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

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The Hon. Iaaac w. Hayne. this last
Attorney General under .he ante beiltlm
rule in South Carolina, died in Charles.
ton on Monday morning. Col. Hayne
was born on March i2, 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 Wm. +. Hayne, Esq, and
the grandson Of Isaac Hayne, the martyr
who was executed without iris; by the
yindictive ana inexorable order of Lord
Rawdon and Lieutenant Colonel BaIfour,
under charge of having broken his parole.
unworthy scion Of the gall.nt stock from
which lie sprang. No better and truer
man than Isaac Hayne ever lived. It
was our peculiar privilege to know him
well. He was not man, in our estima-
don, of great parts as q member of his
profession, though his atainments were
good and his advocacy OF causes far from
being unsuccessful. But Hayne os q
counsellor and adviser IN action was
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 o
grandly benignant character, as was ex-
emplifed by his rushing insu the flames
during confagTation in Gc.nwell (if
W. remember rightly and saving a child
when the effort to do so seemed TO all be-
holders to promise him nothing but O
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 ut any
personal risk without counting the cost.
III counsel Col. Hayne was eminently
wise. Ho had q 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, vas no such orator az
his near and distinguished kinsman,
Robert Y. Hayne, we do not know but
that in counsel he was his SUPERIOR
Everybody who knew Col. Hayne well
respected his opinions as of great worth.
His personal influence was very strong.
During his participation in public affairs
1t 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 serv. as
Private Secretary and aid-de.camp to
Governor Robert Y. Hayne in 1890. 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 1848, when
he returned to this State and entered into
partnership with that most estimable
gentleman and sound lawyer, Heury w.
Perroneau, Esq, who had long enjoyed
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 ov4a- the
Hon. Richard DeTreeville, one OF the
must accomplished lav yers the State ever
produced, in itself no slight Indication Of
Col. Haynes worth and personal inilu-
ence.
This Office Colonel Hayne confined to
sActu NAa"psb6 LGOh iSpOubCuty tS-tltCtcuJ
until the black deluge cane, when ali
decency and true worth were sent to the
rear and the bottom reil put on top. 1t
was thus but poetic justice that the willy
Massachusetts carpet-bagger, Daniel II.
Chamberlain, should come to the front
and the noble, gallant and manly Hayne
should turn sadly away, 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 tie 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 tho sons Of
Caroline the inheritance of truly hon
ored name that he has surrendered as he
received 1t, sans petir ct sans reproche.-
Coiatih6ia Register, l1th inst.