. Historic towns of the Southern States. ed to welcomehim ; but, like the best man the books give account of,when it was announced that he was commander of thewhole American forces, he was scarcely able to utter aword. So it was with Governor Pickens. As I haveremarked before, Governor Pickens had no superior inthe State, but on that occasion he could not even makea speech. But that did not prevent General Lafayette Montgomery 389 from discovering that he was a great man. . Thepeople of Montgomery did their duty. Col. ArthurHayne, who was a distinguished officer in the army inthe war of 1813,
. Historic towns of the Southern States. ed to welcomehim ; but, like the best man the books give account of,when it was announced that he was commander of thewhole American forces, he was scarcely able to utter aword. So it was with Governor Pickens. As I haveremarked before, Governor Pickens had no superior inthe State, but on that occasion he could not even makea speech. But that did not prevent General Lafayette Montgomery 389 from discovering that he was a great man. . Thepeople of Montgomery did their duty. Col. ArthurHayne, who was a distinguished officer in the army inthe war of 1813, and who was the politest gentleman Iever saw, was the principal manager. If the Earl ofChesterfield had happened there, he would have felt, asI did the first time I saw a carpet on a floor, and wasasked to walk in. I declined, saying, I reckon I havegot in the wrong place. He was hospitably entertained at ColonelEdmonsons, on Commerce Street, where hereceived with kindly grace the crowds thatpressed around him. At night a grand ball. OLD BUILDING liN WHICH LAFAYETTE BALL WAS GIVEN IN 1825. 390 Montgomery was oriven him in the buildinof now standingon the corner of Commerce and TallapoosaStreets ; and in the small hours a large con-course of citizens escorted him through thedarkness down to the landing, and bid him ahearty but mournful adieu amid torrents oftears. Frontier life conduces to early maturity incities as well as in men, and Montgomery wasno exception to the rule. The hard knocksthat produce self-reliance were not slow incoming. In spite of disastrous freshets anddestructive epidemics, the population increased,and with its growth came a new and rougherelement. An old newspaper suggests drily : It requires no stretch of art to put rubbishbefore a shop door; to take down a ginger-bread-makers sign ; to take the wheek from aladys carriage and put them on a silversmithsshop; and make noise enough to disturb theslumbers of the sick by beating stirrups fortriangles, and blo
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