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 PRONOUNCED 23o JANUARY, 1835, 
 
 In the Chapel of the College of Charleston, 
 
 BEFORE 
 
 THE TRUSTEES, FACULTY AND STUDENTS; 
 
 OH 
 
 THE LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 OF THE LATE 
 
 i: 1,1 IS 1IORRY, Esq. 
 
 BY REV. J. ADAMS, 
 
 PRESIDENT OF THE COLLiGE OF CHARLESTON, S. CAROLINA: 
 (F.X-OKFICIO) HORRV PROFESSOR OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 " The memory of such an act, will not pass away with our transitory existence. Ordi- 
 narily, the fruits of benevolence perish with their immediate appropriation, but in thi 
 instance, they will be enjoyed by the living, and be preserved in their original bloom and 
 freshness, for future ages. As long as literature and science, and the improvement of the 
 minds and morals of the rising generation shall be cultivated among us, the name of the 
 distinguished patron and promoter of these inestimable objects, will be gratefully associated 
 with them." Resolution introduced to the Board of Trustees by the Hon. William 
 Dray ton. and unanimously approved 13th October, 1828. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 
 
 PRINTED BY A. E. MILLER, 
 
 No. 4 Brood-street, 
 
 Charleston. 
 
 .1835.
 
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 ElTLOGlUJi. 
 
 MN no single age of the world, has the stock, of living merit been 
 very great. Among the hundreds of millions, of which each 
 generation of our race has consisted, there have been compara- 
 tively very few, who have suitably improved their talents, or 
 who have discharged the full measure of duty appropriate to the 
 spheres in which they moved, and exacted by the relations which 
 they sustained in life. The number is still less, who have con- 
 tributed their labours and exertions for the benefit of mankind, 
 and who, on leaving the world, have left any fruit of their 
 labours, by which, those coming after them, might be enlarged 
 in understanding, increased in knowledge, strengthened in virtue, 
 or otherwise improved in their capacities for reflection and action. 
 Of those who have been raised above the ordinary lot of being 
 born, of living a few years, of dying, and of being forgotten, 
 quite as many have been distinguished for the evil which they 
 have done, as for the good which they have achieved, in their 
 day and generation. 
 
 We must resort, then, to the records of the past, and bring- 
 within our estimate, the merits of those who have lived and died 
 before our times, if we wish to make ourselves acquainted with 
 the real stock of merit, to which our race is justly entitled. We 
 who are now living, and those who have lived and died before 
 us, compose but one family; all having common sympathies, 
 common interests and a common destiny. The moral and 
 intellectual riches of that part of the human family which has 
 gone before us, has descended as an inheritance to enrich our- 
 selves. The great fountain of human merit, lies beyond the 
 confines of this life, where the prejudices and passions which are 
 accustomed to discolour and distort all the objects presented to 
 them on this side of the grave, cannot invade or approach it. 
 Nor when mankind are thus collectively viewed, in the records, 
 which preceding ages have left, of their labours and virtues, is 
 the store of merit, which may be claimed, inconsiderable. Some
 
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 ages and many countries, it is true, have been barren in this res- 
 pect, and all our collected records are mere fragments of what 
 has been; yet still, it has been steadily accumulating from 
 age to age, and is not only sufficient to silence those who have 
 advanced degrading views of human nature, but also to encourage 
 our hearts and enliven our hopes respecting the future prospects 
 of mankind, as the nations of the earth shall come to be more 
 and more affected by a more general diffusion of knowledge, by 
 free institutions, and especially by the elevating influence of 
 Christianity. To multiply and perfect the records, hi which 
 alone the labours and virtues so beneficial to mankind may be 
 preserved, may, therefore, be regarded equally, as one of the 
 highest of individual duties, and one of the inestimable blessings 
 which literature is fitted to confer on those nations and states by 
 which it is respected and cultivated. And when we consider, 
 that the choicest of all national possessions consists in citizens 
 qualified for the service of their country, and adorned by the 
 great virtues which ennoble human nature, we must be con- 
 vinced, that no neglect of the public interests can be more inju- 
 rious, than indifference and disregard to the well earned fame of 
 those who have gone to their rest before us.* It is true, that a 
 remembrance ever so respectful can do them no good; they 
 are beyond the reach both of our censure and of our praise ; it 
 is for our own sakes, that we should preserve a remembrance of 
 their labours and then- virtues. Nil de morluis nisi bonum, is a 
 maxim to which all the living are bound to have regard, and in 
 the observance of which they will all soon have a personal 
 interest; but still, in its observance, only a small part of the duty 
 of the living is comprised towards those who have acted a dis- 
 tinguished part in public or in private, and whose example is 
 fitted to have a beneficial influence on those who succeed them 
 in the duties of life which they have suitably fulfilled. Every 
 man who has faithfully discharged the unostentatious duties of 
 private life in all the relations which he has sustained, who has 
 filled many situations of trust and honor with a single eye to the 
 public good, who has been accustomed by his uniform mildness 
 
 *The question may well be asked, whether S. Carolina has done herself justice in 
 this respect. Her Colonial and State History is adorned with many distinguished names, 
 of whic h authentic memorials are every day becoming more scanty. Here is an honourable 
 field of labour for some one who lias learning and leisure.
 
 and urbanity to soften the asperities of ordinary life, to moderate 
 the collisions of prejudice and interest, to allay the virulence of 
 party strife and bitterness, to banish the selfishness and enlarge 
 the sympathies which bind men to each other in society, must 
 have left an example of labours and virtues in the community to 
 which he belonged, worthy the most careful record and the most 
 industrious preservation. 
 
 These reflections have occurred to me, upon commencing the 
 duty assigned me by the Faculty of this College, to prepare and 
 pronounce an Eulogium on the life and character of the late 
 Elias Horry, Esq. I trust they will be considered appropriate 
 to the individual who has called them forth, and to the occasion 
 on which we are assembled. This gentleman was, during many 
 years, one of our most distinguished citizens, eminent alike for 
 his public spirit and his private virtues. The universal demon- 
 strations of respect on the part of the public, when his decease 
 became known, the immense concourse of our most respectable 
 citizens which marked the celebration of his funeral obsequies, 
 and the strong language of the numerous resolutions which 
 were passed on the occasion, by the public bodies of which he 
 was a member,* shew the high and universal estimation in which 
 h J was held by those who have had the best possible opportunities 
 of being acquainted with his intrinsic worth. It was universally 
 feit, that a valuable citizen, a pure patriot, a zealous philanthro- 
 pist, a public benefactor, a sincere Christian and an upright 
 man, had been taken from among us. The office assigned me, 
 therefore, on this occasion, cannot be difficult ; with so just a sub- 
 ject of eulogium before me, it can require but ordinary diligence 
 in collecting materials, and much less than ordinary skill in 
 arranging and combining them, to render my memoir interesting 
 and valuable. 
 
 The late Elias Horry was born at Charleston, 21st June, 1773, 
 and was a descendant of the French Protestants. His Huguenot 
 ancestor, Elias Horry, the Elder, (so called in the records of the 
 family,) was driven from France by the revocation of the Edict 
 of Nantz, in 1685. This celebrated Edict had been passed in 
 1598 by Henry IV. It confirmed to the protestants of the king- 
 dom, all the rights and privileges which had been granted to 
 
 * See some of these resolutions reprinted at the end.
 
 them, by former princes, and besides, it added a free admission 
 to all employments of trust, profit and honor ; an establishment 
 of chambers of justice, hi which the members of the two reli- 
 gions (Catholic and Protestant) were equal; and liberty to 
 educate their children without restraint in any of the universities. 
 This Edict had been declared irrevocable, and France had 
 flourished under the traquillity which it afforded, nearly a cen- 
 tury ; still it was revoked by Louis XIV. in 1685. For some 
 time previous to its revocation, the lot of the Huguenots had been 
 severe; but at this event, liberty of conscience was entirely 
 abolished, all the protestant churches were destroyed, and an 
 order was issued to take away the children of protestants, and 
 to put them into the hands of their catholic relations. Their 
 ministers were banished from the kingdom, but the laity were 
 prohibited from leaving it, although the law inflicted upon them, 
 the utmost severities of persecution. All the terrors of military 
 execution were employed to make them profess the Roman Cath- 
 olic religion. A twentieth part of the whole number were put to 
 death in a short time ; arid a price was set on the heads of the rest, 
 who were hunted like wild beasts* More than half a million of 
 the most useful and industrious inhabitants of France, were thus 
 compelled to take refuge in foreign countries. Among this 
 number and under these circumstances, Elias Horry quitted 
 France and went to Holland where he had relatives. Although, 
 at that time, a youth of no more than twenty-one years of age, still 
 he was made a freeman of the city of Amsterdam. From Holland, 
 he passed over into England, and from thence, with many other 
 French Huguenots, he came to So. Carolina, most probably 
 in the year 1690. King William had this year extended his 
 special protection to the French protestants who had taken refuge 
 in his dominions. 
 
