...Robert W. Johannsen Love of Order: South Carolina’s First Secession Crisis . By Barnwell John . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1982 . Pp. x , 258 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Book Reviews 239 Republicans themselves...

... A. Freeman The London Merchant: or, The History ofGeorge Barnwell by George Lillo repre­ sents one of the earliest and most coherent examples of the form conven­ tionally known as domestic or bourgeois drama, and, as such, it is deeply inflected by the cultural tensions I have just described. The 1731...

... like this. On learning I was from the South, he said he had a class­ mate from the South. He recalled that this classmate succeeded Calhoun in the Senate, but could not recollect his name. My own prompting, Barnwell, brought its own cheerful yes. 286 The South Atlantic Quarterly. Barnwell had been...

...Joseph Katz Selected Letters of W. D. Howells, Vol. 5, 1902–1911 . Edited by Fischer William C. Lohmann Christoph K. . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1983 . Pp. xiv , 454 . $40.00 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 240 The South Atlantic Quarterly Barnwell s...

... 3.4) reports of Barnwell: Speechless he stood, but in his face you might have read that various passions tore his very soul. Oft he in anguish threw his eyes toward Heaven . . . then wept and groaned. Tears, the transparent body fluid, work as a kind of truth serum: Your lips say no, Sara tells...

..., and Spartanburg. The following year three institutes were held in Barnwell County, three in Lexington County, and one in Spartanburg County. In 1873 institutes were reported in Barnwell and Pickens. Barnwell, Chester, Fairfield, Georgetown, Laurens, Lexington, Spartanburg, and York reported institutes in 1874...

... HILL JOHN E. SEMONCHE Love of Order: South Carolina s First Secession Crisis. By John Barnwell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. Pp. x, 258. $25.00. Love of order, the quest for an ordered, stable political, economic, and social system, was a principal thread in early nineteenth...

... noted for their familiarness and lateness of memory. Related again and again by stage historians and the champions of drama is the actor Ross s account of the man who was saved by the powerful appeal made upon him by the acting of Lillo s George Barnwell, a play which was presented with dreadful...

... to ac­ cept the Compromise of 1850. The State Rights party -the Separate State Actionists was utterly shattered by that struggle and their leader, R. Barnwell Rhett, retired from his position as United' States Senator. The successful Cooperationists fared little better. The crisis past, they had...

... slavery in the upper South and the raw materialism of the new Southwest combined to make the state the testing ground for the validity of the peculiar institution. South Carolina and her offshoots have hitherto given dignity to the position of the South, Senator Robert W. Barnwell remarked. The greater...

... and Joseph Barnwell of Charleston spoke for the Conservatives. A satisfactory arrange­ ment was soon worked out. Tillman and Evans agreed to give the Conservatives approximately half of the membership of the conven­ tion, while Hemphill and Barnwell bound the Conservatives to sup­ port the preservation...

... signing himself Equality seconds the Farmer and boasts that he will not be hushed to silence by the myrmidons of power. Ibid., April, 10, 1861. 5R. Barnwell Rhett, Jr., The Confederate Government at Montgomery, in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, 4 vols., (New York, 1887), I, 104. 48...

... contradict each other as to whether or not there was domestic violence. The Democrats cited the testimony of judges, together with that of the sheriffs of Aiken and Barnwell Counties purporting to prove that the ordinary processes of justice were not sufficient to keep order; Chamberlain pledged himself...

..., a Col. Brown of Barnwell town, put into forcible language some of the objec­ tions raised by himself and other obstructionists. When he America s First Steam Railroad 41 was offered purchase price for right of way through his land, his denial was positive and specific. Allow an engine and train of cars...

... hand over fist. DuPont s big synthetic mill at Camden, South Carolina, the tremendous Kraft paper mill at Georgetown, and to move into the public field the vast H-bomb plant dotting the countryside be­ tween Aiken and Barnwell are indications of what is happening in South Carolina and, in greater...

... Bagby s position wavered. Welook in vain through his speeches and votes for indications of a strong, cansistent policy, such as we find in Webster, with his firm decla­ rations against the aquisition of slave territory; or in Barnwell Rhett, with his allusions to the danger of disunion and his bold...

... Theus built St. John s church. From these settlements in Orangeburg and Saxe-Gotha, Ger­ mans spread into Barnwell, Newberry, Abbeville, and other counties. There were also independent German colonies at Hard Labor Creek in Abbeville, established in 1763-4, and at New Windsor, in Edgefield county...

... Carolina, 1740, No. 670. 2 Ibid., 1801, No. 1762. 8Ibid., 1854, No. 30. 14 The South Atlantic Quarterly tion ;4 5th6e temporary adoption of this system by Barnwell and Oconee counties in 1883, and its permanent adoption by Marl­ boro and Williamsburg counties and seventy-six small com­ munities by 1891.®...

... in advocacy of progressive measures are John C. Calhoun, Robert Y. Hayne, William C. Preston, J. H. Hammond, Joel R. Poinsett, Alexander H. Stephens, Matthew Fontaine Maury, R. W. Allston, R. G. Reflections on the Southern Tradition 289 Barnwell, T. P. Kettell, J. C. Nott, S. A. Cartwright, Judah P. Benjamin...

... here this morning, some eighteen colored children standing before the door of the guardhouse of this city. If those little children were at school they could not have been arrested for stealing. C. P. Leslie, of Barnwell, one of the four conservatives in the convention, made a heated speech against...