The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, April 16, 1868, Image 2
TRADE WITH BALTIMORE. (
So long as Charleston itself is not 1
a gaeat centre of trade, so long as i
there is from this city no direct rail- (
road communication with the great |
grain and provision markets of'the \
West, so long as the South has no r
manufactures of her own, so long as t
--riknrloctrm hns no direct steam com-, f
munication with Europe, and so long
'as protective tariffs prevent the introduction
of European manufactures,
just so long must Charleston merchants
procure their supply of marketable
commodities from one or
more of the great centres of trade at
the North. If sympathy or grati
tude could control trade, there would
be no doubt as to which of these great
Northern markets would be selected
by Charleston merchants. Before,
during and since the great war, from
which all chronology in this country
. is reckoned, Baltimore has been
Southern in sentiment, character/
sympathy and action, and we only
6peak of it as one of the great Northern
markets, because it is far North
of Charleston, and as a business centre
resembles, and properly belongs
^m to^Jie same class with, those of o'ther
cities, New York, Philadelphia and
Boston. So much for sympathy, but
we are still more firmly bound to Bal
timore by gratitude, for in the days *
of our distress, both during the war ;
when our soldiers pined in Northern ^
hospitals and prisons, and since the t
, war, when gaunt famine and direful f
distress have been present through i
out the length and breadth of our 1
once prosperous State, it has been c
Baltimore that has stretched out the f
hand of relief. But sympathy and j
. gratitude do not control trade. Com- \
merce, alas! is but a mercenary jade, v
who dispenses her favours where the f
most money can be obtained. The r
question of which is the best market, t
of course all business men will de- r
cide for themselves, the opinion of
the press to the contrary notwithstanding,
but feeling strongly the
bonds of sympathy and gratitude
, above; alluded to, we shall take the
liberty in this article of suggesting j1
to the merchants of Charleston some
- - . ~ , . n
of the advantages of the Baltimore
.*market... As the trade between this j
port and Baltimore already supports
a first-rate line of steamers, we presume!
that some of our merchants have
discovered these advantages for them;6elv.es,
but these should be more wide]y
appreciated, and the line of steam- f
: era should be able to have a vessel t
leaving each city every day. ^
. In selecting a market there are j
several things for the merchants to
?? consider. Among others he must
take into consideration the character j
of the community in which he will soi
journ aDd its capacity for making his
stay pleasant and agreable,?the .
time and expense of going and returning?the
character of the com.
modifies produced in the market and ,
its facilities far obtaining what it
does not produce..
1st. The character of the commu- .
nity and its capacity forgiving pleas
ure. These things may be thrown ?
out of consideration when there is a ^
difference between markets in more
important respects, but if the expense ^
and the time comsumed in going and
returning, and the cost of board, j
and the prices of a bill of goods be t(
the same for the cities of A and B? j
and a merchant knows that in A, he
will be opposed to the men with whom P
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ne is inrown in contact in pontics,
sentiment and religion, while lie
agrees with the people of B in all t
these things, if he fears swindling,
robbery or assassination in A, and feels
sure of honest dealing, and safety of ^
person or property is .B, he is of
course sure to transact business in B
Secondly, tha^thejme consumed in
going and returning and transacting tl
business at a market and the expense fi
of travelling and board, form no in- s
considerable item in the relative ad- r
vantages of markets, admits of no a
dispute. So too with the character b
of goods manufactured in a place, c
and the facilities of procuring those t
not there manufactured. The mer- s
chant will necessarily prefer the mar- c
ket which combines the best produc- a
tionsofits own with the best facili- "
ties of procuring those of other places, t
Baltimore combines all these advan- I
tft<?es to a greater extent than any r
other Northern market. As regards t
the pleasure of a stay in Baltimore, a
? the assurance that a Charleston mer- c
chant can better enjoy himself there '
than elsewhere scarcely needs the c
supportofan argument. "We agree n
with the people of Baltimore in an f
ardent love for constitutional govern- n
ment, in sympathy with the lost cause "
of the Confederacy, in admiration for d
the men who fell in its defence, m li
our ideas of morality, in social eti- a
quette, and in short on all those many t
questions, on which it is so pleasant a
for men, associating together, to agree, B
and so very disagreeable for them to g
differ. The cost of going to and 2
f om Baltimore, and the time con- I
somed in travelling is less than with f
other markets, and the cost of board t
is not greater while you are more sure j
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)f comfort and good society. The
jest flour in the country is manufaqured
in Baltimore, and it 'is in the
:entre of a very extensive wheat region,
while its direct communication
vith the West by means of the Baltinore
and Ohio Railroad, makes it
lie best market in the Atlantic States
or grain and provisions of all kinds.
