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...much fuel to that utterly erroneous idea that the remark "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute" had to do with the American difficulties with the Barbary Pirates about 1803. From any good U. S. history, one can establish that this utterance is ascribed to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when he was Minister to France about 1796, and referred to the levy being made upon American shipping and seamen by the French Republic, contrary to all treaties...
Reader Kuebler is guilty of a careless misconstruction. TIME'S words were: "President Thomas Jefferson 132 years ago decided to uphold the doctrine of 'Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.' " Ambassador Pinckney was not the author of this phrase. The spokesman appears to have been Representative Robert Goodloe Harper of South Carolina on the occasion of a dinner given by Congress to John Marshall, just returned from France, at Philadelphia in June...
...secretary of Idaho's other U. S. Senator, James Pinckney Pope, told how his employer had lately been passing through a small Idaho mining town, had seen two storekeeper brothers fistfighting, stopped them with a "burst of eloquence." Their argument was over whether to accept 50,000 shares of new mining stock from a gold prospector in payment of his $1,000 grocery bill. Last week Senator Pope learned that the brothers had taken the slock, had sold...
There is no Hell in Michigan and officially there never was one.* In 1841 Storekeeper George Reeves and his brother-in-law, Timothy Allison, of Pinckney, Mich., bought a nearby section on a lake, set some 75 men to work building a dam, mill, distillery, house and store. Shortly after the distillery started, the Government ordered revenue stamps on whiskey. According to one legend, Squire Reeves snorted: "This is hell!" According to another, Squire Reeves, when asked to name his community, replied: "I don't care what you call it; call it Hell if you like." In any case...
Oldtimers in Pinckney, which serves as Hi-Land Lake's post office, still call it Hell, still think jokes about it funny. An old favorite: "My grandfather helped raise Hell." Last week, Pinckney, with 102°, boasted that it was 2° "hotter'n Hell...