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G. WASHINGTON.
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1790.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. BRIG .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. Secretary. CHARLES LINING. Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer. Stewards.
Standing Committee :
1791.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE. . . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. JOHN SANDFORD DART .. Secretary.
CHARLES LINING . Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer. Stewards.
Standing Committee :
1792.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE. . . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. Secretary, CHARLES LINING. Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer. Stewards.
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Standing Committee :
1793.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY. . Vice-President. Secretary.
CHARLES LINING . Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer. Stewards.
Standing Committee :
1794.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE. . . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. Secretary. CHARLES LINING Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer. Stewards.
Standing Committee :
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1795.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President.
CLARLES LINING .
Secretary. Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer.
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
1796.
. President.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. Secretary. CHARLES LINING . Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer. Stewards.
Standing Committee :
1797.
. President.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. Secretary. CHARLES LINING . Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer. Stewards.
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Standing Committee :
GEN. ISAAC HUGER, died, 17th October, 1797.
[CHARLESTON GAZETTE AND ADVERTISER, 2d NOVEMBER, 1797.]
Between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, on the morn- ing of the 6th ultimo, and in the fifty-fourth year of his age, an apoplectic fit terminated the existence of the much beloved and equally lamented Isaac Huger, who was possessed of a heart of unbounded benevolence, a temper easy and agreea- ble, manners polite and engaging, and strength of mind truly determined, with a degree of courage and bravery the most undaunted, when contending with danger imminent and critical, difficult and trying, happy in the sincere and affectionate attachment of his friends, yet respected by those who in our late contest entertained sentiments immediately opposed to his opinion, and to the cause to which he had devoted his ser- vices. His talents as a soldier were highly esteemed, even at the early age of seventeen years, when he was nominated to a lieutenancy in a battalion raised in 1760, commanded by Thomas Middleton, Esq., for the express purpose of protect- ing our then defenseless and thinly settled inhabitants of the upper country from the barbarous and savage incursions of the Cherokee and other Indians. In 1775, the remarkable juncture, when the demon of discord influenced the British nation with an overruling passion for dominion and lust of power, and ultimately excited the Cabinet of St. James to attempt the unwarrantable and destructive plan to subdue by force of arms and military array her peaceful and rising Colo- nies, and war in consequence pervaded American rights ; he was by the unanimous vote of his fellow-citizens, elected senior Lieutenant-Colonel in South Carolina, of the troops established by the Provincial Congress. In 1776, he was appointed Colonel of the Fifth Regiment, and in 1778, pro- moted to the rank of Brigadier-General in the Army of the United States, in which various and important stations, he had the honor and satisfaction to acquit himself with the universal applause and approbation of his country.
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1798.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING . Treasurer.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST Assistant Treasurer.
LIEUT. GEORGE REID
Secretary.
MAJ. THOMAS B. BOWEN
CAPT. THOMAS HALL
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Col. Mitchell,
Maj. Beekman,
Lieut. Daniel D'Oyley,
Capt. Daniel Mazyck,
Dr. Joseph H. Ramsay, Dr. Thomas H. McCalla, Dr. William Read.
COL. JOHN F. GRIMKÉ, Orator for 4th July, 1799.
1799.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
. Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID
Secretary.
CAPT. THOMAS HALL
CAPT. DANIEL D'OYLEY
Stewards.
Standing Committee .'
Maj. Beekman, Dr. William Read,
Capt. Enos Reeves,
Dr. Jos. H. Ramsay,
Rev. Henry Purcell,
Dr. Thomas H. McCalla.
1800.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. MAJ.GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. MAJ. CHARLES LINING . Treasurer.
CAPT.A DAM GILCHRIST
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID
Secretary.
COL. D'OYLEY
ISAAC M. DART 4
Stewards.
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Standing Committee :
Col. Mitchell, Maj. Beekman,
Rev. D. Purcell,
Dr. Ramsay, Dr. McCalla, Dr. Read.
1801.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE .. . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING . Treasurer.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID .
Secretary.
COL. DANIEL D'OYLEY
ISAAC M. DART
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Col. Mitchell,
Capt. Enos Reeves,
Dr. William Read,
Maj. Beekman,
Rev. Dr. Henry Purcell, Dr. Joseph H. Ramsay, Dr. Thomas H. McCalla.
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1802.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President. MAJ. CHARLES LINING . Treasurer.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
Assistant Treasurer.
, Secretary.
CAPT. DANIEL MAZYCK .
DR. JOSEPH H. RAMSAY
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Col. Mitchell, Maj. Beekman,
Capt. Thomas Hall,
Col. Daniel D'Oyley, Maj. Simeon Theus, Dr. William Read. Dr. Thomas H. McCalla.
MAJ. GEORGE REID
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1803.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING Treasurer.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID .
Secretary.
CAPT. DANIEL MAZYCK .
DR. THOMAS H. McCALLA
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Maj. Simeon Theus,
Maj. Warley,
Maj. Beekman, Col. Daniel D'Oyley,
Dr. William Read.
1804.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . . President. MAJ .- GEN. CHARLES C. PINCKNEY . Vice-President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING
Treasurer.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID .
Secretary.
CAPT. DANIEL MAZYCK
COL. DANIEL D'OYLEY
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Col. Mitchell,
Capt. Thomas Hall,
Dr. William Read,
Maj. Beekman,
Isaac M. Dart, Maj. Warley, Maj. Simeon Theus. Capt. ADAM GILCHRIST, Orator for 4th July, 1805.
1805.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE . President. MAJ. THOMAS PINCKNEY Vice-President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING Treasurer.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID .
Secretary.
DR. WILLIAM READ
CAPT. JAMES KENNEDY
Stewards.
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Maj. Thomas Pinckney was elected Vice-President in the place of Maj .- Gen. Charles C. Pinckney. who, having been elected President-General of the General Society of the Cin- cinnati, declined a re-election as Vice-President of the State Society.
MAJ .- GEN. WILLIAM MOULTRIE died 29th September, 1805.
At a meeting of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina, held on the 27th of September, 1805-
Resolved, That this Society do wear military mourning for two months, as a mark of respect for the memory of our late venerable President, Major-General William Moultrie.
Resolved, That the Vice-President do request the Rev. Dr. Hollinshead to deliver a funeral sermon on the death of the late President of this Society, Major-General Moultrie, at such time and place as will be most suitable to him ; and that the Revolutionary Society, the clergymen of the city, the civil and the military officers, and such other of their fellow-citi- zens as are desirous of paying a respect to their late virtuous and patriotic General, be invited to go in procession with them to hear the same.
Resolved, That the Governor and his suite, and Judge Hey- ward be requested to join the procession of the Cincinnati on the above occasion.
Resolved, That this Society bears a grateful sense of the attention shown by Col. Wilkie, Commandant of the militia, and by the officers and men of the several corps for the respect paid by them in attending the funeral of the late General Moultrie.
Resolved, That as soon as the Rev. Dr. Hollinshead shall have fixed on the time and place for the delivery of said ser- mon, that the Secretary do give proper notice and invitations to the persons referred to in the former resolutions.
On 15th October, 1805, Rev. Dr. William Hollingshead, Pastor of the Independent or Congregational Church, pro- nounced, at the Independent Church, as he had been requested,
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a funeral sermon on the death of General Moultrie. The American Revolutionary Society, also, attending with the Cincinnati Society, as invited. This sermon was published by the Cincinnati Society. A copy will be found in the Charleston Library, Pamphlets, Vol. I, Ist Series.
On 28th September, 1805, an order was issued by Gov. Paul Hamilton, desiring all civil and military officers to wear crape for four weeks, as a testimony of respect to the memory of Major-General William Moultrie.
An Eulogy by Major Alexander Garden was pronounced before the Cincinnati Society, on 14th October, 1805, and was published. It will be found in the printed pamphlet containing the rules of the Society.
A portrait of General Moultrie, in Continental uniform and wearing the badge of the Cincinnati Society, hangs in, the rooms of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce.
1806.
MAJ. THOMAS PINCKNEY President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING
Vice-President.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
Treasurer.
ISAAC MOTTE DART .
. Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID
Secretary.
DR. WILLIAM READ
CAPT. JAMES KENNEDY
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Col. John Mitchell, Maj. Simeon Theus,
Col. Daniel D'Oyley,
Capt. Thomas Hall,
Maj. Warley,
Maj. Beekman,
Dr. Thomas H. McCalla,
Maj. HASKELL, Orator for 4th July, 1807.
1807.
MAJ. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJ, CHARLES LINING .
Vice-President.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST Treasurer.
ISAAC MOTTE DART
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID .
Secretary.
CAPT. JAMES KENNEDY,
JOHN MARTIN
Stewards.
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Standing Committee:
Col. John Mitchell,
Maj. Simeon Theus,
Capt. Thomas Hall,
Col. Daniel D'Oyley, Maj. Warley, Dr. Thomas A. McCalla,
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1808.
MAJ. THOMAS PINCKNEY President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING Vice-President.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
Treasurer.
ISAAC MOTTE DART .
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID
Secretary.
CAPT. JAMES KENNEDY
THOMAS SHUBRICK
Stewards.
Standing Committee:
Col. John Mitchell,
Maj. Warley,
Dr. Thomas H. McCalla,
Capt. Thomas Hall, Dr. William Read.
THOMAS S. GRIMKÉ, Orator for 4th July, 1809.
1809.
MAJ. THOMAS PINCKNEY . President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING Vice-President.
MAJ. GEORGE REID . Treasurer.
ISAAC MOTTE DART
Assistant Treasurer.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST.
Secretary.
CAPT. JAMES KENNEDY
RICHARD BOHUN BAKER
Stewards.
Standing Committee:
Col. John Mitchell,
Maj. Simeon Theus,
Maj. Felix Warley,
Dr. William Read,
Maj. Samuel Beekman, Lionel H. Kennedy,
Henry W. DeSaussure.
COL. THOMAS SHUBRICK, died 4th March, 1810. GEN. WILLIAM WASHINGTON, died 6th March, 1810.
Maj. Simeon Theus,
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1810.
MAJ. THOMAS PINCKNEY President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING
Vice-President.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
. Treasurer.
ISAAC MOTTE DART
Assistant Treasurer.
COL. JOHN MITCHELL
Secretary.
RICHARD BOHUN BAKER.
FELIX B. WARLEY
Stewards.
Standing Committee:
Maj. Felix Warley,
Maj. Samuel Beekman,
Capt. Thomas Hall,
Dr. William Read,
Lionel H. Kennedy, Dr. William S. Stevens,
William Washington.
ROBERT SMITH, Orator for 4th July, 1811.
1811.
MAJ. THOMAS PINCKNEY . President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING
Vice-President.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST
. Treasurer.
ISAAC MOTTE DART
Assistant Treasurer.
MAJ. GEORGE REID
Secretary.
ROBERT SMITH
Stewards.
Standing Committee:
Maj. Felix Warley, Capt. Thomas Hall,
Dr. William S. Stevens,
Maj. Samuel Beekman Dr. William Read, Lionel H. Kennedy.
1812.
MAJ-GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJ. CHARLES LINING
Vice-President.
Treasurer.
Assistant Treasurer
COL. JOHN MITCHELL
Secretary.
THOMAS S. GRIMKE STATES GIST
Stewards.
CAPT. ADAM GILCHRIST ISAAC MOTTE DART
FELIX B. WARLEY
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Standing Committee :
Maj. Felix Warley,
Col. Daniel D'Oyley,
Dr. William S. Stevens,
Maj. Simeon Theus, Capt. Thomas Hall, Dr. William Read,
Lieut. James Legare.
LIONEL H. KENNEDY, Orator for 4th July, 1813.
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1813.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . President.
MAJOR CHARLES LINING . Vice-President.
CAPTAIN ADAM GILCHRIST Treasurer.
ISAAC MOTTE DART
Assistant Treasurer.
COLONEL JOHN MITCHELL
Secretary.
CAPTAIN LIONEL H. KENNEDY
Assistant Secretary.
WILLIAM MASON SMITH
Stewards.
JAMES GILCHRIST .
Standing Committee :
Major CHARLES LINING, Vice-President, died 16th August, 1813.
CHARLESTON COURIER, 29th AUGUST, 1813 : " CHARLESTON, August 19, 1813.
The members of the Cincinnatti are requested to wear mili- tary mourning for one month, as a tribute of respect to the memory of their deceased brother , Charles Lining.
JOHN MITCHELL, Secretary."
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1814.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY President.
MAJOR ALEXANDER GARDEN
Vice-President.
ISAAC M. DART .
Treasurer.
WILLIAM MASON SMITH
Assistant Treasurer.
LIONEL H. KENNEDY
Secretary.
J. HARLESTON READ WARLEY .
Stewards.
Standing Committee : Colonel John Mitchell,
Major Felix Warley, Dr. William Read,
Dr. William S. Stevens,
Major Simeon Theus,
Captain Thomas Hall, Thomas S. Grimké.
WILLIAM MASON SMITH, Orator for 4th July, 1815.
1815.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJOR ALEXANDER GARDEN
Vice-President.
ISAAC MOTTE DART .
Treasurer.
WILLIAM MASON SMITH .
Assistant Treasurer.
CAPTAIN LIONEL H. KENNEDY
Secretary.
E. B. LINING .
Stewards.
WILLIAM CATTELL .
Standing Committee :
Colonel John Mitchell,
Thomas S. Grimké,
Dr. William S. Stevens,
Dr. William Read,
Christopher R. Greene,
Major Simeon Theus, . Col. Daniel D'Oyley.
1816.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJOR ALEXANDER GARDEN
Vice-President.
HENRY A. DESAUSSURE Treasurer.
WILLIAM MASON SMITH .
Assistant Treasurer.
LIONEL H. KENNEDY
Secretary.
FRANCES L. LEGARE
GEORGE B. REID
Stewards.
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Standing Committee : Colonel John Mitchell,
Thomas S. Grimké,
Dr. William S. Stevens,
Dr. William Read, Major Simeon Theus,
Colonel Daniel D'Oyley,
Christopher R. Greene.
HENRY A. DESAUSSURE, Orator for 4th July, 1817.
1817.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY President.
MAJOR ALEXANDER GARDEN
Vice-President.
HENRY A. DESAUSSURE . Treasurer.
WILLIAM MASON SMITH .
Assistant Treasurer.
CHRISTOPHER R. GREENE
Secretary.
DR. WILLIAM HALL .
Stewards.
JAMES GILCHRIST
Standing Committee :
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1818.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . President.
MAJOR ALEXANDER GARDEN . . Vice-President.
CAPTAIN HENRY A. DESAUSSURE . . Treasurer. CAPTAIN WILLIAM MASON SMITH . . Assistant Treasurer. DR. J. E. B. FINLEY
Secretary.
WILLIAM BUDD €
ROBERT B. GILCHRIST
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Dr. William Read.
Major Simeon Theus, Col. Daniel D'Oyley,
Dr. William S. Stevens, Thomas S. Grimké,
Robert Smith, Major Lionel H. Kennedy.
CHAS. COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, JR., Orator for 4th July, 1819.
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1819.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJ. ALEXANDER GARDEN Vice-President.
CAPT. HENRY A. DESAUSSURE . . Treasurer.
CAPT. WILLIAM MASON SMITH
. Assistant Treasurer.
ROBERT B. GILCHRIST
Secretary.
DR. CHARLES EDWARDS
SIMEON THEUS .
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Dr. William Read.
Robert Smith.
Col. Daniel D'Oyley.
Gen. Daniel E. Huger.
Dr. William S. Stevens. Maj. Lionel H. Kennedy.
Thomas S. Grimké.
1820.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJ. ALEXANDER GARDEN Vice-President.
CAPT. HENRY A. DESAUSSURE .
Treasurer.
CAPT. WILLIAM MASON SMITH .
. Assistant Treasurer.
ROBERT BUDD GILCHRIST
Secretary.
CHS. COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, JR C. W. D'OYLEY
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Dr. William Read.
Col. Daniel D'Oyley.
Daniel E. Huger.
Robert Smith.
Dr. William S. Stevens. Thomas S. Grimké.
Lionel H. Kennedy. Maj. JAMES HAMILTON, Orator for 4th July, 1821.
1821.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President. MAJ. ALEXANDER GARDEN Vice-President.
CAPT. HENRY A. DESAUSSURE . CAPT. WILLIAM MASON SMITH ROBERT B. GILCHRIST . MAJ. JAMES HAMILTON, JR A. S. REEVES .
. Treasurer.
. Assistant Treasurer.
Secretary.
Stewards.
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Standing Committee :
Dr. William Read. Hon. Daniel E. Huger.
Dr. William S. Stevens. Robert Smith.
Col. William Drayton. Thomas S. Grimké.
Lionel H. Kennedy.
1822.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJ. ALEXANDER GARDEN . . Vice-President.
EDWARD LINING Treasurer.
DR. I. MOTTE CAMPBELL
Secretary.
GEORGE W. EGLESTON .
Stewards.
J. B. LEGARE .
Standing Committee :
Dr. William Read. Robert Smith.
Dr. William S. Stevens.
Thomas S. Grimké.
Hon. James Legare.
Maj. Lionel H. Kennedy.
Hon. Daniel E. Huger. Col. William Drayton.
Maj. James Hamilton.
ROBERT BUDD GILCHRIST, Orator for 4th July, 1823.
1823.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY President.
MAJ. ALEXANDER GARDEN
Vice-President. .
Treasurer.
I. M. CAMPBELL .
Secretary.
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Stewards.
Standing Committee :
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1824.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . . President.
MAJ. ALEXANDER GARDEN . Vice-President.
MAJ. LIONEL H. KENNEDY
Treasurer.
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DR. I. MOTTE CAMPBELL
Secretary.
DR. S. B. RUSH FINLEY
HENRY PURCELL
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Dr. William Read.
J. Legare.
Robert Smith.
Thomas S. Grimké. Hon. Daniel E. Huger. Col. William Drayton.
Maj. James Hamilton.
1825.
MAJ .- GEN. THOMAS PINCKNEY . President.
MAJ. ALEXANDER GARDEN Vice-President.
MAJ. LIONEL H. KENNEDY Treasurer.
DR. ISAAC MOTTE CAMPBELL Secretary.
Stewards.
Standing Committee :
Dr. William Read.
James Legare.
Hon. Daniel E. Huger.
Col. William Drayton.
Maj. James Hamilton.
Thomas S. Grimké.
Robert Smith.
Maj .- Gen. CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, President-Gene- ral, died 16th August, 1825.
At a special meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati of South Carolina, held at the Court House, on Thursday, the 18th August, 1825, Dr. Read, Chairman of the Standing Com- mittee, being called to the chair, the following address and resolution offered by the Hon. William Drayton, were imme- diately and unanimously adopted :
Mr. Chairman : We have met here to express our feelings upon a mournful occasion ; to testify by some memorial how- ever frail, yet sincere, that we are not insensible of the priva- tion which this community and ourselves have sustained in
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the death of General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the patriot, the statesman, and the soldier. One of that illustrious band, to which we are indebted for our liberties and inde- pendence. His life was extended to extreme old age, yet did he so conduct himself through its whole duration, as not only to obtain the applause of the wise and good, but what is seldom the lot of the illustrious, in such a manner as to avoid the slanders of envy, and the vindictiveness of malice. Wherever his country was to be served, he was conspicuous ; he aided her by his valor in the field, by his integrity and counsel in the cabinet; seeking no other reward than the con- sciousness that he had faithfully discharged his duty towards God and man. His was the rare felicity of running an un- broken career of virtue and usefulness ; honored and honora- ble from the vernal bloom of youth, to the maturity of man- hood and the frosts of age. Such is the chequered scene of humanity, such the uncertainty of worldly anticipation, that not unfrequently, the warmest friends of the most distin- guished men, have wished that those who were once the ob- jects of their affection, and of public idolatry, had sooner terminated their lives, because having earned a fair fame, they were afterwards betrayed by the weakness of some unguarded moment, or the violence of some tempestuous passion, into the commission of acts, which withered their glory and con- signed them with ignominy to the tomb. How different was
it with our honorable townsman. On the last day of his ex- istence, he could look back on his long life, with the satisfac- tion that he had never swerved from the path of rectitude and honor. To the end of his journey, he devoted himself to patriotic usefulness, until this mortal scene was closed upon him forever. May a reputation so achieved and so preserved, long survive in the recollections and the regrets of his coun- try ; and may the influence of such an example animate and instruct the generations which live after him.
When we who are here assembled call to mind that the deceased was the President-General of our Society, in addi- tion to what we feel in common with our fellow-citizens, we have to deplore a loss, peculiar to ourselves ; the loss of one who often gladdened our festivity by his social qualities, and who imparted a dignity to our body by his moral and intel- lectual worth.
Let us then pay our tribute of affection and respect to his memory ; after a well-spent life, he rests from his earthly labors ; reposing upon the bosom of his Father and God, he is insensible to the honors of this world; but, let us not be
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unmindful of ourselves, let us not suffer so great and so good a man to descend in silence to the grave. I now beg leave Mr. Chairman, to offer the following resolutions :
Ist. Whereas, It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life, our brother, General Charles Cotesworth Pinck- ney, who through the course of a long and illustrious career, displayed those great and good qualities, which entitle him to the admiration and gratitude of his countrymen, who de- plore in his death, the loss of the incorruptible patriot, the wise statesman, the gallant soldier, and the virtuous citizen, be it therefore
Resolved, By the members of the Cincinnati of South Caro- lina, as a testimony of respect and affection for his memory, that they will wear crape on the left arm for thirty days.
2d. Resolved, That Major Alexander Garden be requested at such time and place as he shall appoint, to deliver an eu- logy in commemoration of the virtues and talents of the deceased.
3d. Resolved, That copies of the Hon. Willam Drayton's address, and of these resolutions, be transmitted by the Chair- man to the daughters of the deceased, informing them that although we reluctantly obtrude upon the privacy of domestic sorrow, we trust that after time shall have blunted the poign- ancy of their grief, that it will afford some consolation to them; that the members of this Society sincerely sympathise with them in their affliction, and that their venerable parent has not descended to the grave without those tributes of re- spect and gratitude, which his talents and his virtue so emi- nently merited.
4th. Resolved, That these resolutions be published in all the gazettes of the city.
Extract from the minutes.
I. M. CAMPBELL, Secretary.
On Tuesday, Ist November, 1825, Major Alexander Garden, delivered in St. Philip's Church, as he had been requested, an eulogy on Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, President- General of the Society of the Cincinnati.
At a meeting of the State Society of the Cincinnati, held Ist November, 1825, on motion
Resolved, That Major Alexander Garden be requested to furnish for publication, a copy of the eulogy this day delivered by him, at St. Philip's Church on the occasion of the death of
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Major-General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, President-Gene- ral of the Society of the Cincinnati, and that the publication thereof be superintended by the Committee of Arrangements already appointed.
Extract from the minutes.
I. M. CAMPBELL, Secretary.
The eulogy was published by the Society in pamphlet, a copy of such pamphlet is in the possession of T. Pinckney Lowndes, Esq., and from it the above proceedings have been extracted.
On 16th March, 1825, GEN. LAFAYETTE visited Charleston ; the Cincinnati Society formed a part of the procession by which he was escorted to the City Hall.
After the dismission of the procession, the General re- ceived from Col. William Drayton, the Chairman of the Com- mittee of the Cincinnati Society, a beautiful and pathetic ex- pression of the feeling with which his fellow-soldiers, and their descendants approached this oft-tried veteran in the cause of liberty. The address is as follows :
SIR: The Cincinnati Society of South Carolina has depu- ted us as a committee to express to you its congratulations upon your arrival in this city. It is with no common pleasure we recollect that you first touched the soil of the United States in South Carolina. At that period our political hori- zon was wrapped in gloom. One hostile army was advancing into the heart of our country, whilst another was in pos- session of New York, and desolating Jersey. No ally aided our cause. Our small band of soldiers wanted arms, pro- visions and clothes ; and of money, the sinews of war, we were almost destitute. At this disastrous crisis, you tore yourself in the bloom of youth, from the bosom of your domestic happiness; you abandoned the charms of a de- lightful kingdom, the enjoyments of a princely fortune, and the blandishments of a splendid court, to encounter privation and toil, and danger in a foreign land, in a foreign cause ; and under such appalling circumstances as permitted scarcely any other anticipation than that of falling with a falling cause.
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