Lives of Robert Young Hayne And Hugh Swinton Legar
Lives of Robert Young Hayne And Hugh Swinton Legar
Paul Hamilton Hayne
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We agreed it was enough to make Carolina blood boil. Growing ani- mated, he remarked : ' I tell you that such is the spirit of the people, and such the actual organiza- tion and readiness in the country, that with the hoisting of a flag, the firing of a gun. The blast of a trumpet, or even the lifting of my finger, I could throw ten thousand men into the city in less Ihan five days, who at the word of command would not leave a limb in its place among all the petty forces of the United States in... the harbor. Judge, there- fore, of the sincerity of my desire for an amicable adjustment of this controversy, when I say that, with all these insulting circumstances, or under cir- cumstances even more aggravating, my fixed resolve is to avoid a collision at arms, if it be huma^ily pos- sible.^ " Another conversation occurred at the period of the arrival in Charleston harbor of a ship loaded with munitions of war for the State. " At dead of night, " said the Governor, "I was roused hastily by some of our friends, who came to tell me that a Committee of the Union Party was just then form- ing to go aboard of the ship and throw the pro- perty of the State into the dock.
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