Reminiscences of Richard Lathers Sixty Years of a Busy Life in South Carolina
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers Sixty Years of a Busy Life in South Carolina
Lathers, Richard, 1820-1903
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George S. Bryan, Hon. Alfred Huger (Postmaster of the city, ) Ex-Governor William Aiken (the Astor of Charleston and the wealthiest citizen in the State), and Col. Donald L. McKay (President of the principal 122 REMINISCENCES OF RICHARD LATHERS Charleston bank). These gentlemen, Southerners of the high est type, although resenting strongly the Abolitionist en croachments upon Southern rights, opposed secession as a remedy worse than the disease, advocating, instead, Calhoun s idea of legislativ...e resistance within the Union. Yet such is the power of sectional enthusiasm that they were unable to re sist secession effectively the more that the youths in their own families were in many cases among the most zealous se cessionists. The Governor and my old friend General Jameson in vited Mrs. Lathers and myself to visit with a party of ladies and gentlemen Fort Moultrie, where the young recruits for the Confederate army were encamped. In passing down the harbor our attention was attracted by a singular object resembling in appearance a gigantic packing box.
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