The life and times of Memminger . is sure to meet with an opportunity. Mr. Memmingerwell understood this, and no one more fully appreciatedthan he did the value of time and the necessity for decisionand prompt action. His remark to a gentleman with whomhe was once conversing, that one often lost more time indeciding what to do, than was required to do it in, is butan expression of his active nature. In order that the reader may have a clear conception ofthe general condition of the country at the time that entered upon public life as a legislator, I willendeavor here to outlin
The life and times of Memminger . is sure to meet with an opportunity. Mr. Memmingerwell understood this, and no one more fully appreciatedthan he did the value of time and the necessity for decisionand prompt action. His remark to a gentleman with whomhe was once conversing, that one often lost more time indeciding what to do, than was required to do it in, is butan expression of his active nature. In order that the reader may have a clear conception ofthe general condition of the country at the time that entered upon public life as a legislator, I willendeavor here to outline this, and measure, if possible, the tide that bore him and others on to fame and fortune. • The great McDuffie was then Governor of the State; hewhose prescience was but the intuition of a great mind, andwhose record remains with us to-day among the glories oithe past—a splendid chapter in the history of South Caro-lina—whose name and face, with that of the great Hayne,is carved upon our State House as the synonym of patriot-. MR. MEMMINGER at 30 years. THE LAWYER. 117 ism. Governor McDuffies message to the legislatures of1835 and 1836 so clearly state the condition of public affairsat that time, and the subjects that were brought to the con-sideration of the legislators are so distinctly set forth that Ireproduce them in the Appendix to this work, and ask thereaders reference thereto. These State papers will not onlygrace this Memoir, but are deemed by the writer the bestmeans of presenting a just conception of the momentousquestions that for years after engaged the attention and in-voked the thoughtful consideration of the best and wisestmen of the entire country, and are yet forming, to a certainextent, subjects for discussion that excite in the minds ofthe patriot the gravest apprehensions. The session of the House of Representatives in which first took his seat as a legislator was remarkablein that it brought to this Council Chamber of the State anumbe
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