Life of the Hon Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina in Which There is Displayed
Life of the Hon Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina in Which There is Displayed
Edward R Cotten
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17*2 LIFE OF NATHANIEL MACON. CHAPTER XVIII. We have before mentioned that Mr. Macon resigned his seat in the senate of the United States' congress in November, 1828, — induced from a sense of duty spring- ing out of his advanced age and infirmities. Soon after this he returned to his residence on Ronoake, where absolved from all the troubles attendant on public life, he remained, until 1835; when his fellow citizens again called him from his cherished retirement, by elect- ing him a member of ...the convention charged with the important duty of revising and reforming the constitution of his native state. Mr. Macon was at this time about seventy-five years of age ; and when this convention as- sembled, of which he was a member, on the 4th of June, he was appointed president, unanimously ; and being con- ducted to the chair, briefly addressed the meeting in terms as follows : a My friends and countrymen : "My powers are weak, and I fear I shall not be able to fulfil the arduous duties of presiding over this impor- tant deliberative body, either satisfactorily to myself or acceptably to you.
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