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Show "IT IS A LONG TIME BETWEEN" DRINKS." (Martin I. J. Griffin.) . .We have all heard of what "the governor of Xorth Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina." Caro-lina." It has been an inspiration and an example which has hastened the, downward course of countless count-less thousands. Several explanations of its origin i liave appeared. . I offer this: Singular as it may seem, at the very time that Thomas Burke, a Catholic, was governor of X'orth Carolina, Aedanus Burke, "his brother or near rel-, rel-, ative," was chief justice of South Carolina. Aedanus Aeda-nus had been educated fcr the priesthood at St. Omers, but at the breaking out of the Revolution I came from the West Ifitlies to volunteer to fight I I for American liberty. He was a niaior in the Patriot army and in April, 177$. was elected jud-f. :,. "long filled with mercy ami' justice this lii-hh spectable office," says the Historian Riim-iy. M American history he is specially noteworthy ;,,r ; ; epposition to the Order of Cincinnati -.t,iUi--h, , ' by Washington and compatriots after the d ..... ,,t- the-war. At this day we can read with c:, !!::, and indeed with merriment of the eon trover.-;.- v a excited this country and France in 173 n, i... sensation Judge Burke's pamphlet again-t th.- ..r,i,.r caused. Governor Thomas Burke condcmiM-.j order in an address. The legislature-; of ; chusetts, Pennsylvania and Rhode l-land resolutions of censure and our n-misters at !'!:-., courts expressed regret, and mortification at r'-..-. ma tion of the order which was feared as ing an hereditary and monarchial chi- i -V, , country. V Governor Burke, in September. 17M. v.- f tured by the Tories. He escaped in Jaiiinn-y. Both he and his relative, flie chief ju-'. , South Carolina, were of convivial di-po-.iii,,,:, ' habits. So when the governor of .North ,.. escaped from British imprisonment and n,. , fellow devotee of Pact-bus. the governor ,,f Carolina -ha id to the chief justice -f South ( lina "It is a long time between drinks." i -September, 1781, till January. 1782. the oppor:-:- of taking "something" together bad not i ,,.'. forded and was no doubt regarded as anou,.--stance of British cruelty. Be that as it may. we .-co that a remark f.i:; . ... , to conviviality has. indeed, much of a found. i- :! American history. ii the fact that two Iri.-h M .;, ! Catholic American patriots of the same nnn" !,-at !,-at the same time in highest civil position-; r, joining states and that, both have had a.-si!,,, t., them the character of being "jolly good t'el! " But happily in these, our days, the same mf!,,, are no longer deemed respectable or comport h with official dignity or moral responsibility. So "It is a long time between drinks. a the rrnor of Xorth Carolina said to the chief ju-tn-i- ;' South Carolina," ought to be the correct expre.-si.,,,. You never knew that Tom IUtrke. a Ci'ii. ;. was a member of the Continental Congress and l;i- : governor of Xorth Carolina. I compiled the hi-r--:-y of Governor Thomiis Burke, the one-eyed. p, ,k marked member of the Continental Congress. was placed with the Catholic Historical society republication. re-publication. The manuscript has been mislaid o-lost, o-lost, and so the result of years has disappean i. American Catholic Historical Researches. |
