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James Henry Hammond was born on November 17, 1807, in the Newberry district of South Carolina, United States.
(Title: Marl : a letter addressed to the Agricultural Soci...)
Title: Marl : a letter addressed to the Agricultural Society of Jefferson County, Georgia. Author: James Henry Hammond Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP01426000 CollectionID: CTRG94-B5496 PublicationDate: 18460101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: "Published by request of the Society." Collation: 22 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
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Excerpt from Selections From the Letters and Speeches of the Hon.: James H. Hammond, of South Carolina Dz'ence might be due to any member Of coordinate governmer Throughout his life, his earliest public utterances (see report Ot meeting of the States Rights and Free trade party Of Barnwell, S. 1 7th July, and his latest (see speech on the Relation of the Sta' U. S. Senate, 21st May, bear witness to the strength Of this fa In 1834 he was elected to Congress, but his health failing, he as for, to resign before the Close of the first session he attended, His ph. Eiaus advised him to travel, and after Spending some time in Euro he returned to his home at Silver Bluff and his agricultural pursu He was elected Governor Of South Carolina in 1842. His administ. Tion was marked by its rigid economy. He asked that the appropr. Trons for arms which he left unexpended be withdrawn, as the Sts had more munitions of war than it would ever probably require. Proposed plans for the immediateliqnidation of the State debt, altho, her bonds stood higher in the English market than those Of any ot State save one; he advised steps looking to a practical approxima Of universal free trade; he systematized the first agricultural sur of the State; consolidated the two State arsenals into the military ac emy, and organized it after the model Of vest Point; urged that evt dollar that could be spared from the wants of the State be expended education, especially in the establishment in each district of an acade of high grade; recommended a reduction and consolidation Of St Offices. He was assailed in voluminous petitions, circulars and lette on account Of the conviction of one John L. Brown for abducting a q gro slave. Brown was tried and condemned under an English colonial r Governor Hammond had pardoned him before any Of these documt arrived; be however replied to them in a letter to the Presbyten a Glasgow and in two letters to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. 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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James Henry Hammond was born on November 17, 1807, in the Newberry district of South Carolina, United States.
He graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina).
After studies he established a successful law practice in Columbia. In 1831 he moved to a large cotton plantation on the Savannah River. In 1832 Senator John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, outraged by new tariffs, engineered a state convention that passed an ordinance nullifying the federal policies and preparing the state for armed resistance to federal attempts to enforce them. During this crisis Hammond took an extreme position, advocating secession from the Union if the tariff was not repealed.
As a member of the House of Representatives from 1834 to 1836, Hammond bitterly attacked the abolitionists, whom he felt should be subject to the death penalty. During his term as governor from 1842 to 1844, Hammond converted the Citadel at Charleston, S. C. into a military academy.
In 1850 Hammond attended the Nashville Convention of Southern States as a secessionist. Hammond's unwillingness to ally himself with either the Rhett or Calhoun factions prevented him from becoming a senator until 1857. During his term as senator, to the dismay of South Carolinians, he abandoned his secessionist views, for he had become convinced since 1850 that most Southerners had no desire to leave the Union as long as their rights were protected. He now urged Southerners to make concessions to Northern antislavery opinion, for he felt that Southern intransigence played into the hands of the abolitionists.
Yielding to pressure, he resigned from the Senate. During the Civil War ill health kept Hammond from participating actively in Confederate politics, apart from one unsuccessful effort to persuade the Confederate government to make cotton the basis of credit. He died on Nov. 13, 1864, leaving an estate that included more than 300 slaves.
(Title: Marl : a letter addressed to the Agricultural Soci...)
(Excerpt from Selections From the Letters and Speeches of ...)
Firstly, he was a Democratic supporter, later a member of Nullifier party.
He advocated public education and conducted a state agricultural survey. He urged the legislature to secede rather than accept tariff increases. His moderate views and his condemnation of proposals to reopen the slave trade lost him popularity at home. He did not favor secession after Abraham Lincoln's election for he saw no threat to Southern rights.
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"I firmly believe, " said Governor J. H. Hammond, "that American slavery is not only not a sin, but especially commanded by God through Moses, and approved by Christ through his apostles. "
“In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. . . . It constitutes the very mudsill of society. ” He went on to utter the oft-repeated words, “You dare not make war on cotton — no power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king. ”
When the senior Hampton learned that Hammond had abused his four Hampton nieces as teenagers, he made the scandal public.
Hammond "secured his financial independence" by marrying Catherine Elizabeth Fitzsimmons, who was a shy, plain 17-year-old with a substantial dowry. He became a wealthy man through this marriage and entered the planter class. His wife left him for a few years, after he repeatedly raped the slave girl, taking their own children with her. She later returned to her husband.
In the late 20th century, historians learned that Hammond as a young man had a homosexual relationship with a college friend, Thomas Jefferson Withers.