. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. nteer his services. But that statesman, more alive to the honor ofthe nation than to the lives of its army representatives, advised him toawait the farther issues of the war ; for if there was danger in the courseof the Executive, the fewer West Iointers killed in the first campaignthe better; he must reserve himself for the second batch from that ABBOTT IIALL BRISBANE, OF CHARLESTON, S. C. 331 quarter. So too witli the use of bis means. AYhere these are immedi-ately available, be
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. nteer his services. But that statesman, more alive to the honor ofthe nation than to the lives of its army representatives, advised him toawait the farther issues of the war ; for if there was danger in the courseof the Executive, the fewer West Iointers killed in the first campaignthe better; he must reserve himself for the second batch from that ABBOTT IIALL BRISBANE, OF CHARLESTON, S. C. 331 quarter. So too witli the use of bis means. AYhere these are immedi-ately available, be knows no stint in their application to cases of privatecharity or of public benefit; and to show the extent to which his gene-rosity may be carried, he has placed some ten thousand acres of landin the great cotton region of the south, in the hands of Bishop Reynoldsof Charleston, the devoted advocate of popular education, for the purposeof furnishing a fund for the instruction of his young fellow citizens. Thislooks like munificence rather than generosity ; but the man who can dare to do, can afford to ^1 ?Sly ,.tt»fe>T» »
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