 At their arrival in Carolina, the Huguenots were considered 
 a great acquisition to the Colony. They could not be regarded 
 as adventurers, who had left then: native land to improve their 
 fortunes in a new country ; much less as persons who had quitted 
 their country for conduct worthy of banishment. Prior to the 
 revocation of the Edict of Nant2, most of them had resided in 
 France in easy circumstances ; many of them had been well 
 educated; some had been wealthy; others were useful trades-
 
 men and manufacturers ; and all had been driven from France for 
 no other cause than their attachment to the protestant religion- 
 Agreeably to existing laws, they had taken the oath of allegi- 
 ance to the King, and promised fidelity to the proprietors. They 
 were disposed to look on the English colonists whom they had 
 joined, in the favorable light of brethren and fellow adventurers; 
 and though they understood not the English language, yet they 
 were desirous of living in peace and harmony with their neigh- 
 bours, and willing to stand forth on all occasions of danger with 
 them for the common safety and defence. From the French 
 Huguenots, who, in their exile, found a refuge and a home in 
 this Colony, have sprung the names of Laurens, Huger, Simons, 
 Marion and many others; names which must forever continue 
 to adorn the pages of our State and National history. Some 
 of the Huguenots had saved a remnant of their estates in France, 
 and it is probable that Elias Horry was one of those, who having 
 purchased lands of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina in England, 
 settled themselves as a Colony on the river Santee.* Many of 
 their descendants still reside on these most fruitful and valuable 
 lands selected by their ancestors. 
 
 To the third son of Elias Horry, the Ainerican founder of the 
 family, was given the personal and Christian name of his father. 
 He was born in 1707, and was generally known by the title of 
 Col. Elias Horry. He died in December 1783, at the advanced 
 age of 76 years. This gentleman left two sons, Elias and 
 Thomas, (born llth June 1748,) from the last of whom, the 
 subject of this memoir was descended. His mother's maiden 
 name was Ann Branford. She was a daughter of William 
 Branford, and was born in Charleston, November 20, 1754. 
 Her son has borne the most emphatic testimony to her excel- 
 lences as a wife and a mother. She died 12th May, 1817. 
 
 Mr. Horry was principally educated, at the School of the late 
 James Hamden Thomson, in this city. Mr. Thomson is repre- 
 sented, by his scholars and other cotemporaries, to have been 
 " a teacher of the first respectability in respect both to character 
 and talents," and his "Academy has always been celebrated as 
 the first of its era." "His discipline was severe" according to 
 the temper of the times; "yet many of his scholars were much 
 
 '* See IleTvatt'n History of S. Carolina and Georgia, Tol. 1, p. 108.
 
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 attached to him." " The course of instruction in his school 
 consisted chiefly of the Latin and Greek authors and mathema- 
 tics, and he had the reputation of being an excellent Latin and 
 Greek scholar and mathematician." Mr. Horry "was many 
 years his scholar," and " has often been heard to speak of him 
 with great respect and affection." His cotemporaries were 
 in the habit "of speaking of him, not as a bright scholar, 
 but as a studious boy of great perseverance and extraordi- 
 nary memory," " so steady to his duties that he was a favo- 
 rite of his teacher."* "He was considered a good Latin 
 scholar, but did not understand the Greek language, and was 
 accustomed to regret that he had not studied it while at school." 
 " He paid some attention to it afterwards," but probably obtained 
 no more than a slight acquaintance with its rudiments. He was 
 accustomed to read French with readiness and accuracy. I 
 shall, hereafter, furnish evidence of his skill in practical mathe- 
 matics. 
 
 After passing honourably through what was, at that time, 
 considered "an excellent Academic course," he entered, (1st 
 February, 1790,) the office of the late Gen. Charles Cotesworth 
 Pinckney, as a student at law. His companions in the office of 
 this very distinguished jurist and statesman, were Roger Pinck- 
 ney, the late Judge Trezevant, John C. Richardson of Claren- 
 don, and the late William Johnson, for many years, an Associate 
 Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. " In Gen. 
 Pinckney's office, it was the established course, to prescribe a 
 proper system of legal study, and to examine his young men at 
 appointed times as regularly as in our Academies. But this was 
 not their most efficient employment, to become masters of their 
 future profession. This efficient employment consisted in requir- 
 ing each student to examine the important and difficult law- 
 cases hi which the General was engaged. They presented their 
 views in writing, with appropriate cases from the Reports. 
 These opinions, Gen. Pinckney examined, and they facilitated 
 his own preparation, as the cases adduced saved much labour. 
 He then gave them his own opinion, rectifying and often con- 
 firming their views. Mr. Horry, he always pronounced as one 
 of his most useful and assiduous students, or rather co-adjutore 
 
 'Letter of George W. Cross. Esq. 18th December, 1834.
 
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 in these oppressive duties."* It was in this office, that he 
 acquired those habits of industry, promptness, method, accuracy, 
 patient labour and perseverance, which accompanied him 
 through life, and to which his success and practical usefulness, 
 may, in a great measure, be ascribed. "He did not study law 
 with a view to practice, but he was diligent and persevering in 
 his application, and acquired a very competent knowledge of the 
 subject." t We may presume, that he concurrred in sentiment 
 with Mr. Justice Blackstone, who says, " I think it an undeniable 
 position, that a competent knowledge of the laws of that society 
 in which we live, is the proper accomplishment of every gen- 
 tleman and scholar; an highly useful, I had almost said essential 
 part of liberal and polite education."! If then, a knowledge of 
 the laws of his country, as this learned author supposes, "is the 
 proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar," this 
 must be more especially the case with respect to a gentleman born 
 to the inheritance of a large estate, and necessarily involved in 
 the cares, business and various responsibilities which the posses- 
 sion of such an estate always imposes on the proprietor. 
 
 He was admitted an attorney and solicitor in the Courts of 
 Law and Equity in this State, on the 8th June, 1793. His 
 petition for admission is addressed to the Hon. Richard Hutson r 
 John Mathews, and Hugh Rutledge, Judges of the Court of 
 Equity, and John Rutledge, Chief Justice, and the Associate 
 Justices of the Court of Common Pleas. At the age of twenty- 
 four, (30th October, 1797,) he was married to Harriet, (born in 
 Christ Church parish 6th April, 1776,) eldest daughter of Arnoldus 
 Vanderhorst, (born March, 1748, died 29th January, 1815,) a 
 gentleman of high political standing, who had been governor of 
 So. Carolina from 1792 to 1794. During the life-time of this 
 lady, and for the benefit of her health, he resided several years 
 at Newport, Rhode Island. She died 6th August, 1815, leaving 
 four children. Her husband has left this testimony to her excel- 
 lences, "She was a pious Christian, and for several years a 
 communicant of the (Protestant) Episcopal Church; a most 
 faithful and affectionate wife and tender parent, a most sincere 
 friend, and with all the accomplished lady." On the 23d Octo- 
 
 * Letter of Benjamin Elliott, Esq. of December, 1834. t Letter of the Hon. Henry 
 
 Dcas, of 17th November, 1834, to the author. fl Commentaries, p. 3. 
 
