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Excerpt from The State of the Country: An Article Republished From the Southern Presbyterian Review Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union; and the Ordinance of Secession. Printed by order of the Convention. Charleston: Evans St Cogswell, Printers to the Convention; pp. 13. 1860. 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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Thornwell was born on December 9, 1812 in Marlboro District, S. C. He was the son of James and Martha (Terrel) Thornwell. His father, an overseer on the plantation of Christopher B. Pegues, died in 1820, leaving the family in straitened circumstances.
James Henley managed to enter the old-field school at Level Green, where his diligent study won him the patronage of two prominent citizens of the nearby town of Cheraw, who assumed the burden of his education. After two years at the Cheraw Academy, in December 1829 he entered the junior class of the South Carolina College, then passing through a turbulent period of opposition to the religious liberalism of the president, Thomas Cooper. In 1831 Thornwell graduated at the head of his class.
While teaching at Sumterville in 1832 he experienced an emotional conversion, joined the Presbyterian Church, resolved to be a minister, and two years later entered the Andover (Massachussets) Theological Seminary. Finding the theology of this institution too liberal for his conservative views, he soon withdrew and after a few months at Harvard returned to South Carolina in October 1834, repelled alike by the New England climate and mental attitude.
Licensed to preach by the Harmony Presbytery of the Synod of South Carolina, November 28, 1834, he served as pastor of several churches in Lancaster District.
In 1837 Thornwell's orthodoxy, learning, and effective preaching resulted in his election to the professorship of metaphysics in the South Carolina College by the faction which four years before had ousted Cooper from the control of that institution.
Resigning in 1840 to become pastor of the Columbia Presbyterian Church, he returned the following year as chaplain and professor of sacred literature, holding these positions, with the exception of a short interval as pastor of the Glebe Presbyterian Church in Charleston, until 1851, when he was elected to the presidency of the college. In this connection his work was notably successful. His Letter to Governor Manning on Public Education in South Carolina (1853) quieted the strong party in the state that was advocating sectarian education at the expense of secular instruction, and his orthodox preaching and teaching, together with his persuasive personality, did much to remove what was left of the "blatant infidelity" that Cooper had implanted. He never found the atmosphere of the college wholly congenial, however, feeling that he should devote his entire time to religious activities.
Accordingly, he resigned in 1855 to become professor of didactic and polemic theology at the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia, a position which he held until his death seven years later.
In 1847 he founded at Columbia the Southern Presbyterian Review, a powerful exponent of his views. Between 1837 and 1860 he attended ten of the annual assemblies of his denomination, serving as moderator in 1847. In these he opposed the participation of the church in such secular affairs as the slavery controversy and temperance reform. When the assembly of 1861 adopted resolutions indorsing the Federal government he induced the Synod of South Carolina to indorse political secession and was a leading spirit in the organization of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America.
He was the author of an "Address to All the Churches of Jesus Christ throughout the Earth, " a brilliant exposition of the viewpoint of the Southern Presbyterian separatists. A political moderate before 1860, he championed the formation of the Southern Confederacy after the election of Lincoln. His article on "The State of the Country" (Southern Presbyterian Review, January 1861) was published as a pamphlet and won wide acclaim as a cogent defense of the Southern point of view, and in a widely circulated address to the Southern soldiers, Our Danger and Our Duty (1862), he drew a dire picture of the fate he felt would overtake the South if the North were victorious.
His premature death, due to consumption, aggravated by overwork and the excitement of war, prevented the execution of a comprehensive treatise on theology which he contemplated preparing. Most of his addresses and sermons are preserved in The Collected Writings of J. H. Thornwell (4 vols. , 1871 - 73), edited by J. B. Adger and J. L. Girardeau.
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During the American Civil War, Thornwell supported the Confederacy and preached a doctrine that claimed slavery to be morally right and justified by the tenets of Christianity.
Thornwell's activities as an educator were overshadowed by his achievements as a preacher and controversialist. Although unprepossessing in appearance and inclined to pedantry, he combined rigorous logic and emotional fervor in an effective manner.
On December 3, 1835 he married Nancy White, the daughter of Col. James H. Witherspoon, a prominent citizen of Lancaster and former lieutenant governor of the state.
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