?orn, rye, oats, wheat, pork, bacon,
ard, butter, &c., &c., pour into it
lailv from the teeming markets of
he West, while railroads, steamboats
ind sailing vessels are always ready
or freight to Charleston. For dry
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;oons, agricultural implements ana
;uch other manufactured articles as
ire not made in Baltimore, and which
he merchants of that city procure
urther North, there is of course the
ixpcnse of transportation and a profit
:o be added to the first cost, but that
s far more than overbalanced by the
act that the goods are already selectid
for the Southern market, and that
he Baltimore merchants arc able to
)uy in much larger quantities than
>ur own merchants, and consequently,
;o obtain their goods cheaper from
irst hands. For all foreign comnoditie?"*consumed
at the South,
Baltimore stands on a par with other
narkets, while for the coffee trade it
s a special depot.
We have thus endeavored, as fully
is the limited space of an editorial
vould allow, to set forth some of the
idvantages of Baltimore as a market
'or Charleston and other Southern
nerchants, but we are aware that we
lave scarcely dono more than point
>ut the lines of thought for others to
ollow, and our aim will be accom>lished
if we can awaken serious arid
rise consideration of the subject, for
re feel sure that it is only necessary
or the advantages of the Baltimore
narket to be properly considered for
hem to be appreciated and recoglized.?Charlestoji
Mercury.
Grant's Ambition.?There is a
ery decided tendency towards furher
complication in national affairs,
nd since it has been pretty definitey
ascertained that "the General ccmlanding
the armies" has ventured to
dvise the prompt removal of the
'resident, at leaot one Radical Senior
has taken the alarm and has
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entureu 10 crmcisc in severe terms
he daring insolence of Grant. At
irst many were unwilling to believe
hat General Grant had ever enterained
or given expression to the seniments
attributed to him by the New
fork Tribune; but^ others who proess
to know the man, pronounced the
irticle genuine on sight. Some in
'estigation which has since been had,
eaves no doubt that Grant did
ay that the only hope for the peace
>f the country is the success of the
mpeachmcnt trial, and that the naional
security demands the. removal
>f the President. Giddy from the
icight to which fortuitous circumstan:es
have elevated him, and crazed by
i seeming near approach to the Prosdential
chair, General Grant is not
?nly prepared to speak foolishly, but
o act rashly. Without mental calibre,
he is left a prey to an inordinate
mbition with which he has been fired
y his Radical keepers, and there is
o telling what he may say or what
e may attempt. He is but the mere
doI of the Jacobins, and may be in- ,
uced to attempt the role of Robesierrc;
but, as the Senator alluded
o said, lie had better keep a look
ut for his own head. It is undertood
that a court of inquiry is being
ivlked of in official quarters. Grant's
ommission is onlv held during the
lcasure of the President.
Cor. Bait. Gazette, 8th inst.
Whipping the South.?The only
tiing the malignant mongrels can ofjr
in defence of their horrible opprcsions
is to appeal to the hatred and
evenge of the baser sort of society,
nd declare that "the South has not
een whipped enough." Well, ic
annot be denied that the South is so
horoughly "whipped" that both the
taples of our commerce, and the
hief market for Northern wares are
lmost destroyed. We have therefore
'whipped the South" so thoroughly,
hat we have whipped over 250,000
Northern nlen and women out of emiloyment.
