. American lands and letters. sertion, and though amost friendly, hospitable man, carried in his stepand speech a good deal of the combative spiritand the audacities which he put so cleverly intothe pages of his tales of the Kevolution. In thepresent revival of Colonial studies we may j^ossi-bly look for a new cult of the author of Melli-champe. Another strong exponent of Southern literaryforces in that time was Lawyer Grimke,f of Hugue-not blood, who had been educated at Yale ; hewas, in a degree, a pet of old Dr. Dwight, sharingin some of his horse-back rides through New Eng-land, and paying
. American lands and letters. sertion, and though amost friendly, hospitable man, carried in his stepand speech a good deal of the combative spiritand the audacities which he put so cleverly intothe pages of his tales of the Kevolution. In thepresent revival of Colonial studies we may j^ossi-bly look for a new cult of the author of Melli-champe. Another strong exponent of Southern literaryforces in that time was Lawyer Grimke,f of Hugue-not blood, who had been educated at Yale ; hewas, in a degree, a pet of old Dr. Dwight, sharingin some of his horse-back rides through New Eng-land, and paying back the attention by an elo-quent though somewhat efflorescent *. B. (1830), setting forth the superiority ofsacred literature to either classic or scientificranges of study. Nor does he omit, in thosedays of nullification, to put saving clauses ofsound Unionism in his discourse : * William Gilmore Simms, b. (Charleston) 180G ; d 1870Lyrical Poems, 1827. The Yemassee, Thomas Smith Grimke, b. 1786 ; d. Thomas Smith Grimke. THOMAS S. GRIMKE. 125 . . If we covet for our country the noblest, pur-est, loveliest literature the world has ever seen, such a liter-ature as shall honor God and l)less mankind . . thenlet us cling to the Union of these States, with a patrioticlove, a scholars enthusiasm, with a Cliristiaus hope. This language would have sounded very strange-ly tliirty years later, coming from a literary rep-resentative of the Carolinas ! He was radical inmany directions ; advocating, among the first inAmerica, an improved phonetic spelling, Avhichwould have delighted our veteran Dr. Marsh, andhave given an academic colic to some of ouryouthful professors. He was also a non-resistanceman, out-doing Tolstoi himself in this direc-tion— though his father, Colonel Grimke, hadfought hravely and continuously through theWar of the Eevolution. A sister of this Carolinalitterateur was a woman of remarkable energyand spirit, giving freedom to her slaves, an
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