Southern Poets and Poems, Part XVI

.....the first English language translation of the work of the French free market economist Frederic Bastiat (1848). ( Remarkable as I hadn't heard of this and one of my heroes)

 

A series by Clyde Wilson.

LOUISA  SUSANNAH  CHEVES  McCORD  (1810—1879) of South Carolina  was one of the most outstanding women of 19^th century America.  She was the daughter of Langdon Cheves, who had been Speaker of the U.S. House of  Representatives and had held other important posts.  In the antebellum period, while a plantation mistress, she published poetry, strong polemical essays in Southern reviews, a 5-act play (1851), and she made the first English language translation of the work of the French free market economist Frederic Bastiat (1848).  During the war she was a mainstay of Confederate hospitals and poor relief in Columbia.  Her Columbia house, which still stands, was ransacked but it was not burned in the destruction of Columbia because it was used as a headquarters by the odious Yankee general O.O. Howard.  Presented here is a passage from her play  Caius Gracchus.  The complaints of the Roman tribune against the wealthy reflects the North’s arrogant exploitation of the South.

FROM THE ADDRESS OF GRACCHUS

In Act II, Scene VI.

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