Charleston's "City by the Sea" (1865-1871)

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THE JUHL LETTERS TO THE _CHARLESTON COURIER_:
A VIEW OF THE SOUTH, 1865-1871
edited by John Hammond Moore
Athens: University of Georgia Press
1974

   Some interesting stuff.
   CITY BY THE SEA was the title of a recent bad movie with Robert DeNiro, taking place in Long Beach.  Charleston (SC) and other cities also use the nickname.


Pg. 174 (13 September 1867):  "When the pot boils, the scum floats"--thus hath it ever been, thus shall it ever be.
(Sounds like a popular proverb, but I didn't see it on Google--ed.)

Pg. 190 (Florida in February):  But more may be added, for the observant passenger will soon discover that this rotund and wide-awake captain is thoroughly "reconstructed," albeit he has no special fondness for carpetbag politicians, bureau agents, and Negro conventions,...
(This is dated February 1, 1868, which would make it an early "carpetbagger" addition.  It was printed about February 25--ed.)

Pg. 254 (28 September 1868):  How long will it be before "the party of progress"--"the party of great moral ideas"--will come to the same conclusion with reference to the blacks?
(That would be the "Grand Old Party," the Republicans--ed.)

Pg. 273 (23 January 1869):  From all which, without other comment, it may safely be concluded that this part of the state, once known as the "Game Cock District," is thoroughly "reconstructed."
(Sumter County.  More on G. C. soon--ed.)

Pg. 281 (5 April 1869):  "The city by the sea" can point with pride to her magnificent steam marine.

Pg. 305 (1869):  And especially will it vitalize the great railway interests extending now from the "City by the Sea" to North Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.

Pg. 316 (1869):  The crowd, no doubt, believed the humorous speaker was "drunk as a coot" and therefore gave him a latitude which in any other would have been offensive;...

Pg. 344 (1869):  In the doors and windows and on the doorsteps and fences, on horseback and in carriages and wagons, and in crowds at the stations, and in denser crowds at the villages, "everybody and his wife" appeared in every variety of costume and in every style of feature and figure, and with every expression of countenance.

Pg. 368 (16 November 1870):  Such an enactment would be hailed by many citizens as an honest and therefore unlooked-for "acknowledgement of the corn" and might be accepted as an earnest (sign) of still greater Radical reforms.