Show rilE fHE CHARM WAS WOUND UP I t t In its us Half a Century Ago column the Ore- Ore copies from from its edition of or March larch 2 27 1862 item S An intercepted letter from Charleston S. S C. C to a friend in ion Bordeaux France represents a frightful state of things in the rattlesnake emp em- em tP p The writer says The existence i is such as ito tto make life a burden Butter 50 cents a pound S itea tea a n pound common calico 50 and 75 cents per per pel yard rd the happiness of the people destro destroyed cd commerce at a standstill without money without j credit S It is a good if em to publish nowadays s Charleston CharlesS Charles Charles- S ton in an ecstasy p o of wrath and had created a new nB flag and had turned its guns upon the flag flagS S of the tile r republic Those people were sure that the they p 1 would have a new government go where they thoy woula 1 no DO long longer l' l be restrained by what hat they deemed deemed the the encroachments of the fede federal nl government go against them The They turned their guns guns' upon a fort which S belonged to the republic they reduced it to a surrender sur sm- siu- siu r render and exulted exceedingly wh when n that surrender S d der r was accomplished But as the da days s 's went by byS bythe bythe the horrors of war began to bear upon them until S In a year ear this writer has to tell that the happiness of the people had hind been d destroyed ed that commerce S was dea dead and that the people were reduced so much mitch that they had neither nor credit And the writer might have haye added nor ifor hope lJ because already al- al 1 ready the knowledge tl that at a great war was on the theS S I country was impressed upon them and the first belief be be- lief ie that they would soon have a n republic of their own own had pass passed laSSel a away They rIleY began to realize som Komu- Komu S. S thing of how lOW terrible war was A good man many r of Jf their sons had Ilal already been brought home for fOl 4 and the fort which h they subdued had been turned into a mere pile of st stone ne and mortar by t the te 1 I. I vengeful shots of that Ula republic which t they had d outraged outraged out out- raged when they p fired upon it j Such an n item is good to have ha published every year car for our people to read so that whenever er they eel impatient when whon they want to do 10 away as with S necessary laws and make new laws of the their theli l own when they the want to dissolve their allegiance nce to the S. S countr in which thc they were born and to build IP up upa IPa ipa S a new government they 1118 may P realize rc it is a serious S jibing and that there is a better hetter yay Ayay through ugh which S to get justice than through a n hast hasty appeal to war var |