, 1874-10-30

3O. 1874.
troddon, inastcsd Of tho negro, il would
| noon DO palpsble to tho biloxi man That
cord insteati Of titssonaion hero. Tic noNro has
grcas ftoa Of Uncle Sam. Uncle sa.n's wishoB
/ melt sent gcnslomeu hero to administer tic
Federal Offices, and told them to abstain from
| entcring into corrurt combinations with tho
kitea aud crousat Columbia ; wc B1on1d not
tho mnrk l-at Washington, in tho person Of
Patterson, dcfaming tho condition Of things
amongst the society llo Is al1eged to repreaont.
! ave hayo no national politics In South Caro-
lima. Wo do not mix q Domooratfo Admtniatra-
| onn."
as wo woro passing through tho region Of
THE sANDniLLEnB,
1ss,a,
Of ns psass sspsfI'!s3s Cen h'f'''"n't typo
| "The sand[l1llara arc tho queereat peoplo. ITO
haye aa1 th9nEa poor not unintcrosting; The,
s where to sol IL pretty mch bnrs san IN.
| pine aud sma1l oak. Their little plank cottnges,
almost black with exposure to tho sun; tleir
| an,a1l hgnrae, almost atuutel, 1t would aeem.
aud dool'o character, make thom q sort Of indie.
| pendent poasnntry, not unlike what IL found In
old parta Of tho North OF Europe. 1t haa avon
| bcen guessed tint tley wero Of Icolandio or
Normsan e%gfstsd lgs anterior s TO- hG
black hair, nearly ob|iquo oyos, Of an almond
etape.,, nua unambttous home habits, romind ua
,,,:5 1Sy s'D'ra'y friendly to tho c0nfea~
"AIways. Tho sandbiltoss nado son,e Of tho
| rory bost soldiers In the Confoderaoy. They
woro easily disciplined, obc'iient beyond any 9th
| or Bodiery, could not DO worn out by marching,
snS sna they i ~'r' tho first to panaor tho 1a't1o-
. Did they dovolopany OF thoir own number to
! distinction p"
| mo. Tho social condition of things before
tho Var worry goneray prescribed tie rotations Of
in many cases. augeested tho losdcr Of the Row
oluttonaty War, eighty yeara before. Hampton,
Piekens, my name as vol, ,sero partaan or 'ino-
leaders in tho Revolution,
49,. "Thon ysn y had Aogroat body Of Untonisss in
| "Ycs. tnorc were fcw in tho mountain parts,
but think they were gonelally North Caro-
| ,ln1ans You sec; IN North oaroica there nero
hundreds . Of families ot onakers, aormans and
| War... We had nothing. OF tho sort in South
| Carolina. The pooplo :hero-not tho leaders
only, bnt the massoa-socodod from the Union
| voluntarily. 1t waa a general movement, Of
! generation Of young mon. who fought tho War
were yotcrss, and 1t had slowly drawn ali olo-
| This view Of tho case Was also cspouscd by Mr.
hlllas, OF Char1eatou. fIe aaid:> II know a
| different opinion prevails at tho North but
Secession began ut tho bottom in this 3tato, not
amongst tho politicians. 1t camo right un from
tho poople. There werc two claesos Of opinion
here: the Sopara'iats, who wanted tto State to
60 out, Of itself without reference to aasistauce;
and tho Disunioniats. who wanted to aecede BY
co-oEeratlon aud not only to leave. but to break.
United Btnloa scnatcr Robertson, Il native Of
Fairfield, carried this explanation to perfection:
"Tho politicians" 10 said, "began to blu1R
each other on dsunion. They mover thought it
would como about; but the people believed
them, aud, when the matter catno to vote, tho
people wore diaunionista, and their leaders had
to so into tho army for wLilo, and then into
dofoat aud poverty"
| SECESSION REFINED.
| fot, whntnver tho salfith Incentives to dis
union. It is not Impossible TINT high fanatioisn,,
based upon sagacltyt a1su ontercd into tho
tho South, md thefo could be no transformation
Of save-labor to free under the conditions OF
society THERE dsuulon might haYe insulated it,
aud preserved it from the inevitable fiction OF
Said Alr. Miles: "There had boon for many
yenra sentiment that tho interests Of the FREQ
! aud Slave States wore better BuhHervad separate.
It vas held BY Bomoo Of the bOst Of our people.
| U0t poHLlclaud uCr lhnallCa.''
Tie Tariff question, IN 1880. brought the pro-
text for this issue. Three yen,B afterwnrd,
Calhoun. returning from Washington told lia
intimate friends thns the Slavery question must
p9 aaoad f. ts T un s b9 mers osia
lluential South Caroiinniaus we're augar-plant.
era IN Louisiana. aud wonld uphold the
Tariff legislation OF tho NORTH, to got
| protection for their sugar and molasBes. III
eleven ycars, tue advocates Of this policy, work
Jig with yigor wherever they could get hearing.
brought together Convention at Nashville,
which tho ctizeus smashed uu, under Jacksonian
suggestion. Po1siating yot. . DiBnnion Conven-
two overwhelmingly Slave 6tatcs-aouth Caro-.
lima and 11issiHsippi-alone responded through
their Legislatures. The last appearance OF Cal
noun III the Senate was to advocate two Presi.
time,-ono to repreaont tho rod the other tae
sword,-the Slave una the ftree Slatea,
THE SPECTRE ON THE SHIELD.
Tile motives Of human conduct aro too various
reEaracd as u disappointed nsprant for the
Presidency, who divided tho Union for reHaut-
mont. BY others. aa prcdeRtnarian, who was
led along by oil iron logic. Pure In his life, talk
knowledge. aud anita gonizod by Jackson and to
vast majority aud patronage OF bis own party in
middfe life, ho seemed driven out Of tho Union
into South Carolina. Thore he laborcd for a
CHE1pF efluGl M4tu anu CI1t1Ql3 10 tNa UulQH. II
ho could not be Saul ho could be Samuel, and
prophcsy.. With peculiar intensity. sincerity
not diminished by h.s grievance, which he soon
forgot attributed to the public calamity and too
much positive character to be merely a dropping
Hamlet, he raisea his provincialiam into an iul-
perial issue, mud, sustained BY his State az no
man in America ever was, ho put Slavery out OF
the defc1Isivo Into tho aggressive. and p,opor-
tionablYliastened its decease. Ho was. ho,efore,
not motive, hut an ingredient IN tho strong
lye which clcn',sed the Union Of slavery. His
private character. was botser than Webater's
bis resentment WAS no greater than Clays; bis
heart was reboilious, like 1is Irish race to the
realm, while loyal to The locality OF which lie
was nearly tho fodoral chief. Ills lesson to
South Carolina and nTery other State Ia this !:
"Trust no ono man; for his policy for you may
be originated In grievance OF his own."
I asked Gen. KoFBhaw:
ibid Mr. Calhoun hayo = moldiug influence
on South Carolina mind and opinion" 2"
II think not 50 much as il aaoribcd to him.
No more, perhaps, than Mr.. Webster had to
model hlasnaehnsotts. We always regard, in this
Btate, tho South Carolina College as having beon
the controlling n{luencQ IN all tlingR. hIr. CAl-