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 her, 1817, he was married to Mary R. Shubrick, third daughter 
 of Col. Thomas Shubrick, a gentleman of large estate and fail- 
 fame. This lady survives, to hold up to their children, the ex- 
 ample of the industry, the urbanity, the moderation, and the 
 enlightened and liberal spirit of their father, and to guide them 
 in the path of usefulness which he pursued before them.* 
 
 In 1820 his father died at the advanced age of 72 years. By 
 this event, he succeeded to his paternal estate, and his time and 
 attention were henceforth occupied in its management, in the 
 exemplary performance of the duties of private life and in the 
 conscientious discharge of the many offices of trust and honour 
 to which he was called by the confidence of his fellow-citizens. 
 He was accustomed to visit his estates on the Santee in spring 
 and autumn, when he passed some tune in inspecting them, and 
 occasionally at other times ; but much the greatest part of his 
 time was passed in this city. On occasion of his customary visit 
 to Santee last spring, he was visited with severe illness, and 
 serious apprehensions were entertained of his immediate disso- 
 lution. He revived, however, and returned to the city early in 
 May. When I first saw him after his return, I referred to his 
 recent illness, and expressed my gratfication at seeing him so far 
 restored to health. He replied, I have been seriously indisposed, 
 and did not much expect to recover, but I was contented to die, 
 if such had been God's will. I have no ill-will against any man, 
 continued he, and it is not known to me, that any man has any 
 ill-will against me. This was said, not in the way of boasting, 
 but his meaning was, that, according to the requirement of the 
 gospel, he considered himself living in charity with all mankind. 
 He continued to attend to business as usual after his return, but 
 it was perceived by his friends that his health was gradually 
 smking, and fears were entertained that his constitution was 
 undermined. By midsummer, he became satisfied of the neces- 
 sity of using the most effectual means for the restoration of his 
 health, and to this end, he proposed to resort to Newport, in 
 
 * The above information respecting Mr. H's. ancestors and family, has been drawn from 
 three Family Bibles which have been kindly loaned to the author. One of them is a. 
 beautiful Folio Edition in two volumes, purporting to be the gift of "Thomas Horry, to his 
 son Elias Horry, 1791." One of the volumes has between twelve and thirteen folio pages 
 closely written in Mr. H's. beautiful hand-writing, containing notices of his ancestors, and 
 some detail of the circumstances under which the Huguenots left France and settled in 
 Carolina. The two other editions (both quarto) contain a very neat and exact register 
 (between seven and eight pages) of the births, baptisms, comfirmations, marriages and 
 deaths of the different members of the Horry family for many years past, including some o!' 
 th collateral branches.
 
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 Rhode Island, attracted, we may presume, by the delightful sum- 
 mer climate, by the polished society which that city affords, par- 
 ticularly in the summer ; and by the local attachment which he 
 may be supposed to have formed for the place, during his resi- 
 dence there in earlier life. The expected relief, however, was 
 not obtained, it soon became manifest that he was labouring 
 under a dropsy of the chest, and that no time was to be lost, if 
 he was ever to reach his native city. It must be the desire of 
 every man to open his eyes for the last time upon his wife and 
 children, and to close them amidst the scenes and endearments 
 of his own home ; and it must afford consolation to every family 
 to be permitted to close the eyes of him (when he can no more 
 close them himself) who has been respected and honoured by 
 them as a husband and a father, and with their own eyes, to see 
 his mortal remains consigned to the house appointed for all liv- 
 ing. This feeling has been recognised and respected at all 
 times, traces of it are found in the literary records of every 
 nation ;* and for this last of human consolations, I am well per- 
 suaded, his family are indebted to the wise foresight, skill and 
 energy of the gentleman who attended him in the two-fold rela- 
 tion of his physician and his friend. t He arrived at his home in 
 the last stages of the disease which was rapidly wasting him 
 away, where he languished a few days and died on the morning 
 of the 17th September. As he had been useful and pious in 
 life, so his death was calm and peaceful.! 
 
 It must be manifest to all, that much of my duty on this occa- 
 sion still remains to be performed ; the labours of a good man 
 survive him, and we may consider the subject of this memoir 
 under several aspects which cannot fail to be instructive. 
 
 I. He may be viewed as the proprietor of a large estate. 
 Wealth confers upon its possessor many and great advantages, 
 which none but the wealthy are in circumstances to enjoy ; but 
 at the same time, it brings him into new relations, and imposes 
 upon him new and imperative duties, which he cannot neglect or 
 refuse to perform, without dishonour in this world, and (it is not 
 too much to say) hazard to his eternal interest in the world to 
 
 * See Odyssey, Lib. xi. 4245. JEneld, x. 781. Gen. xlix. 29 31. Idem. L. 13. 25. 
 Tacitus' Life of Agricola, c. 45. Thomson's Winter, L. 280, <fcc. tDr. Joseph Manning. 
 
 t" Confirmation, August 4th, (Wednesday,) 1813. Elias and Harriet Horry were confirmed 
 at the altar of St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S. C. by the Right Reverend Dr. Dehon, 
 Biihop of the (Protestant) Episcopal Church in S. Carolina." Family Records.
 
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 come. The rich man, in the order of Providence, has become 
 the steward and dispenser of a treasure, which is capable of do- 
 ing much good or much evil to himself and others, according to 
 the spirit and the ends for which it is employed. This sentiment 
 is as ancient as the time of the Socratic writer Cebes, and has 
 never been more fully or strikingly illustrated than by him.* 
 Riches, moreover, are peculiarly liable to perversion and abuse. 
 Too often, wealth is made the minister of luxury, effeminacy, 
 and of every species of vice which can degrade and destroy 
 mankind. On the other hand, there is, perhaps, no instrument 
 by which the possessor can accomplish more extensive and 
 lasting good than by wealth. In the hands of the humane, 
 it may make the cottage of the destitute and friendless smile 
 with comparative comfort and plenty. It may be made to 
 cheer the hearts, and revive the spirits, and encourage the 
 efforts of poor, but meritorious families, when in circumstan- 
 ces of discouragement and depression. In the hands of the 
 public spirited, it may be made to originate or advance enter- 
 prises which adorn and improve the country in which they dwell. 
 It may be used to patronize those ornamental aits which embel- 
 lish life, and give refinement and polish to social intercourse. 
 In satisfying the claims of a generous hospitality, it may be 
 made to contribute to the harmonv of social intercourse and the 
 
 */ 
 
 cultivation of good feeling.t It may be made to advance the 
 great cause of universal elementary education, on which the 
 preservation of our most valuable institutions so much depends. 
 Or still, it may be made to advance the noble cause of literature 
 and the sciences. More than all, in the hands of the pious, it 
 may be made the instrument of multiplying copies of the Bible, 
 of planting new churches in our destitute settlements, of educat- 
 ing pious young men for the ministry, and of sending the heralds 
 of the cross to preach the gospel in the remotest corners of the 
 earth. All these objects and many more, it is in the power of 
 the wealthy to originate, and in a most essential degree, to ad- 
 vance and bring to consummation. With all these ways of 
 
 * See Tabula Cebetia Thebani, Sect 39, <kc. 
 
 t Josephus understands the provision of the Law of Moses, \vhich required all the 
 Hebrews to assemble thrice a year at Jerusalem, to have been partly designed to give 
 opportunity for the cultivation of a friendly intercourse and good feeling by personal 
 acquaintance, festive entertainments and other social meetings. See Antiquitiet of the Jetrs, 
 lib. iv. C. 8. Sect. 7. No one who has enjoyed Mr. Horry's hospitality, can forget the cn?e 
 and dignified courtesy with which he entertained his guests :
 
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 using wealth for the benefit of mankind, the subject of th.'3 
 memoir was perfectly familiar. 
 
 He was, also, eminently free from the selfishness, haughtiness 
 and purse-pride which too often accompany the possession of 
 great wealth. It is unquestionable, that the tendency of great 
 riches is, to harden the heart, and to render it callous to the 
 sufferings and insensible to the welfare of other men. " The 
 insolence of wealth" is so usual as to have passed into a proverb. 
 All this was unknown to him. In every company, he put him- 
 self on a footing with the humblest. His manners were at all 
 times affable and conciliating. He possessed frankness untainted 
 by the slightest approach to rudeness. His urbanity was unfail- 
 ing and his equanimity (semper idem vultus, semper eadem froiis) 
 did not seem capable of being disturbed. He was in the habit 
 of conversing much and without reserve with all orders of men. 
 Modest merit he loved to encourage. The young unknown to 
 fame, the timid shrinking from public observation, always found in 
 him a sympathising friend, a wise and sincere adviser, and if 
 necessary, a generous patron. 
 
 2. It must be manifest, that practical usefulness was the chief 
 aim and object of his life. Placed by Providence in easy cir- 
 cumstances, he was furnished with manifold opportunities of 
 showing the prevailing spirit which reigned within him. Cicero 
 observes, that there are two ways by which the rich man may 
 do good ; the one, by the judicious and discriminating use of his 
 wealth, the other, by his personal endeavours to be useful. This 
 celebrated author justly considers the doing good by personal 
 exertion to be the more meritorious ; and he well observes further, 
 that many are willing to do good by a free use of their wealth, 
 who shrink from the labour and self-denial of doing good at 
 the expense of any considerable personal exertion.* We have 
 seen the use which Mr. Horry was willing to make of his 
 ample wealth, for the benefit of mankind. The same ample 
 wealth gave him complete command of his time, except so 
 far as this was taken up in the management of his estate. 
 This leisure was conscientiously and earnestly devoted to the 
 accomplishment of every good purpose, which he saw within 
 his reach. No valuable object was brought to his notice, 
 
 * DC Officiis, n. 15.
 