In the single city of Boson
25,000 men, women and children
,re daily fed on soup, at the public
harge. That is what comes of
'whipping the South." While with
.apitalists money is plenty, labor has
othing to do, and the poor must be
ed on soup to gratify the malignant
mongrels in the sweet revenge of
'whipping the South." And every
lay w.U come le;s employment for the
aboring classes and greater abund,nce
of pauper soup, while the Chrisian
work of ''whipping the Scuth" is
,llowed" to go on. Some years ago
dr. Seward, always a shallow dema;ogue,
came back fro n a visit to
few Orleans, and made a speech in :
few York which electrified all the
ools in the North, by showing that
he South was so helpless that it delended
upon Northern mechanics for
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nearly all its wants. Going along
the streets of the Southern cities, he
"saw no hoes, harrows, plows, boots,
shoes, ready-made clothing, &c., that
were not made in the North." This
was said as a sneer at the South,
which was eagerly swaliowed by every
human ass in the North. But now,
Seward and his band of malignant
fools have "whipped the /South" out
of the means of buying our wares; and
in the same ratio thai; we haye destroyed
our /Southern market we have
established pauper soup houses in the
North. Now if zS'eward were to go
zS'outh he would find plenty of soup
homes as the net resub of "whipping
the zS'outh." And thin same tribe of
Northern noodles wants to put government,
commerce and industry in the
hands of the negroes, which wcuild effectually
prevent that section from
again becoming a market of our
wares, and would render the soup
houses a permanent institution in the
North. But how Jong will the poor
of the North continu3 to be fed on
spup, to gratify the deviiistn of the
mongrel party in ''whipping .the
South ?" If this thing goes q# there
will, by and by, be throat-cutting
somwhere. But it will not he the
throat of the despgiring people who
are fed on soup !?Bay Book.
The Shoe Pinciieh.?At a meeting
in Illinois, a resolution was offered
suggesting Mr. Pendleton as the
Democratic candidate for President.
Mr. Springer, of Springfield, opposed
the motion and said :
Again, I am frank to say that I
do not know whether Mr. Pendleton
is the proper man to nominate or not.
Aside from the question of his unavailability
in some of the States, I
have another question that I would
j x. i.! l. .f t i-i r
propounu 10 mm oeiore x snoum iavor
his nomination for the Presidency.
I should want to know of Mr. Pendleton,
whether, in the event of his constitutional
election, counting out the
negro votes of the negro State governments
of the South, he means to
be President, even if he has to be
sworn in at home, and fight his way
to Washington at the head of an organized
Democratic army? I fear
it is coming to this. The Radicals
mean to count the negro votes-of ten
negro governments, which have no
more right to be counted than have
an equal number of votes in Hayti or
Liberia, in order to elect their man.
If we are going to submit to this outrage,
we may aswell quit now. For
I tell you wewRinnot carry enough
States at the North to overcome the
negro votes of the South, tfence I
am f. r no man for President who is
not willing to stake his property, his
life, his all, for the cause; and if
constitutionally elected, be willing to
draw his sword, call ihe Democratic
hosts to arms, and c'iaim the Presidential
office at all hazards! If Mr.
Pendleton will do this, then I am for
him; if not, I am against him. If
we mean "business," let us understand
ourselves, and act accordingly.
T t *1 1 ? 1 T . 1 .1
i! cnna 8 piay, i want to De counted
out.
Negro Rule?The following is a
picture drawn by a Northern Radical
newspaper of the negro rule in St.
Domingo, after they have had fifty
years of experience as rulers of about
the fairest spot on earth:
"The latest news from San Domingo
is that the country is in anarchy,
and the prisons are full; but
this is probably about the full extent
of its power. It is painful to see
such a rich and charming part of the
world given up to ruin and savagery.
It is grievous to see the control of
such a country in the hands of such a
people. But we see no help for it.
And we may rest satisfied that if
there be any lower depths of human
degradation than that which they
have reached, it will rot require them
many years to sink it. If the population
would resort to eanibalism, and
devour each other out of existence,
it would probably be the best thing
that could happen."
The National Intelligencer of the
7th inst., says: "In the Michigan
election yesterday the vote was upon
the adoption of the new constitution.
There were two separate articles submitted?one
in regard to prohibition
of license for selling liquor; the
other, whether the sessions of the
Legislature should be annual or biennial.
Michigan is one of the staunch
tot ui IIIU xvumv/di utuitti wvn
ators?Chandler and Howard?and
her Representatives in Congress have
deVoted themselves exclusively to
t ie elevation of the negro above the
white man. Rather than submit to
this disgusting imposture, the people
of Michigan have rejected the entire
constitution. By what majority
would they h ive rejected the brutal
heresy of negro suffrage had it been
submitted to them as a separate
proposition ?
