The new South. (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, October 08, 1864, Image 1
THE NEW w SOUTH.
Vol. 3, No. 1. Port Royal, S. C., Saturday, October 8,1864. Whole No. 105.
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Fight it Oat.
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BY PRIVATE MILES O'REILLY.
We have head of the rebel yell,
We have heard the Union about.
We have weighed the matter very well
And mean to fight it out ;
In victory's happy glow,
Id the gloom of utter rout,
We have pledged ourselves?" Come weal or i
OP WOP.
By Heaven! we fight it ont."
*Tis now too late to question
What brought the war about ;
Tis a thing of pride and paction
And we mean to fight it out
Let the big wig* " u*e the pen.
Let them caucu*, let them spout.
We are half a mi lion weajwned men
And mean to fight it ont
Oar dead, ovr loved, are crying
from many a stormed redoubt,
In the swamps and trenches lying?
"Oh, comrades, fight it ont!
Twaa oar comfort as are fell
To hear oar gathering shout,
Rolling beak the rebels' weaker yell ?
Ood speed you, fight it ont I"
? nr bUVP |
We care no pin about,
Bnt for the flag our fathers gave
We mean to fight it out;
And while that banner bruvc
One tebel rag shall flout.
With volleying arm and flashing glaive
By Heaven 1 we fight it out!
Oh, we've heard the rebel yell.
We have heard the Union shout.
We liuve weighed the matter very well.
And mean to fight it out;
in the flush of nerfeet triumph,
AikI the gloom of litter rout,
Wi have sworn ou uiauy a bloody field
We mean to tight it out!"
A Houthern IJtu*l,
T.ie principals of the dnel were Col j
Au ^nstas Alston, h gradnute of West
fouit, and CoL Lee Keed; planters,
lH)th ; chief men of their county ; poli- j
ticians, of coarse ; long standing, bitter J
fend between the families, aggravated
by political aspirations and disappoint- j
? meats : the whole county sympathizing |
w*h one or the other. At length, one ot
the Alston party, on slight pretext, challenged
lleed, wnich challenge ret used to
accept; no man but Alston lor It is pistol.
Alutonian challenge, and vet
another lie declined. Then Alston him- i
*elf sent a challenge?Alston, the best j
shot in the state whose citizens cultivated!
<Uufiiv ..pi until tii?> ??>il of saints.
iuu uvmtij ? " ?*?- ?? ? ? ,
toiling lifter perfection. This challenge!
Keeii instantly accepted. Weajion, the
rifle, hair-trigger, ounce ball. .Men to !
stand at twenty paces, back to back ; toj
wheel at the word One ; to tire as soon
as they pleased after the word ; the seconds
to continue counting as far as five; I
alter which, no firing.
Lee was a slow, portly man?a good
tb if he could fire in his own way w ith- j
i"
out this preliminary wheeling* He re-1
yarded himself as a dead man : he felt
that he hail no chance whatever for his'
life on those terms, not on? in a thous- y
and. He bought a coffin and shroud, |*
and arranged ins affairs for immediate i J
death. The day before the duel, his se- j
cond, a captain m the army, took him (I
out of town and gave him a long drill in ! *
the wheel and lire exercise. The pupil i j
was inapt, could not get the knack of
wheeling. If he wheeled quickly his c
aim was bad : if he wheeled slowlv there 1
was no need of his wheeling at all, for,
his antagonist was as re<wly with wheel'
as with trigger trom old practice at NV est j
Point 44 Lee,*' said the cupt.iiu, 4< you
must wheel <juicker, or you've no chance."
Stimulated by this remark, Lee wheeled
with velocity, and tired with such success
as to bring down a neighbour riding j
along the road. j
Lee sent his coffin aud shroud to the i
field. Mrs. Alston accompanied her husband.
441 have," she said, 44 to see Lee1
lteed shot"
The men were placed and the seconds
one. In wheeliug swiltly, the light cape
of Alston's coat touched the bain-trigger,
and his ball whistled over Heed's head,
who stood amazed with his rifle half presented.
T^e word tico recalled him to
himself; he fired and Alston fell, pierced
through the heart. Mrs. Alston flew to
her fallen husband, and lonnd the ball
>- 1 l:? T_ .U? * n,wl .
