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

w. "e"] t"'h, secretary If State; Mr..
hteeklaridge, secretary Of war; Mr.
Mallory, secretary of the navy. and
MR. Reaggan, secretary &c :hhs treas-
ury' (see Pfesidens Davis book,) ar
rived at Abbeville on the retreat On
May 3, 1865. That night nestipg
OF the cabinet was held in the house
OF Dir. Burt. The next morning tho
party proceeded toward Washington.
Ga., the home OF Toomba. After
crossing the Savannah river, about 90
mlIee from Abbeville, hearing Of tho
presence OF Federal troops in The
aeighhoEhood, and On account OF tho
general fatigue, the party divided.
Here says President Davis, seoresar.
les Benjamin, Breckenridge and Nal
iory left him, and he saw them no
more. Secretary Reagan alone of che
cabinet, accompanied Dir. Davis to
Warrington, and Mr. Reagan. WAS i.I
with him several days aftesward,
when he was captured few miles
South Of Macon, just without the
limits of the district under desorip-
tlon. Mr. Davis Was csrried to Au-
gusta, where Vice President Stephens
was being held in waiting. This was
the last Of the Confederate govern
ment. Dir: Davis and Mr.. Stephens
were put aboard steamer, together.
| and conveyed, enc to tbs Boston har-
Dor, and the other to Fortress Mon
! roe. Thus died the Confederacy at
the home--in the very house-of its
birth. .-,..,...
AS the district furnished . the
"isms' before the war, it is worth
noting that it still continued to coin
them, Mr. Watson started the first
branch Of the Populist party in the
South in his district in 1890. though
the Popnlis. party had It's birth six
years before in South Carolina, when
Senator Tillman started his agrarian
movement, the success Of which in
spired the. general agrarian movement
OF the country, and caused the naming
OF Populist partyin Kansas. Whom
tho Populist party by name reached
South Carolina, however, Dir. Till
man skilfully kept his people within
the Democratic party, so we'll SO, that
South Carolina was the only State in
the Union, that did not have dele
gate at the St. Louis .Populist convep.
ton in 1896. The dispensary system,
OF State liquor control, now: enforced
in South Carolina, and destined 10
play larger part, was born in the
Georgia part Of the district, in the
municipality Of Athens, and appro. !.
priated By Senator Tillman.' Woman
suffrage has more adherents in South,
Carolina than in any State Of the
South, end ita chief are il,
this little distrios.r-; The district has
e!ways dominated politios ia South
Caroline and likewise ID Georgia u.s.
Ill KoU5nt times. q !: E 5E 1,., 6, !; 4 /
Among men of letters, though 3ths
South has been poorly productive il:
this respeet,' It il doubtful whether
any other locality os the South has haias
had continuously enite go & nessy " esn. !.
sributors :to: the higher Literature 81
the country az this; Panls Hamilton
Hayne, who competed I'D tha popudler.
mind with Sidney LIanissss {himsslf
born just outside the: district, !, s III i Ms.. III
con, Ga. for the palm as the greatest !, 81, !:
poet y'ssat produced b. the, South livsosd.
within ilfteen miles Of Augusss, Il ,$S Sou,,s &
among ths 5ande and pines. & Richard
Henry Wilde. the author 81 esthnattS5i 81 5inla.* II
mortal little classic. u lige m ID L;ke i
the Sumner Rose, wa s5orn and m lises e
buried IS i Augusta. 81 } Anes ss.s s. i RAM
dali the author of ;tha South q treat
war poam, asry lsnd, |, II. y Maryland .,ts III
and probably her$ greatest pro,jst {anlssss
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and work ksd Is ] August fori d annbsir boz
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