Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 120 pages of information about Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton.

Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 120 pages of information about Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton.
in some dark corner of New Hampshire, where he may possibly escape the just indignation of good men throughout this republic,—­let him visit the good State of Mississippi, in which I have the honor to reside, and no doubt he will be received with such shouts of joy as have rarely marked the reception of any individual in this day and generation.  I invite him there, and will tell him, beforehand, in all honesty, that he could not go ten miles into the interior before he would grace one of the tallest trees in the forest, with a rope around his neck, with the approbation of every virtuous and patriotic citizen; and that, if necessary, I should myself assist in the operation!”

Mr. Hale’s reply was equally characteristic: 

“The honorable Senator invites me to visit the State of Mississippi, and kindly informs me that he would be one of those who would act the assassin, and put an end to my career.  He would aid in bringing me to public execution,—­no, death by a mob!  Well, in return for his hospitable invitation, I can only express the desire that he would penetrate into some of the dark corners of New Hampshire; and, if he do, I am much mistaken if he would not find that the people in that benighted region would be very happy to listen to his arguments, and engage in an intellectual conflict with him, in which the truth might be elicited.  I think, however, that the announcement which the honorable Senator has made on this floor of the fate which awaits so humble an individual as myself in the State of Mississippi must convince every one of the propriety of the high eulogium which he pronounced upon her, the other day, when he spoke of the high position which she occupied among the states of this confederacy.—­But enough of this personal matter."[A]
[Footnote A:  The following paragraph, which has recently been going the rounds of the newspapers, will serve to show the sort of manners which prevail in the state so fitly represented by Mr. Foote, and how these southern ruffians experience in their own families the natural effect of the blood-thirsty sentiments which they so freely avow: 
“THE DEATH OF MR. CARNEAL.—­The Vicksburg Sentinel, of the 13th ult., gives the following account of the shooting of Mr. Thomas Carneal, son-in-law of Governor Foote: 
“We have abstained thus long from giving any notice of the sad affair which resulted in the death of Mr. Thomas Carneal, the son-in-law of the governor of our state, that we might get the particulars.  It seems that the steamer E.C.  Watkins, with Mr. Carneal as a passenger, landed at or near the plantation of Judge James, in Washington county.  Mr. Carneal had heard that the judge was an extremely brutal man to his slaves, and was likewise excited with liquor; and, upon the judge inviting him and others to take a drink with him, Carneal replied that he would not drink with a man who
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