The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-04-09
a Matter Of His1tory

g Matter OF fiisf0ry
rom The Richmond Times
your issue Of Sunday,
March 9Th, tpage23), IS communi-
eaton from Mr. lam DOYLE.
SteVensbnrg IN which, after say
ing that il. speech before the sConfed7
crate Veterans at ''oiunbia, S e.,
sIseneral Wade Hampton had S assert
ed that when Great Britain recog-
MED the dependence Of this coun:- pun.
ssstry She did not recognize the lndepen-
sssence ofs The United States, butsof each
sovereign State as independent and
sssssoYeraign MT. Doyle then goes on
snd declares hat General Wade
hampton iss utterly wrong IN the
above quotation and TO sproVes#lt he
that ii treaty with e9reat
riitain, signed at Paris September 5,
78 and which acknowledged our
the parties mentioned
sssa1e the king gland and the
sEnite only q and that not 9
sStatesls mentioned, ~ NoWs IN a U my
have never knoWna person to be
sfasfher off rom fact han rs Mr.
Doyae There were, Mr. Editor, two
stTeatiesWiths Great Britain, IN each
which our independence was ac-55
namely he definite;
treat fr. Boyle a1iudes,s
signed at Paris Sep:
by Hartley COM
Great britain, and yohn:
Franklin and John for:
s4he United@ States And there was
the sprellllnina-y treaty, which
sWas concluded The year before on
9oVember 1852 and It's prociama-S
aonordered by the Continents e;on-: AZ
Ap.iI 17I863 and WhlchsWas.
ssignsd Richard OsWaid, commls-:
part OF dEeat. BrltaIns
ind dams, srank In John:
DAY and HenIJs la1renss for eselndsed3
;;ssStates And IN the esFery lrstS article
ofboth treaties each ones ofathe then
afhirteen States us distinctly named
dtheirsindependence acknowledged
identicalIy the sane language and
sWElhSeh Is sas fol lloWS His Brltannlcs
edgesthe said ln1-s
S5ed SStateAViz. New Hampshire,
chnsetts hinIsetsB Bay, Rhode Island, and
sPEoyidence plaRta ions, Connectlcnt,z
NeWsYo York,s NeWsJe Jersey PenRsylv a.
DeIawaIe, da1ylanea iEginla, North:
Carolina and ieor-S
R.iia1osbe rec, sovereign and inde-$
spendents States; tha he treats with
SfheH as such, and for himself MS
shsaEa and Successors, relnquishes all
sseaaimsst tothe government, proprietary
and Territorial right offstthes same and
saVervparS thereof plain to-
ssea1rom this that is IS not General
:Nade Hampton who utterly
Doyle asserts bnt.
is Mr. d yle hilnself when
s1sassays that through the treaty
when acknowledged oufS Independen
Estate issmentioned.s 8,
each one OF the then thirteen
tates mentioned and they are ac-E
oWledged to be free soVereignands
insddependents States The treaties
sfOrfnWhich Isget$my present lnforma-
zion are printed copies, which can be
soIfnd IN the State sLibrarY, and were
sI,i out anthoritty OF the State
sE3epaTtments at Washington and issued
ghomthe8 GoFemnaent printing Office,
@thongh alEny LIFE have. known that.
each State eWasmentl loned nm them, and
DoyIes the SSfrstt person homs
sIshaYe ever heard off to assert to- the
scontrary Many Southen writer's OF
ssllliissory indeed omit and Ignore the
sfaet and thus either pnrposely other
sWiseI leave their readerssln ignorance
sbut never haYeI found one, and Is
shaVessxamined agreat many, who dis
$pntes The fact that each State was
IN the treaties which &C.
aoWledged our Independence don't
kaaow how NE. Dogle fell into such
ssasl error unless sc be that when he saw
the treaty at Wasnngto IN It's case
snnly those pagessof IL were turned up
to pubic gaze which d1dsnot mention
s;eachStaLe, and the next timshe visits
sthat city Iadyise him to ask to be per-
snsitted tossee the pages Of tWhcih are
turneds down, and failing ~ hat, as
probably HiIl, let him ask For az
::afpf pfsnssssscopy Of IT and he will very
gquickyGnd out his error. There IS
another thing Mr. Eddiito about those
treaties which acknowled QUE lnde-
snendence toSWhich desire DcaH par
fiaccsuullar attention, and that lis besides
sss.,rsaiming and acknowledging the lnde-
pendences each State, both of them
1eengnized negroes asproperty For IN
seventh article Of each treaty 1t is
plrogided that the British troops
should leave the country with all con
Eenient speed and swithout causing any
destruction Of property or carrying.
away asy negroes Or other property OF
4he American inhabi tants. =
Ind inasmuch as the British, when
sthas,y.eyacuated New Y Yorkon Novem-
/ har25, 1883, di3 IN violation Of the
freatyy carry away ahead of them some