The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-18
Death of the Hon. Isaac W. Hayne.

The Hon. Isaac w. Hayne, the last
Attorney General under the ante bellum
rule in South Carolina, died in Charles
ton on Monday morning. Col. Hayne
was born on March II, 1909, in the city
where he died. He had thus lived out
an honorable, useful life to the good old
age of nearly II years. The deceased
was the son of VIM. E. Hayne, Esq, and
the grandson of Isaac Hayne, the martyr
who was executed without trial by the
yindictive and inexorable order of Lord
Rawdon and Lieutenant Colonel Balfour,
under charge of having broken his parole.
Isaac w. Hayne, the grandson, was no
unworthy scion of the gallant stock from
which he sprang. No better and truer
man than Isaac Hayne ever lived. 1t
was our peculiar privilege to know him
we'll. He was not man, in our estima-
ton, of great parts as member of his
profession, though his gttaiuments were
good and his advocacy of causes far from
being unsuccessful. But Hayne as q
counsellor and adviser in action was a
most remarkable man. True as steel to
his friends, declared and manly to the
last extent in the positions he advocated,
Just and fearless man in all things,
rather combative than otherwise in his
natural temperament, he yet possessed q
grandly benignant character, as was ex-
empli6ed by his rushing into the flames
during conhagration in Barnwell (if
we remember rightly and saving child
when the effort to do so seemed to all be-
holders to promise him nothing but q
certain and most miserable death. And
this was the man through the whole tenor
of his honorable life. He was ever ready
to serve his friends or his cause at any
personal risk without counting the cost.
In counsel Col. Hayne was eminently
wise. He had way of looking at things
squarely and calling them by their right
names, and yet acting with the circum-
spection of cool man who invariably
possessed himself fully. Whilst Colonel
Hayne, therefore, was no such orator as
his near and distinguished kinsman,
Robert Y. Hayne, we do not know but
that in counsel ne was his superior
Everybody who knew Col. Hayne we'll
respected his opinions as of great worth.
His personal influence was very strong.
During his participation in public affairs
it can be safely said that no political
movements of import took place in South
Carolina that Isaac Hayne was not called
into counsel, his views considered of force
and his advocacy earnestly sought. A
graduate of the South Carolina College,
Col. Hayne filled the position of tutor in
that institution previous to his service as
Private Secretary and aid-de-camp to
Governor Robert Y. Hayne in 1880. He
was called to the bar in 1881 and prac-
ticed his profession for some time at Coo
sawhatchie, the former County seat of
Beaufort District. Removing to Ala
bama to take charge of his fathers es-
tate, he there continued to reside and
practice his profession until 1S48, when
he returned to this State and entered into
partnership with that most estimable
gentleman and sound lawyer, Henry w.
Perroneau, Esq, who had long enjoyed q
lucrative practice in the sterling and
trusted firm of Mazyck & Perroneau, the
Hon. Alexander Mazyck retiring about
this time from professional life. Shortly
after Col. Haynes return to the State he
was elected Attorney General over the
Hon. Richard DeTreeville, one of the
most accomplished lawyers the State ever
produced, in itself no slight indication of
Col. Haynes worth and personal infiu-
ence.
This Office Colonel Hayne confined to
hold (having been repeatedly re-elected)
until the black deluge cane, when all
decency and true worth were sent to the
rear and the bottom rail put on top. 1t
was thus but poetic justice that the willy
Massachusetts, carpet-bagger, Daniel Fl.
Chamberlain, should come to the front
and the noble, gallant and manly Hayne
should turn sadly away, q stranger in the
Commonwealth for which his grandsire
had laid down his life on the ignominious
gallows. But for Colonel Haynes feeble
health and declining years it would have
been an honor to the State that he should
have been restored to Office and died in
the harness the same good and true man
that he had ever lived. But God willed
otherwise. He now sleeps with his hon.
ored sires in the soil that gave him birth,
and leaves to his sons and the sons of
Carolina the Inheritance of a truly hon.
ored name that he has surrendered as he
received it, sans pe,tr ct sans reproche.-
Columbia Register, 11th inst.