The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-04

per or children ana ft1cnarU a son. bOIl | owned many slaves.
 These brothers continued to live in the cedar log cabins they built, respec- lively, upon the settlement of the land. They took no part in the community life. l grew up to manhood without seeing either in any neighbours house. | They were self-constituted hermits. The state from which they came I do not know. They voted the whig ticket. KIMBROUGH CASSELS DU BOSE.
 previous chapter. relating the story of St. Andrews parish, told of the young CT brother of MT. DuBose, James Henry, whose home was on the "Richland' plan tation. The common Huguenot ancestry and the nativity of the brother, in Dar- lington county (districD, the Pee Dee region of South Carolina, need no further mention. Wardlow's "Genealogy of the Witherspoon Family" page 120, having occasion to refer to K, C. DuBose, men tions him as "a very wealthy young man, of the highest social standing"
 MT. DuBose was sent, when mere lad, | to Mount Zion college, more properly a high school, kept at Winsboro, by Prof. Stafford. to prepare boys for college. Stafford will be remembered later as one of the faculty of the University of Ala bama. Whence the youth matricuated at Union college, Schenectady, N. Y, in the junior class The cold climate did not agree with his health In relating to his | children years later evidences of the se- verity of the cold, he told how, as one of a party of students he drove four horse sled on the frozen river from | Schenectady to Albany to attend some public examinations at the famous girls school of Mrs Emma Willard; and how, upon the bosom of the frozen river sat small improvised refreshment houses.
 The cold climate forced MT. DuBose to retire from that college. He had gone through the junior year. The curriculum being substantially the same as for that year In the South Carolina college, he went to the pres | ident, Dr. Thomas Cooper, suggesting that he might stand examination and enter the senior class This request was denied but 1t was permitted him to live In the college tenements as | other members of that class lived and attend all the exercises Of the class. He | sh ould not matriculate or graduate nevertheless. The same privilege had lnever been granted before and MT. Du- Bose regretted ever after that he had availed himself of 1t rather than re- hearse the class studies he had gone over at Schenectady. This regret was | largely due to the lost opportunity to hear two years instead of one only. ! the lectures of Dr. Cooper,e the first
 
 in political economy.
 The students of the South Carolina college, until 1S60, were taught as- siduously in the science of govern ment and the art of oratory They were encouraged to hear important de- bates In the legislative halls nearby. they were requested to attend ths courts when intricate or profound questions of law were argued at the bar MT DuBose, as a student espoused the cause of Calhoun When he went nome ne became captain In Governor
 haynes nullif1cation army Later he was lieutenant colonel on Governor Dunie's staff, while the state was yet 1 unpacihed on the old issue
 | MT. DuBose lived, a bachelor on bis piantation on the Pee Dee, right below the Cheraw bridge, remembered bv many Confederate soldiers, after leaving college. friend came over from Mari Doro to spend the night and join In a 1ox chase next morning The horses were at the door. the hounds were howl ing an dust then a servant breathless burst In to say the sky was falling. The next moment the yard was thronged with l excited field hands, all weeping and crv ing out to know of master if "tude ment day had come" Master could give no definite answer, but he stayed under 1 cover as long as the stars were falling I Miss Elizabeth Boykin, daughter of Hon. John Dick Witherspoon of Society Hill. l (Bench and Bar of South Carolina.) A few years later he rode his horse to the Tom Bigbee plantation of his father, saw the canebrake and resolved to move | his family thither
 The removal was finally made in Jan- uary-February, 1S5o I was lad in the | caravan that took the road, and as events or the kind are forever closed, venture upon brief mention of the incidents att tending planters emigration.
 The white top wagon train and all the negroes from the Pee Dee plantation had moved up on the hill two miles to the premises of the pastors residence and | the family couch and the ambulance for | the masters wife and children were In readiness. The black carpenter, Albert" was there In profound anxiety about his | wife She was the property of a gen tleman who lived 25 miles away My father had long before positively re- fused to leave Albert. Albert must go l The owner of his wife was extremely loath to sell her. The next day, Sunday, while the wagon train made slow prog 1 ress, gentleman, having knowledge of the circumstances, drove rapidly to Dr. Dargan's home, the owner of the wife, | carrying with him plank check The | check was there filled for $500 and Albert received his wife, a few miles out on the road to Alabama. There were no children and the woman was by no means first-class slave property, so the price was high. To show the general l family interest in the circumstance Dr. | Durgan was MT. DeBose's brother-in-law MT. Williams, who drove 50 miles the Sun day as intermediary, was Mrs. DuBose's brother-in-law and the blank check he bore was signed by Mrs. DuBose's broth CT. as parting gift to her. Planters w~1. 4.kt They were extinguished by revolution from without, as unnecessary in its in- ception as 1t was cruel and ungodly In it's prosecution. Let us resist and resent all attempt of history to slur over or omit the fact that the institution of slav- cry in the south erected here a practical relationship between the negro and the whites to the honor of man and the glory of God. The negro and the Spaniard in Mexico and Peru bore a distinctive race relationship; the negro and the Puritan lin Massachusetts bore to each other an- other relationship and the negro and the foregn born planters of Cuba yet an | other In the south where slave mas ters resided on their plantations, the chattel negro was the happiest laboring man in the world. The ratio of his prog ress, generation by generation in mental, physical and moral conditions of human life was unparalleled. MT. Jefferson pre- | d,cted disastrous results to the white pop ulation from the presence of a consider able proportion of negroes, free or slave MT JefYersons knowledge of the negro