The Abbeville banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, January 12, 1848, Image 2
THE BANNER.
ABBEVILLE C. H., sT C.:
Wodin sday. Jau, 12, IS1?.
To Oi.U' Patrons.
As this is the commencement of the year
We take this occasion to say that in future
we shall be compelled to adopt the cash system.
The expenses of our oflice are such,
and the cash payment made us so small, that
we are forced to this course. Already considerable
amounts are due us scattered over
the country at such intervals that it is very
inconvenient for us to collect it without great
expense. And we have found also by sad
experience that by the credit system we
may toil on from one year to another and be
entirely forgotten ljy a large portion of those
who are, or profess to be, our patrons. Wo
trust therefore that it will be borne in mind
by those subscribing, or ordering the Banner,
that our terms arc cash and that we can
make no exceptions. Each subscriber will
be notified when his subscription closes, and
we trust no one will be offended by such
notice, but continue their patronage. It is
certainly better that we send the Banner to
four hundred paying subscribers, than to
eight hundred, a third of whom forget that
they owe for the paper.
Also all persons iudobted to the oflice are
earnestly requested to make payment, as
our expenses are heavy, and we aroin need
of all that is due us. It is onlv through thn
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punctually of those owing u.s that we can
be punctual in pnying our own debts.
The Gallant Dead.
The remains of Cel. 13 utler and Lieut.
Col. Dickenson, arived in the steamer New
Oleans and have been carried on to Columbia,
also those of Sergt. Madison of the Ab.
beville Company, but we have not ascertain
ed as yet what disposition has been made of
them, they were not in Hamburg when the
remains of Lt. J. B. Moragne were removed,
.
Our Volunteers,
Several < f our volunteers who belonged
to the Company which left this district for
Mexico have returned,Richard Watson who
was one of the forlorn hope and severely
wounded, Jas. A. McKee and W. J. Lomaxthey
are all in good health except Wat
son who we learn is slill suffering from his
wounds.
Lieut. Jno. B. moraguc.
The remains of this gallant young officer
were received in this place on Monday last. I
The citizens being informed that the body
was some little distance from the Tillage, i
immediately collected in front of the Court
House, and formed a procession which mo*
cum soicmn order preceeded by the hearse
some half mile below the village where it
met the remains. They were then removed
from the wagon to the hearse,and the procession
returned with them to the village.
At 7 o'clock in the evening a large meeting
was held at Mrs. Allen's, where the remains
were deposited, to consider the most suitable
mannor of honoring the dead. A Committee
was appointed to wait upon the family
and inform them of the fact, and to
confer with ihem as to the time and place
of his burial. The Rev. D. McNiel Turner
being called upon by the Chairman of
the meeting, Mr. Perrin, made some very
feeling and appropriate remarks upon the
occasion.
It was with no ordinary feelings that we
gazed upon the coffin containing the mortal
remains of this noble young officer ; when
more than twelve months ago he left this
place with tho most flattering prospects before
him, little did he or his friends expect
flint hia rofiim ?/* V?!? ?- 11 L
.u_. ... ?*,? *?*? vu mo LuuiiLiy wuuiu oc under
such meluncholy circumstances. His
life has been offered upon the altar of his
country. In the battles of Coutreras and at
the storming of Chapultepec and the Garita>
he was distinguished for his coolness and
l>ra very,and nobly fell at his post. Let us now
give him a " Green grave in the land of his
fathers" and ever cherish his memory in our
hearts.
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' Palmetto Regiment.
It is stated by thd Washington correspondent
of the Charleston Courier, that Gens.
Quitman and Shields,who are now at Washington
have requested the President to discharge
our Regiment^ that the order would
immediately be give*. W* trust this may
be so, if the Regement can be rcalled, the
influence of these officers will effect it.
By the late news from Mexico, we learn
that adjutant Cantey was elected Colonel
over Moj. Gladden, but that he refused to
accept, it is the desire of the Regiment now
that the office of Colonel shall not be filled,
Mai. Gladden bv the laws of thi? Rtntn i? T.i
Colonel. Capt. Dunnovaut has also been
elected Major getting 4 votes more than his
opponent Capt. Marshall. Lt Selleck is
now 1st Lt and David Donald 2d in the Abbeville
Company,
FUNERAL OF LT. J. 13. MORAGNEThe
remains of Lieut. J. 1}. Moragne will
be interred at Willington Church on Thurs"
day the 20th inst. A funeral discourse will
be delivered by the Rev. D. McNeil Turner,
at 12 o'clock, immediately after which, the
burial will take place, with suitable Milita
ry hotiois.