The Fenian trials at London have
been postponed until after Easter.
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V
TH E JO URNAL
Thursday, April 1G, ISGSFrisshet.
We learn this morning that the river
has overflowed its banks, and all the
low lands are covered with water. The
water is Btill rising and the indications
nrft flint, tknra will kn n 1 nrrro fronliflt.
Rain, has fallen every day this week,
some of the showers accompanied by
high wind. Farming operations have
been suspended and the ground is so
saturated with water that several days
of fair weather will be required to put
tho soil in a proper condition to receivj
the seed, this will of course throw
the farmc'rs considerably behind hand.
While we write, rain is falling, with
the prospect of a stormy day.
Easter Elections.
Grace Church, Camden, S. C.
Wardens ?L. R. Deas, J. B. Kershaw.
Vestrymen?j. ii. desaessckk, l. m.
Df.Sacssuke, J. A. Youno, James Ciiksnut,
E. B. Cantev, H. C. Salmond, J.
M. Davis.
Delegates to the State Convention?J. A
Young, J. B. Kershaw, II. C. Salmond,
t i r n
j. ju. .uavis
The Election.
So far, the election has passed off tolerable
quietly. We have heard of nc
disturbance, except an attempt at fisticuffs
by a couple of freedmen. Mutual
friends interfered, the parties were separated,
and the matter ended.
Up to 8 o'clock this morning, the
votes polled in this precinct foot up
1,152, as follows:?Whites 104;?
Blacks 1,048.
Corn.
W9 call the attention of purchasers
of corn to the card of Messrs Matiiewson
& Co., of Augusta, Ga., in to-day's
paper. The well established repua'ion
ofthisfirmis sufficient guaranty thai
those who forward tfigir orders will be
fairly and liberally dealt by.
Result of the Impeachment.
It is difficult to form an opiuion as
to the probable result of the pending
impeachment of the President, by those
who arrive at their conclusions from the
various Washington correspondents of
Via Pi-om tt-Vwisa nntninnH fliffbr fif)
widely in regari to it. Tho correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun, of the
10th inst., says: "A very intelligent
Radical, who is on terms of great intimacy
with many Radical Senators, remarked:
"Curti3 is delivering a great
speech, but it might as well bo addressed
to the Pawnee Indians, the case
is judged now." And such seems to
be the opinion entertained in well informed
circles here of both parties, de
spite all the attempts made to create a
different impression. Under that terrible
influence of party pressure, the
back bones of those Senators which
needed "stiffening" are being gradually
braced up, and no fears are entertained
that they will Jbe able to toe the mark
when the day of pronouncing the verdict
rolls around."
On tho other hand, the correspondent
of the Gazette says : "The resolution
offered in the House by Mr. Robinson,
of Brooklyn, seems not to have been
entirely unanticipated by the impeachers,
and but little surprise was expressed
at its introduction. Although the
impeachment "ring"' forced an adjournment
of the House to prevent an
expression of opinion on tho proposition
to rescind the articles of impeachment
and call back the managers, yet
there was clearly manifested a feeling
' of despondency which told but too
j plainly that if they dared to <lo so they
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themselves woum eau on ineir nogs
and give up the ohaso. After the adjournment
the Radioals gathered in
small groups and earnestly discussed
the effect which Mr Robinson's resolution
would be likely to have upon the
country. When the report of the proceedings
reached the Senate there was
a most ludicrous flurry among the Radcal
members of that body, and for a
few moments business was almost suspended.
The rapid change which is tar
king place hero in regard to the probable
result of t e impeachment trial seems to
bo reacting upon the Jacobins themselves,
and is producing a corresponding
depression m their ranks. In u
word, impeachment is now generally
regarded horo as upon its last legs."
An lmj.ort. nt Order.
The following ordor, says the Charleston
Mercury, should be oarofully
considered by every civil officer in
North and Soutb. Carolina. Any man
who holds office after reading it is
bound to execute the most arbitrary
military order that may be hereafter
promulgated, and cannot evade the obligation
by resigning:
General Orders No. 06.
