The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-02-05

ington furnished 10 his countrymen mags-
zine of political philosophy which no stateS-
man OF his country will ever willingly OF can
Willingly neglect. The solid Judgment, the
depth and keenness of penetration, Wnicn
made the matchless Chief Justice. Interpret
and here unfold the motives of men and the
meaning of events. And the Life of Patrick
Henry, by Wirt-an Angelo, painted by Rapn-
ael-what young man OF America, In this or
future times, will not delight ln it's vivid pages,
and what orator of any oountry-an EV-
erett, Webster, or aChoate-mlght not coVet
such blographer And in the field OF hctlon
and the novel-whilst every American shall
give welcome to quaint, homely, philosophic
4" Leather Stocking" will our old friend
&" Horseshoe Robinson" or our neishoor "Guy
"Ryers" be ever out of place, or fall OF cor
dial greeting! Shall we of the South Do
backward and ashamed to challenge for Horse
shoe or Guy an Introduction to Leather STOCK
ING. as peers and good fellows all, we'll met
And In the region of the muse-passlng by our
young eagles, Hayne, Tlmrod-pauslng ior d
moment at the grave OF the wizard Poe-caa
we not point to our Grayson, and chaliense
the country to furnish descriptive, didactlc
poem, equal TO that of the Hireling and the
uslayen-whose verse with the point OF Pope,
and the gentle, limpld flow OF Goldsmith, al
the same time possesses freshness "nlcn
would persuade you that the author VINO,
though he reminds you of the excellencles Oh
both, had never read either? And In yet an
other field, our sportsman, par eGcetsence'
whose pen, nlmber than the game he delights
to bag. more pointed than the lance that ne
has 80 often driven Into the monsters OF tne
deep-has realized, and painted, in never
diving colors, frolic life aboundlng in crowded
incident-with narrative at times as ouoyant
as the bound of his bucks, rapid as the dart OF
his terrible fish, and gay and brilliant as Inc
sides of the cavallI, glancins in the sun. And
such work az this. the production, like that
of the "Hireling and the Slave," not OF all
author, but of cotton planter
And in a widely different field of labor, re-
curing for its successful cultivation the
seyerest investigation, keenuess and breadth
of thought, and the largest powers OF general
lzstion-has not townsman OF ours, yet
youug-in his works on the Diplomacy Of The
Revolution and the Administration OF WASH
ington-estaollshed his name az an authority
in most recondite department OF knowledge,
and wor a fixed place for himself among the
publIcists of all the world
And who shall say that the georgia scenes''
of the grave and worthy president OF the Col
lege of our State, and the "Slmon suggs" OF
Hooper, are not equal In boundless and
original humor to any work Of humor of this
generation, on either eide OF the Atlantic ?
But forbear, with the addition OF but one
word-that in the little have said have not
meant to boast of ourselves or to dlsparage
our nelghbors; but, In the lack of multitude
of books, 10 show that the South has not alto
gether buried Its talents In napkin, like the
unfaIthlul steward, but that If we have de-
voted our best energies, 1t may be Too exclu'
sively, to the cultivation Of another Held, a.
literature has been with our brightest minds
only an incident and an aside, yet If we have
not attempted much, in the little We have at
temptsd we have not altogether failed.