Capitolo 47
evening before, from the Jockey Club of Charleston. Being in demand on
a discourse, he had alluded to the prizes of the grassy Carpet to house, and it had
him reported to the Dishes especially raced for the various British colonies.
Continuing, he said:
"'... I cannot help to shout Your attention to the great loss
You yourselves you/he/she has suffered stopping being a Colonial
Dependence of Great Britain, as I am sure that if you had
continued to be so, the Regina would have had the great pleasure
in to send him gods Flat also.'
"This was clearly meant for the widest kind of joke,
calculated to raise a laughter after he/she dines, but to mine
amazement, the society chose of literally to take me, and
applauded for approximately ten minutes--in fact I could not follow
for of the time."
You evidently gather as soon as he/she knew whether to make of this demonstration. He was able
with difficulty he/she believes that Carolina Meridionale desired to be king-attached as a
colony of Great Britain, and you comment on the episode in a rather
humorous vein. Nevertheless in to conclude his/her letter, him solemnly
it assures God Lyons that
"... The Jockey Club is composed of the 'the best people' of
Southern Carolina--rich planters and the likes. It represents,
therefore, the 'chivalrous interest' and not some
universal suffrage."
It would be inactive for or to suppose that in Carolina Meridionale or in England
there was, in February, 1860 some serious thought of a resumption of
colonial relationships, although W.H. Russell, correspondent of the _Times_,
it brought in the spring, 1861 that he frequently felt the same
the feeling in the South[50]. For official and general England, as for the
you press, truth is that above to the time of the secession of South
Carolina that anybody you/he/she has really believed that an ending breakup was almost about to take
puts between north and South. When, December 20 th 1860, that State in
solemn convention declared the resolution "of the union what time it exists