It is hereby ordered, that all resignations
of civil officers, tendered either
to the Military or civil authorities of
North or South Carolina, shall not take
effect, or relieve the officer tendering
the same from his responsibility for a
due discharge of the duties of his office,
until the acceptance thereof is officially
notified, and a successor to such office
has been duly appointed and qualified.
By command of Brevet Major-Genal
Ed. R. S. Canby.
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Bow to Collect.
We have heard of many novel wave
of collecting little debts, bnt that adopted
by a white minister not a thousand
miles from Camden, is a little more
"cute'' than any that has yet come to
our knowledge. Being called upon a
few days ago to perform a marriage
ceremony for a colored couple, he
promptly attended, and at the proper
time, proceeded with the ceremony,
when half through, he stopped and
said that ho had married a number of
couples, fiom whom he was unable to
get a cent, and he would not proceed
' farther until tho. bridegroom or 6ome
of his friends forked over one dollar,
his charge for his services. The money
being handed over, he concluded
tho ceremony, no doubt highly gratified
? with the success of this strategem.
Fon LiDEniA ?The colonization ship
Golconda, was to havo leit Baltimore
on yesterday, for Savannah, whence
( she will proceed on the 4th of May to
( Liberia. S.:e will carry out about six
i hundred and fifty colored people
said to be composed of the best and
most industrious of that race in the
South, who have asked the society to
i send them to tho land of thoir futhers.
This will be the largest number of ernii
grdnta that has yet been sent to Africa
l in one ship.
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I POIt THE CAMDEN JOURNAL.
To the White fi en of Kershaw District
"111 fares it with tue flo k,
If shepherds wr.ug'e when
The wolf is nigh." /
' There are a thousand white men in
; Kershaw District, lot them think, feel
i and act as one man. The one iden
? should be to keep together, let nothing
separate, let notliing breed division in
1 our ranks?remember?do this and
t
we are safe. We claim to be true to
the Constitution of the United States,
to which we have sworn allegiance
since our flag went down, as interpreted
by the wisest and best of the North,
soldiers and statesmen, and by the majority
as wo confidentially believe, of
the Northern people, so we talk no
1 treason when we call upon the white
men to be true to their class and race,
i and let no heart burnings or jealousies,
no past discord, divide us now, and
join to resist this asserted determination
by the radical party and their representatives
among us, to subvert education,
refinement and wealth, by ignorance.
brutalitv and naunerism. To
' * AT
: ties roy a people to guin an electiou.?
But the people of this country have
not agreed to such destruction. This
tempest of the vilest passions, that has
r been and still is desolutiug our land,
must in its nature exhaust itself, it
muy not yet have reached its highest
point we think it has, but culminuto it
will (for the sensible radical once in power
must become conservative) and let no
white man think that he is gaiuing his
object (which of course is to better
himself) by yielding all he has been
taught to respect, and becoming a partisan
in a colorel league, they may like
the treason, but be assured they must de^
spise the traitor. They, the colored
men, feel their own position to be very
different, they are dqjug their best, according
to their lights, to sustain their
cause and race, and the good among
thefh, (for the most of tJiem are we j
think conscientious) are we believe rea-1
dy to recognize thejr truo friends among
the Southern men, whoso interest is j
identical with their own, as soon as I
their minds can be reached, through the j
rush and clamor with which they are surrounded.
There is no use in forcing
our particular views, upon the Freedmen
now, what have we got in our broken
fortunes to give against the glittering
promises mai{e by the irresponsible
adventurers, who lor thepregent
have their ear; those promises will be bro- [
ken; thoso glittering jewels, held up by
these apostles of the future, prove but
tinsel, and when that reaction does
come, as come it must, all that is truo
will be gladly recognized, and the false
prophet meet with due reward. Time
will cure onr trouble, bad off as we
aro, the great white race must rule,
God has so orcjaiued it, and what stand
aan the puny three or four millions of a
weak ignorant and rapidly decaying peo
pie, make against, a march ofthatmigh- $
ty race, that is today holding in the hoi*
low of its hand, colored races all over }t
the earth, far more advanced in civili*
zation, and character, than these feeble
colonists of Guinea, and the Gold coast,
we have among us. In India, Ewp <
land, from whose loms we are proud
to claim our iesCent,, wilh t])faa
half a world between them, conquers,
and holds as she call? them subject*, Jwt
might well say "slaves" with a ha?i
full of white soldier, one hundred. ?nd
fifty millions of Hindoos, fcc?'itto*with M
China, and Japan, Vfhen brought itf
AAntenf nnfh A??v\ A*?/1 aT ill /J I
\sKjkxtav/i Tvitu LUC aiiu, auu viaiu, ui U-itx ;
European. . f
The brutal Turk would butcher Jew,
and Christian, at Damascus, the white J
men of the world, put forth their hands
to put it down. ' j
We are friends of the colored man, J
our associations have always been with ^
him, and a thousand ties still bind.us
together, ties that will n&t be easy to
break. For a time, as we saidbe&re,
they may be lost sight o? but they
rest upon the best and strongest principle
of humanity, a mutual necessity to begin
with, and the recollection in that ne- *
cessity, of a common help in the past, ^
they need onejanother. they are so sfc
uated as to recognize that fact at a
glance, when they have time to take
breath and look around them.
