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McPherson and Pinckney ? Wlio but has been fascinated in later years 

 by the dignified pleasantry of the present presiding officer? 



" A merrier man 

 Within the limits of becoming: mirth 

 I never spent an hour's talk withal. 

 His eye l)e£fets occasion for his wit; 

 For every object that the one doth catcli, 

 The other turns to a mirth moving jest, 

 So sweet and voluble is his discourse." 



Who has not been delightfully impressed by the bland demeanor and 

 refined address of Col. Ashe, denoting the tru-i breeding of a gentleman ? 



" A braver gentleman, 

 One more noble, generous, is not alive 

 To grace the present age " 



Who in our country that is a friend of the sport that Disraeli styles 

 to be in England " the noble pastime of the aristocracy," but can revert 

 with, pride and pleasure to the brilliant array of noble names long iden- 

 tified with the Turf in South Carolina — Alston, the two McPhersons, 

 Hampton (sire and son), AVashington, Fenwicke, Cantey, Sumter, War- 

 ren, the Smiths, the T;iy!ors, the Richardsons, Singleton and Sinkler? 



Shakspeare shows in a pageant " the ivorthies of the world'''' to have 

 been nine in number. If the immortal bard had been in these days 

 telHng of men and manners, and the good that is to live after them, he 

 ■would assuredly have claimed for nine of the above named gentlemen, 

 as we do now, the distinction to which they are so well entitled, of 

 having been the nine great worthies of the South Carolina Turf ! 



Who, as often as the merry old times that are gone, come again 'wil- 

 dering o'er the brain, but thinks of amusements he has shared with the 



manly, clever T. H , regular in his attendance at every meeting, and 



invariably in good spirits, who 



" Measur'd not his carriage by any man's eye — 

 His speech by no man's ear; resolute 

 And confident in saying and doing. 

 With the grace of a right gentleman ?" 



Who but often recalls S of B , in his rich humor — a right merry 



man — and dear old A M , inimitable in his waggery and jokes, 



a prominent feature for a long time in the community, by his perpetual 

 gaiety and unfailing power of creating mirth — laughing, talking, telling 

 comical stories, mimicking everybody (good naturedly, of course) ? It 

 might have been said of our friend as Shakspeare said of one of his 

 humorous characters : 



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