James Henry Hammond
November 15, 1807 - November 13, 1864
which he left unexpended be withdrawn, as the State had more munitions of war than it would ever probably require. He proposed plans for the immediate liquidation of the State debt, although her bonds stood higher in the Englishh market than those of any other State save one. He advised steps looking to a practical approxima of universal free trade. He systematized the first agricultural survey of the State; consolidated the two State arsenals into the Citadel military academy, and organized it after the model of West Point; urged that every dollar that could be spared from the wants of the State be expended on education, especially in the establishment in each district of an academy of high grade and recommended a reduction and consolidation of State offices.
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry _Hammond
The Hammonds of Redcliffe by Carol Bleser. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1981.
http://cghs.dadeschools.net/slavery/defense_of_slavery/hammond.htm
Selections from the letters and speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina by James Henry Hammond