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 without receiving his countenance and encouragement. The 
 humblest sphere of usefulness was not beneath his attention. 
 When the Charleston Infant School Society was instituted for 
 the exclusive benefit of poor children, he filled the humble office 
 of one of its directors, and in 1830 wrote the report of the 
 society. " When chosen Chief Magistrate of the City, he did not, 
 therefore, decline," says the chairman, "the humble but useful 
 office of secretary of the Commissioners of the Orphan House, 
 to which he had been previously appointed."* It is not more 
 than three years since, when on a visit to him, he spoke to me 
 thus: " I am approaching my sixtieth year, and begin to feel 
 the approaches of age, I have considerable business of my 
 own, and it is now many years during which I have done much 
 business for others gratuitously, when I have completed sixty 
 years, I think I may be excused from attending to the business of 
 others, and my intention is at that time, if Providence spares me 
 thus long, to withdraw from all business except my own." Still, 
 he lived to see more than sixty one years (6J years 3 months) 
 without even beginning thus to withdraw himself from the much 
 gratuitous business which he had for so many years performed, 
 and confining himself exclusively to his own; a course which 
 his age and commencing infirmities might have fully justified. 
 This can only be referred to his prevailing and earnest desire to 
 make himself useful. We may presume, that if his life had been 
 prolonged another ten years, as he had previously laboured in 
 season, so he would have continued to labour out of season. May 
 I here claim indulgence for the remark in passing, that the expe- 
 diency of retiring from business as old age approaches, seems 
 
 * Among our public bodies, there is no one more useful in regard to the object for which ii 
 was instituted, or more dignified in respect to the members who have, from the beginning, 
 composed it, than the Board of Commissioners of the Orphan House. The place of the natu- 
 ral guardians and protectors of the numerous children there assembled, is supplied, as far as 
 such supply is possible, by a body of gentlemen well known for their public and private worth. 
 "The Commissioners of the Orphan House, says the present Chairman, in addition to the 
 general superintendance and care of the Institution, are expected, each in succession, 
 weekly to visit, examine into, inform themselves and report the wants and necessities of the 
 House, and to make all necessary enquiries and report upon matters particularly referred to 
 them. On Sundays, continues he, the visiting commissioner for the week, attends at the 
 Chapel, and goes through some form of religious instruction to the children " The religious 
 service here referred to, is confined to the mornings of Sundays, and its form is varied, in 
 some measure, according to the customs of the religious denomination to which the Com- 
 missioner in attendance, belongs. In the afternoons of Sundays, the Clergy of the city 
 preach by turns, and strangers, when in the city, are frequently invited to preach. In the 
 Sunday morning service, the Commissioners generally use the Ritual ot the Protestant 
 Episcopal Church, and the Catechism of the same Church in instructing the children. 
 Most of them omit the peculiarities both of the Ritual and of the Catechism, Mr. Horry, 
 however, was accustomed, in conducting the religious services of the Chapel, to use the- 
 Ritual entire, and in instructing the children, to use the entire Catechism.
 
 15 
 
 very questionable. The instances of Dr. Franklin, Chief Justice 
 Marshall arid others which might be cited, seem to afford ground 
 for the belief, that continued attention to active pursuits as age 
 advances, preserves the body from premature infirmities, and the 
 faculties of the mind from premature decay. 
 
 3. The subject of this memoir was extensively invested with 
 situations of trust and honour. In early life, he was made a mem- 
 ber of the House of Representatives of S. Carolina, and at his 
 death, he was invested with the same honourable trust. As a 
 representative, he was, as usual, laborious and useful. He some- 
 times took part in the debates of the House, but not often. But 
 it was especially as Intendant of our city, that he rendered valu- 
 able services to the public. He was first elected to this impor- 
 tant and honourable office in March, 1815, on occasion of the 
 resignation of Thomas Rhett Smith, Esq. before the completion 
 of his official term. He was again chosen at the usual times of 
 election in September, 1815 and 1816, as also in 1820, and in 
 1821 declined being a candidate for re-election. The Intendancy 
 of our city has always been filled by our most distinguished citi- 
 zens, sometimes by men well known to fame. His correspon- 
 dence with the War Department, while Intendant in 1815 and 
 1816, reflects much credit on his diligence, patriotism, knowl- 
 edge and high sense of duty, and ought be held in lasting remem- 
 brance by our citizens. It related to the claims of the city on 
 the United States, chiefly for the construction of the fortifica- 
 tions extending from Ashley to Cooper river above the city, and 
 usually called "the lines." His two principal letters to the War 
 Department are dated 12th July, 1815, and fill eleven folio pages 
 closely written.* The first letter of 12th July, to which the 
 other is only supplementary, argues the grounds of the claims of 
 the city, in reference both to their legal and equitable nature, 
 and iii connexion with the various evidences produced to sub- 
 stantiate them. It is a fine specimen of clear statement, exact 
 detail of facts and circumstances aud of the application of sound 
 principles of law and equity to both. The result of this volu- 
 minous correspondence, was, the establishment and liquidation 
 of claims in favour of the city, to the amount of $204,889 23, 
 and interest on the same was afterwards obtained to the amount 
 
 "Journals of Council from 1815 to 1818, vol. xi. pp. 1020.
 
 16 
 
 of $8,531 36 more.* Services like these should iiot be forgotten 
 by those to whom they were gratuitously reiidered.t So sensi- 
 ble were the City Council to the value of his labours in respect 
 to these claims, that a resolution was passed on 30th August, 
 1817, in these terms: "The Council have witnessed the inde- 
 fatigable assiduity and zeal of his Honor Elias Horry, Intendant, 
 in discharge of the arduous duties of the elevated station he held 
 among them, and they bear testimony to the fidelity and prompt- 
 ness with which his duties have been performed."! The Inten- 
 clant of our city enjoys no salary, and ah 1 these services were 
 rendered without expectation and without reward. 
 
 There is another species of honourable trust with which he 
 was very extensively invested, by the public confidence which 
 was reposed in him. I refer to the very numerous offices which 
 he held in our more important private associations instituted for 
 social, charitable, literary, moral and religious purposes, which 
 exhausted much of his time, imposed on him much labour and 
 expense, and involved him in much responsibility. It is believed, 
 that no individual in our community has done more of this unam- 
 bitious kind of service, or has in this way contributed more to 
 the public good. As his estate consisted almost entirely in lands 
 and labourers, it was natural that he should feel the highest in- 
 terest in whatever related to agriculture. For several years last 
 past, he filled the laborious situation of corresponding secre- 
 tary of our Agricultural Society, "in which capacity he always 
 acquitted himself with credit and satisfaction to the society-" 
 "He was always an active member, attending the meetings 
 with great punctuality, serving on various committees, and im- 
 parting freely the information he had treasured up." "He was 
 one of the founders of our Horticultural Society, and as chair- 
 man of the committee, signed the constitution and by-laws, 
 24th September, 1830. He was made its first President in Oc- 
 tober, 1830, was again elected in 1831, and in 1832 declined a 
 re-election. He continued, however, a zealous and useful mem- 
 ber until his death. Many useful communications were made by 
 him to the society." "He was a member of the Literary and 
 
 * Journals of Council from 1815 to 1818, vol. xi. pp. 87. 150. 
 
 tThe Hon. Henry Middleton, late American Minister to Russia, and at that time, die 
 Representative in Congress from Charleston Congressional District, rendered much aid in 
 establishing these claims. t Journals of Council from 1815 to 1818, vol. xi. p. 337.
 
 Philosophical Society of S. Carolina from its formation in 1813, 
 21 years." " He was a life member of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Society for the advancement of Christianity in S. Carolina from 
 its institution, and a trustee, from its second anniversary to the 
 close of his lite." He was for many years a member and a di- 
 rector of the S. Carolina Society, one of our oldest and most 
 effective associations for the promotion of education and general 
 charity. He was found among the most zealous members and 
 advocates of the S. Carolina Association, instituted within a few 
 years, in aid of the law, for preserving our domestic institutions 
 in their integrity. " He was President of the Revolutionary Soci- 
 ety," a political association instituted to commemorate and per- 
 petuate the principles of the American revolution. "He was, 
 moreover, President of the Society for the relief of the widows 
 and orphans of the Clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church; 
 and of the corporation of the French Protestant Church of this 
 citv." " At the time of his death, he was chairman of the Board 
 
 <j 
 
 of Commissioners of Free Schools for the parishes of St. Philip 
 and St. Michael, and as a member of the Board, he long and 
 industriously contributed to the welfare of the Free Schools." 
 " He was annually elected by the City Council, a commissioner 
 of the Orphan House from 1814 to the time of his death, and 
 was the secretary of the Board from the time of his election as 
 commissioner until 1827, 13 years." In establishing the 
 Medical College of the State of S. Carolina in 1832, the Legis- 
 lature made him one of its Trustees. It is well known, that 
 our rail-road has met with a full share of the difficulties which 
 beset the way of all new and great undertakings, and perhaps 
 no one has contributed to the success of this splendid enterprise 
 more than himself. At a crisis of unusual embarrassment 
 in the affairs of the company, he became one of the largest 
 subscribers to the stock, and at the death of the late Mr. Aiken, 
 became its President.* "Being known as a gentleman of 
 fortune both here and abroad, his name as President aided 
 much in sustaining the credit of the company, and by his en- 
 dorsements individually, which were for a much larger amount 
 than those of any other director, means were obtained, which 
 
 *5th March. 1831.
 
