Herausragende Amerikaner: Bestehend aus Biographien führender Staatsmänner, Patrioten, Redner und andere, Männer und Frauen, die der amerikanischen Geschichte gemacht haben. de-manded bold Action. Er war einer der Ausschuß einen remonstrancewith Parlament, 1768; und im Jahre 1773, war er einer der ersten allgemeinen committeeof Korrespondenz, von dabney Carr vorgeschlagen. Er war ein Delegierter thofirst Continental Congress im Jahre 1774 ausgewählt, aber sank die Ernennung der followingyear, weil, wie er sagte, er war ein alter Mann, fast ohne Sicht. FrancisLightfoot Lee, der die Unabhängigkeitserklärung unterzeichnet die fo

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Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . de-manded bold action. He was one of the committee to prepare a remonstrancewith parliament, in 1768; and in 1773, he was one of the first general committeeof correspondence, proposed by Dabney Carr. He was chosen a delegate to thofirst Continental Congress in 1774, but declined the appointment the followingyear, because, as he said, he was an old man, almost deprived of sight. FrancisLightfoot Lee, who signed the Declaration of Independence the foUowing year, was appointed in his place; and three years afterward, the aged patriot went tohis final rest. Mr. Wirt speaks of him as one of the most enhghtened men inthe colony; a man of finished education, and of the most unbending habits ofapplication. His perfect mastery of every fact connected with the settlementand progress of the colony, had given him the name of the Virginia Antiquary.He was a politician of the first class, a profound logician, and was also consideredas the first writer in the colony. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY. lis. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY. llf ILLIONS for defence, but not one cent for tribute, were the noble wordsi*L uttered by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when, as an ambassador to theFrench government, some unaccredited agents demanded a loan from the UnitedStates, as a prerequisite to a treaty which he had been sent to negotiate. Thatsentiment expressed the national standard of independent integrity, ever main-tained in our intercourse with foreign nations. The author of it was born inCharleston, South Carolina, on the 25th of February, 1746. His father waschief justice of South Carolina, and held a high social position there. At theage of seven years Charles, with his brother Thomas, were taken to England bytheir father, to be educated. He was first at Westminster, then at Oxford, andwhen his collegiate course was completed, he studied law in th

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