The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-10-14
referring to piece of the Admirals
manufactured history.

Every one was amazed at the mans
rashness. The idea Of deliberately in
viting humiliation was q thing in
omprehe nsible. The retreat came to
. halt; then everybody sat down again
wondering, to await the upshot Of it.
The Admiral himself was as SURPRISED
IS any one. He paused In the door,
with his red handkerchief half raised
to his sweating face, and contem-
plated the daring reptile In the cor.
ner.
Certain Of it? Am l certain of it?
Do you thing I've been lying about it?
What do you take me for? ANYBODY
that don't know that circumstance,
know 1t. Road up your history: Read
it up, and don't come asking q man il
he's certain about little bit of A B G
stuff that the very southern niggers
know all about"
Here the Admiral's fires began tc
wax hot, the atmosphere thickened.
the coming earthquake rumbled, he
began to thunder and tighten. With
in three minutes his volcano was in
full irruptiOn and he was dischargine
flames and ashes Of indignation,
belching black volumes of foul his
tory aloft, and vomiting red-hot tor
rents of profanity from his crater.
Meantime Williams sat silent, and ap
parentiy deeply and earnestly inter
ested in what the old man was saving.
BY and by, when the lull came, he
said in the most deferential way, and
with the gratified air Of man who
has had mystery cleared up which
had been puzzling him uRcOmfort-
ably:
"No,c I understand 1t. l always
thought l knew that piece Of history
we'll enough, but was still afraid to
trust 1t, because there was not that
convincing Particularly about i,
that one likes to have in history; but
when you mentioned every name, the
other day, and every date, and every
der and sequence, / said to myself,
this sounds something like-this is his,
tory-this is putting 1T il shape that
gives man condolences; and l said to
myself afterwards, will just ask the
Admiral II he Is perfectly certain
about the details, and IL he is | will
come out and thank him for clearing
this matter up fer me. And that is
what l want to do nOw-fOr until you
set that matter right it was nothing
but just confusion In my mind with
out head or tail to it,"
Nobody ever saw the Admiral look
so Modified before, and so pleased.
Nobody had ever received his bogus
history as gospel before; its genuine
ness had always been called in ques-
ton either by words or looks; but here
was man that not only swallowed it
all down, but was grateful for the
dose. He was taken back; he hardly
knew what to say; even his profanity
failed him. Now, Williams continued,
modestly and earnestly:
But Admiral. in saying that this
was the first stone thrown, and that
this precipitated the war, you have
overlooked circumstance which you
are perfectly familiar with, but which
has escaped your memory. Now |
grant that what you have stated is
on the 10th of October, 1850, two
Massachusetts clergymen, named
Waite and Granger, went in disguise
to the house OF John Moody, in Rock
port at dead Of night, and dragged
forth two southern women and their
two little children, and after tarring
and feathering them conveyed them
to Boston and burned them alive in
the State House square; and l also
grant your proposition that this deed
is what led to the secession Of South
Carolina on the Goth of December fol-
lowing. Very we'll? (Here the COM
pany were pleasantly surprised to hear
Williams proceed to come back at the
Admiral with his own invincible
capon--clean, pure manufactured
history without word Of truth in
it, Every we'll, say. But Admiral
why overlook the Willis and Morgan,
case in South Carolina? You are too
we'll Informed man not to know all
about that circumstance. Your argu-
ments and conversations have shown
you to be intimately cOnversant with
every detail Of this national quarrel.
You develop matters Of history every
day that show plainly that you are no
smatterer in it, content to nibble
searched the depths and possesses
yourself of everything that has
bearing upon the great question.
Therefore, let me just recall to your
mind that Willis and Morgan case
though see by your lace that the
whole thing is already passing
through your memory at this mo.
ment. On the 18th Of August. 1860,
two months before the Waite and
Granger affair, two South Carolina
clergymen, named Henry II. Morgan
and Winthrop l.. Willis. one Metho-
dist and the other an Old School Bap-
fist. disguised themselves, and went
at midnight to the house of planter
named Thompson son OF Archi bald +.
Thompson, Vice President under
Thomas Jefferson,-and took thence,
at midnight, his widc we'd aunt, "a
Northern wDman.) and her adopted
Higbie, afflicted with epilepsy and SUI
fering at the time from white swell
ing on one Of his legs, and compelled
to walk on clutches in consequence;
and the two ministers, in spite Of the
pleadings of the victims, dragged
them to the bush, tarred and feath-
cred them, and afterward burned
them at the stake in the city of
Charleston. You remember perfectly
we'll what Stir it made; you remem-
Der perfectly we'll that even the
Charleston Courier st gmatiZcd the
act as being unpleasant, OF question
able propriety. and scarcely justitiablc
and likewise that it would not be
matter of surprise il retaliation en-
sued. And you remember also, that
this thing was the cause Of the Massa-
chuse It's outrage. VINO. indeed, were
the two Massachusetts, minist crS?
And who were the two Southern
women they burned? l do not need
to remind you, Admiral, with your
intimate knowledge OF history, that
Waite was the nephew of the woman
burned in Charleston. that Granrer