WUICfl UIU1 SiOlIl U1II1. J.U Uic ntgub uu\i | I
hearingJ\^dl the witnesses of tlie duel, 11
her dermis band bleeding at her feet,; t
she lifted the ball, aad with loud voice 11
and lierce dramatic gesture, swore tlut
that ball should kill Lee Heed. <
In the afternoon, ten of the Alston 1
party, headed by Lewis Alston, the bro- i
ther of the deceused, drew themselves up 1
rille in hand, bowie-knife and pistol in 11
belt, before the hotel in which the adher-I i
ents of lteed were assembled, congratu- <
luting their chief. They sent in n message
challenging ten of the Lee party to come i
*?> ? onH Snrht them in fchft lllllllic HOtlare. i I
Vl?V ~*v~" ? X -'I 1
Much parleying ensued which ended in j i
the reined of tne l^ees to accept the in- j i
vitation. 1t
A few days after, Lee was seated at the t
table of the hotel, in the public dining i <
room, at which sat men, ladies, and chiL- j
dren?a large number?Dr. McComdex 1 ?
among them. Willis Alston entered, j
took nis stand opposite Lee, drew a pis- j 1
tol, and shot liim through the liver. ! t
The wouud was not mortal. Atter some > t
months of confinement Lee was well, i
- _ 1 I 1
again, and went aorouu as usutu, mc. j
bloody-minded Alston still loose among t
tlie people. They met at length in the | c
streets of the town, and Alston shot him j >
again, this time inflicting u mortal ]
wound. 1
Then there was the hideous farce of a;
trial.?Every man in the court-room ex-; t
cept two, was armed tothe teeth. These 1
two were the judge and the principal t f
witness, Dr. MeC'orniick.?The jurymen jt
all had a ritie by their side in *tne jury- j j
box?twelve meu, twelve rifles. The i
prisoner lrnd two enormous horse-pistols i 1
protruding from his vest. The specta- j <
tors were all armed ; the Lees to prevent.
a rescue in case of couvict.ou, tbe Als- 1
tons to protect their man in case of ac- ?
quittal. i i
That night, the trial not yet concluded i
the prisoner deemed it best to escape i
irom prison.?He went to Texas ; met on i
the road an old enemy whom he shot 1i
dead in the saddle ; and on reaching the i <
next town, boasted of his exploit to the t
murdered man's friends and neighbours, j <
-^Thirty of them seized him. tied him to | j
a tree and shot him, tdl the thirty tiring i ]
at once to divide the responsibility among (
them. And so the brute's career was!]
fitly etuled. i
Cirfti*il?iildi*?? "Wife.
The care of a wife and family seemed
wholly incompatible with the circumitances
surrounding a man like Garibaldi,
vhoso life w.is devoted to the cause of
iberty?in lighting in behalf of all opiressed
peoples?however successful he
night be in his efforts, he would never
lave the leisure that was required in the
atker of a family. Fate, however, deriHi
tiru'icn
Finding himself completely isolated,
tnd standing alone in the world, from
osing all his friends, who were drowned
n the wreck of the Bio Panle, he was
me day, while on the lake of Santa
Jathuriua, sitting in the cabin of the
loop Itaparika, and looking toward tiie
ihore, when suddenly he saw, at a faruilouse
situated on the neighboring hill of
La Barra, three or four girls busily en;uged
in domestic duties. They were
dl remarkable lor beauty; but one in
^articular arrested his attention lor her
mcoiumon grace and loveliness.
He was still watching them when he
eccived an order to go on shore, linmtliately
on landing he directed his steps
the house. He was admitted by the
>wner, whom he happened to know
dightly, having met him once before.
The impulse which had prompted him
? A? a - - I J /?.,!
u yu iaj tue iwuac wn? bj auiucrto iuc^ua
vhom he had so much admired. Onseeng
her he immediately besought her to
>ecome his wife. The girl, it seems,
conceived an affection as warm and as
mdden as he felt, for in a few short days
iiey were man and wife.
The surname of this lovely Brazilian
jirl of the province of Santa Catharine,
vho became, under such peculiarly ronantic
circumstances, the wife of Garijaldi,
hiis never been revealed. In all
he biographies of our hero she is alone
uentioned by her christian. name of
Vnita.
She seems to have been a brunette of
i rich warm complexion, with black and
iiercing eyes, of a beautifully rounded
igure, and a sort of queenly majesty of
leportment; active, daring, high spiritsi,
and in every respect worthy of being
he companion lor me 01 sucn a man as
iaribali.
Many anecdotes are told of her course.
