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Edgefield County, South Carolina 1860-Present Courtesy of Orville Vernon Burton, In My Father’s House are Many Mansions, p. 17. 10
CHAPTER 1 THE SPIRIT OF EDGEFIELD 12 If you’re going to commit a murder do it in Edgefield as jurors there understand the idiosyncrasies of a gentleman! 13 As historian Joanne B. Freeman points out, a historical review of the early United States “uncovers a ritualized, honor-bound, public-minded, yet personal level of political interaction—a grammar of political combat that politicians recognized and manipulated as a means of conducting politics in the early republic.” 14 It was in this political environment which Edgefield County, South Carolina, as an official entity, was conceived and under these strictures of honor which its political culture took shape. Southern political culture remained wedded to this ethic of honor well into the nineteenth century; Edgefield County, though only a fledgling rural locale in 1804, and her political leadership became the embodiment of this ethic by 1830 and throughout the antebellum era. On March 12, 1785 the South Carolina legislature divided the Old Ninety-Six District, which comprised most of the upper part of the state, into separate counties, 12 Carol Hardy Bryan, “Basil Manly II: Distinguished Baptist Leader Had Important Ties to Edgefield,” Quill, Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society Newsletter, March-April ed., 2003. 13 Noted Edgefield historian and leading citizen Bettis Rainsford and Edgefield County Archivist Tricia Price Glenn provided this quote, which is attributed to Wade Harrison of Troy, South Carolina. It is representative of the reputation Edgefield “enjoyed” across South Carolina. Over the last seventy-five years, Mr. Harrison’s father and grandfather told him this fact many times over. The origin of the quote itself is not known, but the elder Harrison gentlemen were fond of repeating it. 14 Joanne B. Freeman, “Dueling as Politics: Reinterpreting the Burr-Hamilton Duel,” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3 r d . Ser., Vol. 53, No. 2 (April, 1996), 293; Freeman, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (New Haven: Yale <strong>University</strong> Press, 2001), 159-198. 11
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up the religious spectrum in Edgefi
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occurred at spring and summer camp
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Ministers were encouraged to speak
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display, and courage under fire wer
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legal action to be brought against
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these were reduced to charges of as
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appearance of the community’s hou
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for revival were periods in which t
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establishment and advance of evange
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Beginning in 1822, Manly’s first
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To place these statistics into some
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altogether praiseworthy and such as
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Judge our sincere thanks, adding th
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evival and the ethic of honor encou
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This historical reevaluation was gr
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Mylne, William, Ted Ruddock, ed. Tr
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Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South.
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Gillespie, Neal C. “The Spiritual
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Nisbett, Richard E. & David Cohen.
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Wilson, Charles Reagan, ed. Religio
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