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William Henry Trescot was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the November 10, 1822. He was the son of Henry and Sarah (McCrady) Trescot.
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Excerpt from Narrative and Letter of William Henry Trescot Concerning the Negotiations Between South Carolina and President Buchanan, in December, 1860 But it is only by a rigid and impartial scrutiny of all the testimony that the future historian can reach the positive truth. This is only a contribution to the materials of that future history. These pages were written in February 1861, immediately upon my return from Washington, now nearly ten years ago About the beginning of June 1860, I reached Washington and was confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of State in the place of the Hon John Appleton appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia. I did not know then and have not learned since to what influence the appointment was due. It was made without consultation with my friends and without previous intimation to me. At the time I was entirely withdrawn from public life and indeed with the exception of a very short Diplomatic service as Secretary of Legation at London while the Hon J. R. Ingersoll was Minister and Mr Everett, Sec of State, I had never been in public life at all, had never taken any active part in public affairs either in the State or in the Union. Gen Cass, who was Secre tary of State was pleased to say that the appointment was made entirely for its fitness evidenced by certain publications upon the subject of our Diplomatic History to which it is unnecessary further to refer. Upon my arrival in Washington I saw Mr Buchanan and Gen Cass for the first'time and with the exception of the Senators and some of the Mem bers from South Carolina I had no personal acquaintance with any of the public characters of the day. I ought perhaps to except Mr Slidell the Senator from Louisiana whom I knew slightly. 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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William Henry Trescot was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the November 10, 1822. He was the son of Henry and Sarah (McCrady) Trescot.
He attended private schools in his native city.
He graduated at College of Charleston in 1840, studied law at Harvard University, and was admitted to the bar in 1843.
He read law under his uncle, Edward McCrady, and was admitted to the bar in 1843.
He devoted the next four years of his life to the practice of law, the management of his wife's estate on Barnwell Island near Beaufort, S. C. , and the study of the history of American diplomacy. His historical works are marked by forcible summaries, calmness of tone, and the elegance of style popular in his generation.
He first attracted attention in 1849 by a pamphlet entitled A Few Thoughts on the Foreign Policy of the United States. To the controversial literature provoked by the Omnibus Bill of 1850 he contributed The Position and Course of the South (1850), an excellent summary of the Southern social and economic view. Two years later his illuminating Diplomacy of the Revolution; an Historical Study (1852) appeared. The same year he was appointed secretary of legation in London. The following year he wrote A Letter to Hon. A. P. Butler on the Diplomatic System of the United States (1853), which is still regarded as a valuable contribution of the history of that subject. Returning to South Carolina in 1854, he published his most pretentious and original work, The Diplomatic History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams (1857).
In June 1860 he was appointed assistant secretary of state. When South Carolina seceded the following December he resigned, but, remaining in Washington until February as the unofficial adviser of the South Carolina authorities, he played an important part in the negotiations over the Charleston forts. His "Narrative and Letter" (published with notes by Gaillard Hunt, American Historical Review, Apr. 1908) is his own account of those difficult days.
During the Civil War he served on the staffs of Gov. Andrew Magrath and of Gen. Roswell S. Ripley and was a member of the Executive Council of South Carolina, an important local body. From 1862 to 1866 he represented Anderson District in the legislature. There he delivered a series of memorial eulogies which, notably the Memorial of the Life of J. Johnston Pettigrew (1870), excited wide comment.
In 1866 he refused to become a candidate for the federal Senate. He was one of the counselors for the United States government before the Halifax fishery commission in 1877. Three years later, with James B. Angell and John F. Swift, he was sent to China to arrange for the modification of the Burlingame treaty concerning Chinese immigration. The following year he concluded a treaty with the Colombian minister in Washington regulating American rights in the Isthmus of Panama. Later in 1881 Blaine sent him to South America to warn Chile against making excessive demands on Bolivia and Peru as the result of her victories in the War of the Pacific; but when he arrived in Chile he learned that Blaine had resigned and that his original instructions had been published and reversed in order to discredit Blaine's policies. The mission was accordingly a failure. In order to compensate him for this undeserved humiliation he was appointed, along with Ex-President Grant, in 1882 to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mexico. The treaty was approved by the Senate but was never put into operation because of the opposition of the House of Representatives to its free sugar provisions.
His last diplomatic service was as a delegate to the Pan-American conference of 1889, in which he participated actively. Shortly afterward he retired because of lack of health to his home in Pendleton, S. C. , where he died.
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He urged the necessity of caution upon the state authorities and strove with some success to postpone a crisis by endeavoring to prevent the federal government from reinforcing the forts.
During the summer of 1861 he acted as an intermediary between the Confederate government and the British and French consuls at Charleston in their effort to obtain the adherence of the Confederate government to the Declaration of Paris respecting privateering.
Intermittently for twenty-five years after the war he labored with notable success in Washington as the agent of South Carolina for the recovery of lands seized and taxes levied under the direct tax act of Congress.
Although not affiliated with the Radical party in South Carolina, as an attorney for the Blue Ridge Railroad he defended before the state tax-payers convention of 1871 the scheme to have the state indorse the bonds of that dubious venture.
He was small in stature and noted for the instability of his opinions; but he was impressive in manners and brilliant and voluble in conversation and public speech.
In 1848 he married Eliza Natalie Cuthbert, whose family had land originally granted by King George II. His marriage produced seven children.