The day previous, the remains will be
conveyed from the Village to Mt. Carmal,
attended by the Abbeville Light Infantry.
At 10 o'clock, (Thursday 20ih.) the Funeral
Procession will be formed at Mount j
Carmal under command of Col. Tolman. j
The Abbeville Light Infantry and the Ar- j
tillery will be in attendance and act as Es- j
cort. The two Companies of Cavalry at- J
tached to the ilegiment are invited to join i
(he Procession and attend the Funeral, as j
aiso mc iuinua, uie Military, and Citizens !
generally. By order of the Committe of
Citizens. J. F. Livingston.
B. Y. Martin.
J. H. Wilson.
What is Man.?Man, says the Cleveland
Ilerald, is a reasoning animal, who
paints with the sunbeams,travels by steam,
and talks by lightning.
FROM OUR VOLUNTEERS.
Correspondence of the Banner.
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28th October, 1847. $
Mr. Editor:?As an opportunity now
offers of sending letters to the States, I feel
it my duty, although painful as it is, to j
communicate through your paper to those I
of ojr friends, who have always taken a j
deep interest in the fate of the Abbeville I
Volunteers, the deaths of those young spirits j
who so nobly and gallantly came forward j
last December and tendered their services
to their country.
An All-Wise God des'.ined that a large
majority of those who have died, j
should not fall on the bloody battle fields, !
?but under the malignant diseases of the
country. Would that the bitter cup of dying
in a foreign land, without even the consolation
of seeing those who could have
soothed their suffering in the last hour,
could have been removed ; but they yielded
up their lives a willing sacrifice upon the
altar of their country, thereby erecting for
themselves a monument more lasting than
I that made by human hands.
Others have fallen upon the bloody yet,
| victorious, battle fields of Chapultepec and
j the Garita Eelen. In the charge uponCha[
pultepec, and whilst driving the enemy
j from the Garita Belen, they were conspicuous
for thnir rnnlnpsc m?H rroll?n?rtf
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the heavy fire of grape and canister, and by
their fall, their native District has been de1
.
prived of some of her best citizens, as well
as the Abbeville Volunteers of some of our
best officers and soldiers. Though they
are dead, yet the name of a Moragnc, a
Mattison,a Devlin and a Patrick, will long
be remembered by the citizens of their native
District.
Some have been discharged in consequence
of disease incurred in the service,
yet I am proud to say that their services
have been rendered in a foreign service unj
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ucr severe anucuons, with such prompti- I
tude and dovotion that can only be equalled
by Carolinians.
It affords me much pleasure to say that
the rank and JiU, under my command, behaved
during the storming of Chapultepec
and the driving of the enemy from the Garita
Belen, with great coolness, and evinced
a determination under the heavy fire of
grape and canister which fell in our midst
like hail, to conquer or die in the attempt.
Although many have fallen, and many
more severelv wound**!, vot or?
still left under my command deserves much
of their country in common with the Regiment,
and I take pleasure in recommending
them individually to the favorable consideration
of the citizens of their native
District for the efficient service rendered in
| the battles before the city of Mexico.
Lieut Selleck,* who has been acting as <
Lieutenant of the Ordnance, came out and
took bis post, and behaved with great cool
ness and gallantry during the storming of
Chapultepec and the driving the enemy
from the Garita Belcn.
Lieut. Stewart, though he is no more, yet
true to the reputation he had acquired lor
himself while acting as Orderly, was at his
post during the battle of Contreras, and
rendered me great assistance during the
engagement.
The following are the Rank and File
who behaved with great credit to themselves
during the storming of Chapultepec
and the advance upon the Garita I3elen :
Serg'ls. Higgins, Priv'ts. Ililburn,
li Beail.f " James,
Corp'ls.Saxton,* " Junkin,* J T
Lomax, u Kay.
" Rogers,* u McICeown.*
u Donald, " Mattison.G P
Priv'ts.Anderson, JN " Norwood,+J A
" A mold,f W C " Posey,
u Arnold, J \V t{ Thompson,
4{ Beau lord, u Watson,^* It
" Caldwell, " Wallace,
" Calvert,* " Wilson, T W
4 Davis:,* Jas " Wright,
" Donald. <l Patrick,:?
The following were in the battle of Contreras,
hut in consequence of sickness and
other causes, were prevented from taking
part in the battles of the 13th :
Lieut. Stewart. Priv'ts. White, N T
Priv'ts.Douglass. " Watson, E
u Jonhson, B F {t Wilson,|| Dr J
" Mel twain, " Perrin,?
