History of the New England Society of Charlston South Carolina for One Hundred
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In early life we find him a merchant, and his fitness for that vocation is evidenced by the success which followed him through the severest trials. Test him as a prac- tical man and his energy finds a glorious illustra- tion in the results of the railroad system, not of South Carolina alone, but to some extent of Georgia also. As a financier he shows a brilliant record whilst wielding the three millions of the Bank of Charleston, rendering that institution a OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 145 su...bstitute for the old bank of the United States as the fiscal agent of the South, both at home and abroad. As a private banker he leaves a proud name, not in America alone, but through all Christendom — a name accredited where commerce carries a flag or sends an adventurer. To have done this was to have lived to some purpose ; but he did more. As a patriot he lived long enough to subscribe his name to the Ordinance of Seces- sion of the state of South Carolina; this has made his name historic. And might he not have said as the prophet of old: 'Now lettest Thy servant depart in peace.
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