Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount
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Excerpt from Some Account of the Life and Services of William Blount: An Officer of the Revolutionary Army Among the pioneer patriots of the territory south of the Ohio, who asserted the rights of its settlers both in council and in the field, none deserve more grateful remembrance than. William Blount. After a careful study of his life and character, I do not hesitate to say that in breadth of intellect, deep thought, untiring activity, intrepid perseverance, and broad patriotism he had few equals and no superior among his colleagues. He united in his character the gentleman, the soldier, the states man and the citizen; and all in the most perfect harmony of those qualities which challenge admiration in both public and private life. Defamed and traduced for a brief time in his life by the followers of a strong partizan administration under which his service as senator commenced; expelled from his seat in a manner so hasty and on evidence so slight that its reading now excites wonder, he never failed to retain the fullest confidence of the people of Tennessee, who demonstrated it by placing him afterwards in the highest positions of trust in the State. The great and unparalleled growth of the country; the startling events which have occured, notably among them our great civil war; and other causes have prevented such examination and publication of the services and sacrificies of our pioneers, and their great results, as is due to them and to the truth of history. It is with this view that the writer (or rather compiler) has undertaken this sketch of the life and services of Governor Blount. A careful perusal of his history has led me to attempt in an humble way to do justice to the life and character of a man whose great and diversified public services were rendered in a field so broad, and at a time so marked with important events, (but succeeded in later years by a civil revolution of such magnitude,) that he and those who served the country with him have been relegated to almost oblivion. Governor Blount lived in an age when conspicuous merit alone secured commanding influence. It was among the most independent, adventurous, self-reliant individualisms in history. 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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