Those marked thus (f) were in the Light
Infantry Batailion under the command of
Major Twiggs.
Those marked thus (*) were wounded.
Those marked thus (?) were in the storming
party under Capl. Reynolds, and distinguished
themselves for their coolness and
bravery whilst storming the works at the
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uasa ui v^ijiipuiicpec.
Marked thus (?) was on furlough in Q.
M. Department, but joined his Company
and fought gallantly.
Marked thus (||) has since been transferred
to Medical Department.
The following are those left behind sick
in Vera Cruz and Puebla :
Sergeant Hodges, Puebla.
Privates Anderson, J S Vera Cruz.
" Alexander, R H Puebla.
l Botts, J R "
" Bickerton, J G t; ?
" Cheatham, Jackson "
" rooshee, William "
u McCord, Nimrod "
McKee. J A "
Pnllinm R S ?
M Simmons, T P "
" Wilkinson, John li
" White, J M "
? Wilson. E B "
List of casualties that have occurred in
Company E. Pal. Reg't., S. C. Vol's, from
the date of its being- mustered into service
to the present time :
KILLED IN ACTION.
Lieut. John B Moragne, 13th Sept., Garita
de Belen j Serg't. B F Mattison, 13th
Sept., Chapultepec ; Piivates Win B Devlin,
13th Sept., Garitade Belen ; John Patrick,
13th Sent.. ChanultfinnrU
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DEATHS.
Privates J H Hall, 2d March, Isle of Lobos,
Dysentary; O H P Gilbert, 20lli do.,
Vera Cruz, Diarrhoea ; Isaac Starkey, 30th
do., Dropsy ; J C Prince 26th April, do.,
Diarrhoea ; J W Huffman 1st May, Encero,
do.; Eli Norrel 5th do., Vera Cruz,
Dysentary ; E Sterling 7th do., do., Diarrhoea
; Samuel Alexander 9th do., Dysentary;
S D Gillespie 13th do., Jalapa, do ; J
L Watson 21st do., Vera Cruz, Diarrhoea;
Green Harris 24th do., JalaDa. Dronsv : J
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D Hill 28th do., do., Diarrhoea ; William
Drinknrd 31st do., do., Typhoid Fever; J
H Grayham 8th June, Puebla, Diarrhoea ;
Wm P Botts 26th do., Perote, do.; Thos P
Lackey 2d July, Puebla, do.; Jesse M Norwood
4th do , Perote, Dysentary ; William
Thomas 8th do., Puebla, Diarrhoea; R
Barksdale 9th do., do., do.; A G Morrow
10th do., Perote, Dysentary ; G McElden
18th do., Puebla, do.; J S Lamb 28*h do.,
do., Diarrhoea; Robt R Houston 28th do.,
do., do.; Jas C Davis 30th do., do., Dysentary
; B W Stewart, 2d Lieut., 28th Sept.,
City of Mexico, Dysentary ; Edward Watson,
Private, 22d Oct., do., do.
DISCHARGED.
Privates Jas M Norrel 27th January,
Mobile, Disability ; WE Middleton 10th
April, VeraUruz, Pulmonary Affection;
W E Watson 10th do., do., Fractured Tibias;
Jno J Martin 12th do., do., appointed
1 st Lieut. 12th Infantry; Geo A Griffin
3d June, Puebla, Disability ; Serg't M H
Wilson 28th July, do, Chronic Diarrhoea;
Privates Doyle Riley 27th Oct., City of
Mexico, do.; John Gray 26th March, Hamburg,
left sick ; S B Elmore 26th do., Atlanta,
Ga., do.; James Malone 26th do,
do 4 do.
TRANSFERRED.
Private Samuel McGowan, 4th January
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1847, Ass't. Q,. Master. He was with Gen
Quitman in the storming of Chapultepee,
and the Garita de Belen., as Volunteer Aid
RESIGNATION'S.
Lieut A A Roberts 10th Apr^j, to take
effect May 1, 1847.
DKSKUTIOXS.
Privates limijamiu Carrol, 29th December,
1840, Hamburg; David O Hix 131st
do., do.; James O Cooper 10th February,
1847, Mobile.
I making this report for the satisfaction
of our friends, I cannot pass by in silence
the gallant services of the officers and rank
and lile of other companies composing the
Palmetto Regiment. They, one and all
(if I am allowed to judge,) to use the language
of Gen. Quitman, ''have crowned
themselves with immortal glory."
