Record Of The Hampden Sydney Alumni Association V 12 No 2 January 1938 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 12: January 1938 This is a handsome volume, 9% by 6% inches, of 183 pages (including the index), bound in navy blue cloth. Between the covers are nineteen chapters of biography the appendix, containing (1) will of Archibald Cary, (2) will of Henry Cary, his father, (3) correspondence of Archibald Cary, and (4) the first constitution of Virginia; the bibliography and the index. We find also nine beautiful full-page illustrations Archibald Cary, his wife and his home, and buildings of the Colonial period. In his preface, the author states as his purpose the rescue of the great man from comparative Obscurity. Impartial readers will unanimously agree that he has succeeded in his laudable endeavor. With the skill of a trained lawyer he has traced his ancestor's career with consummate patience; has made wide and diligent search, and has buttressed all his statements by documentary evidence culminating in proof. He makes plain Col. Cary's influence in shaping the course of events in Vir ginia and in directing the current of legislative procedure in the House of Burgesses, in the Conventions, and in the General Assembly. We have brought before us a Vigorous, active, and forceful man always striving to the full limit of his great physical and mental powers to promote the interests of the State and its people. Not an orator, not a politician, Col. Cary is shown to have been a man of unusual executive ability, of tireless energy, of physical and moral courage of a high order, and of unblemished Character - just the sort of man who, because Of his private life and public record, may well be called a wheel-horse. He who has read this book carefully will find that he not only has acquired a clear-cut picture of a gentleman of the Olden time but has also gained a connected and logical outline of the important and outstanding events of Virginia's political history in the late Colonial and Revolutionary periods; for in these events the Colonel was a moving spirit and prominent figure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.