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They were on the wharf, and saw the ships sail up the river, saw the broadside fired into Will Pinckney's regiment, the boats we fired, our gunboats, floating down to meet them all wrapped in flames; twenty thousand bales of cotton blazing in a single pile; molasses and sugar thrown over everything.
But the mischief had been done and no constructive interpretation of the act by the President could efface the impression first made upon the mind of Yrujo. Congress had meant to appropriate West Florida and the President had suffered the bill to become law. * The italics are President Jefferson's. Nor was Pinckney's conduct at Madrid likely to make Monroe's mission easier.
"Am I to understand from my second, gentlemen," he said, looking round the group, "that you are not satisfied?" "The fight was square enough," said Pinckney's second in some embarrassment, "but I reckon that he," pointing to the dead man, "did not know who you were." "Do you mean that he did not know that I was the son of a man proficient in the use of arms?"
"She rose at once when I entered, and insisted upon my occupying her seat, while she took a less comfortable one. "The walls of the room were ornamented with portraits of Major-General Pinckney by Stuart, Stuart's Washington, one by Morris of General Thomas Pinckney, and a portrait of Miss Pinckney's mother. "Miss Pinckney is a very plain woman, but much beloved for her benevolence.
She did not see the beauty but she saw the change. Her childhood had vanished as though some breath had blown it away in the magic mirror. In a fortnight Phyl had adjusted herself to her new environment so completely that to use Pinckney's expression, she might have been bred and born in Charleston.
"Miss Pinckney's father was the originator of the celebrated maxim, 'Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute. Their house was the headquarters for the nullifiers, and they had serenades, she said, without number.
During the week he remained in Charleston, he received the most lively and touching tokens of welcome and affection from the warm-hearted Carolinians, who strove to render him every species of honor. A corporation ball on a grand scale, a large dinner party at Governor Pinckney's mansion, another at Maj.
It had already been pretty well understood by both captives and captors that the arrest was simply a legal demonstration; that the sympathizing Federal judge would undoubtedly order the discharge of the prisoners on their own recognizances, and it was probable that the deputy saw no harm in granting Pinckney's request which was virtually only a delay in his liberation.
When the campaign was on I was invited to go to Galena and make a speech for Mr. Burchard. It never occurred to me at the time that I was going into Pinckney's district; but when I discovered the truth, I could not very well back out. I made my speech, but was careful not to say a word against Professor Pinckney, simply advocating the election of Mr. Burchard as a good Republican.
Had they not done so, Pinckney would have been chosen President, a possibility which Hamilton foresaw because of Pinckney's popularity in the South. New York, New Jersey, and Delaware voted solidly for Adams and Pinckney as Hamilton had recommended, but South Carolina voted solidly for both Jefferson and Pinckney, and moreover Pinckney received scattering votes elsewhere in the South.
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