 18 
 
 would otherwise have been withheld. He never received any 
 compensation for his services as -President, and under the most 
 discouraging circumstances, looked forward, with full confidence, 
 to the ultimate success of the enterprise."* "He was during 
 forty years, (from 1794 to his death,) a member of our Library 
 Society, and was elected its President in January 1831, having 
 been the successor of the late Timothy Ford, Esq." The hon- 
 our attached by public opinion to this office in which he contin- 
 ued to his death, may be estimated by calling to mind, that such 
 men as Chief Justice Charles Pinckney, (1751 to 1753,) Gover- 
 nor Lord Charles Greville Montague, (1767 to 1770,) Charles 
 Cotesworth Pinckney, (1792 to 1797, and again from 1798 to 
 1807,) John Julius Pringle, (1812 to 1816,) Stephen Elliott, 
 (1816 to 1826,) and J. R. Poinsett, (elected 13th inst.) have at 
 different times filled the station. He was elected a Trustee of 
 this College in 1813, and he successively filled the offices of 
 secretary, treasurer, and Vice-President of the Board, and in 
 1833 was unanimously elected its President. All this vast 
 amount of laborious service, continued through so man}* years, 
 was rendered gratuitously, not only so, it was attended with a 
 degree of expense, which must have been seriously burthen- 
 some to any other than a gentleman of liberal spirit and large 
 for tune, t 
 
 4. It remains to view the subject of this memoir in the char- 
 acter of a distinguished patron of literature and science. The 
 excellent academic course through which he passed when young, 
 and his subsequent study of the law under influences so favour- 
 able as those which he enjoyed in Gen. Pinckney's office, gave 
 him a decided taste for literary and scientific pursuits. His read- 
 ing may be said, with great truth, to have been both various and 
 extensive. His library was large, (2500 volumes,) and was 
 selected with great good judgment. It contains all the standard 
 works usually seen in our most valuable private libraries. On 
 agriculture, architecture and natural history, it contains a consi- 
 derable number of rare and costly volumes. There were few sub- 
 jects, (if any,) on which he had not all the information which 
 
 "Letter of John Ravenel, Esq. 18th November, 1834, to the author. 
 
 tBesl'e^ the letters before cited, the author has used in .compiling this paragraph, letters 
 obligingly w-'itten him by Rev. Dr. Dalcho, Rev. Mr. Manly, James Jervey, Benjamin Elliott, 
 Joseph F. O'Hear, and Charles E. Rowand, Esquires, To give more authority, the very 
 terms of the writers have generally been used.
 
 can 'be expected of an accomplished gentleman, whose pursuits 
 have not been professedly literary and scientific.* He had care- 
 fully studied architecture in its principles, and had a fine taste in 
 that beautiful and useful ait. He wrote with considerable facil- 
 ity and skill, but cannot be said to have wielded a practised pen. 
 Yet he has left several highly respectable memorials both of his 
 scientific acquirements and of his skill in writing. When a mem- 
 ber of the City Council in 1814, he reported a bill for the adjust- 
 ment and regulation of the weights and measures to be used in 
 this city, which was passed without alteration, and is still the law 
 of our city on this subject. It fills seventeen printed pages in 
 our city ordinances,t exhibits considerable mathematical skill, 
 and must have cost him much labour. It adopts the Troy grain 
 as the standard unit of all weights of whatever kind, and reduces 
 all measures of extension and capacity to the standard linear 
 English inch. It is a wise medium between an obstinate 
 adherence to pre-existing customs and forms which have nothing 
 but their antiquity to recommend them, and that rash spirit of 
 innovation which is willing to sacrifice practical arid attainable 
 good to the delusions of speculation and the seductions of high- 
 wrought theory. His report (16 pages) as chairman "of the 
 committee of the Agricultural Society on the mill constructed by 
 Mr. John Ravenel, for pounding and preparing rice for market," 
 presented and unanimously accepted 20th October, 1829, fur- 
 nishes similar proof of his practical skill in calculation and of his 
 acquaintance with the construction of machinery. His address 
 before the Agricultural Society of S. Carolina in 1830, was re- 
 ceived with approbation not only in this State, but met with the 
 most respectful notice in a distant quarter of the Union. For 
 some time previous to his death, he had been engaged with the 
 late Mr. Grimke and others, in translating the Liturgy of the 
 French Protestant Church in this city. I have been permitted 
 
 f An instance illustrative of this remark, is within the recollection of the author. On an 
 occasion within two or three years, when the genuineness of the Pentateuch was the topic 
 of conversation, he observed, "in ancient times, the modern distinctions between text, notes 
 
 obscurities, whereas a modern editor would have added the same explanations in the form of 
 notes. In a similar way, the closing paragraph of Deuteronomy was annexed by a later 
 hand,' probably by Joshua, to the preceding text without any distinction, when it would have 
 bccn'callcd an appendix, by a modern writer." These observations of themselves, remove 
 many of the difficulties, which have been supposed to belong to the Pentateuch, 
 finest of 1818. pi 237253. t Maryland, Letter of Charles E. Rowand, Esq. 
 
 ra
 
 to inspect the part translated by him. It comprises the morning" 
 and evening service, the service for the catechism, and the table 
 of lessons for the morning and evening sen-ice on special occa- 
 sions, in all, eighteen quarto pages of the original. His address 
 at the completion of the rail-road, 2d October, 1833, must be 
 well remembered by many of our citizens. It is a valuable doc- 
 ument exhibiting much research and much knowledge of the 
 subject to which it pertains. With an understanding enriched 
 by knowledge, a taste refined by study, and a heart expanding 
 with benevolence, it was natural, that he should have been de- 
 sirous of doing something to give an impulse to the cause of litera- 
 ture and science in his native city. After careful reflection on 
 the best method of accomplishing the end which he seems, for 
 a long time, to have contemplated, he concluded to make this 
 College the depositary of his munificence, by establishing in it a 
 Professorship of Moral and Political Philosophy. Of this act, I 
 shah" say no more than cite the views of the Trustees as made 
 known at their anniversary meeting, 13th October, 1828. They 
 say, " Elias Horry, Esq. having made a donation, to the Charles- 
 ton College, of $10,000, the Trustees of that institution, while 
 expressing their deep sense of an act of munificence, which they 
 believe to be unparalleled in the history of our State, derive un- 
 feigned pleasure from the reflection, that the memory will not 
 pass away with their transitory existence. Ordinarily, the fruits 
 of benevolence perish with their immediate appropriation, but in 
 this instance, they will be enjoyed by the living and preserved in 
 their original bloom and freshness for future ages. As long as lite- 
 rature and science and the improvement of the minds and morals 
 of the rising generation shall be cultivated among us, the name 
 of the distinguished patron and promoter of these inestimable 
 blessings will be gratefully associated with them. Influenced by 
 these sentiments, it is, therefore, resolved by the Trustees of 
 the College of Charleston, that their thanks be presented to 
 Elias Horry, Esq. for his donation to that institution which does 
 equal honour to his head and to his heart, evincing a devotion to 
 the interests and prosperity of his native State and a zeal for the 
 diffusion of literature, which will be held in enduring remem- 
 brance by the wise and the good." I shall not be so unwise, as 
 to attempt to add any thing to the warm and energetic language, 
 and the just and appropriate sentiments of the Trustees.
 
