The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-12

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AN QLD MANS MEMoR1Es.-In Decem-
Der, 1895, met the celebrated Chafiee
Carroll, of Carrollton.i 3 The Paxtri6Se
Cadets were passing throngh BaHinnore
|gn heir march from Midd1e6SOoA
9ectttut, to Washington Cit, y3G 81
we're drawn up in line before 49, =
the last signer of the Dsclal1 c&
Independence. ''These are my pafd6,!
said Captain Partridge. '.And in t6eiass
replied Mr.. Carroll, "I see thA defender
lot my country" He was o Little, Old
man, dressed in q brown surtout, and IA
appearance to be quite active for q pSr.
son of his age. On our arrival at Wash
ington we were marched tothe White
House and introduced to the President,
John Quincy Adams. He received US in
the parlor, and was very quiet and
sedate, and no one could have imagined
that he would subsequently flash forth,
in 1874, as the most acrimonious mem
Der Of the House of Representatives.E }
We were next introduced to tho Vice
President, John G. Calhoun. What q
contrastl He came out to us ON the
street, walked along the line shaking
hands, and asking the name of each
cadet as he took his hand. Ha was the
most popular statesman with young men
who everihved. He visited Mount Ver-
non in company with many army and
samuel Smith, the leader of the famous
Maryland line, deliver q speech, when
standing on the. tomb of Washington.
The greatest orator that America has pro-
duced since Patrick Henry, WAS his
nephew, William Campbell. Preston, OF
South CAROLINA. heard him speak in
the winter of 1855, ON tho michigan
question" when he took the Senate by
storm. But the most fascinating and
delightful speaker ever heard WAS the
celebrated Robert Y. Hhyne, whose
speech on Foote'S resolution was mas.
ter-piecc. General jackson, the Presi-
dent, wrote letter of congratulation to
him, stating that he intended to have his
speech bound up with the works of JEFF
fersop; and the merchants of Boston had
it printed on, satin. which they sent to
him ;aeSs token of their esteem, for his
hear even Southern men talk about Web
ster having worsted Hayne in .the great
debate"
The song called "Johnson's Wife of
Louisiana, which is a parody on Roy's
"Wife of Aldavalla," was written by
Warren Ransom Davis. 1 once asked
the Vice-President, VIM. r. King, if
there was any truth in the line: ''The
Incas blood flows in her veina;" he re-
piled that it was merely fancy. It will
be remembered that johnson was u
Senator in Congress from Louisian
| about the year 1864. This same Davis
| also wrote the book called the Life of
David Crockett" which was so popular
thirty years ago. When Gen. Jackson,
the President, issued his celebrated
proclamation against the South Carolina
| nqllfiers, Davis made a speech de-
nouncing and ridiculing him, saying,
| among other sarcastic remarks: 'tIf the
old gentleman must be amused let us
| give him q te-to-tum." Tho remark en-
ragged Jackson. who aaid: 81 will make q
te-to-tum Of his id traitorous head"
Il once heard Gen. Robert Y. Haync
say, in 1882, 'that jackson Ind recently
written n letter to Oalhoun--this wns
| after their quarrel-and said that, as he
WAS preparing facts for history, he would
request him to answer the series of in
terrogatortes enclosed with tho letter.
If any man foamed with rage" said
Hayne, sit WAS jackson when he re-
ceived Calhouns reply. 1t was so scath-
ing and contemptuous." By-the-way,
two fools. Parton and Bancroft, have
stated in their "Lives of jackson, /" that
he was North Carolinian, when Jackson
himself says in his proclamation that he
was native Of South Carolina This
statement will be found near the con-
cluaion Of that celebrated document ,
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