. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. her the Baltimorean made it personal, andchallenged him to a duel. Colt was opposed to dueling, and was in-clined to take no notice of his opponent. But friends interfered, andrepresented that it was of more consequence than he supposed—andthat he ought to fight. The result was an acceptance of the challenge. I p JAMES B. COLT, OF MISSOURI. loO The parties met, and Colt stood calmly and received his opponentsshot, which wounded him slightly in the hip. He then had his man inhis po
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. her the Baltimorean made it personal, andchallenged him to a duel. Colt was opposed to dueling, and was in-clined to take no notice of his opponent. But friends interfered, andrepresented that it was of more consequence than he supposed—andthat he ought to fight. The result was an acceptance of the challenge. I p JAMES B. COLT, OF MISSOURI. loO The parties met, and Colt stood calmly and received his opponentsshot, which wounded him slightly in the hip. He then had his man inhis power, and could have shot him through, but did not. Raising hispistol in the air, he discharged its contents at the clouds, showing atonce his bravery and his magnanimity. lie gained friends by his con-duct on this occasion, and rapidly grew in public favor. We knew him when he resided in this city, and liked his gentle-manly manners, his intelligent conversation, his open-hearted avowalof the sentiments he entertained. He is now only about thirty yearsold and the youngest judge upon the bench in Missouri. I. ^%^; ^Ied ^^GButtre fiom 1 DaWeo^^ < /^q f-^^ A ^<^v.^ / ^ c c_ SSTEfa JOHN C. CAMPBELL, OF VIRGINIA. lGi JOHN C. CAMPBELL, M. D., PRESIDENT OF NORTH-WESTERN BANK OF VIRGINIA, WHEELING. John C. Campbell, of whom we propose to write a brief biograpliicalsketch, is now past the meridian of life, and, though yet of unimpairedvigor both of body and mind, and in the active discharge of numerousand important public and private duties, has already passed througha career of usefulness and successful struggle with the difficulties oflife, which may well be held up for the contemplation and encourage-ment of the many in our country, who, as he was, are dependent upontheir own exertions for their success. Success, though sometimesapparently flowing from the caprices of fortune, is, after all, the suresttest of real merit; and it is encouraging to every young man, who,repining
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