I will close by saying, that although we
are in the Halls of the Montezumas, yet we
are as far from peace as the day we crossed
the Rio Grande; and unless the policy oi
the war is charmed from the "lenient and
suasive system," to tho stern dictates of the
conqueror, we never can conquer a peace.
Yours truly,
J. Fostkk Marshall.
From the C/uirlcston Mercury.
THE PALMETTO REGIMENT.
I believe our Legislature have done nothing
for ourgallant dead who fell upon the
bloody fields of Mexico. As to providing
for the bodily comforts of their surviving
j families, that is nothing. There maybe
something in a liepublic that might make
that an unsafe and impolitic precedent.
But then, why lias the Legislature done
nothing effective towards commemorating
permanently the fame and honor of those
sons of South Carolina who have covered
the State with glory in a foreign land?
But for the Governor's Message, and the
reports of a Committee or two, there is nothing
official that has passed both branches
at Columbia, which would show that the
Palmetto banner was borne in triumph by a
band of heroes over the perilous ridge of the
battle at Contieras, Churubusco, Chapultepec
and the CJarita of Mexico. Is there
nothing in all these deeds of valor worthy
In hn .?11 ? *' ? n
.v ?vvU......^iiwi<uiu in an uun tunes.'?
Are we but tlie degenerate sons of noble
sires ?
All people who have furnished examples
for the admiration of the world, have taken
pride in raising up monuments by which
to transmit their heroic deeds to a devoted
posterity ; and when a State ceases to remember
with gratitude the valor of her gal-lant
sons, it shows a cold indifference that
chills the heart of a hero, and argues that
she herself is degenerate and corrupt.?
Those who expect to make South Carolina
great by metely developing the physical
resources of the State, vastly mistake the
genius and the spirit of our people. What
are the physical resources of South Carolina,
as compared with the other great and
gigantic States that encircle this Confederacy?
Literally nothing. Th? outv trim
way to make us a great people is to develope
our moral and intellectual endowments.
Make us a brave and heroic people?make
us intellectual and eloquent, and you will
make us a great people. Others may surpass
us in numbers; others may surpass
us in wealth ; but lor all those noble qualities
that have kindled the admiration of
the world, and fired the enthusiasm of the
great and the wise in every age and in every
country, we will be their superiors. A
people arc great, not from their physical resources
or brutal numbers, but from their
great deeds.
The Greek valor of Butler, the Roman
intrepidity of Dickinson, and the heroic and i
glorious band who died with them under
the triumpant flag of their country, upon the ,
bloody fields of battle, have done more to 1
kindle a noble and high enthusiasm i
amongst our children, have done more for
the fame and moral worth of South Carolina,
than whole generations of men reposing !
in inglorious ease and luxurious indulgence
stimu ated into what aro called modern enterprise,
by jesuitical financiers, or miserable
politicians. Their famtf, at this day,
is worth more to South Carolina than all
her Rail Roads and all her Banks, j
Why is it that Athens, a small and incon- j
siderable town of Attica, held for so long
a time the moral sway of the world ? It !
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wua ueuuuau nur peupiu xiau me gratitude '
to bring back the bones of Themistocles
from a foreign land, and raised over them
a magnificent tomb, upon which her children
could stand and u wake to ecstacy"
the genius of a stormy Democracy.
When Pericles covered her glorious hills
with those beautiful marble monuments that
have been the wonder and admiration of
all after times, he well understood the true
genius of her people, and all the elements i
of genuine greatness. Neither Herodotus,
nor Polybius, nor Thucydides, nor any of
the trashy historians of modern time, have
ever given us as vivid a histojy of that
wonderful people, as what we read from <
their tombs, their monuments, their temples,
on/1 lKoi?? ???* - TWT? " *
a..u iiivu pumcuKs. nu man can want by j
tho standing columns of the Parthenon, it t
seems to me, without communing with the
spirits of the mighty, and feeling his heart '
beat and expand with deeper and warmer 1
emotions of enthusiasm. i
A lion stone was erected at the straits of j
Thermopylae, and the bones ofLeonidas 1
were carried back to Sparta by Pausanias, (
forty years after his death, and a monument
j
erected over them. These were things for
their young men to look to, and form their
standards by ; and the spirit that prompted
to them was the spirit that made a great
people.
If the Romans had erected a monument
to JJruius, the Caesars never would havo
reigned the tyrants of their country.
