Legaré, James Mathewes

As literary critics, Charleston conservatives such as Legaré were slower in accepting romantic theory and practice than were those in New York and Boston.

In the 1850s Petigru’s most distinctive equity practice relied heavily on arbitration and mediation to avoid erratic decisions from judges he considered inept

Aiken owes its existence to the South Carolina Railroad, its personality to its erstwhile “winter colony” of wealthy northern sports enthusiasts, and its economic vitality and relatively cosmopolitan spirit to the U.S. government’s massive Savannah River Site nuclear weapons facility.