The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-18
Especial correspondence of the GLoBE.l
Fourth OF July in Charleston.

New York, July II, 1878
Editor Rutlaad Globe The last day
spent in Charleston was the Fourth of
July. refer to Charleston, S. c., for had
the United States colony in Africa, and
had the natives of that colony been cele-
brating their release from the oppression of
some terrible tyrant, should certainly have
thought myself there This day, which
every one who has dropof patriotic blood
in his veins loves to celebrate, is almost en-
tirely ignored by the white inhabitants of
the South, at least found it so in Charles
ton, and they either went out of the city
on some boating excursion, or kept their
houses. The face of a white man or wo-
man in the streets on the Fourth was
rarity, but the dusky element was out in
its best attire. and the streets swarmed with
colored women and children with all their
gay and gaudy ribbons and feathers, form
ing to the eye of a stranger an interesting
and grotesque display. The city and the
day are completely given up to them, and
as far as | could see or learn it might be in
worse hands. | never spent the day in a
city in America and saw so little drunken
ness and disorder; and | believe the only
breach of the peace that occurred was in
the evening at a billiard saloon, where one
young man (white) shot another, who died
within an hour This needs no farther ex-
PLANTATION than that which will account for
two-thirds of the murders in our country
the young murderer was intoxicated.
To give you an idea of the southern pat
riotism | will transcrbe portion of con-
versaton had with a fellow-traveler, an
intelligent southerner, and large dealer in
horses. On meeting him at the breakfast
table and making some casual remarks rel
alive to the day, his reply was
"D--n the Fourth of July; | wish
there had never been an independence day.
! would rather belong to Great Britain
now"
"Ah, but where would you and your lea
ders have been eight years ago had you been
under British rule? Do you remember
what she did with her rebels in InGia?"
sob, but we should never have rebelled
under English rule
"You might not have had occasion, fol
Great Britain abolished her slaves hall
century ago. And if you had had twelve
years ago such leaders as led you to victory
against British oppression in 1775 and 1776
in your own beautiful harbor, and unde
the flag you trampled in the dust twelv'
years ago, you never would have been wher
you are to-day-where you cannot ever
pronounce the name of your countrys ma
tai day without blush"
| left him, for | have no patience to tall
to man who can curse his native land oil
the anniversary of her birth. Although
this man will do for specimen of the ay
erage southerner, still there are many VIII
feel differently.
An excursion up the Ashley river O
white inhabitants, comprising many gov
) eminent officials and others, also include
a number of southern natives who SCENE
to delight to honor the day The Charles
ton Neus of the next morning says
SIN former days in Charleston, the gl'
rious Fourth was celebrated with more tina
: ordinary eclat. Patriotism bubbled over
the Palmetto state, and, at early dawn
the Fourth of July, the stars and strip,
tluttered from almost every house-top. Oh
and Young, mlitiamen and civilians, Joint
in common observance of the day. WI
does not remember the military parades ,
the ante-belum independence day-tl
brilliant claw hammer coats of the militia
D. the orations at the citadel, with their gra
diloauent perorations and exordiums al
metaphysical middies--the crowds of pc
r, spring patriots who enlivened the streets
l. the magnificent fireworks on the Batter
10 for which the city government made an
nual appropriation And who remembe
all these glores of the past that does
= wish that those good old days, in the 0
J, way, could come again? But the post D.
IS lum Fourth of July is a celebration VIM
o belongs to the new order of things, ana
Charleston the ''wards of the nation III
: nopolize the day. Time has done much
III heal the wounds inflicted by the war, .
the end is not yet; and as many OF /,
white people rs celebrate independence q
: do so only in a quiet, unostentatious wa.
IL The military display for the q
consisted of the parade of two re-
= ments of colored troops at 10
O'Clock in the morning, the OF