Our Leading Traitor Out Of The Way

The Púchmond papers concede tho loss of Robert JJarnweü Itliutt during tbe hite figliia befor'e llichmond. He was on e of the most ultra and dangerous of the trnitois who have for yeara been plotÜug the destruetion of the Utiited States eovertvmoot, Eo.ni ia Beaufort, S. C , where tin. Iluuter now keops h8 negro brigade, Mr. Khott would, f living ou the 24th of December nezt, be sisty-two yeara of ugo. lis family nama was Smith, ui(i by that he was known until 18ÓT, v.hc) he assnraed a colonial anufs'.or's title of Rhott. He was, lika maiiy other great rascáis, a lawyer, aud duriLg the ftüllificftttón movement, in whieh he was aroong tho most violent, filled the office of Attorney General of South Oarolina. From 1836 to 1849 Uo representad the Beaufort district in Congrees, and in 1S5Q was eleotad to the United States Senate. He advoeated the doctrines of (jaihoun, and was the üi'.-t to brcathe ou tho floir of Congress a DrosWUion to dissolve the Union. - lie w;is for the secession oí South Carolina ín ltól -ü. o'puu tiití death of his wit'e iu '52 he resigned hia seat in the Scnato and returned to h3 Beaufort plantallón where lio hatchcd trcason until Lincolu's elüction. Ha was a leading uiembor of the Sou'h Carolina secessioa couveution iu 1S.GO, and wrote the adüresa doolariug the 'rcason for tho action oí'thoStato. Tu the .Montgoajcry oouvuntion of delegatfs froia lbo seceded States, lic was oïianmn uf the coinmittee whieh reported the Cofederate couBtitution. Finally, he was the owner of the .Gliariestoa Mercar?, whioh has been and is do conducted by bis Sn, Rbert Bafnwell Rhett, Jr.