The committee of seventy, although they had no purpose of personal violence, other than to place one old gentleman in a carriage and take him to a boat, were, of course, in every legal sense a mob.

But when that committee waited upon him the personal danger was over.
A solitary negative vote against the resolve of the Legislature directing Mr.Hoar to be expelled was cast by C.S.

Memmenger, afterward Secretary of the Treasury of the Southern Confederacy.
He is said to have been a Union man in 1832.
I was told by General Hurlburt of Illinois, a distinguished officer in the Civil War, and member of the national House of Representatives, that at the time of my father's mission to South Carolina, he was a law student in the office of James L.Petigru.

Mr.Petigru, as is well known, was a Union man during the Civil War.

Such, however, was the respect for his great ability and character that he was permitted to live in Charleston throughout the War.