The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American RepublicUniv of South Carolina Press, 2007 - 370 Seiten Enlivened by Irish humor and colorful turns of phrase, this collection of Pierce Butler's letters offers a new perspective on the most enigmatic of South Carolina's signers of the Constitution and on the formative years of the American republic. Describing Butler as an intriguing question mark among the founding fathers, Terry W. Lipscomb presents a cache of correspondence that covers the senator's service during the First, Second, and Third Congresses of the United States. In the first major collection of Butler's writings to be published in book form, Lipscomb offers a detailed biographical sketch of the man and explains the value of his letters - including correspondence to such contemporaries as George Washington, John Adams, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, Wade Hampton, Andrew Pickens, Charles Pinckney, James Gunn, and Archibald Maclaine. Irish-born officer in the British army to his marriage into the lowcountry's Middleton family. More Virginian than Charlestonian in his political views, Butler holds a place of notoriety as the delegate who pushed for the adoption of an electoral college and who allegedly wrote the Constitution's fugitive slave clause. Lipscomb shows Butler to have been a strict constitutional constructionist, a persistent advocate of religious liberty, and an admirer of the French Revolution. He also favored making government actions more transparent and pioneered the tactic of leaking privileged information. its business behind closed doors, these letters present a new resource on the history of the young republic. |
Inhalt
Introduction | xv |
To Edward Rutledge May 15 | xxxii |
To Wade Hampton January 28 | xl |
To James La Motte October 30 | xli |
To R Coghlan June 2 | xliii |
Editorial Preface | xlvii |
To John Adams January | 1 |
To Roger Parker Saunders August 26 | 2 |
To John McQueen May 5 | 83 |
To Daniel Bourdeaux November 22 | 95 |
To James La Motte September 4 | 115 |
To Thomas Bourke August 8 | 121 |
To Robert Shuttleworth September 20 | 129 |
To John London August 12 | 136 |
To Robert MisCampbell May 7 | 153 |
To Edward Campbell October 1 | 158 |
To Zebulon Hollingsworth May | 4 |
To G C Richards February | 5 |
To George Washington February | 6 |
To William Lee April | 7 |
To Peter William Van Lankern September | 8 |
To Sir George Houstoun October | 9 |
To Edward Rutledge April | 14 |
To Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Edward Rutledge October | 17 |
To Charles Pinckney June | 19 |
To John Y Noel January | 21 |
To John McQueen October | 22 |
To Gillon and Saunders April | 23 |
To Anne Graeme August | 24 |
To Gideon D Pendleton January | 28 |
To Frances Butler April | 30 |
To Thomas Cobham October | 31 |
To Crawford Davison May 4 | 39 |
To T B Ernst October | 69 |
1791 | 77 |
To Thomas Sumter February 1 | 159 |
To George Hooper August 12 | 163 |
To Jane Beaver January 9 | 167 |
To Wade Hampton February 3 | 174 |
To Adam Tunno August 25 | 180 |
To James Gunn August 17 | 213 |
To John Ayres November 26 | 218 |
To George Hooper March 6 | 221 |
To John Lloyd January 2 | 224 |
To James Simons January 26 | 233 |
To John Allston March 25 | 254 |
To Thomas Young August 22 | 258 |
To Thomas Young March 25 | 264 |
To John Allston November 16 | 279 |
223 | 290 |
To John London October 7 | 308 |
To Zebulon Hollingsworth April 3 | 317 |
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