The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-12
THE GRAVE OF J.'C. CALHOUN
Es Greet Is Buried In Chaes0n-The Monof
Citadel Sqaare-A City Of Monuments

/ the convention TO the people OF South
Carolina and other able products In
support of constitutional liberty"
Born l4th Januray. 1774."
Died 18th June. 1888"
In testimony OF their qualification
for the wise persevering and beneficial
exertIOn of great talents in the service
OF his country this monument Is erect
| by the friends of state rights and free
trade in South Carolina.
II IL rather singular that these two
opponents OF state rights ghoud be bu-
ricd SO near to each other and tho
grave of one to be marked by inonu-
mCnt of the state. and the other by
memorial from the people.
Built by Grateful States.
Nearly every body who has visited
Charleston lds seen the imminent to
, the Earl Of Chatham, William Pitt, the
older. II was erected by the State
OF South Carolina just prior to the
Revolutionary war on a vote OF the
common. council or legislature Pitt
had used his matcheless eloquence
to prevent England from imposing
uron her colonies. The statute was
injured tho revolutionary war, but It
stands today In Washington square,
under the lower tower OF st. Michales.
Massachusetts also erected u monu-
mont to Pitt. The Charleston statue
represented Pitt In the attitude Of an
!mpassioned appeal
And there Is the ylonument to CAL
boun on the Citadel square erected
! by funds raised by the women OF
tna rha
Is surrounded by q bronze figure of
the great statesman looking towards
the south. The base on which the
towering column rests is the recepta-
Gle for four copper plates, and on each
corner OF the bronze base Is a bronze
palmetto.
One Of these copper plates In base
relief showing Calhoun In the senate
side shows. Calhoun in the c.k!a::cs
chamber, while his associates are
shown in an attitude of enraptured
interest. Tho plate on the oppositG
meeting. 2l5
The plate on the south side r6ads:
17S2-1S50.
Truth, Justice and
The Constitution
BY THEssWOMEtN
The plate on the north side recites
that this monument was erected by
the women of South Carolina In 1886
to John Caldwell Calhoun In commem-
ofation OF his eminent statesmanship
during the many years Of his public
life. 1t replaces one formerly erected
on the same spot, but was quite un-
satisfactory. "a. $50.
The insciptIon also states that
the funds for tho bniI dIpa sSs Abe mon
utnaht were F.:isef> before the war
aud 'WSsfs Kept through that trying Pc
riod iby Mrs. II. A .Spowden, the
treasurer of the association. She was
% refugee In Columbia in 1865 and,
on the memorable night when Sher-
man burned Columbia Il is related that
1av iIssGs tii1 funds svT ..;
stitched 10. her pettlc6at and in this
way the building of the monument was
made posaible; and 1t Is indeed a mon.
ument 10 her own patriotism and for
titgde. It is told of Mrs. Snowden that
in, 1860 she saidntlji Jefferson Davis
thai there should De a southern ccn-
tederacy and that Mr. Elmore would
1 be president of the southern states.
This remark was made at the time
that Nr. E)more and MIR. Davis, then
EihiteTf States senators, had COME to-
Charleston 10 attend the funeral SER
vices at the grave of Calhoun. Mr.
Eimore. Calhoun's successor, lived but
a few days, and Mr.. Davis, to whom
the feTslarlS was addressed became the
president of the southern states.