"The whole state is ablaze.
Charleston is the heart and soul of our new alliance.

Rhett and Yancey of Alabama, and the great orators make the souls of men leap.

Ah, sir, if you could only have been in Charleston in the course of recent months! If you could have heard the speakers! If you could have seen how the great and righteous Calhoun's influence lives after him! And then the writers! That able newspaper, the Mercury, has thundered daily for our cause.

Simms, the novelist, and Timrod and Hayne, the poets have written for it.

Let the cities of the North boast of their size and wealth, but they cannot match Charleston in culture and spirit and vivacity!" Harry saw that Bertrand felt and believed every word he said, and his enthusiasm was communicated to the colonel, whose face flushed, and to Harry, too, whose own heart was beating faster.
"It was a great deed!" exclaimed Colonel Kenton.