Beschreibung:

PINCKNEY, CHARLES, Signer of the Constitution (South Carolina), Governor . Autograph letter signed ("Charles Pinckney") as Governor of South Carolina, to the South Carolina House of Representatives, Columbia, 6 December 1797. 1½ pages, folio, 310 x 192 mm. (12¼ x 7½ in.), clean separation at central fold repaired, attractively matted and framed .PINCKNEY APPEALS TO THE LEGISLATURE FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHARLESTON'S GUNPOWDER SUPPLY. A lengthy letter at the height of the so-called Quasi War, when naval attacks on shore installations was greatly feared. Governor Pinckney urges an appropriation for a new gaol for Charleston then writes: "...I have...received a letter from the officer at present commanding the Militia of Charleston stating the precautions he has taken for the preservation of order...he has also stated to me...the indispensable necessity of an additonal & sufficient Guard at the magazine on Charleston Neck in which all the Gunpowder belonging to the public...is deposited. Your honorable House must at once perceive that at a Post so remote from the city & containing so valuable an article to our defence, there ought certainly to be a sufficient guard...to protect it from any attempt that may be made upon it...The Opinion transmitted me by the commanding Officer is that there ought to be a least Two Officers & twenty five Men..."