Samuel Johnston Quotes
I thought about this time to be making preparations for leaving this place [the Contenental Congress], but none of my colleagues appearing to relieve me, several States being unrepresented in Congress, and affairs of the first magnitude being now on the tapis, I thought it inconsistent with my honor to leave the State unrepresented at so interesting a period. Notwithstanding my anxious impatience to return to my family, I have determined to stay till I am relieved, or at least till the States are more fully represented in Congress.
In early America, it was very hard to get people to serve in Congress. Johnson was actuall elected President of the Continental Congress, but refused to accept the office in that he had decided to leave as soon as replacement from North Carolina could be found.
Samuel Johnston (1733–1816), letter to James Iredell, 1781
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Samuel Johnston was an American planter, lawyer, and statesman from Chowan County, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina in both the Continental Congress and the United States Senate, and was the sixth Governor of North Carolina.
