, 1874-11-04

Tlsa man without q. party, lihe tug man with.
out country, pnca for ono; ant South Care
to Sa that sSses oless y Of nes rsh, md Northera
l1adlen1a whose hopubllcanlam ousfan tho hc-
public.
At tle close Of tho Revolution, nothing fao-
thus waa ron,nrked Of this State. 1t was rock
onod Felora1ists' State, indeetl, and tho two
great Pincknoys woro Bucccssivoly mentlonotl
NTH John Adams for President. Tho virginia
brought t " no response from thia 1oyal State, and
ita public men wero so ayorBc to Jefferson TINT
tho vote Of tho State waa cast for burr, father
ir-law Of Joseph Allston. Thoro was one Pinok"
9 cwev9r OF ne aoeona sone5hs.,9, ehtras,
rnckney. Ills son, graduating at this College OF
South Carolina. ,..bocamo tic proprietor Of tho
Charleston 1fe'cu,Y; Ills daughter married
Robert Y. Hayno, the law-st1dont of Langaon
Union. He himself opposed the original Mis-
But tic Two brothers pinoknoy-elder cousins
Of Charlos Pfnckuoy-woro FoleraliatB, with
nutlcdgo, William Smith, and Robert Goodloc
1rnrpor. All tlcso mon we're in tmo weoded out
Of public llfc By tho rising power or South Car-
olina College aud tho doctrines taught thero.
Tho Collage waH mntlo part Of the state,-the
boards Of Trustees md the Log'estnse rt IEor
ward and III turn, tho offspring OF those oopln-
ions became politicians md T11lstcoa themselves,
md again held tho authority Of both Will and
tradition over the curriculum.
poaito opinion mora proyokingly confoundcd
ihau In South Carona Tho explanations
have matlo OF tho nou~idcntity between the two
older psc9eys and tho Junior m9y DO rHepoatsa
who graduated at tho College In 1908, WAS the
principal jurBt Of Nulltcation. William Smith,
United Staten Senator for twelve yearB1 was also
Nul!ifior, 1lnlisa his namesake, although driven
from tho state by unaYailing personal opposition
to Calhoun.
GEOGRAPHICAL POLITICS.
Tho Bite OF this Coliogo III y partierlar point Of
evidence as to its influence upon tho political
status Of tho State. Tho CULTURE aud re,ino-
test, md had tho maritime instincts Of
nationnlity-iisea wholly in tho lowor eouatEy,.
along the coas.a. whoro Tronch, English. md
Holland protostants. aud Scotch shippcrs* inl-
blbed tho general civilization of ooastwlao So
coty. freely communicated with tho otlor Col
outea, and Hent tllor children to tho best schools
Of Europe. Tho upper parts Of the Province. in
hnbitod by Indians, and ovorrun with buffalo aud
game, had been first penetrated by traders and
cowllcrds Of a vagabond sort, and afterwards w
Scotch-1rish scttlors, amongst whom wero tic
Calllouns, pickeneeB aud Butfors: During the
Revolution. the oonst-parta wore B'b],lgatea put
Gou. croeno, broke up tho British posts. and
won wide reputation for courage and military
enterprise. Such mon wc1e not disposed to nc
cede, after the War, to NIL nrissocratic doutna-
ton. While tho coastwise peoplo supported
Washington and Adams, the loycling ideas Of
Joirorson wero responded to by tho upland
populaco, which Ind meantime greatly ill.,
creased, and actually outnuMberod tho lowlnna
planters. Wholly different from these English
and IIugucnot pooplo. brod to horseback, to
foray and feud, rough and aggressive. and ac-
c,lstomod to little other government thnn what
Inns einco borne tho 1tane Of kn.Klaxisn, tho
Uppor Carolintaus demanded tho Capital IN DO
rot noaror tho consre OF the State md the
lowlandors hastenod to suggest College to &C.
compnny it. They wished to specialize the ill.,
telhgrnoc Of tho lower and upper people before
extending tho representation to q great. crudo
class. Wo have not, in this generation. beon 30
f'5esaRa 5oha Ruodso IL % and Tom Drayon wore tho
ceiyera OF tho College. Tho loading Trustees
wero Drayton, G: G. Pnckney, Il. "; 10 saus-
John Chestnut, Col Thomas Taylor, aud Col.