Let South Carolina, with one iiminimnna
voice, raise a noble monument to her brave
sons who fell in Mexico, whose pure and
polished shaft of Parian marble shall bear
to unborn generations hallowed and consecrated
names; and at whose base our
young men may kneel, to kindle anew the
lire of patriotism, and catch inspiration from
the spirits of heroes. Let thein as they
pass by such a monument, forever remember
uthat the duties of life are dearer
than life itself1 u Oi.d 9G."
Correspondence of the Charleston Patriot.
WASHIJNOTON, DEC, 30, 1847,
In the Senate lo-dav. after some business
of an uninteresting charueter, tfie bill of Mr.
Crittenden for the purchase of the Madison
papers was taken up and passed by a vole
of 22 ayes to 13 nays.
Mr. Cass moved that his bill providing
for additional forces be now taken up.
Mr. Calhoun desired its postpomnent until
a vote could be had on the resolutions
which he had previously submitted.
Mr. Cass said he was opposad to the delay
and without saying anything in defence
ot the war or the President he was only anxious
to take measures for the conclusion of
the war. Messrs. Clayton and Berrien also
declared ihemselves in favor of a postponment.
Mr. Berrien wished to discuss the
proposition of Mr. Calhoun so as to discover
for what reason the war was continued.
Several other Senators joined in the discussion,
and finally on the question of reading
the bill, it was carried by 19 votes tol9
and the Vice President voting in the affirmative.
The bill was then read, and the Senate
subsequently went into executive session.
In the House another one of those interminable
petitions on the subject of slavery,
was laid on the t:>}?le by t? uo?c of 86 to 70.
The prayer of the petition was that achange
be made in the constitution and laws of the
Untied Slates, and thai the nmoocula *ii?*
, |/I vvvvuw Vi iUU
public lauds may be applied to the extinction
of slavery.
The Committee on the Post Office and
Post Roads, reported a joint resolution authorizing
the Postmaster General to make
an arrangement with the Richmond Railroad
and Steamboat Company for transporting
the mails, as formerly, to be allowed the
highest rate of pay allowed to any other line
for once a day service; and that the Bay
line be compensated tor a discontinuance of
us sorvlcc. It was referred to the Committee
of the Whole on the State of the Union.
An attempt was subsequently made to
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??cu?c n?u nuic icuuubiut'reu, pending wuicti
the House adjouned. Neither House will
again meet until Monday.
The President yesterday sent the following
nominations to the Senate.
.1 VV Davis of Indiana, (Ex-Speaker,)Minister
to China, in the place of A. Everett,
deceased.
J Rowan, of Kentucky, Charge d'Affairs
to Naples, vice W H Polk.
Dr. Niles, of Baltimore, (formerly Secretary
of Legation to Paris,) Charge deAffairs
to Sard in a, vice Robert WicklifTe re- v
siirned.
The nominations have not been definitely
acted on.
A good story is told of General Lane of
Indiana. At the battle of Buena Vista,
when the Indiana Regiment retreated, the
General tried <Jvery means to get them to
return. Becoming enshusiastic. he appealed
to them as " they loved their native State,
to do their duty." ;c Come now," said he,
"and rush into the thickest of the fight.
I'll lead you, and only think how glorious
it will look in history to have it said that
the whole Indiana Regiment was cut to pieces.'*
Seeing the Elephant.?A wag advertised,
in one of the papers, on the morning
of the recent election, in extraordinary dis_|
,| At_ _ . n ?
jjiiij, niui ine w nmoi I'roviso wouia oe exhibited
at the Museum for a week, having
obtained the genuine thing from the owner.
This was a hit in its way, but a greenhorn,
who is called a " native," actually visited
the museum for the purpose of beholding
the animal, and was shewn the stuffed skin
of an elephant, as the veritable Wilmot
Proviso itself, whicfr he is reported to have
been left gazing at with dubious wonder.
Chancellor Kent was, as we have said
belore a professor of religion an-J very recently
a communicant in the Episcopal
Church ; and it is worthy of remark that
within the past year, Chief Justice Spencer,
Mr. Webster, and Mr. Clay have all partaken
of this communion in the same church,
Mr. Webster having received the communion
about a year since from the hand of
the Rev. Mr. Southard in Calvary Church,
without any allusion to the fact being made
in the public press.
The above is from the New York Courier
5c inquirer, which follows up the account
by citing it as a testimony in favor of religion
from four of the greatest intellects* of
the age.
Christianity does not need such testimony,
rhe history of the world shows that the
best testimony in its favor has bean from
men who were notthe M greatest intellect*;"
Besides, if the arguments Were heldgood,
he opponents of religion might biiesome
1 great intellects" onthe other side. #
We think that the embracing of christiS3