[210] News and Courier, Mar. 19 and 25, 1881. The personnel of committees appointed from among the early subscribers is significant. The names are all, or nearly all, old ones in South Carolina, and some of the men are still among the first citizens of the capit. The committees were made up of W. A. Clark, Jno. C. Seegers, Nathaniel B. Barnwell, F. W. McMaster, Preston C. Lorick, T. A. McCreery, Jno. T. Sloan, Jr. [211] Ibid., Mar. 17, 1881. [212] Columbia Dispatch, Ibid., Mar. 31, 1881. [213] News and Courier, Jan. 28, 1881. [214] See p. 14. [215] News and Courier, Jan. 9, 1882. [216] News and Courier, Dec. 14, 1881. [217] Ibid., Mch. 25, 1881. [218] "Brutus", writing from Barnwell to News and Courier, May 25, 1881. [219] Sumter, S.C. Southron, quoted in News and Courier, May 14, 1881. [220] News and Courier, June 28, 1881. [221] Ibid., Mar. 14, 1881. [222] Quoted News and Courier, Aug. 18, 1881. [223] Observer, June 27, 1880. [224] Dispatch quoted in News and Courier, Mar. 25, 1881. Francis Fontaine, commissioner of immigration for Georgia, did not represent the method of appeal of his fellow Georgians, when he said tritely and smugly: "The truth is only to be made known, when capital will find its own way to the sunny land." (Observer, Mar. 20, 1880.) [225] Gannon, W. H., The Landowners of the South, and the Industrial Classes of the North, pp. 6, 7 and 8. [226] News and Courier, Aug. 9, 1881. [227] Quoted in News and Courier, July 7, 1881. The isolation of this editor and the provincial quality of his utterance are clearly seen in such phrases as "we welcome foreign capital down here". Even without the context. [228] Quoted from New York Herald, in News and Courier, July 11, 1881. Hon. Cassius M. Clay, writing in The Industrial South declared: "I am tired of hearing the deprecating cry of 'We want Yankee brains and enterprise.' We don't want any such thing; We want Southern brains and enterprise." (Quoted in Gannon, pp. 18 and 19.) [229] Quoted in News and Courier, Nov. 5, 1881. [230] Feb. 13, 1880. [231] News and Courier, Nov. 5, 1881. [232] Quoted in News and Courier, Mar. 8, 1881. [233] Quoted in News and Courier, Annual Trade Summary, Sept. 1, 1881. [234] Winnsboro (South Carolina) News, quoted in News and Courier, Feb. 8, 1881. [235] July 30, 1881. [236] Quoted in News and Courier, Apr. 25, 1881. [237] Ibid., Apr. 9, 1881. The Batesville Cotton Factory, built by William Bates forty years before, was bought by G. Putnam, of Massachusetts for $8,000, and he invested $10,000 additional in the plant. The building was frame, two and half stories high, all was burned in March of 1881, catching from sparks from the boiler room. It was believed that Mr. Putnam would rebuild the plant on better lines. (Ibid., Mar. 2, 1881, et seq.) [238] Ibid., July 11, 1881. [239] Ibid., Nov. 10, 1881. [240] News and Courier, July 11, 1881. [241] Ibid., Jan. 14, 1882.