Charles Carroll of Carrollton – Longest Living Signer of Declaration “To obtain religious as well as civil liberty I entered jealously into the Revolution”- American Minute with Bill Federer

When his identity became known, the British loyalist Daniel Dulany the Younger wrote mean-spirited personal ad-hominem attacks against Charles Carroll, ridiculing him.

 Charles Carroll’s statesman-like response was to explain that because Dulany engaged in “virulent invective and illiberal abuse, we may fairly presume, that arguments are either wanting, or that ignorance or incapacity know not how to apply them.”

 Carroll was referencing that in classical debate, when an opponent runs out of facts and begins making personal “ad hominem” attacks upon their opponent’s character, they are effectively admitting they have lost the debate.

 Charles Carroll led the Tea Party movement in Maryland.

 Bishop John Carroll wrote in 1790:

 Bishop John Carroll ended:

Charles Carroll wrote to Rev. John Stanford on October, 9, 1827:

 As published in the National Gazette, Philadelphia, February 26, 1829, Charles Carroll wrote to George Washington’s adopted son, George Washington Parke Custis, who was President of the Society of Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty in Ireland:

 

Charles Carroll was elected to the first U.S. Senate in 1789.

George Washington replied to Charles Carroll and the other signers in a letter “To the Roman Catholics in the United States, March 15, 1790:

 In France, Thomas Paine was arrested and almost executed. He became critical of President George Washington and fell out of favor.

 Charles Carroll, who was a member of a society to end slavery, wrote to Robert Goodloe, April 23, 1820:

On September 27, 1825, in a letter to Charles W. Wharton, Esq., written from Doughoragen, Maryland, Charles Carroll stated:

 After John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, Charles Carroll remained the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.

The city of New York sent a committee to Charles Carroll to get his final comments on the Declaration, which he wrote on August 2, 1826:

Charles Carroll wrote in the first rendition of his last will and testament, December 1, 1818:

Charles Carroll’s statue was chosen to represent the State of Maryland in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

 Daniel Carroll was elected to the U.S. Congress and provided much of the land where the U.S. Capitol is built.

Charles Carroll paid for the construction of a large house for his son, which was later donated to be the main campus of John Hopkins University.

On November 4, 1800, Charles Carroll had written to James McHenry, the signer of the Constitution for whom Fort McHenry was named: