A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry

part in most of the legislation of the state, and when the federal

constitution was presented for consideration, he was, taking it as a whole, its warm and zealous advocate. Purely republican in principle, he was always opposed to slavery, deeming it a national curse. He was untiring in his labour—emphatically a working man. Dr. Ramsay remarks of him, “For the good obtained and the ...