The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-05-21
|ra;tor Anderson Intelligencer:

q 81 Editor Anderson Intelligenoer:
A lady in speaking Of Edgeaeld, s.
r. said it was very pratty<little vii.
8 soo spread out over the country which
has always been noted for distinguish.
I'd men and beautiful women. DR.. j.
Nv. Calhoun, in letter published in
kbe Edgefeld Chronicle, Of date &c
8aJuly, 1882, said lin part: ''From che
Earliest ages the human race has
xhibited q tendency to be looking
abrough the past and rescuiEs
from oblivion the names and lhe
characters Of the great and good Of
earth.
y y "Philosophers, poets, warriors and
81 statesmen have received their Just
s. need Of praise upon the pages Of his.
tory, as worthy Of imitation and emu
lation, but no one Of these ciasses
ks so essential to the happiness
4 and pros perity Of mankind as the lat
Der
"Solon, the great lawgiver Of an
acient Greece, will be reverenced in
Every civilized country IS long as time
sshall last, while his native land only
Spresents the wreck of former great
hess. Lycurgus, by his code Of laws,
has rendered classic the little town of
Sparta, which otherwise would never
have been known, except to the geog-
sRapher, beyond che confines Of Laco-
'ghia. Justinian's fame is coexistant
with Roman civilization and his fa-
nous compilation Of the laws, enti-
sled the 'Pandects and Code is to-
'hsy the standard text book on civil
Isw in some of the universities upon
ahe continent. As the future histo-
}ian reviews the great men Of our aga
ahnd country, especially those who
have made their impress in the legis-
4ative halls and whose memory will be
BANDED down from generation to gen.
eration as worthy examples, none will
appear brighter than the name of
Preston S. Brooks, Of South Carroll
8pa."
q The same could be said of Louis
Frezevant Wigfall, of Texas, who was
born on the plantation of his father in
Edge6eld District, S. c., April 21,
4l8l6. He attended the South Carroll
pa College, and from thence he, to-
gether with John J. McMahan, the
Father Of our present State Superin-
.tendent of Education, went to the
Seminole War, and he, Wigfall, re-
|,ceived commission as lieutenant Of
sFolunteers, and after their term OF
,Fervice expired they resumed their
Studies at the college. Wigfall mar
fied a Miss Cross, Of Providence, r.
IT,, and moved from Edgefield to Texas
and settled at Marshall, where he be-
gan the practice Of Law. He was
elected to the State Legislature in
{l856 to 1860. While serving in the
State Senate in the winter Of 1860 he
was elected to the United States SEN
'SAte, where he took his seat 4th Janu-
3aary, 1861. He soon made himself felt
SsSRs power on the side Of his collea-
8gues from che South. On the 4th
July, when the extra session of the
,f3hirty-seventh Congress was called he
SSSas not in his seat, and he was ex-
ipelled from that body 11th July. AZ
fer Texas seeded, he went at once to
aNlontgomery, Alabama, was there at
sthe formation Of the Confederacy, and
iwas one of the signers Of the Consti-
tuition. After the battle of Fort
Sumter, he proceeded to Richmond, /,
where he was commissioned colonel of
AAthe Second Texas Regiment, and was
Soon made brigadier general in the G..
=. \. On the goth February, 1862, he
aresigoed to take his seat in the Con-
Moderate Senate, to which body he had
been elected from Texas. He remain
led in the Confederate Senate until the
4close of the war.
4 Preston S. Brooks was born on the
10Th day of August, 1919, at Edgefield
~. H., S. c., and was the eldest son
3of Whitfield Brooks, man Of supe
..llrlor mental endowments and promi-
!a,nent member Of the Edge6eld bar.
Ills mother was Miss Mary P. Carroll.
3After receiving his primary education
In his native village, he was sent to
dthe famous school at Mt. Enon, taught
jby Charles X. johnson, who had di.
3rected many Of Carolina's talented
i sons in the paths Of literature and
Ssclence. There he remained until he
aWas prepared for college. He then