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Article: Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains.(Review)
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- The Mississippi Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains, by Thomas E. Jeffrey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xi, 450 pp. $50.00 cloth.
EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA, MIGHT WELL BE THE MOST Southern place on earth. When the Palmetto State defied national authority by nullifying federal tariff laws in 1832, it was led by Edgefieldians George McDuffie and Francis W. Pickens. Two decades later, Congressman Preston Brooks from Edgefield brutally assaulted Charles Sumner when the Massachusetts senator spoke out against proslavery crimes in Kansas. (Sumner's great mistake, of course, was to include disparaging remarks about South Carolina Senator Andrew ...