The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-04-20

Ills nrSt vlSlG was In 1851 during tho height
and excitement of nullifcation. He was at
home Henry Clay Wing, but in South
Carolina abroad he was like st. Psul-'all
things to oil men to advance his cause Ito
wit. selling fine stock.) He supposed from
his reading that South Carolinians were all
Nulli6ers and he came down to be for a season
ono of them. He crossed over tho Sol1da
Gap and his first stoppage was at Hodges,
where he found crowd, and raising his hat
he sang out, 'hurra for Nullifcation,' aud the
first he knew huge fellow bawlcd 'hooray,
for Ben Perry aud the Union,' and struck
him. He got out by explaining from
severe thrashing. He concluded he had got
the wrong end of the story, and prepared to
correct himself at once. Going down into
Laurens he came upon a crossroads store
aud grocery where he found crowd assem-
bled, and alightiug and walking in to the
wet and ho Shouted raising his lat: .hurra
for Henry Clay and the Union,' which
brought in front of him fiuty little fellow
muttering between his teeth, 'whce.ray for
Jim Yarby and nullif4a aud dang your
buttons and gave him dig under tho
short ribs. Quite astonishcd again he asked
leave to make an explanation, which was
that he 'was Nulli6er all over ard which
he confirmed by treat to all such. After
these two lessons he never developed bis
political status until he had sounded the
locality and then he fell in with tho majority,
looking well always to his personal safety
Myers dealt only in the finest stock and his
customers were the aristocracy who always
had opinions. He always had ine PAGERS
and trotters, and to introduce them he was
neither averse nor afraid to stake little on
them About 1S43 he brought with others
a PAGER for which he asked $500 (and I
think sold him for that to John Campbell
ar.in and e1a!s9ssaJ Will him fsR vpsea pafG fa
|AbbcvilIo. The challenge was accepted for
fifty yards by two nabobs and patrons of
the short turf from upper Trickem, one of
was Eli jenkins Davis, prince Of that
realm, with the privilege of substituting a
PAGER with two legs and two arms, a hugo
fellow with ba,e feet aud coperas breeches,
named George Washington Scoggins, pres
ent. The gallant Kcntuckian didn't want
a safer bet The stake was S25 ON each side
and would have been any higher amount
the Trickcaites could have borrowed
They piled oil they had or could get. The
ground was measured in the fat on the An
derson road above Judge Wardlaxs. At
the signal Scoggins struck on his hands
from leap ten feet in front, threw out his
legs (frog fashion) and gave squall from
which Myers charger, ridden by himself,
ran back, and before spurs could bring him
again to the starting point the stakes were
won by the man-paccr passing out. The
Kentuckian threw up his hat declaring he
had never won race that afforded him half
the satisfaction as loosing that, and asked
leave to add to it a gallon of peach brandy.
He said Abbeville was renowned for her
Calhoun and other great men, and now he
could add his personal testimony to its JUS
tice and truth.
1t was said by him that he hired Scog-
gins. and took him to Edgefcld and won
back with him double his loss in Abbcvillc.
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