The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-20
UNDER THE BAN.
A South Carolinian Romance, by Teresa
Hammond Strickland.

No period of our country's history is
more thrilling than that of the hushed
calm when the whole land trembled
under the ban Of human slavery, await
ing the bursting Of tho storm that ragged
in a fury of blood and tears until it swept
away forever the degrading 'institution"
which contained in itself 1.-THE sum OF all
Sillainies.''
Since the war a generation has grown
up whose ears did not hear the grim
thunder of the cannon Sat the 'front.'"
when brave brothers battled over the
dark Inheritance ofnegro slavery-handed
down by their toretathers and sanctioned
by the laws OF the land.
The lapse of thirty-two years since the
Confederate banners were folded up for
ever at AppomattoX has brought the
thoughtful student and grave historian
to fields Of inquiry once limited to the
politician and given over to the dreadful
arbitrament of the sword.
1t is left, in part, for the historical novel
and romance to depict the social condl-
tions under which the South drifted into
war which has made the Confederate,
equally with the Union soldier, q hero.
Harriet Beecher Stoves immortal
novel, "Uncle Toms Cabin dealt with
the Gulf States, the transplanted slaves,
and Southwestern conditions. Judge
Albion w. Tourgee truthfully depicted
the perplexing aftermath of slavery.
But there yet remain unreaped many
fields fruitful of romance in connection
with this theme.
South Carolina. proud, aristocratic.
reckless, gallant, hospitable, first to ad-
vancs and last to retreat, furnishes to the
novelist many Intensely dramatic and
thrilling episodes characteristic OF the
naughty plauter-life at the outbreak oil
the war.
"Under the Ban accurately depicts the
social state brought about by the long
continuance of hurtful conditions. True
to facts, rich in local color, sincere and
searching, this brilliant novel proves the
inexorable fulfillment of the awful de-
cree: 81 will visit the sins of the fathers
upon the children.
It covers the subject Of patrimonial,
not i'm ported, slavery. The high hearted
society common to Virginia and the
Carolinas is painted with loyal SYM
pathy for the innocent who suffered for
the temporizing policy of the founders of
the Union,-for those who we're born
heirs TO an increasing cause ofdiscord
carefully nutured under the highest legal
sanctions. The author is not an alien
emotional theorist writing OF slavery as
it vas supposed to have been, but one
"born in the purple" portraying it as it
was.
Teresa Hammond Strickland. whose
fascinating pen tells the story of Camden
town, was born at Anderson, South Caro-
lima, at the foot Of the Blue Ridge. Her
father, Judge Jacob Pinckpey Reed. of
South Carolina, and her materna! grand
father. Judge William Hammond, of
Georgia, were leading public men. Judge
Reed long maintained stately hospital
ity at his beautiful country seat, echo
Hall" His daughter, an unusually gifted
poetess, gathered this thrilling story of
slavery days from the "reminiscences OF
the '.old man eloquent" as his confreres
STYLED this eminent iurist
In "Under the Ban" there is the tbrob
of the heart, the pulse of pride, and the
cry ofthe wounded coming out of the
conditions under which human souls
were transferred By itle-deed, and help
| less manhood and womanhood were sold
for the thirty pieces of silver"
Under the Ban. a novel, by Teresa
Hammond Strickland. Rand, McNally
& Co.. Chicago and New York. Cloth,
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