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Title: Life, letters and speeches of James Louis Petigru, the Union man of South Carolina
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863 Carson, James Petigru
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Publisher: Washington, D. C. : W. H. Lowdermilk & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a to the communion of Holy Church. I dont say thislightly, and if you are not promoted to St. James, or the Courtof the citizen King, I advise you by all means to return. I must close this letter, though I have other things to say.But it is 10 oclock, and I will not risk the spirit of procrastina-tion again. Adieu. Yours as ever, TO WILLIAM PETIGRU Charleston, 23 October, 1835.Dear Father. Mr. Porcher is the bearer of very heavy tidings for you as wellas the girls. In poor Charles we have lost what we can notretrieve. As a man without any paternal partiality, he wasworthy of all our esteem, for his noble disinterestedness andgenerous frankness of character. Among strangers we may findfriends, and some who are his equal in character, many who sur-pass him in intellectual endowments. Of such a man however,anyone would be proud as a friend—how much more as a brother!But I submit. It is a recollection that I will always cherish,and tho he is dead, I would not exchange the memory of what
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Book. Plate (Facing 176) James Louis Petigru 111 he was, for the long life of thousands that survive. It is mywish that the girls should all come. None of us I am sure, aredisposed to desert you, but you enjoy the society of your childrenmore, when they visit you as they do now from time to time, thanyou would have done if they had all vegetated at home withoutambition or improvement. I judge for you as I should judge formyself, and it is not my wish that my children should lingerabout me, when they can see the world and improve by bettersociety. Mary would be very solitary left without Harriette;much more so than you without Mary, and Harriette is so mucha part of my family, that it would be not staying at home, butgoing from home and neglecting the strongest domestic ties ifshe were to leave us altogether. I am willing to make a fairpartition and let her stay with you in the summer, but can notgive her up altogether after having educated her with my child-ren and as one of them. The

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