His connection with public events had long since ceased; but, from all accounts, he still continued, in some degree, to fill the eyes of his countrymen.

His firmness and purity of character, his gentle temper, known bravery, and the conduct which he had already manifested in war, had secured to him the confidence and the affections of his neighbors.
He had attained that place in their esteem which naturally brought him conspicuously before their eyes in the moment of emergency.

Emergencies were now approaching of a kind well calculated to bring into the field all the energies, with all the patriotism of the country.

The great struggle was at hand between the colonies and that mighty empire by which they had been established.

Of the part taken by South Carolina in this conflict, history has already sufficiently informed us.