IN THE SOUTH; OR, SCENES FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF AN ALABAMA UNIONIST. BY R. S. THARIN, A. M., A NATIVE OF CHARLESTON, S. C.; FOR THIRTY YEARS A RESI- 66 IN THE WEST AS THE ALABAMA REFUGEE." NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY JOHN BRADBURN, (SUCCESSOR TO M. DOOLADY,) 43 WALKER-STREET. RVARD COLI, APR 24 1916 LIBRARY Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. TO THE "POOR WHITE TRASH" OF THE SOUTH, AND "THE MUDSILLS” OF THE NORTH, THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS RESPECTFULLY Dedicated BY THEIR FELLOW-CITIZEN AND ADVOCATE, THE AUTHOR. CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION-In which the author, by irrefragable testimony, establishes his claim to the reader's confidence. 11 "THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING" (COTTON); or, Montgomery as Capital of the Confederate States in February, 1861 194 LETTER from the Author to his Mother, in Charleston, S. C..... 241 PREFACE.* THE hour has at last arrived, when the truth, long trampled under the feet of frenzied mobs, must be heard in the South; and when the conservative element of the North, long lost sight of and denied, must be attended to and obeyed. The time when conservative views (Unionism) have been visited with "punishment" in the South, is passing away; and the time when the same conservative patriotism was brow-beaten in the North, is also passing away. The liberty of speech, the rights of personal liberty, personal security, and personal property-these must hereafter remain intact from the inroads of Radicalism in both sections. In this great hour of national purification, it is criminal to advocate the perpetuation of selfish feuds. Unless the factious ravings of Radicalism be quelled, the Union cannot be restored. Radicalism caused our troubles; conservatism alone can cure them! If the cotton-planters calculated on the radical course Abolition has been pursuing,-denying the existence of any Union feeling in the South, and forcing down the throats of truer men than themselves, their own wild doc * Written before the Proclamation of the President, and before the 22d of September, 1862. |