Reports of Cases Determined in the Constitutional Court of South-Carolina, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Bail is not discharged in consequence of the plaintiff taking out a j}. Fa. Previous to the issuing of 11 ca. Cc.
IN the city court, June sittings, 1821. - This was a wire facias against bail.
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David James McCord was an American editor and agitator.
Background
David James McCord was born on 13 January 1797, in St. Matthew's Parish, South Carolina. He was the son of Russell and Hannah (Turquand) McCord. His grandfather, John McCord, emigrated from Ireland and about 1750 acquired lands and the ferry on the Congaree known afterwards by his name.
Education
David McCord left the South Carolina College in his senior year (1813 - 14). He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Columbia in 1818.
Career
With his partner, H. J. Nott, he began a series of reports on cases in the state courts, and, after the dissolution of the partnership in 1821, he continued the series. In 1822, he became the partner of W. C. Preston. His editorship of the Columbia Telescope began in 1823, at the time that Dr. Thomas Cooper was leading the agitation of the tariff question in South Carolina. McCord agreed with him; the Telescope became the most violent of all the nullification papers, and the editor himself one of an influential group of state leaders in Columbia. In 1832, he was elected to the House of Representatives. After their victory in 1833, the nullifiers determined to clinch their doctrine of state sovereignty by forcing the oath of allegiance upon all state officers. This harsh business, from which the chief leaders shrank, he took in hand, and one of his distinguished opponents afterwards declared him "about the bitterest politician" with whom he had been acquainted. His service in the legislature continued until 1837, when he was elected president of the Columbia branch of the Bank of the State. He lost his position in 1841, because of his support of the Whig party in the preceding year. The death of Dr. Cooper in 1839, after he had edited five volumes of the Statutes at Large of South Carolina (1836 - 39), resulted in McCord's assignment to the task, and the remaining five volumes, including an elaborate index, were completed in three years more. At various other times he served as intendant of Columbia, as trustee for the South Carolina College, and as trustee for the new state hospital for the insane.
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Personality
Hot-tempered, impulsive, but frank, cheerful, and a lover of good company, he lacked neither friends nor enemies. He was small but well built and, refusing all challenges, met insults instantly with fist or cane. McCord owned cottonland in Alabama, which he sold before his death. During this period of his life his unchanged political and economic principles found expression in a number of able articles or reviews in the Southern Quarterly Review.
Connections
A year after the death of his first wife, Emmeline Wagner of Charleston, he married on May 2, 1840, Louisa Susanna Cheves, the gifted daughter of Langdon Cheves. "Lang Syne, " her plantation in St. Matthew's Parish, became their home, although they later built a house in Columbia, where they resided for a part of each year.