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

Carroll, of Carrollton. The Partridge
Cadets were passing through Baltimore
on their march from Middleton. Com
necttcut, to Washington City, N3SeA NJ
were drawn up in line before the 6fof
the last signer of the DeclarA&ln4 cf
Independence" "These are my pupils,
said Captain Partridge. "And in henn,s
replied MIR. Carroll, ''I see tho defenders
OF my country" He was little, old
appearance to be quite active for per-
son of his age. On our arrival at Wash
ington we wore marched to,the 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.r :
We were next introduced to tho Vice
President, John G. Calhoun. What a
| contrast! He came out to us on the
street, walked along the line shaking
hands, and asking tho name of each
| cadet as he took his hand. He was the
| who ever lived. He visited Mount Yer
non in company with many army and
navy officers. Here I heard General
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, wns his
nephew, William Campbell Preston, Of
South Carolina. heard him speak in
tho winter of 1887, 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. Hnyne, whose
speech on Foote'S resolution was mas
ter-piece. General jackson, the Presi-
dent, wrote a letter Of congratulation to
him, stating that he intended to have his
speech bound up with the works of Jef-
ferson; and the merchants of Boston Ind
| it printed on satin, which they sent to
him las token of their esteem, for his
triumph over Webster. And vet one will
hear even Southern men talk about Web
ster having worsted Hayne in 1.-The great
debate!'
The song called "Johnson's Wife of
Louisiana" which is parody on Roy's
"Wife of Aldavalla," was written by
Warren Ransom Davis once asked
the Vice-President, VIM. H. King, if
there was any truth in the line: "The
Inca's blood flows in her veins;" he re-
piled that it was merely fancy. 1t will
i pC tilut JOuuSOu WIS
Senator in Congress from Louisiana
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
nullifers, Davis made speech de-
nouncing and ridiculing him, saying,
among other sarcastic remarks: IF the
old gentleman must be amused. let us
give him te-to-tum." The remark en-
ragged Jackson, who said: 'I will make a
te-to-tum of his ID traitorous head"
| I once heard Gen. Robert y. HaYnc
say, in 1882, "that jackson had recently
written letter to Calhoun--this was
after their quarrel-and said that, AZ he
was preparing facts for history, he would
request him to answer the series of in
terrogatories enclosed with tho letter
If any man foamed with rnge." said
Hayne, sit WAS jackson when he re-
ceived Calhoun's reply. 1t WAS 30 scath-
ing and contemptuous. By-the-way,
two fools. Parton and Bancroft, have
stated in their Olives of Jackson" that
he was a North Carolinian, when jackson
himself says in his proclamation that he
was native Of South Carolina This
statement will be found near the CON
clusion of that celebrated document.
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