 Gentlemen, Trustees, Faculty and Students, you will per- 
 ceive, that in the sketch which has been submitted to you on this 
 occasion, I have made the estimate we are to form of the merits 
 of our late friend and benefactor, to depend on a recital of facts 
 and circumstances. Indiscriminate praise and indiscriminate 
 censure are alike foreign to my habits and my principles. I have 
 designed to avoid all overstatement, and it is not known to me, 
 that the slightest merit or good quality has been ascribed to him 
 which facts will not fully sustain. Whatever has been asserted, 
 has been drawn either from my own personal knowledge, or from 
 written documents of the most respectable kind. I have hon- 
 estly and industriously discharged a duty, which was assigned 
 me by my associates of the Faculty, and which I could not hes- 
 itate to believe, was required at the hands of some one, towards 
 the earliest and most distinguished benefactor of the College. I 
 only wish, that the task which I have imperfectly accomplished, 
 had fallen to the lot of some one more fully qualified to render 
 it adequate justice. I cannot conclude more suitably, than by 
 quoting the sentiments of one of our most respectable and valu- 
 able citizens respecting him. "I have had the pleasure," says 
 this gentleman, "of acting with Mr. Horry, in various appoint^ 
 ments in the service or promotion of religion, charity and edu* 
 cation, and as director of a monied institution, in all which situa- 
 tions, I ever found him punctual and scrupulous in the discharge 
 of his duty."* Of whom of us, will more good be said, when the 
 grave shall have closed over him ? 
 
 ' Letter to the author from Jsunes Jervev, Esq. 12th November, 1834. 

 
 22 
 
 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 The following documents are reprinted with a view to their preservation, and to illustrate 
 
 this Eulogy. 
 
 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON. 
 
 In Faculty Meeting, 17th September, 1834. 
 
 Relsoved, That this Faculty have heard 
 with feelings of the deepest regret of the 
 dcatli of Elias Horry, Esq. President of the 
 Board of Trustees of this College. 
 
 Resolved, Thai in the death of Mr. Horry, 
 this College is deprived of its principal ben- 
 efactor the poor are deprived of a most lib- 
 eral and sympathising friend society of one 
 of its most valuable citizens our institutions 
 
 fenerally of one of their most efficient and 
 isinterested supporters and our State, of 
 one of its most distinguished ornaments. 
 
 Resolved, That from respect to the mem- 
 ory of Mr. Horry, the members of this Fac- 
 ulty will wear crape on the left arm during 
 the remainder of the present College Term. 
 Resolved, That a suitable person be ap- 
 pointed by this Faculty to deliver an Eulo- 
 gitnn on the late Mr. Horry, in the College 
 Chapel, at such time as his convenience may 
 permit. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary of the Fac- 
 culty be requested to enclose a copy of the 
 above Resolutions to the bereaved family of 
 our departed friend. 
 
 Bv order of the Faculty. 
 
 C. B. COCHRAiN, Secretary. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of 
 the Charleston College, held 19th Septem- 
 ber, 1834, immediately after the Address of 
 Charles Fraser, Esq. to the Euphradiaa So- 
 ciety of that Institution, it was moved, sec- 
 onded and unanimously agreed to. 
 
 1. That Mr. Fraser be requested to furnish 
 for publication in the several Gazettes of this 
 city, a copy of that part of his Address, in 
 which he speaks of our late President, Elias 
 Horry, Esq. ; and that it be adopted by this 
 Meeting, as expressing our sentiments of the 
 deceased. 
 
 2. That while we unite with the rest of our 
 community, in lamenting the death of so ex- 
 cellent a fellow-citizen, we have additional 
 cause of sorrow in the loss of so active an 
 officer, and so munificent a benefactor of this 
 Institution. 
 
 3. That we very respectfully tender to the 
 family of the deceased, our deep sympathies 
 with them in their sad bereavement, and we 
 sincerely wish to them in their affliction, the 
 consolation and support of that Great Being, 
 who can alone bind up the broken heart, and 
 comfort those who mourn. 
 
 4. That we will cherish the memory of Mr. 
 Harry, and as a mark of our respect, we will 
 wear for him the usual mourning. 
 
 5. That these Resolutions be inserted in 
 the Gazettes of this city, and a copy of them, 
 and of the extract from Mr. Fraser's Address, 
 presented to the family of the deceased. 
 
 6. That a Committee be appointed to carry 
 these Resolution* into effect. 
 
 Extract from Mr. Eraser's Address. 
 
 "I feel that it is neither inappropriate to 
 this place, nor to the subject of these reflec- 
 tions, to avail myself of the present occasion, 
 to express to you, and with you, the fceliugg 
 which every one interested in the welfare of 
 this institution, must experience for the lose 
 which it has so recently sustained, in the 
 death of its distinguished friend and bene- 
 factor, Elias Horry, Esq. 
 
 "While almost every association in our 
 community, whose objects are the advance- 
 ment of knowledge, the promotion of reli- 
 gion, and the dispensing of charity, are de- 
 prived of the counsels and services of a zeal- 
 ous,- and ever faithful supporter, we may em- 
 phatically say, ice miss him here. 
 
 " With recollections deeply engraven on 
 our minds, of the urbanity and impartiality 
 with which he discharged the duties of Pres- 
 ident of the Board of Trustees, and of the 
 zeal and punctuality with which, for a period 
 of twenty years and upwards, he exercised 
 the various duties of an ordinary member, 
 with feelings of gratitude, never to be effaced 
 for an act of honourable munificence, which, 
 in the establishment and endowment of a 
 Professorship in this College, identifies his 
 name with its prosperity, we turn to that va- 
 cant chair which shall know him no more. 
 
 " Here let me repeat what we have offi- 
 cially recorded and I can repeat it (now 
 that 'the praised ear is deaf,') with a sincer- 
 ity beyond the reach of suspicion. ' The mem- 
 ory of such an act, will not pass away with 
 our transitory existence. Ordinarily, the 
 fruits of benevolence perish with their imme- 
 diate appropriation but in this instance, they 
 will be enjoyed by the living, and be pre- 
 served in their original bloom and freshness, 
 for future ages. As long as literature and sci- 
 ence, and the improvement of the minds and 
 morals of the rising generation shall be culti- 
 vated among us, the name of the distinguished 
 patron and promoter of these inestimable 
 objects, will be gratefully associated with 
 them.'* 
 
 "Where is the individual in this assembly, 
 or in our whole community, however great 
 his zeal for the public interest, whose pride 
 could lie offended at hearing the belief de- 
 clared, that Mr. Horry was decidedly the 
 most public spirited citizen of Charleston? 
 He has repeatedly server! as a member of the 
 Legislature of S. Carolina. He has twice, 
 by the unanimous vote of his fellow-citizens, 
 exercised the office of Chief Magistrate of 
 this city. He has been successively President 
 of the Revolution and Horticultural Socie- 
 ties and the Society for the relief of the 
 
 * Extract from a Resolution unanimous!}' 
 adopted by the Board of Trustees several 
 years ago, when Mr. Horry made to the Col- 
 lege the munificent donation of Ten Thou- 
 sand Dollars-.
 
 Widows and Orphans of the Clergy of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church. He was Cor- 
 responding Secretary of the Agricultural So- 
 ciety, and a member of the Board of Direc- 
 tors of the Protestant Episcopal Society for 
 the advancement of Christianity in S. Caro- 
 lina. He was the presiding officer of the Cor- 
 poration of the French Protestant Calvin- 
 istic Church of this city, being himself a de- 
 scendant of one of the most respectable Hu- 
 guenot families that settled in the State 
 and for some time past, has been assiduously 
 employed with others of that congregation, 
 in preparing an English version of its liturgy. 
 He was a Commissioner of the Orphan House 
 and of the Free Schools a Trustee of the 
 Medical College of the State of S. Carolina 
 President of the Charleston Library Soci- 
 ety and of the S. Carolina Canal and Rail 
 Road Company; and lastly, after having 
 served as Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice- 
 President of the Board of Trustees of the 
 College ol Charleston, he was elected our 
 President. 
 
 "In all of these offices he exhibited a zeal 
 and integrity, a candour and ingenuousness, 
 whose rewards were as much realized in the 
 advancement of their respective objects and 
 interests, as in his individual honour, and the 
 gratification of his own excellent heart. 
 
 " Need a higher tribute be offered to the 
 memory of our lamented benefactor, than 
 such an enumeration of offices, honourably 
 filled by him at once attesting the respect 
 and confidence reposed in him by his fellow- 
 citizens, and his qualification for their faithful 
 and zealous discharge. 
 
 "When we remember his frank and open 
 character his readiness to oblige the po- 
 liteness of his conversation which never be- 
 trayed the design of displeasing any one his 
 punctuality, his fairness and integrity his 
 distinguished zeal for the promotion of pub- 
 lic enterprise, and the cultivation of public 
 charity: It recalls to our minds the memo- 
 rable couusils of the dying Wolsey: 
 'Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that 
 
 hate thee : 
 
 Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
 Still iu thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
 To silence envious tongues. Be just and fear 
 
 not: 
 Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy Coun- 
 
 Thy God's, and Truth's.' " 
 
 At a special meeting of the Direction of the 
 S. Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company, 
 held 17th September, 1834, Dr. Samuel H. 
 Dickson being called to the Chair, the fol- 
 lowing resolutions, submitted by Dr. Joseph 
 Johnson, were adopted: 
 
 Resolved, That this Board feel it to be 
 their duty, to record the expression of theii 
 profound regret, at the recent melancholy 
 decease of their respected President, Elias 
 Hocry, Esq. 
 
