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This feeling of the temper of the country, so to speak, produced an immediate response. It drew Rhett from his retirement and inspired a letter in which he took the Government severely to task for designing to remove from state control this matter of fundamental importance.
However that may be, the old house was gay enough to-night with flowers and lights, and Silas, looking better perhaps than he had ever looked in his life, found himself talking to Frances Rhett with an animation that surprised himself.
The speech of Rhett of South Carolina, author of the convention's "Address", "frankly and boldly unfurled the flag of disunion". "If every Southern State should quail... South Carolina alone should make the issue."
Barnwell Rhett said: "The Secession of South Carolina is not an event of a day. It is not anything produced by Mr. Lincoln's election, or by the non-execution of the Fugitive Slave Law. It has been a matter which has been gathering head for thirty years." Mr.
Upon examination of the prisoners the Governor found that the French expected a ship of war, with Mons. Arbuset their general and about two hundred men more to their assistance. The Governor ordered Captain Fenwick to pass the river, and march against them by land; while Rhett, with the Dutch privateer and a Bermuda sloop armed, sailed round by sea, with orders to meet him at Sewee Bay.
You thought I was harsh to-day. I swear to you if you succeed nobody will acknowledge it quicker than I!" "Will you tell her so?" "I will!" "Rhett," said the other man, stretching out his hand, "the woman I love has this day honored me, but by heaven I believe you have honored me more. I did think it was a low-down trick for you to go to Miss Glen, but I know why you did it, and you were right.
But the new leadership embraced a group of able and bold men: John A. Dix, of New York; Caleb Cushing, a Whig recruit from Massachusetts; James M. Mason, of Virginia; Robert Barnwell Rhett, William L. Yancey, and Jefferson Davis, of the lower South; and David Atchison, Stephen A. Douglas, Lewis Cass, and William Allen, of the Northwest, all ardent expansionists and "big Americans" who would not readily suffer the defeat of the party program.
Parker said that the movement of secession had been "gradually culminating for a long series of years." Inglis endorsed the remark and added, "Most of us have had this matter under consideration for the last twenty years." Keitt said, "I have been engaged in this movement ever since I entered political life." Rhett said, "The secession of South Carolina was not the event of a day.
There are dozens of other names once famous but now forgotten; George Wilkins Kendall; Gerard Hallock; Erastus Brooks; Alexander Bullitt; Barnwell Rhett; Morton McMichael; George William Childs, even Thomas Ritchie, Duff Green and Amos Kendall.
"Why!" said he, "what grudge have you got against the Rhetts now, Aunt it's as bad to take a girl's complexion away as a man's character what have the Rhetts been doing to you?" Miss Pinckney did not seem to hear the question for a moment, then she said, speaking as if to some invisible person: "That Frances Rhett may be reckoned the belle of Charleston, that's what I heard old Mr.
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