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Excerpt from The Militia System of South-Carolina: Being a Digest of the Acts of Congress Concerning the Militia, Likewise of the Militia Laws of This State, With an Appendix, Containing the Statutes at Large Relating to the Militia, From the 8th May, 1792, to the 17th December, 1834, Inclusive, With The Monday in January, a return of the Militia of the See Appendix, State, and the amount and condition of their arms, page 9. Accoutrements and ammunition. These returns shall be made according to forms to be prescribed by the Secretary of War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Benjamin Elliott was born in Charleston, South Carolina, with which city he was closely associated throughout his life. His father was Thomas Odingsell Elliott who married Mary, sister of Charles Pinckney, and through both parents he traced his ancestry to prominent South Carolina families. The exact date of his birth is not known, but he was baptized March 25, 1787.
His primary education was obtained at home and in the public schools, whence he proceeded to the College of New Jersey (Princeton), graduating in 1806, with high honors.
Distinguished throughout his academic course for intense application and capacity for research, he carried these characteristics into his law studies which he prosecuted in the office of Thomas Parker of Charleston.
On his admission to the bar in 1810 he became a partner of Robert Y. Hayne, with whom he remained associated till the latter abandoned law for politics. He was early drawn into the nullification controversy, and though as a member of the state legislature for several terms he was not prominent in its proceedings, his profound and exact learning was placed unreservedly at the service of the state-rights party, whose actions received his unqualified support throughout the controversy with the federal government. In his pioneer pamphlet A Refutation of the Calumnies circulated against the Southern and Western States, respecting the Institution and Existence of Slavery, published in 1822—the first of its kind—he made one of the ablest expositions and defenses of the attitude of the South in regard to the peculiar institution. In the force of his logic and wealth of constitutional doctrine and illustration he was not surpassed in polemical vigor and learning by any subsequent writer on the subject. He was for some years a member of the Charleston City Council. His work as commissioner in equity and subsequently as master in the equity court of Charleston County, which later position he held at the time of his death, was competently performed, but did not offer any special opportunity for the exercise of his intellectual powers. In addition to the pamphlet before mentioned, he was the author of an Oration on the Inauguration of the Federal Constitution (1813); A Sketch of the Means and Benefits of prosecuting this war against Britain (1814), a vitriolic pamphlet in support of the war policy of the federal government; and an Oration delivered in St. Philip’s Church, Charleston, S. C. , 4 July 1817 (1817)—eloquent but turgid in style. He also made a digest of the acts of Congress and the state referring to the militia, which was published under the title The Militia System, of South Carolina (1835), and compiled the proceedings in South Carolina preceding the adoption of the Federal Constitution.
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a member of the state legislature for several terms
a member of the Charleston City Council
His character, training, and inclinations did not contribute to make him successful in public life; he was happiest when immersed in literary composition or research.