Wade Hampton. Tho Inst two, reBidonts Of tho
young CnpitatCity, contracted for tho College,
buildings. and placed them on tue spot. Both
those men lie buried close to tho Alma Mater
they pyoyiacd for the rostarity Of the State.
Anil 2e, 1901, the Trustees met to elect Fac
u1ty. Nothing sectional animated their choice,
but in that solection ipsenaibly tue institution
took an original bias for Free Tratao ia eeon-
on,lcs, and tho Jetfersonian ideas OF limited aoy-
ereignty. --.--.
Jonathan Marcy, previously, President OF
Brown UnivorsityIwhsE9 Ma,ln ;r!a, IN aanae ,1o
| President Of Union College, whore ho succeeded
Jonathan Edwards,-WaA called to the head Of
tho institution. uo was o graduate OF Brown.
with him warc associated Elisha Hammond. a
young Dartmouth graduate, nedagoguing in the
State, and Haaford, q graduate Of Yale:
1t took but a generation to make this man Of
Now Bedford tho father Of son, who, above oil
othe1s, WAS tho Immediate parent OF the War for
l. ND Ho 4ho W9S %no
| That Cotton is King" and said that 1.-the
South can raise, equip, and maintain in the
field, larger army than any powor On Garth can
aond against her." Pars Of thia a,ia saa Was
Of . m,1daill. His father married III
! That mart Of Carolina which laf
produced tho whole malcontent influence Of the
| State-tho Western contro,-nnd died IN l629
| nj Just before tho Var. for tue military iustIuc'
ton of tho Carolinians; the elder uarrlot Allss
| FitxammonB, q connection of tho uamptons,
and their hone on tho Savannah ll1Vcr wns ths
meeting place Of the lateat secossioniats: Sen.
ator Hammond was a graduato. of tho College,
| an Aldo OF Cons. Hayno and Hamilton in tho at
tempted war of Notification, mud, while Gov
er.lor he wrote to the British Aboltionist
Clarkson Q8a5): ...
sentimont Of Gov. McDunia. that sslavory ia tht
cor1ler~Btouo OF our republican edilee'; while
repudiate, as riaiculounly absurd; that m1,cll-
lai,lod but powhero-acc1editod dogma of Mr
Jefferson, that AL mon arc born equal"
1t may softon our projntlices Ia note that tht
son OF d Now-EugIander was tue most violent Of
tho Carollnians. "Ho was tho best-informef
and boldest man so had" said Mr. Siehola tt
me, "apd would have been great man but fol
hls uncomfortable nppetitcs." During tho Wal
ho diol. Dluster was over.
Tho venerable n1axey, wearing his knee
brooches, hootel by tho desperately bad Caro-
liuiau boys sweet and loug-Bufferitg, and ii
concord with tho state, thongh onro summoned
by tho Trustees to rosign, died in 1920; aud 1t Ii
hiB monument winch stands on the Ca1npuo, GOV
etcd With long Latin inscription.
TIE VERY FIRST STUDENT
to enter the College, and graduate. from it, wa
William Hagper,-"tho E1aon OF tho Stato,," Ii
IL called,-lalt no Disunionst Was moro tabitl
and 10 claimed tl,nt Calhoun was not 80 carly n
himself in favor Of Notification. Ho, too. wa
tho son Of u stranger ono Of john Wesley
British itiuerauts. so1t by Wesley himself t.
America, with Coke, Atterbury, and Bra
| nn tho Hunch Of AuuealK WhQ non. .conenrrel L