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  HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  its 
  chairman, 
  Mr. 
  Bernard, 
  the 
  com- 
  

   mittee 
  and 
  the 
  whole 
  country 
  sustained 
  a 
  sensible 
  loss. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Gabriel 
  Benoist, 
  who 
  succeeded 
  him 
  as 
  chairman, 
  

   was 
  a 
  very 
  estimable 
  French 
  gentleman, 
  who 
  came 
  to 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  with 
  other 
  volunteers 
  from 
  France, 
  to 
  

   assist 
  in 
  achieving 
  our 
  independence 
  ; 
  he 
  had 
  married 
  the 
  

   daughter 
  of 
  a 
  very 
  respectable 
  planter 
  settled 
  in 
  the 
  

   country, 
  and 
  held 
  some 
  office 
  under 
  the 
  Spanish 
  govern- 
  

   ment. 
  He 
  was 
  obnoxious 
  to 
  the 
  turbulent 
  and 
  dis- 
  

   afifected, 
  and 
  was 
  accordingly 
  assailed 
  as 
  a 
  French 
  Jaco- 
  

   bin, 
  and 
  vituperation 
  revelled 
  in 
  the 
  vindictive 
  epithets 
  

   bestowed 
  upon 
  him. 
  

  

  EUicott 
  has 
  left 
  in 
  his 
  journal 
  copious 
  details 
  of 
  these 
  

   differences 
  and 
  bickerings. 
  He 
  had, 
  however, 
  by 
  his 
  

   too 
  active 
  participation 
  in 
  these 
  events, 
  considering 
  his 
  

   official 
  relations, 
  rendered 
  himself 
  obnoxious 
  to 
  some 
  of 
  

   the 
  leading 
  and 
  prominent 
  men 
  engaged 
  in 
  them. 
  His 
  

   statements 
  may 
  be 
  regarded 
  in 
  some 
  degree 
  personal, 
  

   rather 
  highly 
  colored, 
  and 
  tinctured 
  with 
  partisan 
  pre- 
  

   dilections, 
  and 
  it 
  would 
  perhaps 
  be 
  unsafe 
  to 
  adopt 
  them 
  

   implicitly 
  as 
  historical 
  facts. 
  

  

  Let 
  it 
  be 
  remembered 
  that 
  the 
  country 
  had 
  passed 
  

   under 
  the 
  rule 
  of 
  three 
  different 
  monarchical 
  govern- 
  

   ments, 
  and 
  but 
  recently 
  under 
  that 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  

   during 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  our 
  revolution. 
  Many 
  of 
  the 
  older 
  

   inhabitants 
  had 
  been 
  royalists 
  from 
  principle. 
  Some 
  of 
  

   them 
  were 
  British 
  officers, 
  and 
  continued 
  to 
  receive 
  

   their 
  pay 
  and 
  pensions 
  even 
  after 
  the 
  acquisition 
  of 
  the 
  

   country 
  by 
  the 
  United 
  States. 
  Not 
  a 
  few 
  had 
  migrated 
  

   from 
  the 
  sister 
  States, 
  with 
  strong 
  suspicions 
  of 
  having 
  

   fought 
  on 
  the 
  wrong 
  side 
  of 
  King's 
  Mountain. 
  

  

  The 
  rivalries 
  of 
  these 
  for 
  power 
  and 
  influence, 
  were 
  

   but 
  the 
  common 
  instincts 
  of 
  ambitious 
  men 
  wherever 
  

   they 
  may 
  be 
  placed. 
  

  

  