This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...great or small. Among men, many of whom were almost incredibly convivial, he was abstemious. Among men, many of whom gamed or spent their substance in other riotous living, he was a prudent, accurate, honest business man. Even Governor Martin, to whose mind to be a Whig was necessarily to be a rascal, could refer to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...great or small. Among men, many of whom were almost incredibly convivial, he was abstemious. Among men, many of whom gamed or spent their substance in other riotous living, he was a prudent, accurate, honest business man. Even Governor Martin, to whose mind to be a Whig was necessarily to be a rascal, could refer to him only in terms of respect, and his neighbors and friends, many of whom were the leading men of the province, were always deferential to him. The weakness of his character (if it could be called a weakness, a virtue, the sternness of conscious rectitude, carried to an extreme), was that he could not understand how smaller men than he, less honest-minded men than he could conscientiously disagree with him upon a public question, when to his clear and vigorous and honest and instructed understanding, there could be no room for disagreement. He could not see how an intelligent man, in so plain a matter, could be wrong-headed without being wrong-hearted. Again, he could not appreciate the frequently (more often than not), unconscious character of the bias that self-interest or some minor influence, gives the views of these men, so he writes of this very Congress: "We have not among us a sufficient quantity of virtue and public spirit. Too many are actuated by little, mean, dirty and selfish motives." Yet it is very probable that these men were as patriotic as himself and more active and energetic in the public service, and no doubt to them he appeared "lofty, unbending and impracticable." This lack of adaptability to the weaknesses, and of charity to the foibles or faults of others led not only to his exclusion from the council of safety, May 11, 1776, and the substitution of Wiley Jones in his place, but also to his defeat in ...
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