The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-01-17

Iy ploughed deep furrcws in their
country'e field, others of secondary
Importance or less prominence. but
we'll known to the student Of history.
who have come from this distrist are
Francis Wilkinson P:ckens, who was
United States minister to Russia from
1ooo to 1860, aud who was conspicu-
Gus as the war governor of South Car.
DINA. 1t was Governor Pickeus who
demanded of Major Anderson The sur
render OF Fort Sumter and ordered the
IRE upon the Star Of the West; Geo.
McDufhe, who served in the house and
senate with Clay, Webster and Cal.
houn-a :man Of great argumentatiye
and oratorioal ability; James Henry
Hammond, United States Senator
from South Carolina, who made na-
tlonal reputation as "Mud-sill Ham.
mond,' for bis reference in the de.
bate on the Kansas question. to the
slaves or negroes as tie necessary
"mud-sills' of society; the Buffers,
who have tor three generations served
South Carolina in the national House
and Senate-Major Gen. M. G. But.
ler' in the recent Spanish war, lives
IL Illlman's county; Major General
Joseph Wheeler, born within five
miles of Augusta on the Georgia side.
Two OF the major generals appointed
from civil life in the recent war
sprung from this productive soil.
James Lopgstreet, the Confederate
lieutenant general, was born six miles
from Augusta, in the county of Till.
man and Butler, and six miles from
the. birthplace Of Tillman, William
howndes Yahcy, who was powerful
member Of congress in ante.bellum
times, man af siugularly. great ora
torial gifts and we'll remembered. BY
che older part Of the present genera
slon for his speeches in Cooper
Union. Faueuil Hall and throughout
the north in the campaign Of 1860,
was bern and reared near the homes Of
Stephens and Watson. Louia T.eze.
want Wigfall, United States Senator
from Texas, and among the expelled
senators in 1861, was born and reared
IN the district, and he it was who, on
april is, 1851. upon seeing tho ass
of Sumter descend, rode out to the
fort and ms5e the final demand OF
surrender to Major Anderson. J.:L.
NJ. Curry, United States minister to
Spain in 1854 and director of the
Peabody and Slater educational funds,
came from aeounty, adjoining Wat.
sons. Hillary A. Herbert, recent
secretary Of the navy, was born in this
diesrict, as Laurens, s. c., tho samo
town in which President Andrew
Jehssea eozdusssa . tailor shop. hop, B Eli Eli
Whitney, though northern born, lived
FOR some years at Augusta, and here
Invented and perfected his cotton 8,
gin, the; greatest achievements ever l,t,i
made for the agricultural and commerj
cial South. .5> Rs 2 S., 5.}% Is,.,s ,5S
Peculiarly. worthy 81 observation.
and . fact that has no. besn widely:
noted, is shat. Thomas &. Wa WataonI and
Heraohel ". Johnson were fropiI this
the distriot; The twsol llrps mon IS, y ia, IS !:
one in 1896, and The otheer,.Sins 1850. III
similar great eony yalsiona ofSs % s oorat.:: d /.
io:party, received nominations, for. the;
vice presidency, a and sthsseb by ! iI,,r prob.
ably, in both instances defeated the
darling wiahes Of. The B Dam oloratio {:
party. It SYis$x remarkable i @ that II tthe.
country should have g1ns ! ia sexsIao. n.
the same losslity, d to.wit,s} 81 narrow rtI
atriip Is iiia s.; : e e
nndesignedly q 81 vide ia president.
ial candidates i1 Shess tvo crises q ~ and; {
for the onl > Two vice pliresidential m oan.s 3
didatesithat have been taken SrDinus the
South pines $50 9 j Oh sos IS. vssas
within. thirty miles !,of the vs. 8 home 81 q EofI II
Watson; /.
This little district HIS been Bee !, 4 from On
the beginning of ths govern nnie1,s m Ing tl
birth place ian I. ron thel,,
South itis3 tie Man .Eng glands of5 5tl,es
South 10 this resp Hers II NuIlifi. I.
cation aud Sssassi 81 haa5ds thsir; tli
birth Here aaag ttha 4 I Sesaradio oss tbs;. n.
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