Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-03-10

cy with John Adams, but was un-
successful, receiving only Gi votes
against - for Burr,
This was the occasion of tho IA
mot election when the electoral
vote was tie on Jefferson and Burr,
and the duty Of clectinga President
devolved for the first time and only
time on the House Of Representa-
tivcs. Tho balloting for President
began OF the llth Of Februry, 1901,
and lasted until the l7th. the House
remaining in session during the
whole time. Beds We're provided
for the members, and one Of them
became 80 exhausted that his wife
had to be admitted to the door to
take care Of him. On the thirty
sixth ballot Jefferson was elected
President, and Burr, his competitor,
having received the next highest
vote, was declared Vice president
In 1901, Mr.. Pinckney was Il candi-
date for the Presidency, but was
badly beaten by Jefferson, receiving
only the votes Of Connecticut and
Delaware. In 1908 he was defeated
for the same office by James Madi-
son, and never afterwards figured in
national politics.
Thomas Pinclincy, the second son
of the Chief Justice, and brother Of
the last mentioned, has Also n rcvo-
lutionary fame. He was licutcn-
ant N his brothers regiment, but af-
terwards served as an aid on the
staff of Gen. Lincoln; was in the bat
tie Of the Stono and in the assault
on Savannah, where he acted as aid
to the Count d'Estang, and led a
torlorn hope. lie was wounded at
the battle of Camden, N. land saved
from being bayonoted by an old
college chum, who was an officer in
the British army. He was sent to
PhiladeIphia, and released at the
end Of the war. lie was Governor
Of South Caroina in 1880, Minister
to Great Britain in 1892, and to
Spain few years later. 1t was he
who offered the treaty Of lldefonso,
by which the free navigation Of the
Mississippi river was secured. He
was in Congress from 1899 to 1901.
He was appointed Major General
March q, 1872, and as commander
of the South Military Department
during the war of lSl2-15, prosecu-
ted and closed the campaigns against
the Creek and Seminole Indians,
which Andrew Jackson had begun.
! His last battle was that of Horse
Shoe Bend, (Ala.) March 27, 1914,
which resulted in almost total de-
struction of the Creek Indians rs q
tribe. He was disbanded in 1915,
retired to private life, and died in
1928.
! The son of VIM. Pinckncy, who
did not become distinguished, had Il
son who did. His name was Charles.
He, too, figured in the Revolutiona-
ry war, being captured on the tax
ing Of Charleston, and kept lie his
two grand-uncles, prisoner, until
the end Of the war. He was mem
Der of the Provincial Congress of
1855; delegate to the Constitutional
Convention of the States in 1ISS,
and President OF the South Carroll |
ma Convention which ratified the
Constitution of the United States;
was Governor Of tho State in 1871,
I 1895 and again in 1906; a Senator
in Congress in 1898; was Minister
to Spain in 1902, and negotiated IA
release from Spain of all right or
title to the Louisiana and other Ter
ritories purchased by the United
States from France. His last ap-
pearance in public life was in oppo-
sition to the Missouri Compromise
bill, as q Representative in Congress
from the Charleston district.
Henry Laurens Pinckncy, his son
has also national reputation. He
was in the State Legislature from
1916 to 1882; was editor of the
Charleston Mercury in 1919; Mayor
of Charleston during the nullitica-
ton excitement, and in 1889 repro
sented that district in Congress. He
was re elected in 1885. In 1889 and
1910 he was again elected Mayor of
Charleston. His literary reputation
chiefly depends on his editorial ca
reer, though he published memoirs
of Gen. Jackson, Robert Y. Haync,
who was his brothcr-in-law, and of
Jonathan Marcy. He was promi-
ncnt as a rebel, and died in Charles
ton in 1863.
The husband of the lady whose
decease has served as the text for the
revival of these old "reminiscences
was William Cortesworth Pinckney,
who had the misfortune to be val
etudinarian, and whose success in
life was not at all commensurate
with his abilities. The world was
not his oyster, and hc welded no
sword to open it, but preferred the 1
privacy of his library. and was bet .
ter skilled with his pen than sword. /
He was for time Speaker Of the
South Carolina House of Reprcscn-
tatives, and it is related of him that
his love for the classics and ''old for
gotten lore" was so great that it was
difficult to get him to talk sufficient
English to be ineligible TO Ordina-
nv hearers His exact relation TO
the famous family is not known,
though he was descended from the
Charles Cotcsworth branch Of the
Pinckney family.
The English Pinckneys, the orig
inal stock Of the American family.
are sfill e-.ant in Ifncnlnshire--