Yemassee, the junction of the Savannah
and Charleston and Port Royal Roada