Though the colored race is yet weak- V
er every day and the white man stronger,
by natural increase and immigration,
no thinking Sou hem white mpn
is now, or will be unwilling to giro
freely to the black, just as much lnfluence
in the government, as may be
suited to his capacity for, or his interest
in it, more than this, the best and
wisest among themselves, will not desire,
w^hen they realize what government
really is. The protection of life
and property, considered with, a view
to the elevation and comfort of the. one,
with a due development of the other.
Bomember, that in your hands am .
held all that wo reverence, and respect, "
let not despair dishearten, or a craven
fear disgrace you?look f <r the boV in
the cloud, and be assured it is there
though you may not see it. God will
never permit that his law, put forth in
in thunder on mount binai, and illustrated
by his Son in his walk, and con- j
verse, while on earth, should be, crush- A
ed and outraged by the destruction .of
all He thus taught to be most holy, A
while we are, by his permission thirty
millions of the same race He ohoeofbr
his incarnation, to assert and defend it.
B.:'
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ANJTHBR CARD. . .. .. Jy
In the Card published on Saturday,
I confined myself to the action i
of the meeting in Columbia. In taking y
leave, however, of the public, as At*
torney-Gcneral, after a service offiear
. ' r tt~i.iL- x- -L _ 1..J
twenty years, 1 uesire w say a wum
as to the office, and the more so "because
I consider myself the last
of the Attorney-Generals ofSoqth
Carolina. I mean of the old White
Man's South Carolina?one of the
original "Thiiteen"?the South Car* '
olina which gave to the ''Revolution"
her Rutledges and Pinckneys, and to
the crisis preceding the "second Wap
of Independence," her Lowndes,
Cheves and CaUioun, which has. con-,
tributed to the counsel since her Mo 1
Duffie, Ilayne, Preston and Lagare??
of that SouthCarolina I am the last
Attorney-General!
Heretofore the office has been, in
this State, as in England, one 6f the
prizes of the profession, to be attain-,
ed only after a long and arduous
service. The Attorney-General is the
acknowledged head of the Bar, and
have jealously guarded the position.
The office, since the Revolution^ ,
has been filled?first, by John Julius '
Pringle, a learned lawyer, of large
I experience, with a very lucrative and
multifarious private practice, second,
Itangdon Cheves, clarum et venerabile
nomen, a giant among giants
with the very largest private practice
ever known in this State; third, John
S. Richardson, eminently eloquent j
a:ul successful as a barrister, for very
many years a Judge in our* highest
Court; fourth, Robert Y. Hayne, who
between the age of twenty-one and
thirty, began ami finished a brilliant
professional career, which gave hin^
fortune enough to enable him to de-.
vote twolve years to politics; fifth,
James L. Pcttigru; his very name a
svnoym fop a Lawyer; sixth, Hugl\
Swinton Legare, a "polished corner
of the temple," as profound as he w&a,
brilliant, and equally the scholar and
the lawyer; seventh, R. Barnwell
Rhet, who, after a very brief term of . ^
o ce, was translated to the halls of- T
Congress, and who has run a cireer
since which has made his name familiar
from Canada to the Gulf; eighth,
Ilcnry Bailey, who, as a lawyer, was
a fit ?compecr of his distinguished predecessors.
For myself, I will only
say that, when elected AttorneyGeneral,
I had been sixteen years a
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