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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
ningham, of the House, who is put forward by the Committee to take all the responsibility of extreme sentiments, has openly avowed his hatred of Democracy in the camp. He considered the common soldier as incapable of an elective choice. He and others of his party wage a bitter war against Democracy, and indicate an utter want of faith in the ability of the people to make proper choice in elections. The party opposed to this, the predominant party, is ostensibly lead in the House by Mr. McGowan, of Abbeville, and Mr. Moore, of Anderson. These gentlemen have a hard fight of it. They represent the Democratic sentiments of the rural districts, and are in opposition of the Charleston clique, who are urged on by Edward Rhett, Thos. Y. Simmons and B. H. Rhett, Jr., of the Charleston Mercury. The tendencies of these gentlemen are all towards a Dictatorship, or monarchical form of government, at least it appears so to my mind, and I find myself not alone in the opinion.--They fight he