 Resolved, That while we lament, in com 
 mon with all who knew him, the death of ! 
 
 food and useful citizen, and an upright. an< 
 onourable man, we cannot but be scnsibli 
 to the peculiar loss suffered by this Board 
 and the Company whom we represent, in be 
 ing thus deprived of the valuable services o 
 a zealous and public spirited officer, to whos 
 
 assiduous and persev ering support, the impor- 
 tant enterprise is indebted in a large meas- 
 ure for its present hopeful and prosperous 
 condition. 
 
 Resolved, That we tender to his relatives 
 and friends, the assurance of our sincere and 
 respectful sympathy in their bereavement 
 and that in token of our regard and sorrow, 
 we wear for one month the usual emblems of 
 mourning. 
 
 Resolved, That the above be published in 
 the different papers of the city, and a copy 
 sent to the family of the deceased. By order. 
 
 JOHN T. ROBERTSON, 
 Secretary S. C. C. &. R. R. Co. 
 
 At the Anniversary Meeting of the S. Car- 
 olina Association, held Itith October, 1834, 
 on montion, the following Preamble and Res- 
 olutions were unanimously adopted : 
 
 The good that men do in life, entitles their 
 memories to respect and consideration, when 
 they have passed from amongst us. Worth 
 and honour, and active benevolence extend 
 their useful ness, even beyond the tomb and it 
 s beautifully appropriate, when the compau- 
 ons and friends of a good departed man as- 
 emble for the first time after his decease, in the 
 ery scene of his former usefulness that they 
 mingle their sympathies in one common man- 
 festation of gratitude and regret. The late 
 Vlr. Elias Horry, whose abilities, integrity and 
 ndustry, admirably fitted him for many im- 
 jortant stations, fortunately for mankind, was 
 nspired by that energy of soul, win h 
 >rompted him to lend his every effort, ein- 
 )loy his extensive means, and devote his am- 
 )le leisure to the promotion of all such 
 schemes as were particularly adapted to pro- 
 note the interests of his native State and 
 city intimately connected with that South- 
 ern interest, to promote which our associa- 
 tion was formed; and zealously alive to the 
 lerils which encircled that interest from 
 Northern philanthropists and over heated 
 zealots. He was an active member of this 
 Society from its first institution ; and when he 
 departed this life, left vacant the Chair of its 
 Vice-President. We feel his loss, and most 
 cordially express our sense of the privation, 
 in the following Resolutions: 
 
 Resolved, That the members of the Asso- 
 ciation deplore the bereavement which has 
 come upon us; and that we will weal' the 
 usual badges of mourning. 
 
 Resolved, That we sympathise with the 
 family of the deceased. 
 It was further 
 
 Resolved, That a copy of the Resolutions 
 be sent to the family of the deceased, and that 
 they be published in the different papers of 
 the city. HENRY DEAS, President* 
 
 FRANCIS LANCE, Secretary. 
 
 At a Meeting of the Commissioners of Fre 
 Schools for the Parishes of St. Philip and St. 
 Michael, held 26th January, 1835, a Special 
 Committee of the Board, appointed at a pre- 
 vious Meeting, submitted the following Re- 
 port, which was unanimously concurred in : 
 
 The Committee unite in the public testimo- 
 nials already offered aa proofs of the high es- 
 timation which the services of the late Elias 
 Horry have so well merited in this commu- 
 nity,
 
 Mr. HOITJ" became a member of tins Board 
 In 18.29, aud coiitinued his active services 
 from that date. During the last three years 
 he presided as Chairman of the Board. 
 Among his last public duties was his atten- 
 dance at our meeting of August last. 
 
 Throughout his whole course he was ever 
 aware of the advantages to the State which 
 well regulated Free Schools would produce 
 zealous in the support of any proposition 
 tending to improve the character of the es- 
 tablishment, and anxious by his personal aid 
 at the examinations to ensure diligent exer- 
 tions on the part of the Instructors, and to 
 excite emulation among the pupils. 
 Extract from the Minutes. 
 
 JOHN HORLBECK, 
 Secretary Board of Commissioners. 
 
 At a Quarterly Meeting of the Charleston 
 Library .Society, held 14th October, 183-1, the 
 following Preamble and Resolutions were of- 
 fered and read by Benjamin Elliott, Esq. and 
 unanimously adopted: 
 
 Since the last meeting of our Society, the 
 will of Providence has removed from us our 
 estimable President, Elias Horry, Esq. It is 
 a circumstance too honourable to be unno- 
 ticed upon this occasion, that from the ori- 
 gin of this institution to the present period, 
 its chair has ever been occupied by intelli- 
 gence and personal worth. Within this en- 
 comium, the public spirit, the literary ac- 
 quirements, and the amiable private virtues 
 b\ winch he was characterized, justly include 
 our iate friend. 
 
 Immediately as he had completed an ex- 
 cellent academic course, he became a student 
 in the oriice of Gen. Charles Coteeworth 
 Pinckney. The sound legal information 
 and admirable methods of business which 
 ha\ e secured so much celebrity to this emi- 
 nent member of the Charleston Bar, not 
 only rendered him a model to the youth un- 
 der his formation, but the custom of the city 
 at that aera, was most propitious to the im- 
 provement of the rising generation. It was 
 then an established regulation of every emi- 
 nent Practitioner, that his Students should 
 not only devote themselves to a selected and 
 judicious course of iaw reading, but should 
 also prepare in writing their own opinions 
 upon the most important cases of the clients 
 of their office, and attend minutely to special 
 pleading. To the habits of labour and of ac- 
 curacy which were here acquired, Mr. Horry 
 considered himself in no small degree in- 
 debted for his utility in his future progress. 
 As personal labour was not necessary to se- 
 cure him personal ease, his leisure was en- 
 gaged in scientific researches, and his accu- 
 mulation of literary opulence far exceeded 
 the general impression of his attainments. 
 To him, literature in Charleston is under an 
 obligation which we trust time will never ef- 
 face. Not only was he munificent in bestow- 
 ing a sum heretofore unequalled, and thus 
 stimulating other citizens of affluence to a 
 generous emulation but the appropriation of 
 it the advancement of moral philosophy, 
 must also command our approbation. The 
 knowledge of man, is to man, the first of 
 knowledge. What were Zeno, Socrates, and 
 the mellifluent Plato, but Professors of Moral 
 Science ? 
 
 His fondness for IciiL'i's, exiiiced both in 
 taste and in pecuniary liberality, therefore 
 constituted Mr. Horry :i suitable President 
 of the Charleston Library Society. 
 
 .Mr. Horry, both at the commencement and 
 close of life, was delegated by his fellow-citi- 
 zens to represent them in the State Legisla- 
 ture, and also afforded his services to his na- 
 ti\e city. As our Intendant, his voluminous 
 correspondence with the Secretaries of the 
 Treasury and of the War Departments, rela- 
 tive to the patriotic exertions of our citizens 
 dunng the second struggle for Independence, 
 will ever attest a knowledge of the local 
 concerns of Charleston, and a skill in en- 
 forcing complicated and dubious claims, 
 which honourably demonstrate his devotion 
 to the welfare of his constituents. The 
 amount refunded our city, exceeded one hun- 
 dred and xt-renty thousand dollars. 
 
 In his earlier political conceptions, Mr. 
 Horn preferred the discretion of Congress 
 to a restrictive construction of the Constitu- 
 tion, but as incidents in the progress of our 
 Confederacy evolved, he felt and sustained 
 the conservative republican truth, proclaimed 
 by the venerable patriot of '76, George Clin- 
 ton, under the most momentous personal res- 
 ponsibility, that "Government is not to be 
 strengthened by an assumption of doubtful 
 powers; but by a wise execution of those 
 which are incontest ib/e ; the former never 
 fails to produce suspicion and distrust; 
 whilst the latter inspires respect and confi- 
 dence." 
 