Scarcely had she been married to onr
lero, and had gone to sea with him, than
hey were threatened with an attack by
he enemy, who were far superior to them
n numbers. Garibaldi wanted Anita to
ami, but she steadily refused to accede
;o ir.s request, ana, jus irom ine oouom
>f his heart he admired her courage and
vas proud of it, he did not urge his
xiint, but allowed .her to do us she
ileased.
' Not oiily did Anita remain on board
lie vessel, but she staid on deck during
he whole of the engagement, and even
:ouk part in it, inspintmg the crew to acts
)f desperate courage by her own example.
Snatching a carbine from the hands
if a man who had been shot dead at her
eet, she kept up a repeated tire on the
;nciny.
1 hiring the enaagement, which lasted
ive hours, Garibaldi, as he says himself,
experienced the greatest shock ho ever
cit in ins me.
Anita, in the heat of the battle, stand11
g on the deck and flourishing a sabre,
a as inspiriting the men to deeds of valor
vlien she was knocked down by the wind
if a cannon-ball that had killed two men
standing close by her side. Garibaldi
*as springing forward to her, thinking
that he would find her a corpse, when she
rose to her feet, covered with the blood
if the men who had fallen close to her,
Imt quite unhurt.
Garibaldi begged her to go below and
remain there until the action was over.
"I will go below,'' was her reply, "but
only to drive out the cowards who are
skulking there lor only a lew seconds
before she hud seen three men leave the
deck and hurry rapidly down the hutch<?nt
/if /innrrpr r?f tllO
. W t?J ) OW IWJ IV VUV V'A - -?!
storm of bullets that was sweeping the
1 deck. And going below she immediately
, alter re-appeared, driving before her the
three men overcome with shame that they
should have been suriKissed iu courage by
a woman.
Garibaldi himself said that Auita,
whose heart beat as much as his for the
cause of the people, took part in lights
as an " amusement," and "as a simple
variation to the general monotony of
ciuup life."
At the battle fought at a place called
! Coritibaui she could not content herself
with being, as her husband desired, a
I mere spectator of the combat. She went
j to the baggage-wagons with the view of
: seeing that the soldiers were properly
1 supplied with cartridges. The constant
! hre that was kept up by the Garibiddians
j against the enemy made her suspect that
' tneir ammunition would fail them if they
I were constantly supplied with it. A< cordi
ingly she went to tlie principal scene of
I the engagement. She had not been there
j long when shQ saw twenty or thirty of
the Brazilian horse coming down upon
the baggage train at a gallop,
As she was both an excellent rider and
well mounted, she might have taken to
i dight and saved herself; but she was too
heroical a spint to do so. She remained
on the spot, encouraging the soldiers to
fire upon the Imperialists as soon as they
i came within range. A volley emptied
I several saddles ; but the enrmy were sncj
cessful iu their charge, and Anita, being
| surrounded, was called upon to surrender.
Instead of doing so she clapped spurs
to her horse, aud dashed through the
! enemy's liues with the intention of join.
hnukan/1 .??ul mms nallnniiinr nrt*
j UIQ J1CI UUOUdUU y UIJU ? (MJ w.
| when she was struck by a pistol shot
; through her hat, .which cai'ried away
I some of her hau without injuring her
skull.
And perhaps she would have effected
i her escape hud the horse not been shot
i through the head, causing it to fall dead
i upon the ground, anil throw her heavily
j upon the turf. .She was then forced ti>
[surrender, and was taken to the Colonel
' of the enemy.
I Heroically brave in danger, she be1
came, if possible, still more sublime in
! calamity. In presence of the command
er of the Imperialist forces she would not
allow him to speak with contumely and
disdain of ttie soicuers 01 iuo uranuc.
^
'Scene?A Cornet' (tracery.?How much
are these onions ?
Dealer?Voreteen cent a pound.'
Onions very dear now. Pay seven dollar
and a half a barrel in the market. And
; shame, too ; dare is enough of tceryihhof
' in dis coontrv.
! Customer?Indeed! seven dollars a
barrel? And how many bushels in a
barrel ?
Dealer?Tree.
Customer ?Only three. Let me see :
; a bushel of onions will weigh seventyi
two pounds, which at fourteen cents per
pound is $10.08 per bushel, or $30.24 per
uui. ueuuci ine cost, j<.ou, u ie?\es
i you 22.74 profit. It would seem grocers
! could afford to sell cheaper.' (pausing
for a reply.)
Dealer (apologetically?I talks in Sherman
now to (lis odder new customer.
| Exit first customer, without ??nv onions,
hoping most earnestly that something
| might be done by the people to check
1 such cxtostion. .V. 1*. Sun.