Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-02-24
charleston Sunday News.)

PARTICULARLY interesting, pdehV'iS anu
unique.
A member OF the famous Campbell
family of Scotland. of when the Dukes
or Argyle are the head. the leading
members of this great house have at
different times and for long periods
given evidence of their superior tai
ents and virtues. while their remote
lineage easily places them above the
entire Peerage. As the fourth and
youngest son of John. fourth Duke OF
Argyle, the subject of this sketch. OF
course, did not inherit the ancestral
title and estate. but. as is usual In
such cases. had the choice and oppor-
tunity thereby presented him OF serv.
ing his King and country ~ various
capacities requiring the exercise OF
his individual gifts of mind and char
acter. and these his commission. as
an officer in the Royal navy, soon
called into action under circumstances
admitting OF no mediocrity or indie
cision, first, as Governor of the Prov
ince of Nova Scotia and then of the
Province OF South Carolina. at a Pc
Rod of great excitement and discOn-
lent among the Colonies along the
coast, all the way from Massachusetts
To Georgia. AS an suspicious prelimi-
hAn hol no
pointment. whether il had anything to
do with it or not, (as is more than
limited by one writer,) his marriage a
few years previously to Miss Sarah
lizard. daughter of one of the largest
planters and freeholders of the prov
ince, would seem to have paved the
way to cordial reception and most
amicable relations of every kind, cx-
cept in the one matter of the politi-
cal situation.
Dark as the clouds were lowering
and ominious as were the mutterings
that attended his arrival in June,
1875, there can be no doubt that the
impossible task expected of him and
which rendered his position no bed of
roses, was, in the one hand, under
taken with no weak or unsteady hand
in the pursuit of his object to restore
the Royal authority, and that on the
othr hand, an almost equally difficult,
5nd certainly more delicate duty, was
that Of the colon.st in adjusting the
bounds of hospitality characteristic
of the times so as to meet the Pc
culiar case or so distinguished a
guest, uniting, as he did, so many
claims on their personal and public
regard. For the rising tide OF revo-
luton could not be arrested by the
forms of polite society, and never be
fore or since have events that were
crowded into that brief period led 10
such important and lasting results in
tine history of the American Continent
But feebly concealed by guarded
phrases and careful protestations of
loyalty to the King, while complain
ing of the acts of his Government, the
chasm. apparent from the beginning
CONTINUED to yawn wider and wider in
spite of the pleasures of social inter
course and the refinement OF manners
which inculcated as courteous treat
ment OF opponents as of friends. AL
though no stranger to the province
and in the midst of the numerous
and affluent family connection OF his
wife, the representative of his Majesty
found himself at the outset face to
face with a body of men called the
Provincial Congress, acting outside OF
and separately from the regularly con.
stituted Assembly and Council ap-
,, pointed under the authority Of the
King-a condition of things that he
felt Immediately under the highest OBJ
legation to denounce. as an infringe.
uent upon the constituted order OF
Government and serious obstacle in
the way OF reconciliation and mutual
confidence.
Nothing was to be expected. and
nothing was gained by the communi
cations that passed between an unrec.
ognized assemblage on one hand and
the legally appointed governor on the
other. except TO gradually develop the
aScendary Of one or the other OF the
two Incompatible elements. Through.
cut the controversy. while the po3a
lace. as in al ages. showed their
propensity 90 violence. Il cannot be
said that by any word OF act the Pro
vincial Congress treated the Governor
otherwise than with marked respect
u Is true that when che fact and