 Among the evidences of public esteem 
 which attested the confidence of our commu- 
 nity in Mr. Horn,-, it would be unpardonable 
 to omit his advancement to the Presidency of 
 the first company incorporated to introduce 
 the Rail Road into S. Carolina. The bene- 
 ficial domestic revolution which this incipi- 
 ent effort of commercial enemy has already 
 effected among us will excuse, should it not 
 justify the most glowing anticipations. Dis- 
 tances which required days, are already over- 
 come in hours ; productions which a twelve 
 I month since were priceless, are now speed- 
 ily transported to marts which animate the. 
 activity of the planter. Our progress in 
 wealth, in comfort, in the refined enjoyments 
 of social inter-communication are so clearly 
 identified with this bold and splendid under- 
 taking, that we may safely believe, the intel- 
 ligent portion of our city, by whom it was pro- 
 jected and is sustained, would advance to this 
 honourable position no one who wanted ei- 
 ther the spirit of a Carolinian, or the habits of 
 the man of business and industry. 
 
 Mr. Horry was a descendant from those in- 
 teresting Republican exile*, who renounced 
 the civilization of France and the splendour 
 of its magnificent Monarch, and preferred a 
 gloomy wilderness, untrodden but by the 
 wood-nymphs of freedom, where private opin- 
 ion was secure from the outrages of bigotry. 
 I'pon this circumstance, he indulged an ami- 
 able and not a baseless pride. This portion 
 of the founders of our State, have imparted 
 some of the noblest traits to the Carolina 
 character. If in Europe, we contemplate the 
 valour of Navarre, or of the more lofty Conde 
 recall the eloquence of l)ubo?e or of the 
 fervid Saurin, who, even in banishment, im- 
 plored Divine mercy upon the grand oppres-
 
 sor and Ins prescriptive parasites or exa- 
 mine the historic researches of the self-de- 
 pendent and romantic Priolo, who, like Na- 
 poleon's brother, could be induced neither by 
 public power, nor by the paltry suggestions of 
 ordinary friends, to suppress the most gener- 
 ous of all correct feelings, however viewed, 
 we shall find in die Huguenot, the hero, the 
 scholar, and that which combines both, the 
 high minded gentleman. Duringour own re- 
 volutionary storm, whether in the camp or in 
 the cabinet, they displayed alike intrepidity 
 and intelligence. Their history is replete with 
 instruction to Americans. Their obedience 
 to the benignant Henry, with their insubor- 
 dination under the arbitrary Louis, should 
 deeply impress upon us that a Government 
 is stable as it is just, and a people are false 
 only when they are degraded it admonishes 
 republicans that it is wiser to rely on the 
 fidelity of the heart than on the professions 
 of the lips. 
 
 Many of these French Protestants united 
 themselves to the Episcopal Church, and Mr 
 Horry thus became a member of this society 
 of Christians. To his friends, it will ever be 
 grateful to remember that Providence dis- 
 pensed to him more than an usual abundance 
 of her favours, and visited him with but few 
 of the sorrows of mortality, that in life he 
 enjoyed the regard of all who were around 
 him, and that to his memory every evidence 
 of esteem has been exhibited, participating 
 in these feelings. 
 
 Resolved, That the Charleston Library So- 
 ciety view the death of Clias Horry, Esq. as 
 a loss to our State, of a valuable citizen and 
 beneficent patriot to his family, of a most 
 affectionate parent and husband, and a mas- 
 ter, whose kindness was unmeasured and to 
 our institution, of a member and President, 
 whose urbanity and worth entitle him to or 
 tcnderest recollection. 
 
 Resolved, That these Resolutions and Pre- 
 amble be published in the several daily pa- 
 pers of the city, and a copy sent to the fam- 
 ily of the deceased. 
 
 Extract from the Journal. 
 
 WM. LOGAN, Sec'iy. C. L. S. 
 
 The author thinks it suitable to publish 
 several letters written to him at different 
 times by Mr. Horry, as they are illustrative 
 of his views in founding his Professorship. 
 Charleston, Oct. 8th, 1828. 
 
 Dear Sir, I am much obliged to you for 
 the high estimation in which you view my 
 conduct, and my gift to the College of 
 Charleston, as expressed in your kind and 
 Very polite note of this date, which you sent 
 to me by my son. God in distributing his mer- 
 cies and his favours,has been eminently boun- 
 tiful to my family, and lastly to me : and it is 
 but just, that those, to whom his favours have 
 been bestowed,should acknowledge hisgood- 
 ness,by rendering services to others; and more 
 particularly to the community in which they 
 dwell. I confess that my feelings, on this 
 day, have been uncommon and peculiar. 
 My mind has always been anxious for the 
 prosperity of my country, and particularly for 
 Charleston, my native city; and if my dona- 
 tion to the College, shall hereafter prove a 
 benefit to our youth, I shall consider my re- 
 ward rich indeed. 
 
 I am, dear Sir, with great respect, yoitr 
 obed't. serv't. ELIAS HORRY. 
 
 The Rev. J. Adams, Principal of the Col- 
 lege of Charleston. 
 
 Charleston, Feb. 2d. 1829. 
 
 Dear Sir, In reply to your favour of this 
 morning, permit me to enclose you a copy of 
 my intentions respecting my Professorship in 
 the College of Charleston, which I delivered 
 to the Standing Committee, that they may 
 report them to the Trustees. Their report, 
 I suppose, is entered in the Trustees' Jour- 
 nal. I thought it best to trammel the Profes- 
 sorship but little, and to leave as much as 
 possible to the judgment, talents and learn- 
 ing of the Principal of the College, and to 
 the changes both in morals and politics, 
 which in the course of time may happen. 
 1 am glad to hear that you have commenced 
 your preparations for delivering your Lec- 
 tures, and I look forward with great pleasure 
 to the good which will result from them. 
 
 I am, dear Sir, with great respect and es- 
 teem, your obed't. serv't. 
 
 ELIAS HORRY. 
 
 The Rev. J. Adams, D. D. Principal of the 
 College of Charleston, S. C. 
 
 Mr. Horry's intentions respecting his Pro- 
 fessorship in the College of Charleston, S.C. 
 
 Mr. Horry chooses as the Professorship in 
 the said College, which is to be called " by 
 his name," and of which the Principal, for 
 the time being, is to be the Professor ; that 
 of "Moral and Political Philosophy." A 
 similar Professorship has generally been at- 
 tached to the station of most of the Princi- 
 pals of American Colleges. It is further 
 Mr. Horry's intention, that forever hereafter, 
 the Lectures delivered on " Moral and Poli- 
 tical Philosophy," by every Principal of the 
 College of Charleston, as " The Horrv Pro- 
 fessor," shall be printed and published, from 
 time to time, in such manner as the Trustees 
 and Principal of the said College, shall judge 
 expedient, and for its benefit. 
 
 ELIAS HORRY. 
 Charleston, October 25, 1829. 
 To the Standing Committee of the Trustees. 
 
 Charleston, June 3d, 1827. 
 Dear Sir, In reply to your letter of the 
 30th May; which my son delivered to me on 
 yesterday ; I will state, that I consider " Moral 
 Philosophy" to be that branch of science 
 which treats of man in his individual capa- 
 city, and of the moral and intellectual quali- 
 ties of his mind. "Political Philosophy," I 
 consider as applicable to men in their public 
 capacities, whereby civil societies are form- 
 ed, governments are established, and laws 
 are framed or enacted, in the first instance, 
 for the guidance of each society, state or na- 
 tion, and afterwards, to regulate the inter- 
 course of states or nations with each other, 
 both in peace and in war, thereby forming 
 laws for the guidance of nations. You have 
 properly expressed what I understand by 
 " Political Philosophy," or political law, by 
 the terms " constitutional and international 
 law;" regarding, however, each state in our 
 union or confederacy, as a sovereign state or 
 community. The treatise on political law, 
 which I studied, was that of " Burlamaqui,"
 
 who was Professor of Law at Geneva. Since 
 his time, Europe has changed, the human 
 mind has become in a manner re-organized, 
 and in America, the greatest of all the repub- 
 lics, known to the world, has been estab- 
 lished. A treatise on Political Law or Phi- 
 losophy, on the plan of Bunamaqui's, or Vat- 
 tel's, or of any other distinguished jurist, but 
 to suit our age, our national government, and 
 the governments of our states, would come 
 fully up to my ideas. I will here repeat, 
 what I mentioned to you, in a former letter, 
 
 " That I would wish to trammel the Profes- 
 sorship but little, and to leave as much as pos- 
 sible to the judgment, talents, and learning 
 of the Professor: who will suit his Lectures 
 to the changes, both in morals and politics, 
 which time will occasion." 
 
 I aiu de.ar Sir, very respectfully, your 
 obed't. serv't. 
 
 ELIAS HORRY. 
 
 The Rev. Jasper Adams, D. D. Principal 
 of the College of Charleston.
 
 

 
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