Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Annual Oration, Delivered Before the Chrestomathic Society of the College of Charleston, February 22, 1850
Taking advantage of the Apaturia which was cele brated at this time, the accusers of the generals ap pealed to the supersition and sentiment of the populace, by presenting to them persons clothed in all the array of grief and bereavement, who personated the injured relatives of those patriotic dead, cruelly deprived of the rites of sepulture by the negligence of the com manders: and there was even added to the solemn and wicked farce, an individual who pretended to have escaped from some one of the vessels destroyed in the con?ict, and who in?amed the people still more, by bringing an alleged message from those wrecked in the battle, to the effect that they had not been succored 1by the generals, but had been left to perish in the waves, after deserving well of their country in whose cause they suffered.
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